Crock Pot

"It makes me hungry just to look at it."

- Wilson

The Crock Pot is a Food Tab structure that is used to cook unique food items. It requires a Science Machine to prototype, and costs 3 Cut Stone, 6 Charcoal, and 6 Twigs to craft.

Usage
A Crock Pot has four food item slots which must be filled in order to begin the cooking process. Only one item can be placed in each slot. An average recipe takes 40 seconds to cook (exact times are listed in each individual recipe). All Crock Pot dishes can be stacked to 40, and actual Crock Pot meals cannot be added to a Crock Pot slot. Spoiled Food used in a Crock Pot has a chance to result in Rot; the spoilage value is averaged among the ingredients, then halved.

Cooked meals in the vanilla game will not begin to spoil until the player removes them from the Crock Pot. In other words, Crock Pot meals will remain on the Crock Pot until either the player removes it, a Lureplant "eats" it, or the pot is destroyed.

Food categories
Crock Pot recipes differentiate between the following four (5) food categories: Some foods do not fall into any of these three categories (e.g. Butterfly Wings). Some foods may also act like a meat or vegetable/fruit when fed to Pigs, but do not count as that category for Crock Pot recipes.
 * Meats
 * Eggs
 * Fruits
 * Vegetables
 * Dairy products

Valid Ingredients

 * Meats (Raw or Cooked)
 * Eggs (Raw or Cooked)
 * Fruits (Raw or Cooked)
 * Vegetables (Raw or Cooked)
 * Sweeteners
 * Twigs
 * Mandrake
 * Butterfly Wings
 * Butter
 * Electric Milk (Reign of Giants icon.png)
 * Roasted Birchnuts (Reign of Giants icon.png)
 * Ice (Reign of Giants icon.png)

Invalid Ingredients

 * Rot
 * Seeds (Raw or Cooked)
 * Petals / Dark Petals (including  Garland)
 * Rotten Eggs or Hatching Tallbird Eggs
 * Cooked Mandrake
 * Koalefant Trunk / Winter Koalefant Trunk (Raw or Cooked)
 * Deerclops Eyeball or Guardian's Horn
 * Batilisk Wing (Raw or Cooked)
 * Leafy Meat (Raw or Cooked)
 * Foliage
 * Light Bulbs or Glow Berries
 * Phlegm (DST)

Note: Most recipes accept the "Cooked" versions of foods as ingredients, with the exception of the following:
 * Turkey Dinner
 * Mandrake Soup
 * Melonsicle (Reign of Giants icon.png)
 * Guacamole (Reign of Giants icon.png)

Filler
Some recipes call for less than four specific ingredients, but the Crock Pot always requires four items to cook. In this case, the remaining slots can be filled with "filler" ingredients.

Any item that can be used as an ingredient can be used as filler, though many recipes explicitly prohibit certain foods from being used as filler. For example, Dragonpie requires only one  Dragon Fruit, but cannot have any  Meat as filler.

Unless prohibited, the otherwise-inedible Twigs can be used as a filler. This is commonly considered the "most efficient" filler. Despite being edible, Seeds (and  Toasted Seeds) cannot be used as filler.

Monster Food
If too much Monster Food is used as ingredients (including Filler), the recipe has a chance to produce Monster Lasagna, unless Twigs have been added..

The following is considered Monster Food:
 * Monster Meat (Raw or Cooked)
 * Monster Jerky
 * Durian (Raw or Cooked)

Food values


Food value can be defined as a food's usefulness, potency, or strength in regards to how well it can fulfill a particular recipe.

Meat value
Different meats have different Meat values:
 * Meat value = 0.5 : Morsel.png Cooked Morsel.png Drumstick.png Fried Drumstick.png Frog Legs.png Cooked Frog Legs.png Small Jerky.png Fish.png Cooked Fish.png Eel.png Cooked Eel.png
 * Meat value = 1.0 : Meat.png Cooked Meat.png Jerky.pngMonster Meat.png Cooked Monster Meat.png  Monster Jerky.png

As seen above, the following examples all hold true:
 * (1) Cooked Meat has a Meat value of 1.0.
 * (1) Meat + (1)  Drumstick has a total Meat value of 1.5.
 * (1) Morsel + (1)  Morsel + (1)  Morsel has a total Meat value of 1.5.
 * (2) Morsels equal the Meat value of (1) normal piece of  Meat (Meat value = 1.0).

Meat recipes require a certain amount of "meatiness". The total meatiness, of ingredients added, is the sum of individual Meat values.
 * If Honey Ham requires a Meat value greater than (>) or equal to 2.0, then (2)  Meats can be used, or (1)  Meat and (2)  Drumsticks could be used, but not (1)  Meat and (1)  Drumstick.

