Balsamic Vinegar
| Balsamic Vinegar | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Class | Raw Meat and Fish |
| Type | NoExplicit |
| Hunger | -20 |
| Thirst | - |
| Calories | 1250 |
| Fresh | - |
| Rotten | - |
| Cook Time | - |
| Weight | 0.2 |
| Location | Containers |
| Spawn ID | /additem Base.BalsamicVinegar
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Balsamic Vinegar is a bottle of vinegar used as a spice in cooking. It weighs 0.2 and is used a little at a time. A small splash adds flavour to sandwiches, salads, pasta and rice dishes.
The bottle never spoils, so it can sit in a pantry for as long as needed. It is a rare find, mostly on general store shelves and restaurant kitchen counters. The Rancher is the best occupation for raw meat and fish. It starts with the most Butchering skill. The Chef and the Fishing Guide also start with some Butchering skill.
Eating
Balsamic Vinegar is meant for cooking, and drinking it straight is a miserable experience. The full bottle raises unhappiness by 50. It lowers hunger by 20 and holds 1250 calories, all of it from carbohydrates.
Those figures only make sense as a last resort. A starving character could use the bottle to put on weight, but the mood cost is very heavy. Adding it to food is a far better use.
The table shows the game figures for one serving. Negative hunger and thirst fill the character up, and negative unhappiness and boredom cheer them up.
| Item | Hunger | Calories | Carbs | Protein | Fat | Unhappiness |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Balsamic Vinegar | -20 | 1250 | 300 | 0 | 0 | 50 |
Cooking
Balsamic Vinegar counts as a spice. A spice sits outside a dish's ingredient limit, so it can be added to a full dish.
Each splash adds 2 hunger to a Sandwich, a Burger, Rice, Pasta, Stir Fry, a Salad, a Taco or a Burrito. The Cooking skill makes each ingredient go further in an evolved dish.
These dishes take the Balsamic Vinegar as an ingredient, with the hunger it restores in each.
| Dish | Hunger Restored | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Burger | 2 | - |
| Burrito | 2 | - |
| Pasta | 2 | - |
| Rice | 2 | - |
| Salad | 2 | - |
| Sandwich | 2 | - |
| Stir Fry | 2 | - |
| Taco | 2 | - |
Storage
The bottle keeps indefinitely at room temperature. It cannot be frozen, so it belongs on a shelf rather than in a freezer.
Locations
Balsamic Vinegar is a rare find. General store shelves are the most likely place, though even there it turns up only now and then. Cafeteria, restaurant and diner kitchen counters hold a bottle once in a while. Gigamart and grocery store shelves stock it rarely. A survivor safehouse fridge, a house fridge or a dishes cabinet can also hold one.
The places where it spawns, with the rough chance per container. Each tab shows one kind of place.
| Location | Container | Chance |
|---|---|---|
| General store | Shelves | 3.9% |
| Cafeteria kitchen | Counter | 2.7% |
| Restaurant kitchen | Counter | 1.6% |
| Fancy restaurant kitchen | Counter | 1.6% |
| Gigamart | Shelves | 1% |
| Grocery store | Shelves | 1% |
| Diner kitchen | Counter | 0.5% |
| General store | Other | 0.5% |
| Location | Container | Chance |
|---|---|---|
| Survivor safehouse | Fridge | 1.4% |
| Location | Container | Chance |
|---|---|---|
| Any building | Dishes cabinet | 0.4% |
| Any building | Fridge | 0.4% |
| Living room | Fridge | 0.4% |
Notes
- Use Balsamic Vinegar as a spice rather than drinking it, since a full bottle raises unhappiness by 50.
- As a spice, it can top off a dish that already has its full set of ingredients.
- Keep the bottle on a shelf, since it cannot be frozen.
- Check general store shelves first, since it is rare everywhere else.
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