Crockpots and Drying Racks

[Kelthor]

Assuming these will be in the game later on, but what is currently the best foods to be working? Dragonfruits and Eggplants and then just cooking them over a fire?

[CupcakeCult]

...Crockpots and Drying racks are already in the game. You can craft them and use them, so I'm a little confused by this

[SnickerToodles]

They're already in the game... Meaty stew will take your hunger from 0 to full (at least for my character) but it's harder to make. By far the most efficient is dragon pie though. If you get a bird in a cage and feed it a dragon fruit, you'll get 1-3 seeds back which you can use to just have a wholly dragon fruit farm. The pies restore 75 hunger and a lot of health, and you can make them with 1 dragon fruit and 3 twigs. You can basically survive off just that in the summer and switch to meaty stew (hunt koalefants) in the winter.

[Kelthor]

They are? That's weird, I can't find them?

[planetkeeper]

use a Science Machine/Alchemy Engine

[Saphhira]

Crockpot Recipes that weren't prev. mentioned:

~ Meatballs are easy to make, consisting of one meat (which CAN be monster meat) and 3 non-meat fillers (veggies or berries).
~ Fish sticks are made with one fish and 3 twigs/sticks (HA, get it?). They restore a good chunk of health!

Check the Don't Starve Wiki for help with more recipes!
Good luck & don't starve!

[Kelthor]

Oh yeah. I was looking in the wrong tab for them doh!

[Ｂｏｏｂｓ]

these are all effective recipes in game (better than eat raw and cooked on fire) and the best way to eat ingredient is below (note: ! = you can't use, - x = suggested to use x as an ingredient, ? = you can use anything of that kind (except it is forbid in other cell) i.e. ? meat = you can use any meat (monster meat, morsel or meat))

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1u4roRAyd1UTPK0RZDM2NoCuzYJIAHT0o4facmUHL8DE/edit#gid=463050158

as a rule for cooking, don't use more than a monster meat except you have twig as one of ingredient (it will have a 50% chance to turn into monster lasagna which is not effective)

the easiest foods you can make early game are:
- Meatballs (1 any meat + 3 anything except twig),
- Froggle Bunwich (1 frog legs + 1 veggie + 2 anything including twig) you can get frog legs easily by use trap to catch frog,
- Butter Muffin (same as frog sandwich but change frog leg to butterfly wing) you can get butterfly wing easily by force attack the butterfly (ctrl + f) with any weapon or your bare hand (doesn't matter since butterfly have 1 hp) while it is idle (flying on a spot as 8) or land on a flower,
- Fishsticks (1 fish + 1 twig + 2 anything except twig) just craft a fishing rod and fish it

[76561198001085311]

this sounds like a healthy diet :)))