Fruit value

 * Fruit value = 0.5 : Berries.png Roasted Berries.png
 * Fruit value = 1.0 : Pomegranate.png Sliced Pomegranate.png Durian.png Extra Smelly Durian.png Dragon Fruit.png Prepared Dragon Fruit.pngCave Banana.pngCooked Cave Banana.png Watermelon.png Grilled Watermelon.png

Berries only count as half a Fruit. Recipes requiring Fruits will require at least 2 Berries to fulfill the requirement. Note, that Durian also counts as Monster Food as well as 1 fruit.

Vegetable value

 * Vegetable value = 0.5 : Red Cap.png Cooked Red Cap.png Green Cap.png Cooked Green Cap.png Blue Cap.png Cooked Blue Cap.png
 * Vegetable value = 1.0 : Carrot.png Roasted Carrot.png Corn.png Popcorn.png Pumpkin.png Hot Pumpkin.png Eggplant.png Braised Eggplant.png Lichen.png Cactus Flesh.png Cooked Cactus Flesh.png cactus Flower.png

Egg value

 * Egg value = 1.0 : Egg.png Cooked Egg.png
 * Egg value = 4.0 :  Tallbird Egg.pngFried Tallbird Egg.png

Reign of Giants icon.png Dairy Product values

 * Dairy Product value = 1.0 : Electric Milk.png Butter.png

Priority
Also known as "importance", the Priority rating decides the result of a particular cooking session based on the ingredients used. The recipe with the highest rating will always be chosen. If there are several recipes with the same importance, a random recipe will be chosen. Some recipes have importance of 0 or below, which means they will never be chosen over other recipes. Such as, Wet Goop, which is always a valid result, but never chosen over anything else due to having -2 importance. The only exception is 0 importance recipes Fist Full of Jam, Fruit Medley and Ratatouille, which appear to always get chosen in that order.

Each recipe requires certain items to be present, for example Meatballs requires at least 1 piece of Meat. Some recipes may also have hidden exclusions, for example Dragonpie excludes Meats.

The Crock Pot always requires 4 food items to begin cooking, however some recipe requirements can be fulfilled with less than 4 items. In such recipes, the remaining slots can be filled by any cookable item that doesn't affect the original recipe or produce a different recipe. For example, Meatballs requires a Meat value between 0.5-2.5 (a Meat value of 3.0 or higher will make Meaty Stew); if 1 Morsel is added, then the remaining three slots are considered "Filler", so adding 3 more Morsels, or 3 Berries, or 3 Butter would be acceptable. However, adding Twigs will result in Kabobs, as they are a higher Priority than the Meatballs.

If there is more than one matching recipe for given ingredients the game will pick one with the highest "Priority". If there is more than one recipe with highest priority the game will pick at random. E.g.: (1) Monster Meat + (1)  Monster Meat + (1)  Egg + (1)  Egg has a chance to produce  Bacon and Eggs or  Monster Lasagna.

Here is an example of possible recipes from Fish + Cooked Frog Legs + Corn + Twigs:
 * Fishsticks [Importance=10]
 * Fish Tacos [Importance=10]
 * Kabobs [Importance=5]
 * Froggle Bunwich [1]
 * Wet Goop [-2]

The result will be Fishsticks 50% of the time and Fish Tacos 50% of the time, because they each have a Priority rating of 10.

Crock Pot recipes
The following is a list of Crock Pot recipes.


 * HealthMeter.png Health HungerMeter.png Hunger SanityMeter.png Sanity Rot.png Perish Time (days) Crock Pot.png Cook Time (sec) Priority.png Priority

Reign of Giants
In the Reign of Giants DLC, items left in the Crock Pot will spoil (quicker if left in the rain). Some existing recipes gain the ability to warm or cool the player and new recipes have been added which can lower or raise the player's temperature. The Crock Pot itself also generates heat when cooking, which can possibly Overheat the player during Summer.

Trivia

 * The light emitted by an active Crock Pot is enough to keep Charlie away.
 * Some Crock Pot dishes give fewer Hunger / Health points than the sum of their components. E.g. it's better to eat four Roasted Carrots (+12 HealthMeter.png / +50 HungerMeter.png), versus using them to make  Ratatouille (+3 HealthMeter.png / +25 HungerMeter.png). However, most Crock Pot recipes restore 5 SanityMeter.png, which may be desirable.

Bugs

 * In the Reign of Giants DLC, sometimes meals left unharvested on the Crock Pot will turn into Rot quicker than they should.

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