Dry noodle guide
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Dry noodle cooking can be broken down into three types: basic, saucy, and 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. 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 jabañero 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 now a viable choice with 2.8 adventures per fullness and 7.X stats per fullness.
Reagent dishes (Saucy dry noodles)
| Food name | Base food item | Sauce name | Stat gain |
|---|---|---|---|
| fettucini Inconnu | goat cheese | fancy schmancy cheese sauce | 47 - 52 Sarcasm |
| gnocchetti di Nietzsche | knob mushroom | Himalayan Hidalgo sauce | 47 - 52 Wizardliness |
| spaghetti with Skullheads | Knob sausage | sauce of the ages | 47 - 52 Strengthliness |
| Hell ramen | Hellion cube | Hell broth | 23 - 28 in each stat and meat |
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 25% bonus can be used with best efficiency.
All Sauce dishes offer about 4.2 adventures per fullness.
The chow mein dishes are some of the best foods in the Kingdom. They all require a secret blend of herbs and spices, dry noodles, MSG and one or two other ingredients. You need Pastamastery to summon the dry noodles and Transcendental Noodlecraft to create chow mein. Generally, the tofu and pr0n chow meins are considered separate from the other chow meins, due to their lower fullness, lower stat boosts, and irregular recipes.
| Food name | Base Ingredient 1 | Base Ingredient 2 | Adventures | Stat Gains | Fullness |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| tofu chow mein | stalk of asparagus | wad of tofu | 11-19 | 18-22 Strengthliness, 20-25 Wizardliness | 3 |
| pr0n chow mein | olive | pr0n legs | 16-24 | 20-26 Strengthliness, 20-26 Sarcasm | 4 |
| knob sausage chow mein | knoll mushroom | knob sausage | 21-29 | 72-76 Strengthliness | 5 |
| bat wing chow mein | knob mushroom | bat wing | 21-29 | 70-75 Wizardliness | 5 |
| rat appendix chow mein | spooky mushroom | rat appendix | 21-29 | 70-75 Sarcasm | 5 |
Lo meins are a type of chow mein. They can be cooked in The Wok of Ages by combining a first-tier stir fry with dry noodles and MSG and cost one adventure. Transcendental Noodlecraft is required to access The Wok of Ages.
| Lo Mein | Base Stir-Fry | Adventures | Stat gains | Fullness |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| asparagus lo mein | asparagus stir-fry | 9-16 | 10-14 Strengthliness, 12-16 Wizardliness. | 3 |
| Knob lo mein | Knob stir-fry | 14-20 | 30-34 Wizardliness | 4 |
| Knoll lo mein | Knoll stir-fry | 14-21 | 30-34 Strengthliness | 4 |
| olive lo mein | olive stir-fry | 9-16 | 10-14 Strengthliness, 10-14 Sarcasm | 3 |
| spooky lo mein | spooky stir-fry | 14-21 | 30-34 Sarcasm | 4 |
Hi meins are an improved type of chow mein. They are created by kicking elemental sour sauces up a notch in The Wok of Ages. Transcendental Noodlecraft is required to access The Wok of Ages. The Way of Sauce is required to make the elemental sour sauces. You must be able to Pulverize equipment to get half of the ingredients for the elemental sour sauces.
There are several disadvantages to hi meins that offset their advantages. Access to The Malus of Forethought is only available to Muscle classes, while The Wok of Ages is only accessible to Mysticality classes. Therefore, characters in Hardcore will have to belong to a Mystical class to make and consume hi mein, and will have to wait until they've found and smashed equipment good enough to produce elemental nuggets without the Malus' special combining properties - usually level 9 or higher, although it's possible earlier with access to The Haunted Gallery in Spookyraven Manor.
| Hi Mein | Base Sauce | Adventures | Muscle | Mysticality | Moxie | Fullness |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| cold hi mein | cold and sour sauce | 21-29 | 70-75 | 30-35 | 15-20 | 5 |
| hot hi mein | hot and sour sauce | 21-29 | 70-75 | 15-20 | 30-35 | 5 |
| sleazy hi mein | sleazy and sour sauce | 21-29 | 25-30 | 25-30 | 70-75 | 5 |
| spooky hi mein | spooky and sour sauce | 21-29 | 15-20 | 70-75 | 30-35 | 5 |
| stinky hi mein | stench and sour sauce | 21-29 | 30-35 | 70-75 | 15-20 | 5 |
