Best Food/Drink now?

[GLM]

before the update, Shark Dinner was the best to take with you, and just having a bunch of Goats in your raft was basically easy mode.

Now not so much, I find that cooking food regularly takes too long and too many ingredients for little gain, I usually just use Milk and Honey every once in a while, and have a stack of cooked dishes ready for when I want to to story island to salvage.

[GoldenOuroboros]

Agreed, they've nerfed so much it's taken the fun out of the game, feels like you're constantly running around chasing your own tail....

[slaw]

bbq dinner is great and the new juicers are great for hydration ( if u have the recipes)

[X]

Get the 5 from the trading post, 2 drinks and 3 food and there all you will ever need.
They have blue background and have special bonuses.

[200]

Лучшая еда - акула
Лучшая вода - вода

[Ryvaken Tadrya]

Goats were more trouble than they were worth. A water bottle was more convenient and would burn less batteries than taking a bucket to a bunch of goats.

[GLM]

So far here is what I've found from playing some more.

Food: Just take a stack of cooked drumsticks with you, recipes are largely not worth it, take too long to make even with multiple cooking pots, the only locations its somewhat worth it is in story islands, because there is a good chance that you'll loot dishes from the containers so its easyer to maintain the bonus hunger while you're there.

Drinks... why does every bloody recipe take coconuts? And the single one that doesn't takes Milk and Blue Algae... its even more of a hassle than food, not to mention juicers break audio ATM, I rather just take 2 water bottles/canteens or a watermelon stack.

Unless they massively reduce the cooking time (10-20s MAX) or allow you to make them in bulk in a single station, they're more hassle than they're worth.

[IOTA]

Agreed. I was hoping that there would be a battery-powered titanium cooking pot that could be loaded for multiple units - like the new smelter. I really miss that a single production cycle yielded multiple units - the 3 return on the shark dinner was a big part of its value.

[Naféasonto Ku'Jashir]

Leftovers. I am not kidding. Use one beat or one potato, and just make leftovers. Cooking has become absolutely useless.

[X]

Originally posted by Naféasonto Ku'Jashir:

Leftovers. I am not kidding. Use one beat or one potato, and just make leftovers. Cooking has become absolutely useless.

Wrong, there is 3 new meals you can cook up that not only goes beyond normal hunger bar but gives you extra that I will let you figure out.
I will say one of the extra and its swimming faster.

[GLM]

Originally posted by X:

Originally posted by Naféasonto Ku'Jashir:

Leftovers. I am not kidding. Use one beat or one potato, and just make leftovers. Cooking has become absolutely useless.

Wrong, there is 3 new meals you can cook up that not only goes beyond normal hunger bar but gives you extra that I will let you figure out.
I will say one of the extra and its swimming faster.

The buffs are nice I guess? I can't see myself bothering with them outside of Hard mode, they're absolutely overkill for normal mode and they go to waste waaay too easily when a huge part of your time is spent on you Raft, sailing and building stuff until you get to the next island, specially because by the time you can comfortably use them large islands are more a matter of dipping in for the buried treasures and them getting the hell out.

Also they're 5, not 3 new meals.

[Odium]

does it matter? Do better foods take longer to drain?

[Ryvaken Tadrya]

Originally posted by Tyrael:

does it matter? Do better foods take longer to drain?

Better foods restore more. The best also add a second bar to drain, which also drains more slowly than the normal.

The cost of cooking those meals, however, is ultimately a small improvement over what the ingredients would give you in the first place.

[Torgonius]

The lung capacity and swim speed buffs are great when stripping reefs of all their resources. Paired with the o2 bottle and flippers, I can go through 2 hooks on a single dose of buffs, and pretty much clear the reefs around a large island.

[CRIXISkiller]

All these foods are great but whats the best drink

[BahamaLlama]

I usually just use Vegetable Soup for food (4 of either potatoes or beats). Pretty easy to get early on and really easy to keep on top of. The only problem is bowls, but, even that is pretty easy.
For drink I just use a simple smoothie. If you hit plenty of islands early on, you end up with a surplus of mango's, coconuts and pineapples. 1 mango, 1 pineapple and 2 coconuts is what's needed and keeping on top of it becomes easy. Plus, you'll eventually be planting palm trees or mango trees for more wood anyways, and having 1-2 medium planters for pineapples/melons is also a good thing (Melons for the bio-fuel maker until you have enough goats).

I just use both the simple recipes because all that matters to me is having that extra hunger/thirst bar. I don't care for the buffs or anything as I feel they're kinda "unneeded" unless you're playing on hard mode.