Garlic

Garlic

Class	Raw Meat and Fish
Type	Herb
Hunger	-5
Thirst	-
Calories	14
Fresh	14 days
Rotten	28 days
Cook Time	30 min
Weight	0.2
Location	Containers
Spawn ID	`/additem Base.Garlic`

Garlic is a fresh herb bulb used mainly as a spice. Eaten alone it is a very small snack. Its real value is the flavour it adds to almost every savoury dish in the game.

Garlic keeps well for a fresh crop, staying good for two weeks. It is found in restaurant fridges, and a farm can grow it from Garlic Seeds. 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

Eating a raw bulb lowers hunger by 5. It holds 14 calories with almost no protein or fat. It does little for body weight.

Garlic is better hot, so it gives a small mood lift when eaten soon after cooking. Raw garlic is safe to eat. Still, a bulb eaten alone wastes it, since a single bulb adds flavour to a whole dish.

Compared with an Onion, garlic is half as filling. An Onion lowers hunger by 10 and keeps for the same two weeks.

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
Garlic	-5	14	3.27	0.39	0.04

Cooking

Garlic cooks in 30 minutes and burns after 60. Cooking it on its own is rarely worth the time.

It works as a spice in evolved dishes. It goes into Pizza, Omelettes, Soup, Stew, Pie, Stir Fry, Sandwiches, Burgers, Salad, Rice, Pasta, Tacos, Burritos, Toast and Bread. In each it adds 1 hunger. A spice does not take one of the dish's ingredient slots.

A cook can add garlic to a stew without losing space for meat or vegetables.

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

Dish	Hunger Restored	Note
Bread	1	-
Burger	1	-
Burrito	1	-
Omelette	1	-
Pasta	1	-
Pie	1	-
Pizza	1	-
Rice	1	-
Salad	1	-
Sandwich	1	-
Soup	1	-
Stew	1	-
Stir Fry	1	-
Taco	1	-
Toast	1	-

Farming

Garlic grows from Garlic Seeds. A plant takes about 48 days to grow and gives 2 to 4 bulbs at harvest. The sowing season runs from July to September. August is the best month to plant. Garlic planted in June does poorly.

The long growing time means a garlic bed is a late summer job. It is a crop for a base that plans to stay put.

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

Seed	Image	Grow Time	Harvest	Sowing Months	Best Months	Spawn ID
Garlic Seeds		48 days	2-4	July, August, September	August	`/additem Base.GarlicSeed`

Storage

Garlic stays fresh for 14 days and is fully rotten by day 28. A fridge slows both counts down. A few bulbs bought early can season meals for weeks.

Locations

Garlic is a rare find in the world. Western and Italian restaurant kitchens keep it in their fridges most often. Other restaurant kitchens and fancy restaurant kitchens hold it now and then. A house fridge turns one up only rarely. For a steady supply, growing it is the better plan.

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

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