Dry noodle guide
Dry noodle cooking can be broken down into three types: basic, saucy, and chow meins.
Basic dry noodle
Of these, the best is clearly the delicious spicy noodles offering 10.3 stats per fullness and 3.7 adventures per fullness. However, the difficulty with these is it requires spices and herbs. Spices may be difficult to obtain in situations where the hermit is not being cooperative with clovers for the spice loop. Additionally, one could make significantly better chow meins with the herbs and spices.
Failing easy access to secret blends the next best for adventures at 3.2 adventures per fullness and with acceptable stats at 6.0 stats per fullness is the painful penne pasta, though this also requires access to the hermit for the jabanero pepper.
Without touching the hermit, boring spaghetti and ravioli della hippy both offer 7.0 stats per fullness. Spaghetti offers 2.5 adventures per fullness while ravioli della hippy is 2.7 adventures per fullness. The advantage of boring spaghetti is its easy tomato drops at low levels and that one can buy tomatoes from the hippy store later in the game if needed.
Delicious noodles are a reasonable choice if one is trying to work on moxie offering slightly better adventures per fullness at 2.8, though lower stats per fullness at 5.7.
Pr0n m4nic0tti is a very poor choice to make with 2.8 adventures per fullness and it offers no stats.
Saucy dry noodles
| Pasta Dish | Cook with dry noodles |
|---|---|
| fettucini Inconnu | fancy schmancy cheese sauce |
| gnocchetti di Nietzsche | Himalayan Hidalgo sauce |
| Hell ramen | Hell broth |
| spaghetti with Skullheads | sauce of the ages |
There are four saucy dry noodles, of which three are about the same - one working for each stat. All sauce dishes are 6 fullness items meaning that without Stomach of Steel, one can only eat two a day. With Stomach of Steel, one is able to eat three per day.
Hell ramen is the best of the set with the most stats per fullness at 12.8. The other three offer 8.3 stats per fullness, though in a particular area. This makes them choice dishes for stat days where the 50% bonus can be used with best efficiency.
All Sauce dishes offer about 4.2 adventures per fullness.
Chow mein
As with sauce dishes, there are three single stat chow meins. These chow meins are 5 fullness and provide 5.1 adventures per fullness and 14.5 stats per fullness - clearly better than any other dish in the game. This also works nicely for optimizing food consumption. One can eat three without stomach of steel and be completely full and four with stomach of steel - again being completely full.
The other two chow meins are pr0n chow mein and tofu chow mein.
Pr0n chow mein is a four fullness item that offers 4.9 adventures per fullness though only 7.0 stats per fullness. This is likely because one of the items for this can be bought from the hippy store making it much easier to make.
Tofu chow mein is a three fullness item that offers 5.0 adventures per fullness and 15 stats per fullness.
