Wouldn't making two cakes in the bakery be better than one salad for the same price?

[Milty]

I'm trying to get a lot of food to upgrade my shugabush to level 15 but baking two Cakes gets me 1,000,000 food for 10,000,000 coins but if I spent 10,000,000 coins on a Salad I get 750,000 food? I must be missing something right? Why would I get the most expensive food if I can just spend the same amount and get more food from baking two Cakes?

[Mickmane]

Going by wiki, Big Salad takes the same amount of time, which means you get more per minute overall.

https://mysingingmonsters.fandom.com/wiki/Bakery

[ferociouscleric]

salads are quicker and have more xp per unit of food (by a lot). if you have unlimited money and like leveling up, salads are the way to go

[Milty]

Originally posted by ferociouscleric:

salads are quicker and have more xp per unit of food (by a lot). if you have unlimited money and like leveling up, salads are the way to go

but don't they both take 48 hours and I guess they give you more xp but right now I'm more interested in getting the most food so is there a reason if I only care about getting the most food?

[Milty]

Originally posted by Mickmane:

Going by wiki, Big Salad takes the same amount of time, which means you get more per minute overall.

https://mysingingmonsters.fandom.com/wiki/Bakery

Yeah but couldn't I just make two at the same time and it would take as much time in the end if I just baked two of the cakes?

[Mickmane]

Originally posted by Milty:

Originally posted by Mickmane:

Going by wiki, Big Salad takes the same amount of time, which means you get more per minute overall.

https://mysingingmonsters.fandom.com/wiki/Bakery

Yeah but couldn't I just make two at the same time and it would take as much time in the end if I just baked two of the cakes?

See unlimited money. If you have two bakeries, you can do 2x Big Salad, if money doesn't matter.

[ferociouscleric]

its better to have multiple bakeries put out smaller amounts of food than to have a single bakery put out giant loads of food, if youre really in a hurry. personally, while im still trying to upgrade castles on all the islands more than upgrading the monsters to max (the majority of mine sit at 10 except for the ones ive teleported), i bake 5 pies, one on each bakery. once im done expanding, ill probably build more bakeries and make more pies rather than jumping to turkeys or cakes.

however, if i had infinite money, id put out salads on all islands with all 5 bakeries on each.

[Milty]

Originally posted by ferociouscleric:

its better to have multiple bakeries put out smaller amounts of food than to have a single bakery put out giant loads of food, if youre really in a hurry. personally, while im still trying to upgrade castles on all the islands more than upgrading the monsters to max (the majority of mine sit at 10 except for the ones ive teleported), i bake 5 pies, one on each bakery. once im done expanding, ill probably build more bakeries and make more pies rather than jumping to turkeys or cakes.

however, if i had infinite money, id put out salads on all islands with all 5 bakeries on each.

Ohhhh okay I think that makes sense so if you were to get enough money that you could fill all your bakeries with it its better ok that does make sense thanks.

[ferociouscleric]

Originally posted by Milty:

Ohhhh okay I think that makes sense so if you were to get enough money that you could fill all your bakeries with it its better ok that does make sense thanks.

its not just about enough money, its about way more than enough money. if i had every island full and all monsters at 20, i still dont think i would produce enough to make salads appealing as a source of food. however, if i ever hit that point, i would probably end up making salads for just the absurd amount of xp in the grind for 99.

[Milty]

Originally posted by ferociouscleric:

Originally posted by Milty:

Ohhhh okay I think that makes sense so if you were to get enough money that you could fill all your bakeries with it its better ok that does make sense thanks.

its not just about enough money, its about way more than enough money. if i had every island full and all monsters at 20, i still dont think i would produce enough to make salads appealing as a source of food. however, if i ever hit that point, i would probably end up making salads for just the absurd amount of xp in the grind for 99.

Yeah that actually makes a lot of sense now though thanks for the explanation.

[yunusemredilek]

If you have limited bakeries but you need to produce more food in the shortest period of time, big salad is the way to go.

As a mobile player, I was hatred towards big salad for wasting my coins especially when I mistakenly used it so I keep baking cakes instead lol.

