selling items in shop = more profit?

[DJI_DUDU]

So I read some wiki on this and it says that if it comes to money there is no difference in selling your stuff to shops or using your shipping container (the only thing is you get your cash next day if you use shipping method while you have your money instantly when selling to town folks).

However I found that selling sashimi (food made from ANY fish) is twice as profitable when sold in shop. So... if I have a shrimp which is worth 97g in shipping it is better to produce sashimi and sell it in the shop for around 370g (mark that making shashimi from other fishes may come with a loss).
So my question is about your observations guys. Do you have other examples? Like selling products to NPC giving you more money.

[Pixel Peeper]

Sashimi is supposed to be worth 75g no matter what. Which shop is paying 370g for it?

Are you sure you didn't just sell five of them at the same time? It would list the price for the stack at 375g.

[NotThatHarkness]

I just loaded a game, used a catfish to produce sashimi which could be sold to Pierre for 75g. (I couldn't sell it to the Saloon, Willy, or Clint.) Didn't see a 370g sashimi.

[CloudSeeker]

Any food item is always worth as much as the components it is made of, it is made so just to prevent people from cooking food and sell it right away for no extra effort but extra profit.

[Pixel Peeper]

Originally posted by CloudSeeker:

Any food item is always worth as much as the components it is made of, it is made so just to prevent people from cooking food and sell it right away for no extra effort but extra profit.

This is false.

If you cook a 45g fish into Sashimi, it will be worth 75g.
If you cook a 4,500g fish into Sashimi, it will be worth 75g.

[NotThatHarkness]

Originally posted by CloudSeeker:

Any food item is always worth as much as the components it is made of, it is made so just to prevent people from cooking food and sell it right away for no extra effort but extra profit.

According to the wiki the catfish I used was worth 200g, but the sashimi sold for 75g.

[CloudSeeker]

Originally posted by Tripoteur Ventripotent:

Originally posted by CloudSeeker:

Any food item is always worth as much as the components it is made of, it is made so just to prevent people from cooking food and sell it right away for no extra effort but extra profit.

This is false.

If you cook a 45g fish into Sashimi, it will be worth 75g.
If you cook a 4,500g fish into Sashimi, it will be worth 75g.

There is ofc situations like that, but that isn't the point as you fail to see the point and rather knit pick. If you for example have eggs you can not make omelets and get more money for it, and omelets will not go over what the egg at it most basic form is worth. You never get more from cooking then just selling it raw. If you ask the question "does cooking give you more money" the answer is no, it will not go over what it is made of to avoid money abuse.

[DJI_DUDU]

then my bad guys. I must have miscalculated something.
So I am a bit sad as cooking appears to be a neglected aspect of this game. It should be a separate skill and it should be somehow profitable. On the other hand you are running a farm not a restaurant :P cheers! I believe we can move on and forget about this topic. Peace.

[Pixel Peeper]

Originally posted by CloudSeeker:

Originally posted by Tripoteur Ventripotent:

This is false.

If you cook a 45g fish into Sashimi, it will be worth 75g.
If you cook a 4,500g fish into Sashimi, it will be worth 75g.

There is ofc situations like that, but that isn't the point as you fail to see the point and rather knit pick. If you for example have eggs you can not make omelets and get more money for it, and omelets will not go over what the egg at it most basic form is worth. You never get more from cooking then just selling it raw. If you ask the question "does cooking give you more money" the answer is no, it will not go over what it is made of to avoid money abuse.

I saw a very, very grave piece of misinformation (that the value of cooked items is always exactly equal to the value of the ingredients) and corrected it. I don't want people to think that they can never make money by cooking things (they can) or that they can never lose money by cooking things (they can).

You just did it again. You literally typed "You never get more from cooking then just selling it raw", which is false. You can get loads of extra money by converting stuff like low-quality Mussels, Periwinkles, Cockles, Smallmouth Basses, Sardines and Herrings into Sashimi.

If someone asks the question "does cooking give you more money", the answer is "Cooking normalizes the value to that of the cooked item, which is almost always different (usually lower but sometimes higher) than the price of the ingredients".

Seriously. The value of cooked items is almost always different than that of the ingredients. Why would you say it's always the same?

[DJI_DUDU]

I just made a meal in real life if some1 is interested xD it will bring a small value to my life soon xD

[CloudSeeker]

Originally posted by Tripoteur Ventripotent:

Originally posted by CloudSeeker:

There is ofc situations like that, but that isn't the point as you fail to see the point and rather knit pick. If you for example have eggs you can not make omelets and get more money for it, and omelets will not go over what the egg at it most basic form is worth. You never get more from cooking then just selling it raw. If you ask the question "does cooking give you more money" the answer is no, it will not go over what it is made of to avoid money abuse.

I saw a very, very grave piece of misinformation ?

No missinformation at all. I am not going to waste my time on making a encyclopedia going off topic and be worthless as you can do the research yourself as a wiki exist. I am not even going to listen to you rant because you are just forgetting the point and don't answer the question and I have no interest in giving you any more time then I have given you.

[Pixel Peeper]

Originally posted by CloudSeeker:

Any food item is always worth as much as the components it is made of

Originally posted by CloudSeeker:

No missinformation at all

[CeliriaRose]

Originally posted by mityrka:

then my bad guys. I must have miscalculated something.
So I am a bit sad as cooking appears to be a neglected aspect of this game. It should be a separate skill and it should be somehow profitable. On the other hand you are running a farm not a restaurant :P cheers! I believe we can move on and forget about this topic. Peace.

This was intentional. ConcernedApe designed cooking with the idea to not be profitable and instead to be focused more around the buffs you can get from it.

[Ape-tier Buffoonery]

Its not even like sashimi is the exception to the rule either, what Tripoteur said is correct.

Theres a list on the wiki of cooked dishes that will sell for more than the sum of the ingredients. Do all dishes act like this? No. But a decent number do, and saying:

Originally posted by CloudSeeker:

Any food item is always worth as much as the components it is made of, it is made so just to prevent people from cooking food and sell it right away for no extra effort but extra profit.

Is factually wrong plain and simple.