Cooking

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E-Z Cook Oven™

Cooking is the fine art of making food items from ingredients. Some recipes produce edible food, while others produce only other ingredients that require further cooking. Cooking can also be used, by Saucerors and others who have earned the Advanced Saucecrafting ability, to make powerful usable items out of scrumptious reagents, and those who have become one with the Way of Sauce can cook even more powerful potions from bottles of scrumdiddlyumptious solution.

Cooking requires an E-Z Cook Oven™ in your inventory or either a Chef-in-the-box or a Clockwork Chef-in-the-box at your campsite, any of which will reveal the cook stuff link in the crafting section of your inventory. An E-Z Cook Oven™ allows you to cook one recipe at the cost of one adventure, while a boxed chef allows you to cook for zero adventures. However, after a certain number of uses your chef will explode, providing you with a random assortment of its component parts and food items—including some food that cannot be obtained by any other means.

This page provides an overview of foods and ingredients, while the fine details of individual recipes and eat effects can be found on the items' pages. There are also complete, no-frills lists of foods (alphabetically or by fullness) and ingredients. You can get more advanced information and handy reference charts from Cooking strategy.

Special Cooking / Eating Accomplishments

The main reason to cook and eat food is to increase your adventures and gain substats. But there are some other special benefits.

Familiars

Trophies

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Food Categories

Raw ingredients

These are generic items that cannot themselves be eaten, but can be cooked with other ingredients. This includes meats, doughs, beans, etc. Items that are cooked only for non-food purposes are not included.

Advanced ingredients

Advanced ingredients can only be cooked by characters with the appropriate skill. The skill is also used to create them (a limited number per day). Foods made with these ingredients are, as a rule, noticeably superior to other foods.

Raw foods

Raw foods are foods that can be eaten by themselves but are more useful as ingredients of more complex dishes (or boozes). Fruits and vegetables are an example. Although they have the advantage of low fullness, the gains to adventures and substats are usually too low to be worth it. Some raw foods, such as uncooked chorizo, are actually bad for you.

Stand-alone foods

There are a number of foods that cannot be cooked into other recipes, nor can they be created through cooking. Generally, these are drops, but there are also foods generated by the evil golden arches (as well as other food containers) and the Cheap Toaster at your campsite, as well as some special rare foods.

Kabobs

These are simple, one-step meals involving a skewer, which can be purchased cheaply at The Bugbear Bakery. All kabobs are 2 fullness.

Pizzas

All pizzas start with the cooking of a flat dough or wad of dough and a tomato, which, by the way, is the quickest and cheapest way to intentionally explode a chef to get the special foods. The plain pizza yields adventures only, but you can add various toppings for pizzas that increase one substat each. Plain pizzas fill 2 fullness, all others fill 3.

Burritos

Burritos are, basically, a flat dough plus one of the three beans: normal (for Muscle), enchanted (for Mysticality), or jumping (for Moxie). The basic burritos can then be "upgraded" to spicy by adding spices, then upgraded again to "insanely spicy" by adding a jabañero pepper. Not only are the insane burritos superb for adventures and stat gains, the enchanted one can give you the Chronic Indigestion skill. All burritos fill 3 fullness, regardless of how spicy they are, and gains to one substat.

Key lime pies

The special keys (of Boris, Jarlsberg, and Sneaky Pete) that are rewards for completing The Daily Dungeon are used to reveal the meatsink statues in The Hall of The Legends of The Times of Old. However, through the wizardry of wordplay, they can also be cooked with limes, and then with pie crusts, to make "key lime pies" -- just one of several "key" puns Jick and Skully have seen fit to inflict upon us. As of NS13 the Digital key and Richard's star key may also be baked in the same way. Each fills 4 fullness and provides a good number of adventures. The first 3 also provide large gains to a single substat, while the Digital and Star key lime pies provide smaller gains to all substats.

Hi meins

A hi mein is one of the most difficult of dishes, requiring knowledge of The Way of Sauce and Transcendental Noodlecraft to successfully cook, as well as Pulverize, Advanced Saucecrafting, and Pastamastery to make raw ingredients. Hi meins begin as elemental nuggets, which are cooked with bottles of scrumdiddlyumptious solution to make elemental sour sauces. These sauces are then cooked in The Wok of Ages with dry noodles and MSG to make a hi mein. All hi meins provide up to 75 substat points in one given stat, and at least 15 in each of the others, all for 5 fullness. Hi meins also grant temporary use of elemental breath skills (such as Hot Breath), which do a small amount of elemental damage for 5 MP. Because of their intricate recipes, hi meins cannot be cooked in Hardcore except by Pastamancers or Saucerors who know all five requisite skills.

Stir-fries and chow meins

A chow mein starts out as a secret blend of herbs and spices combined with some item to make a vegetable stir-fry, and then combined with a meat item to make the second level stir-fry. This second stir fry is then cooked with dry noodles and MSG in The Wok of Ages to make a chow mein. The three best known chow meins are the rat appendix chow mein, bat wing chow mein and knob sausage chow mein which provide up to 75 points in a given stat for 5 fullness. Tofu chow mein and pr0n chow mein spread their points between two stats. Pr0n chow mein provides only half the stats that the others do when compared for fullness and is unique in that the vegetable ingredient for the stir-fry can be purchased.

