Difference between revisions of "Simple meal"

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A simple meal is a basic and effective way to prepare food.

Acquisition

Simple meals can be cooked at a Campfire, Fueled stove, or Electric stove. A simple meal requires 0.5 units of nutrition from human edible ingredients (equal to 10 units of rice, berries, etc.). 300 ticks (5 secs) of work to make, and has no minimum cooking skill.

Summary

A simple meal can be eaten by humans or animals for 0.9 nutrition, or 90% of a human's hunger meter. As it takes 0.5 nutrition of raw food to create, simple meals provide 180% nutrition efficiency. They do not have an effect on mood, unless made from an undesirable ingredient.

Analysis

Upgrading from eating raw food to simple meals is a huge upgrade, since:

Simple meals give 80% more nutrition than raw food.
Simple meals avoid the -7 negative moodlet for eating raw food.
Simple meals have a lower chance of giving food poisoning, assuming a clean cooking area and a chef with a cooking stat of 3 or better.

Compared to other meals:

Fine meals give a +5 Ate fine meal mood boost and have the same nutrition efficiency, but require both meat and vegetables to create. They take more work and require a Cooking skill of 6. Vegetarian fine meals and carnivore fine meals can be made from 1 type of food, but waste food in the process.
Nutrient paste meals require Research#Nutrient paste researched (though New Arrivals start with this), power to operate a dispenser, and give a −4 moodlet when eaten. However, nutrient paste gives 66% more nutrition, does not ever give food poisoning, and takes no work to create. Paste becomes relatively better if you do not have a skilled cook.

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One simple meal
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One carnivore simple survival meal
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One vegetarian simple meal
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Version history

0.2.363 - added

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Food

Meals: Chocolate • Fine meal (Carnivore, Vegetarian) • Kibble • Lavish meal (Carnivore, Vegetarian) • Nutrient paste meal • Packaged survival meal • Pemmican • Simple meal • Baby food
Raw food - Animal: Meat (Human, Insect, Twisted) • Insect jelly • Milk • Hemogen pack
Raw food - Eggs: Cassowary egg (fert.) • Chicken egg (fert., unfert.) • Cobra egg (fert.) • Duck egg (fert., unfert.) • Emu egg (fert.) • Goose egg (fert., unfert.) • Iguana egg (fert.) • Ostrich egg (fert.) • Tortoise egg (fert.) • Turkey egg (fert.)
Raw food - Vegetarian: Agave fruit • Berries • Corn • Hay • Potatoes • Raw fungus • Rice • Toxipotatoes

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-{{Info|A '''simple meal''' is created at an [[electric stove]], [[fueled stove]], or a [[campfire]] and requires 0.5 total [[nutrition]] from any raw food (e.g. any combination of 10 [[meat]], [[milk]], or vegetables. 1 [[egg]] is equivalent to 5 meat.) to create. No cooking skill is required to create this meal. When eaten it provides no [[thoughts|thought]] bonus or penalty. A simple meal provides 0.9 nutrition.}}
+{{Info|A '''simple meal''' is a basic and effective way to prepare food}}.
-Producing a simple meal requires 0.5 nutrition in ingredients, but produces 0.9 nutrition in results -- an 80% net nutrition gain.  Upgrading from eating raw food to simple meals is a huge upgrade, since:
+==Acquisition==
+Simple meals can be [[Work#Cook|cooked]] at a [[{{P|Production Facility 1}}]], [[{{P|Production Facility 2}}]], or [[{{P|Production Facility 3}}]]. A simple meal requires 0.5 units of [[nutrition]] from human edible ingredients (equal to 10 units of [[rice]], [[berries]], etc.). {{Ticks|{{P|Work To Make}}}} of work to make, and has no minimum cooking skill.
+==Summary==
+A simple meal can be eaten by humans or animals for 0.9 [[nutrition]], or 90% of a human's hunger meter. As it takes 0.5 nutrition of [[raw food]] to create, simple meals provide 180% nutrition efficiency. They do not have an effect on [[mood]], unless made from an undesirable ingredient.
+==Analysis==
+Upgrading from eating raw food to simple meals is a huge upgrade, since:
 * Simple meals give 80% more nutrition than raw food.
 * Simple meals avoid the [[Thoughts#Ate_raw_food|-7 negative moodlet]] for eating raw food.
 * Simple meals have a lower chance of giving [[food poisoning]], assuming a clean cooking area and a chef with a cooking stat of 3 or better.
-If you have both meat and vegetables and sufficient skill, [[fine meal]]s are superior options as they have the same nutrition increase but also provides a mood buff.
+Compared to other meals:
+*[[Fine meal]]s give a {{+|5}} ''Ate fine meal'' mood boost and have the same nutrition efficiency, but require both meat and vegetables to create. They take more work and require a Cooking skill of 6. [[Vegetarian fine meal]]s and [[carnivore fine meal]]s can be made from 1 type of food, but waste food in the process.
+*[[Nutrient paste meal]]s require [[Research#Nutrient paste]] researched (though [[New Arrivals]] start with this), [[power]] to operate a [[nutrient paste dispenser|dispenser]], and give a {{--|4}} moodlet when eaten. However, nutrient paste gives 66% more nutrition, does not ever give [[food poisoning]], and takes no work to create. Paste becomes relatively better if you do not have a skilled cook.
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