[123]

Originally posted by Milty:

Ibaking two Cakes gets me 1,000,000 food for 10,000,000 coins but if I spent 10,000,000 coins on a Salad I get 750,000 food?

As others said, it is all about the xp, you basically trade food you could have gotten instead against xp when doing salad instead of cake.
Right now I don't see the point in leveling though, and food is desperately needed, so I stick to cakes. They got a very decent ratio, 174 Food per Min, while Turkey only got 69/min.

Main point why you should aim at cakes, as soon as you have enough coins to bake these every day (that point is typically reached once done with all coin-castle upgrades), is that it saves you alot of clicking.
Sure, spreading bakerys all over the islands is possible, but say, you are able to bake 3 cakes a day, then you only need to manage 6 bakerys while the same amount of turkey would need 30 and also you need to check back on their timers more frequently.

[ferociouscleric]

Originally posted by 123:

Main point why you should aim at cakes, as soon as you have enough coins to bake these every day (that point is typically reached once done with all coin-castle upgrades), is that it saves you alot of clicking.
Sure, spreading bakerys all over the islands is possible, but say, you are able to bake 3 cakes a day, then you only need to manage 6 bakerys while the same amount of turkey would need 30 and also you need to check back on their timers more frequently.

then doesnt that depend on how much you play? im not saying cakes arent good, but im checking in on the game lets say every 3 hours while awake. in that check in, i click on every single monster that doesnt have money over their heads to clean them out. do you really think clicking on 5 more things per island every 3-4 logons is really all that much to get the same amount of food in half the time?

if clicks are an issue for you, i have a good autoclicker you can have

[123]

Originally posted by ferociouscleric:

but im checking in on the game lets say every 3 hours while awake. in that check in, i click on every single monster that doesnt have money over their heads to clean them out.

Oh really... well I couldn't know, in this case there's other tipps for you, did you know, the noggin produces a LOT of coins, if you click it every few minutes :-D?

And seriously, I am talking about numbers and efficiency. Clicking on "every single monster" is a waste of time imho once you are in the millions. These few k don't even matter for your progress EXCEPT if you got too much time on your hands, then go ahead. Others are lucky enough to have a rl and these are searching for strategies. If you sit in front of the game all day long you don't need any of these, just skip em.

PS: Also that "autoclicker" would be interesting which can a) click on the bakery, b) select the correct food, c) move on to the next bakerys and do same, d) switch islands and wait the exact loading time which differs for each, e) do same there ... You talking about a bot rather :-D ? Then you also would not need strategys anymore, actually no need to even open the game and nop I am not interested.

[ferociouscleric]

you jest, but i have actually considered setting up an autoclicker on noggin. the only problem is his coins per second is really low. its more beneficial to set it on a bigger dude, but then you may as well wait.

this example in comparison to what we are talking about is more akin to cupcakes vs cake, though. im agreeing that there is a lower limit to the type of food you want to bake at a time, the disagreement is where that lower limit happens to be. i think once you get the money, anything less than pizza is a waste. because of real life, the 48 hour timer on the cake seems less feasible. if youre not picking it up at exactly 48 hours, youre pushing the next batch by a lot. my sleep schedule on weekends isnt the same as on weekdays (i tend to sleep in a lot longer and stay up a lot later), so i tend to use pizzas as a gap to align back to the weekday schedule

most of my clicking is during work hours, i got all the time in the world to avoid real work.

[123]

Originally posted by ferociouscleric:

most of my clicking is during work hours, i got all the time in the world to avoid real work.

Aahhhh you work in a tax office, i'm sure :-D

Ok kidding aside, I think the crucial point is indeed how much food are we talking about. I got way more than 20M coins to spend by now and soon will fill up to 10 bakerys with cake. That would be 50 bakerys, on 10 islands, if I did turkeys. Or even more, since you are not always on time and I fill new ones when old are not done, for example before sleep or early morning.
You don't have to wait until a bakery is done to do the next batch, so you don't push it forward. Just bake whenever you like and collect whenever you need food, as long as you have free bakerys there is no disadvantage. That freedom is the difference to monster-timers.

As for the time of day, I actually spread cakes out over the day so I got 500k-1M food available around 3 times per day, for sure, and don't have too wait too long if I reached zero and need food to level a breeder.