How to put canned beans in pot?

[Absolutionwolf]

Ok, so I'm new to Project Zomboid. I tried looking this up on the wiki, but I'm still confused.

I have a can of beans. I opened it with a can opener. I have a cooking pot. Wiki seems to imply you can make soup with these items. I try putting the cooking pot on a range and right click, but there is no option to add the beans to it. I tried with with and without water in the pot. Am I missing something?

[Banzai]

If you want to make soup or stew you will need to fill the cooking pot with water first and then you can add ingredients to it.

Just rclick the pot of water and it will give you an option to make stew or soup with any appropriate ingredients in range. They dont need to be in your inventory so standing by a kitchen cupboard/fridge etc works. Honestly would have to check to see if you can make a soup just from canned beans. You might need to put other stuff in first.

Worth noting you can use tainted water for this (from a stream,river or collected rainwater) since cooking the stew/soup will remove the tainted status.

Specifically for canned beans btw, just put them in a bowl and you can heat them up in a microwave or oven. Once again, just rclick the bowl when you have an opened can of beans nearby and you should see an option to "make a bowl of beans". Eating them cold will give you some unhappiness so best to warm them up.

[Armagenesis]

Try putting both the pot and the can of beans in your inventory just in case.
I don't remember if the amount of water matters or not, but try filling the pot with water to the max.

If this still doesn't change anything, one of your mods could be breaking the game's functions.

[Petrichor]

Who the hell is making soup out of baked beans?

[Cryptic]

Originally posted by Petrichor:

Who the hell is making soup out of baked beans?

true survivors.

[Jarzzen]

Originally posted by Petrichor:

Who the hell is making soup out of baked beans?

Have to add some flavour to the dead rat or dead squirrel.

[Absolutionwolf]

Originally posted by Banzai:

If you want to make soup or stew you will need to fill the cooking pot with water first and then you can add ingredients to it.

Just rclick the pot of water and it will give you an option to make stew or soup with any appropriate ingredients in range. They dont need to be in your inventory so standing by a kitchen cupboard/fridge etc works. Honestly would have to check to see if you can make a soup just from canned beans. You might need to put other stuff in first.

Worth noting you can use tainted water for this (from a stream,river or collected rainwater) since cooking the stew/soup will remove the tainted status.

Specifically for canned beans btw, just put them in a bowl and you can heat them up in a microwave or oven. Once again, just rclick the bowl when you have an opened can of beans nearby and you should see an option to "make a bowl of beans". Eating them cold will give you some unhappiness so best to warm them up.

Originally posted by Armagenesis:

Try putting both the pot and the can of beans in your inventory just in case.
I don't remember if the amount of water matters or not, but try filling the pot with water to the max.

If this still doesn't change anything, one of your mods could be breaking the game's functions.

Hey I just wanted to thank you both so much! Putting both in my inventory and right clicking the pot of water allowed me to make soup!

I also figured out something else I was doing wrong: I'm so used to The Long Dark, where you cook everything on stove tops, that I didn't understand that you had to stick them inside the oven to cook them. Even something like soup, which is usually cooked on top of the stove irl, has to be cooked in the oven.

I had previously thought I was sticking the pot on top of the stove, but it was an illusion based on perspective and it turns out I was actually sticking it on the floor. I didn't realize that at first. So learned something new haha.

Thanks again!