Crock Pot

*For changes to existing recipes, see Balance Changes/Food.*

"Make better food."

**“**It makes me hungry just to look at it.**”**
–Wilson, examining an empty crock pot.

**“**I could put food in it and fire underneath it.**”**
–Willow, examining an empty crock pot.

**“**Empty pot make Wolfgang think hungry thoughts.**”**
–Wolfgang, examining an empty crock pot.

**“**As empty as my soul.**”**
–Wendy, examining an empty crock pot.

**“**I CAN REFINE MEATS AND VEGETABLES INTO MORE ROBUST FORMS**”**
–WX-78, examining an empty crock pot.

**“**It looks derelict when it's not cooking something.**”**
–Wickerbottom, examining an empty crock pot.

**“**It seems a waste to just leave it sitting there, empty.**”**
–Woodie, examining an empty crock pot.

**“**Just the thought makes my mouth water.**”**
–Maxwell, examining an empty crock pot.

**“**Nöthing in there.**”**
–Wigfrid, examining an empty crock pot.

**“**Food goes in, other food comes out.**”**
–Webber, examining an empty crock pot.

**“**I make a mean stew.**”**
–Winona, examining an empty crock pot.

**“**Empty pot, empty heart.**”**
–Warly, examining an empty crock pot.

**“**Can souls simmer?**”**
–Wortox, examining an empty crock pot.

**“**Nothing there**”**
–Wormwood, examining an empty crock pot.

**“**Wish there was food inside, flurp.**”**
–Wurt, examining an empty crock pot.

**“**Sure wish there was food in it.**”**
–Walter, examining an empty crock pot.

**“**I guess I'll just... find some seeds to eat or something.**”**
–Wanda, examining an empty crock pot.

The **Crock Pot** is a Structure that is used to cook a variety of belly-filling dishes from basic Foods. It's found on the Food Tab, it requires a Science Machine to prototype, and it costs 3 Cut Stone, 6 Charcoal, and 6 Twigs to build.

Some Crock Pot functionalities have been altered in **Uncompromising Mode**.

## Filler

An ingredient is "filler" if it can be added to a partially prepared recipe without changing the Crock Pot's output. Most recipes call for less than four ingredients, so fillers need to be added to fill the pot.

* Using 2 or more Inedibles, such as Twigs, will override any dishes and cook into Wet Goop.
* Using 2 or more Monster foods will cook into Monster Lasanga.
* Using 2 Ice, or a combination of 1 Ice and 1 Twig will always result in a Snowcone.
* Forget-Me-Lots and Foliage have 1 Foliage food value, cooking with 2 Foliage value will result in Simple Salad, and using any combination of Foliage with Ice or Inedible, will result in Wet Goop.
* Butterfly Wings and Scorpion Carapaces have 0.5 Insectoid food value, which has a hard limit of 1 per Crock Pot dish without resulting in Wet Goop.

## Monster Food

When preparing a dish, if the total **Monster Value** of the ingredients is higher than the **Meat Value**, the result will always be **Monster Lasagna**.

Monster Foods have had their monster value severely increased in Uncompromising Mode:

  Cooked Monster Meat
  Monster Jerky
  Monster Morsel
  Cooked Monster Morsel
  Small Monster Jerky
  Scorpion Carapace
  Grilled Scorpion Carapace
  Monster Egg
  Cooked Monster Egg

### Meat Diluting

In the Crock Pot, if the Monster value is higher than the Meat value, the recipe will fail.

When cooking, Monster foods will need to be dried for maximum efficiency and diluted with Meat to not result in Monster Lasagna.

For example:

* Monster Morsel (2 Monster, 0.5 Meat) + Meat (1 Meat) + Filler = **Monster Lasagna** (2 Monster > 1.5 Meat)
* Monster Meat (2 Monster, 1 Meat) + Meat (1 Meat) + 2 Filler = **Meatballs** (2 Monster = 2 Meat)
* Cooked Monster Meat (2 Monster, 1 Meat) + Meat (1 Meat) + Morsel (0.5 Meat) + Filler = **Meaty Stew** (2 Monster < 2.5 Meat)
* Meat (1 Meat) + Morsel (0.5 Meat) + Monster Egg (1 Monster) + Egg = **Bacon and Eggs** (1 Monster < 1.5 Meat)

### Minimum for Diluting

Here's a list of recipes using the minimum amount of Meat possible to dilute a single Monster food:

## New Recipes for the Crock Pot

The following is a list of the new Crock Pot recipes of Uncompromsing Mode.

Under Ingredients, icons with a numeric value (like 1.0) represent *any ingredient from that food group*. Icons without values are specific ingredients. Required ingredients are the minimum food items to make a dish, and attempting to fill a dish with restricted ingredients would lead to a different dish.

## Tips

* Kabobs can be a nice way to discard Monster Meat without the need of Meat dilution, as it triumphs over lasagna due to lasagna not allowing twigs.
	+ To maximize monster meat used, try to use Monster Morsels instead of Monster Meat, as the Morsels require more meat to be diluted and thus are not as easy to cook with. Use one Monster Morsel, and then only one Monster Egg or dried Monster Morsel.
* Dried monster meat is always better than the raw/cooked one. If a recipe works with raw/cooked Monster Meat, the result will be the same using the dried versions.
* Sometimes you will just have far too much monster meat/morsels to cook with, and rather than letting it go off and attract rats, you could cook it all up to make monster lasagna, and then sleep to offset the hunger and sanity loss while still having a net hunger gain.
	+ You could also attempt to freshen up the resulting lasagna by transforming 3 of the monster foods into fresh monster eggs, and cooking any remaining monster meat.
* Monster Morsels can be exchanged for Monster Eggs, which are far more useful. One monster egg does not (by default) have enough monster value to create lasagna on its own, allowing you to use at least one for recipes like Boomberry Pancakes or Pierogi, or to act as filler in a recipe which isn't currently using monster meat.
* Using the Craft Pot mod is highly recommended, but be aware that sometimes it fails to predict the result; a blank prediction suggests lasagna.