Cooking strategy
Eating quality food is crucial to maximizing your adventures each day and to gaining stats quickly. Thus, unless you're rich enough to have all your meals catered, cooking quality food is equally crucial. This is what makes the Pastamancer and, less directly, Sauceror classes so appealing, since their skills of Pastamastery and Advanced Saucecrafting make available some far superior recipes.
Since your stomach can only hold so much each day, your diet must be chosen wisely, and you must choose based on exactly what you want to accomplish. Read on for discussions and handy references that will help you cook smart and eat smart for better living.
This section of Visual KoL was inspired by Cocktailcrafting, which was ported from the Bartending Guide originally written by ePeterso2. Grateful acknowledgment is given to the data from the KoL Item Effects website run by Ohayou. -PWMoE
Fullness and You
Each food item has a fixed fullness number. When you eat it, your fullness counter is increased by that amount. If you try to eat food that would increase the counter beyond its limit, you will be told that you are "too full", and nothing will happen. The limit is normally 15, although the Stomach of Steel skill increases it to 20. The counter resets to zero at each rollover.
Fullness is the cornerstone of cooking strategy. Unlike drunkenness, there is no visible indication of the fullness gained by each item, nor of your current fullness. So it's important to know how much fullness each food fills and plan your day's diet so no fullness is wasted.
There is also one special consideration when thinking about fullness. In PvP matches, one of the possible contests is pie-eating: The character with more remaining fullness wins. (However, the pie-eating contest does not actually increase your fullness counter. Either it's just a thinking-about-pie-eating contest, or there's some binge-and-purge action going on.) So if you have a smashed hippy stone, it is in your best interest to wait until just before rollover to eat, leaving you with an empty stomach all day long. At the same time, you have to watch out that you do not then have too many adventures, since they are reduced to 200 at rollover.
Cooking al Dente
Before we get down to brass tacks (i.e., charts full of math), you need to know about the special skills required to cook the very best foods. Advanced Saucecrafting, a Sauceror skill, is used to create scrumptious reagents, and is required to cook anything out of them. However, the results are generally not food. Most of them are usable "potions", details of which are on the scrumptious reagent page. The other reagent recipes make sauces, of which only Hell broth is edible. Don't eat it. Trust me; just don't.
On the other hand, Pastamastery, a Pastamancer skill, produces and cooks dry noodles, resulting in a variety of very nice dishes. The best are made from sauces. Here's a diagram:
 tomato |
 dry noodles |
 boring spaghetti |
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