Guides/Crock Pot Dishes

The following is a guide to all of the Crock Pot dishes, There is a mammoth-sized amount of things you can make in the crock pot, and many of them are almost useless. So, what should you do to make sure you don't use one of these useless recipes and end up with something that gives less hunger than the seperate ingredients? This guide has it all.

Tips
Before starting on the recipes themselves, here's a few basic things to know about the Crock Pot, for new players:

-DO NOT: Put more than 1 monster meat in. If you put 2 or more monster meat in the crock pot, the recipe always comes out as Monster Lasagna, which is pretty much useless. Durians count as monster meat as well, so don't do 2 durians, or 1 monster meat and 1 durian.

-DO NOT: Use Fish as meat. A glitch with the Crock Pot does not recognize Fish as meat. However, Fish can be dried into Small Jerky, which is recognized as meat.

-DO NOT: Cook a Powdercake. It's a joke item, with no use. Mainly so people can go "Holy *BLEEP*!" when they look on the Crock Pot page here and see how long it lasts.

DO: Use Tallbird Eggs instead of normal Eggs when you can. Smallbirds and Smallish Tallbirds are basically useless, so save those normal eggs for the Pig King!

DO: Use Wet Goop as bait. Even if  you mess up, Wet Goop can be put into traps. Normally it's better if you just put traps directly over the rabbit holes, but if you are pressed for time and need the traps to be closer to your base, bait is good. This also means you can take 4 twigs, cook then into Wet Goop, then use that as bait.

DO: Check the Don't Starve Crock Pot Guide, mentioned on the Crock Pot page here, when you aren't sure what makes what.

Now, on with the show.

Best Meat-Based Dishes


Bacon and Eggs is your basic good crock pot dish, It's worth more than the sum of it's parts, and gives good health. But the real place that Bacon and Eggs shines is it's keeping time: 20 days. Usually, only Jerky, Honey, or rarer items like Madrakes and Butter can boast this. But Bacon and Eggs is faster to get than any of those. Also, if you use twigs as a filler item, you can put 2 monster meats, because Monster Lasagna cannot have twigs!



Fishsticks, like Bacon and Eggs, has the awesome power of potentially containing 2 monster meats. It's also an amazing healing item. BONUS TIP: During the adventure level The Game Is Afoot, you will have to live in a base in the middle of the swamp for a while. In this base is a Crock Pot. Merms, which spawn in swamps, drop fish and frog legs. You can make Fishsticks with frog legs and fish. Wunderbar.



The Froggle Bunwich is an underestimated item. In camps based around Frog Ponds (See here for more info on that), this will be a large staple of your diet. Although it is good outside of thse Frog Pond based camps, it's espeecially awesome within those camps, because the +20 healing will help you recover from the frog's attacks.



Honey Hams are even better than the Froggle Bunwich, although they're a little harder to get. With good healing, massive hunger bonus, and easy to acquire ingredients (For the most part), there's a reason most people's bases have crock pots filled with these.



Honey Nuggets provide an alternative to the Froggle Bunwich. They can't be made with Twigs like the Froggle Bunwich, but honey can be acquired in large quantities and gathering morsels is no danger (Unless you go hogwild and spawn the Krampus).



Everyone loves meatballs. Healing-wise they lack, with only 3 health restored, but for 1 monster meat and 3 berries/mushrooms, 62 hunger is a great deal.



Meaty Stew is a little expensive, but come on, a full hunger restore? You can't beat that.

Best Fruit-Based Recipes
There are none. That's right, all the fruit-based recipes in this game suck. But more on that later.

Best Vegetable-Based Recipes


Pierogi teeter-totters on the edge of bad recipe, and good recipe. It gives way less hunger than all it's ingredients combined, but much more health. Also to note: Considering this recipe only uses 1 egg, here you are better off using a normal egg and saving the tallbird eggs for dishes that need more than one.



Honey and Pumpkins are both good health-restoring items, but what if you need Sanity? Well, enter the Pumpkin Cookie. The Pumpkin Cookie is basically like all the other ingredients combined, but restoring sanity instead of health. NOTE: You must put in 2 pumpkins and 2 honey, since 1 pumpkin might result in Taffy, which is useless. And NEVER use honeycombs in this recipe.



Fish Tacos are a very noob-friendly dish. They are an easier to get but cheaper version of Fishsticks. Simple as that. (Specifically, Fish Tacos give half the health as Fishsticks, so if you have hunger problems Fish Tacos are just fine.)

Fun With Twigs


This recipe provides more hunger or health than it's ingredients like a good little dish, but be sure to make it only when you're going to eat it, as it has a way shorter shelf life than butter.



So powerful for only 3 twigs and a dragonfruit. ALWAYS save Dragonfruit for the Dragon Pie, unless it's about to enter the Spoiled stage.



The Kababs are the Froggle Bunwich to Meatballs's Honey Nuggets, and I can't believe I just said that. Anyway, it provides almost half the hunger as Meatballs, but can be made with twigs. Use this only if you're really desperate.



Behold, your god. Don't make this unless you are seriously wounded. If you aren't wounded, the Butter Muffin is a better choice. But, like the Butter Muffin, only make it when you're going to eat it right after, since it too spoils quicker than butter.

Bad Dishes
These foods either have some kind of catch attached to them that isn't worth it, or the ingredients give more stats than the full dish. Note: All of these can be considered a very situational thing, as the sanity boost can be enough to push you above 30. And that could be the sanity boost that saves your life. Except Monster Lasagna. Because fuck Monster Lasagna.

Special Mentions


Mandrake Soup is underrated by many, as it spoils. However, there is one situational bonus that I didn't know until recently: Mandrake Soup doesn't knock you out when you eat or cook it. But, some people might like having the ability to skip the night with no penalty, so this one goes on the Special Mentions page.



Ratatouille almost made it to the Bad Dishes section, since it's ingredients are less than it's hunger. Well, with one exception. Red caps. Red Caps are nearly useless, and if you put enough in, the Ratatouille is actually an improvement.

And that's about it, people. I hope you learned a lot from this. Remember to leave a comment so I can improve this guide.