Hot Sauce
| Hot Sauce | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Class | Ingredients |
| Type | NoExplicit |
| Hunger | -16 |
| Thirst | - |
| Calories | 430 |
| Fresh | - |
| Rotten | - |
| Cook Time | - |
| Weight | 0.2 |
| Location | Containers |
| Spawn ID | /additem Base.Hotsauce
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Hot Sauce is a bottled chili sauce used to spice up cooked dishes. It counts as a spice, so it adds flavour and hunger without taking an ingredient slot. A bottle weighs 0.2 and never spoils.
Eaten straight from the bottle, hot sauce is unpleasant and makes the character sadder. Used in cooking, it loses that penalty and simply adds to the meal. It suits pizza, stir fry, burgers, tacos, burritos and hot dogs.
Hot sauce is a common find in restaurant kitchens. Mexican kitchens almost always have a bottle. The Chef is the best occupation for ingredients. It starts with the most Cooking skill. The Burger Flipper also starts with some Cooking skill.
Eating
Drinking hot sauce on its own lowers hunger by 16. It also raises unhappiness by 20, which is a heavy mood cost. A bottle holds 430 calories, all from carbohydrates.
Raw use only makes sense when a character is starving and has nothing else. Cooking it into a dish is the far better choice. In a dish the mood penalty goes away and the sauce still adds hunger.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hot Sauce | -16 | 430 | 270 | 0 | 0 | 20 |
Cooking
Hot sauce needs no cooking of its own. It works as a spice in evolved dishes, so it sits outside the ingredient limit.
It adds the most to a Pizza or a Stir Fry, where it brings 4 hunger. In an Omelette, Sandwich, Burger, Hot Dog, Rice, Pasta, Taco or Burrito it adds 2. A single bottle can season many meals over time.
These dishes take the Hot Sauce as an ingredient, with the hunger it restores in each.
| Dish | Hunger Restored | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Pizza | 4 | - |
| Stir Fry | 4 | - |
| Burger | 2 | - |
| Burrito | 2 | - |
| Hot Dog | 2 | - |
| Omelette | 2 | - |
| Pasta | 2 | - |
| Rice | 2 | - |
| Sandwich | 2 | - |
| Taco | 2 | - |
Storage
Hot sauce never spoils. A bottle can sit on a shelf for the whole game and stay usable.
Locations
Hot sauce is a common find in restaurant kitchens. Mexican kitchens are the surest spot, and their counters hold it often too. Seafood, deep fry and Jay's Chicken kitchen counters carry it well over a third of the time. The jerky factory and its shipping area stock it on their shelves. Fish and chips, Chinese, catfish, Spiffo's, western, arena and burger kitchens hold it fairly often. General store shelves, diner kitchens and butcher shops turn it up now and then.
The places where it spawns, with the rough chance per container. Each tab shows one kind of place.
| Location | Container | Chance |
|---|---|---|
| Mexican kitchen | Other | 100% |
| Deepfry kitchen | Counter | 42.3% |
| Mexican kitchen | Counter | 32% |
| Fishchips kitchen | Counter | 31.7% |
| Catfish kitchen | Counter | 25.3% |
| Western kitchen | Counter | 23.4% |
| Arena kitchen | Counter | 21.2% |
| Arena kitchen | Other | 11.9% |
| Arenakitchen storage | Other | 11.9% |
| Deepfry kitchen | Other | 11.9% |
| Location | Container | Chance |
|---|---|---|
| Seafood kitchen | Counter | 58.2% |
| Jayschicken kitchen | Counter | 40.5% |
| Chinese kitchen | Counter | 29.6% |
| Spiffos kitchen | Counter | 24.6% |
| Burger kitchen | Counter | 21.2% |
| Burger kitchen | Metal shelves | 19.9% |
| Burger kitchen | Other | 19.9% |
| General store | Shelves | 19.4% |
| Diner kitchen | Other | 15.9% |
| Spiffos kitchen | Metal shelves | 15.9% |
| Location | Container | Chance |
|---|---|---|
| Jerky factory | Metal shelves | 42.1% |
| Jerky shipping | Other | 42.1% |
| Location | Container | Chance |
|---|---|---|
| Food cache1 | Food box | 9.5% |
| Survivor safehouse | Fridge | 5.7% |
| Survivor safehouse (mid game) | Fridge | 3.7% |
Notes
- Never drink hot sauce plain unless starving, because it raises unhappiness by 20.
- In a dish, hot sauce adds hunger with no mood penalty.
- As a spice, it does not use up an ingredient slot.
- Pizza and Stir Fry get the most out of a splash of hot sauce.
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