food processor recipes

[Individual-1]

can you run 2 recipes (corn and potato) at the same time in a food processor to create snacks?
I may be wrong but I would imagine it splits between the two.
If so, does it split the time evenly or complete one item then start the next?

[hektor]

Since corn and potatos are consumed in the same quantity it can be done. Put a balancer at the input. I would suggest not more than one conveyor piece from balancer to input.
It will not split time evenly. It will go in recipe order and move to second when second is fulfilled before first.

[Kaery]

You can run two (or more) recipes in a lot of buildings. Furnaces and ore/scrap recipes are a common use. And yes, you can do both for snacks in a food processor.

But like with any other building, you have a priority system for the recipes. So it won't be making both at the same time, no. If you provide both potatoes and corn evenly, it will make whichever recipe is at the top, every time. Only when the ingredients for that one runs out will it switch to the second. So I'd say, build two processors, provide both ingredients to both... But flip the order of recipes between them. That way, both ingredients will be used, but if one runs out, both processors will keep producing using the other ingredient.

You don't strictly need a balancer, since belts can do more than one material on the same belt, unlike pipes. With a belt carrying both, you will also see the recipes switching in use, because the material for the second recipe will still accumulate and eventually, the first won't have all the ingredients it needs right then, so the second is used.

If you manage to make a belt alternate perfectly between corn and potatoes, you'd get the time evenly split between the two recipes, as you asked for. A regular belt merge could do that, provided it's fed the same rate of both materials.

[Individual-1]

Originally posted by hektor:

Since corn and potatos are consumed in the same quantity it can be done. Put a balancer at the input. I would suggest not more than one conveyor piece from balancer to input.
It will not split time evenly. It will go in recipe order and move to second when second is fulfilled before first.

thanks

[Individual-1]

Originally posted by Kaery:

You can run two (or more) recipes in a lot of buildings. Furnaces and ore/scrap recipes are a common use. And yes, you can do both for snacks in a food processor.

But like with any other building, you have a priority system for the recipes. So it won't be making both at the same time, no. If you provide both potatoes and corn evenly, it will make whichever recipe is at the top, every time. Only when the ingredients for that one runs out will it switch to the second. So I'd say, build two processors, provide both ingredients to both... But flip the order of recipes between them. That way, both ingredients will be used, but if one runs out, both processors will keep producing using the other ingredient.

You don't strictly need a balancer, since belts can do more than one material on the same belt, unlike pipes. With a belt carrying both, you will also see the recipes switching in use, because the material for the second recipe will still accumulate and eventually, the first won't have all the ingredients it needs right then, so the second is used.

If you manage to make a belt alternate perfectly between corn and potatoes, you'd get the time evenly split between the two recipes, as you asked for. A regular belt merge could do that, provided it's fed the same rate of both materials.

Thanks, You saved me some time.
It works the way I thought.
I will process each separately

[hektor]

Originally posted by Kaery:

You don't strictly need a balancer, since belts can do more than one material on the same belt, unlike pipes. With a belt carrying both, you will also see the recipes switching in use, because the material for the second recipe will still accumulate and eventually, the first won't have all the ingredients it needs right then, so the second is used.

True but it is always handy for future expansion.

Also, it makes you look serious. Like wearing a lab coat grocery shopping.

[hektor]

The tricky one to combine is meat/sausage since the input quantity is so different and there is only one input.