Jalapeno

Jalapeno

Class	Fruits and Vegetables
Type	HotPepper
Hunger	-2
Thirst	-
Calories	15
Fresh	5 days
Rotten	8 days
Cook Time	10 min
Weight	0.1
Location	Containers
Spawn ID	`/additem Base.PepperJalapeno`

A Jalapeno is a small hot pepper used to spice up cooked dishes. It counts as a spice, so it adds flavour and hunger without taking an ingredient slot. It weighs just 0.1.

Eaten alone, a jalapeno barely touches hunger. Its value is in the kitchen, where it goes into pizza, soup, stew, stir fry, pasta, rice, tacos and many more. It is also one of the five ingredients in Guacamole.

Jalapenos spoil within about a week. They are found on grocery stands and in restaurant fridges, and a farm can grow them from Jalapeno Seeds. The Farmer is the best occupation for fruits and vegetables. It starts with the most Agriculture skill.

Eating

Eating a raw jalapeno lowers hunger by 2. It holds 15 calories and almost no protein, fat or carbohydrates. That makes it useless as a meal on its own.

A jalapeno is better hot, so a cooked one eaten warm gives a small mood lift. The good effects fade as it ages, and a stale pepper becomes unpleasant to eat.

A Habanero is the closest alternative. It also lowers hunger by 2 and holds 15 calories.

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
Jalapeno	-2	15	0	0	0.21

Cooking

A jalapeno cooks in 10 minutes and burns after 30. Cooking it alone is rarely worth the time.

As a spice, it sits outside the ingredient limit of an evolved dish. It adds 2 hunger to a Pizza, Soup, Stew, Stir Fry, Pasta or Rice dish. In an Omelette, Burger, Hot Dog, Sandwich, Salad, Taco or Burrito it adds 1.

The Make Guacamole recipe uses one jalapeno with an Avocado, an Onion, a Tomato and some salt. It needs a bowl, a sharp knife and a fork or spoon, all kept. It makes 5 portions of Guacamole.

The Dry Jalapenos recipe turns fresh peppers into Jalapeno (Dried).

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

Dish	Hunger Restored	Note
Pasta	2	-
Pizza	2	-
Rice	2	-
Soup	2	-
Stew	2	-
Stir Fry	2	-
Burger	1	-
Burrito	1	-
Hot Dog	1	-
Omelette	1	-
Salad	1	-
Sandwich	1	-
Taco	1	-

Used in Crafting

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

Recipe	Output	Image	Station	Skill	Spawn ID
Collect Seeds	Jalapeno Seeds		-	None	`/additem Base.JalapenoSeed`
Make Guacamole	Guacamole		-	Cooking: 0	`/additem Base.Guacamole`

Farming

Jalapenos grow from Jalapeno Seeds. A plant takes about 20 days to grow and gives 2 to 4 peppers at harvest.

The sowing season runs from April to June, and May is the best month to plant. Jalapenos planted from October through March do poorly.

The Collect Seeds recipe takes seeds from a jalapeno with tweezers or a knife. That keeps the pepper patch going into the next season.

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

Seed	Image	Grow Time	Harvest	Sowing Months	Best Months	Spawn ID
Jalapeno Seeds		20 days	2-4	April, May, June	May	`/additem Base.JalapenoSeed`

Storage

A fresh jalapeno stays fresh for 5 days and is fully rotten by day 8. A fridge slows both counts down. Drying a harvest turns it into Jalapeno (Dried) before it rots.

Locations

Jalapenos are a common find on grocery stands at Gigamart and grocery stores, which hold them about half the time. Pizza kitchen fridges carry them fairly often. Western and Mexican kitchen fridges hold them now and then. Restaurant kitchens and house fridges turn one up only rarely.

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

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