Spice Grinder

Spice Grinder
Produces ingredients that add benefits to foods prepared at skilled cooking stations.
Crushed seeds and other edibles make excellent meal-enhancing additives.
Research	Food Repurposing
Dimensions	2×3 tiles
Category	Food
Decor	0
Requires	Duplicant operation Grilling II skill Inside a Kitchen
Storage Capacity	Seed: 1 kg Salt/Iron/Slime: 30 kg
Auto In	Green: Enable Red: Disable
Other Properties	Susceptible to flooding
Materials
Metal Ore	400 kg

Spice Grinder allows Duplicants to spice up food to provide bonus for food. Duplicants will spice food as an errand. This building is required to be built in the Kitchen room to be functional.

List of recipes

Name		Ingredients per 1000 kcal	Description	Effects
	Freshener Spice	0.1 unit Mealwood Seed 3 kg Salt	Slows the rate of food decompostion.	Increases Freshness by the decay rate of that food *
	Rocketeer Spice	0.1 unit Fungal Spore 3 kg Sucrose	Provides a boost to piloting abilities.	Increases Piloting by 3 when ingested.
	Brawny Spice	0.1 unit Waterweed Seed 3 kg Iron	Strengthens even the weakest of muscles.	Increases Strength by 3 when ingested.
	Machinist Spice	0.1 unit Blossom Seed 3 kg Slime	Improves operating skills when ingested.	Increases Machinery by 3 when ingested.

*i.e. spiced food will not decay if stored in a refridgerator and normal atmosphere. Also means food will gain freshness if stored in more preservative conditions (deep-freeze, sterile atmosphere).

Trivia

• Seasoning food with Freshener Spice is the only way for food to regain freshness.

History

• U44-535720: Added a list of recipes to the Spice Grinder building's database entry.
• U43-525812: Introduced.

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