Cauliflower

Cauliflower

Class	Fruits and Vegetables
Type	Vegetables
Hunger	-9
Thirst	-4
Calories	24
Fresh	4 days
Rotten	6 days
Cook Time	10 min
Weight	0.2
Location	Containers
Spawn ID	`/additem Base.Cauliflower`

Cauliflower is a fresh vegetable that can be eaten raw, cooked alone or added to many dishes. It weighs 0.2, so several heads fit in a bag without much strain. On its own it is a light snack. Its real worth is as a cooking ingredient, where each head adds 9 hunger to a meal.

Cauliflower spoils fast, within a few days of being picked or found. It comes from grocery stands, produce crates and kitchen fridges. A farm can also grow it from Cauliflower Seeds. The Farmer is the best occupation for fruits and vegetables. It starts with the most Agriculture skill.

Eating

A raw head of Cauliflower lowers hunger by 9 and thirst by 4. It holds 24 calories, with 4 grams of protein, 3 grams of carbohydrates and no fat. That is far too little energy to keep body weight up.

The small thirst bonus helps when clean water is scarce. Cauliflower is better hot, so a freshly cooked head gives a small mood lift. It is safe to eat raw.

Next to Carrots, it is a close match. A carrot lowers hunger by 8 and holds 25 calories. Cauliflower fills slightly more but spoils two days sooner.

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	Thirst	Calories	Carbs	Protein	Fat
Cauliflower	-9	-4	24	3	4	0

Cooking

Cauliflower cooks in 10 minutes and burns after 30. A cooked head on its own is a poor use of the time. The better choice is to add it to an evolved dish.

It goes into Soup, Stew, Pie, Stir Fry, Rice, Pasta, Salad, Pizza and Omelette. It adds 9 hunger to each of them. That even value means it is just as good in a salad as in a stew. The Cooking skill makes each ingredient go further, so a trained cook gets more from every head.

These dishes take the Cauliflower as an ingredient, with the hunger it restores in each.

Dish	Hunger Restored	Note
Omelette	9	-
Pasta	9	-
Pie	9	-
Pizza	9	-
Rice	9	-
Salad	9	-
Soup	9	-
Stew	9	-
Stir Fry	9	-

Farming

Cauliflower grows from Cauliflower Seeds. A plant takes about 12 days to grow and gives 2 to 4 heads at harvest. The sowing season runs from February to April, and March is the best month. Planting from September through January gives a poor crop.

How the crop grows, from the game's farming data.

Seed	Image	Grow Time	Harvest	Sowing Months	Best Months	Spawn ID
Cauliflower Seeds		12 days	2-4	February, March, April	March	`/additem Base.CauliflowerSeed`

Storage

A head of Cauliflower stays fresh for 4 days and is fully rotten by day 6. That is two days less than Carrots. A fridge slows both counts down, so it belongs there as soon as it is picked up.

Locations

Cauliflower is a common find wherever fresh produce is sold or stored. Produce crates are almost certain to hold it. Grocery stands at Gigamart, grocery stores and outdoor supply stores carry it about half the time. Produce storage rooms and the fridges of Mexican, Italian and other restaurant kitchens turn it up now and then. A house fridge holds one only rarely.

The places where it spawns, with the rough chance per container. Each tab shows one kind of place.

ShopsHomes

Location	Container	Chance
Produce crate	Crate	100%
Gigamart	Grocery stand	53.3%
Grocery store	Grocery stand	53.3%
Outdoor supply store	Grocery stand	53.3%
Produce storage	Other	10.7%
Restaurant kitchen	Fridge	4.3%
Fancy restaurant kitchen	Fridge	4.3%