Ham

Ham

Class	Raw Meat and Fish
Type	Meat
Hunger	-60
Thirst	-
Calories	1560
Fresh	5 days
Rotten	10 days
Cook Time	20 min
Weight	1
Location	Containers
Spawn ID	`/additem Base.Ham`

Ham is a whole cured ham, sold packaged. It is a large, very filling piece of meat. Sliced up, it stretches across several meals. A whole ham weighs 1.0, so it is heavy to carry.

It keeps for about five days fresh. Most recipes need it sliced first, and a knife turns it into six Ham Slices. Ham is found at butcher and supermarket meat counters and in restaurant and house freezers. 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

A whole ham lowers hunger by 60. It holds 1560 calories, with 117 grams of protein and 78 grams of fat. That makes it a rich food for keeping body weight up.

Ham is better hot, so a cooked ham gives a small mood lift when eaten soon after cooking. It can be eaten without cooking. Its effects turn worse as it starts to rot.

A Steak lowers hunger by 40 with 220 calories. A whole ham fills more and carries far more energy, though it weighs over three times as much.

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
Ham	-60	1560	91	117	78

Cooking

A ham cooks in 20 minutes and burns after 40. The game notes that it needs to be sliced before it goes into most recipes.

The Slice Ham recipe needs a sharp knife or a meat cleaver, which is kept. It turns one Ham into 6 Ham Slices. Each slice adds 10 hunger to Pizza, Soup, Stew, an Omelette, a Sandwich, a Burger, a Salad, Rice or Pasta. Slicing a ham is the best way to spread it across many dishes.

Used in Crafting

These recipes take the Ham as an ingredient or a part.

Recipe	Output	Image	Station	Skill	Spawn ID
Slice Ham	Ham Slice		-	Cooking: 0	`/additem Base.HamSlice`

Storage

A ham stays fresh for 5 days and is fully rotten by day 10. A fridge slows both counts down, and a freezer keeps it far longer. Ham Slices keep for only 3 days, so it is best to slice just before cooking.

Locations

Ham is a fairly common find. Barbecue store and Gigamart kitchen meat counters hold it about half the time. Gigamart, grocery store and butcher meat counters carry it fairly often.

Italian and other restaurant kitchen freezers hold it often, as do cafeteria and diner freezers. Restaurant and cafeteria kitchen counters are worth checking. A house freezer turns one up now and then, and so do garage and storage room freezers.

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

ShopsHomesWork and StorageCaches

Location	Container	Chance
Barbecue store	Butcher display case	53.3%
Gigamart kitchen	Butcher display case	53.3%
Gigamart	Butcher display case	26.7%
Grocery store	Butcher display case	26.7%
Butcher	Butcher display case	21.3%
Restaurant kitchen	Freezer	14.4%
Fancy restaurant kitchen	Freezer	14.4%
Cafeteria kitchen	Counter	13.9%
Gigamart kitchen	Counter	13.9%
Restaurant kitchen	Counter	13.9%

Location	Container	Chance
Italian kitchen	Freezer	25%
Kitchen	Freezer	10.2%
Living room	Freezer	10.2%
Garage storage	Freezer	8.5%
Italian kitchen	Fridge	7.7%
Any building	Fridge	6.8%
Living room	Fridge	6.8%
Hoarder kitchen	Fridge	6.2%
Hoarder kitchen	Freezer	5.1%