Lo meins

The younger cousin of chow mein, a lo mein is a step up from a basic stir-fry. Vegetables or mushrooms are cooked with a secret blend of herbs and spices to make stir-fry, and then with dry noodles to make lo mein. Vegetable lo meins give up to 16 adventures and about 15 points in two stats for 3 fullness, while mushroom lo meins are worth a maximum of 21 adventures and up to 34 substat points in a single stat, for 4 fullness.

Casseroles and Lasagnas

A casserole begins with a piece of meat and its corresponding spice, creating a spicy dish. The spicy dish is then cooked with a casserole dish to create a casserole. The casserole can then be cooked with dry noodles and MSG in The Wok of Ages to create a lasagna.

Basic pastas

Pastamasters have a few simple dishes they can make out of dry noodles and one not-too-exotic ingredient.

Saucecrafting pastas

Some of the items that can be cooked from scrumptious reagents by Advanced Saucecrafters can be further cooked with dry noodles by Pastamasters to make top-notch dishes. None of the sauces are themselves edible (except Hell broth, which is nasty stuff), but the pastas all yield 6 fullness and serious gains to one substat, or all three substats for the Hell ramen.

Saucecrafting potions

Other items cooked from reagents are usable items. Each provides a base of 5 turns (knowing the Impetuous Sauciness skill and being a Sauceror each increase this duration by an additional 5 turns) of an effect, including temporary stat-boosting, setting two stats equal to the third, and a variety of other helpful effects. See reagent potions for a handy reference to these. They will not be discussed on this page because they are not food.

Fine potions

Scrumptious reagents can also be transformed into bottles of scrumdiddlyumptious solution, which those with the knowledge of the Way of Sauce can cook with other ingredients in order to make even more powerful potions. Each potion can be used for a base of 5 turns (knowing the Impetuous Sauciness skill and being a Sauceror each increase this duration by an additional 5 turns) of an effect, including temporary stat-boosting and a variety of other helpful effects. See The Way of Sauce for a handy reference to these. They will not be discussed on this page because they, like Saucecrafting potions, are not food.

Gift cakes

Some foods are only available by purchasing them at The Gift Shop. The selection of gifts depends upon how many times you have Ascended, so some of these can be pretty hard to get. But that's okay; they can be pretty hard to eat, too. The three-tiered wedding cake fills 35 fullness, so it can only be eaten if you have the Stomach of Steel skill on the Feast of Boris. Although all these items are "cakes", note that fruitcake and piece of wedding cake are not Gift Shop items. Also note that all of the gift cakes have a reference to a song by the band Cake in their description and/or eat message, tee hee. None of these is a particularly effective meal.

Spectral pickle stuff

The Spectral Pickle Factory is a special location that appears very rarely — four times in the history of KOL so far, and never at predictable times. When it does, the adventures there drop some unique cooking ingredients that can be cooked into one of the best foods in the game: the spectral pickle. It can then be further cooked into a familiar hatchling, the ghost pickle on a stick.

Chez Snootée foods

There are three dishes that can only be obtained by purchasing them from Chez Snootée, in Little Canadia. These are on the permanent menu, not the randomly shifting specials. Snootée foods are unusual in that they can't be stored in your inventory; they are eaten as soon as you buy them. They rank low in adventures per fullness, and provide no stats at all.

Special mushroom foods

If you choose a Muscle Zodiac sign when you ascend, you will have access to the inside of Degrassi Knoll, where you will be able to farm mushrooms. Starting with the standard Knob, Knoll, and spooky ones, you can grow special second- and third-generation mushrooms that can be used to make some very nice foods and boozes. The mushrooms themselves are not generally worth eating. The second-generation shrooms are decent for single-substat gains, but the third-generation are not. Some mushrooms take away a few HP.

Exploded chef foods

When the warranty runs out on your Chef-in-the-box or Clockwork Chef-in-the-box, it explodes and throws out some random foods. Some of these are bizarre concoctions that cannot be cooked or obtained in any other way.

Army foods

The foods obtained from the Hippy Army MPE and the Frat Army FGF can be cooked together to obtain better foods. The two wontons are made by cooking army food in the Wok of Ages, and are some of the best foods in the game.

Other foods

There are a few random recipes that don't really fit any category. Various baked goods are included here, as are tacos and haggis. With the exception of the grue egg omelette and banana cream pie, none of these are spectacular foods.

Spicy gut dishes:

Tacos:

Pies and quiches:

Cookies and brownies:

Other:

Notes

How can you cook things without an oven? You can't.

Perhaps a visit to The Market is in order? And pick me up some milk while you're there.

References

  • The button one clicks in order to cook is labelled "bake", while the cocktailcrafting button is labelled "shake", and together they reference the cooking product Shake 'n Bake.
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