Tomato Paste

Tomato Paste

Class	Ingredients
Type	NoExplicit
Hunger	-15
Thirst	-
Calories	120
Fresh	-
Rotten	-
Cook Time	-
Weight	0.2
Location	Containers
Spawn ID	`/additem Base.TomatoPaste`

Tomato Paste is a packaged, concentrated tomato product used to flavour cooking. It is the sauce for a home-made pizza and a spice for many other dishes. Eaten on its own it is filling but unpleasant.

Tomato paste keeps without spoiling, so it can wait in a cupboard for a long time. It is found in pizza kitchens almost every time, and on kitchen counters and in survivor caches now and then. 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

Eating tomato paste straight lowers hunger by 15 but raises unhappiness by 20. That mood cost makes it a poor snack. It holds 120 calories, mostly from 32 grams of carbohydrates, with 8 grams of fat.

Those calories are a fair help for body weight, but the mood loss is steep. Tomato paste is better saved for a dish, where it works as a spice.

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
Tomato Paste	-15	120	32	0	8	20

Cooking

Tomato paste counts as a spice. A spice sits outside the dish's ingredient limit, so it seasons a meal on top of the main ingredients. It goes into Pizza, Soup, Stew, Omelette, Rice, Pasta, Stir Fry, Pie, Salad and Sandwich, adding 3 hunger to each.

Tomato paste also works as pizza sauce. The Prepare Pizza recipe accepts it as the sauce for a home-made pizza.

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

Dish	Hunger Restored	Note
Omelette	3	-
Pasta	3	-
Pie	3	-
Pizza	3	-
Rice	3	-
Salad	3	-
Sandwich	3	-
Soup	3	-
Stew	3	-
Stir Fry	3	-

Storage

Tomato paste keeps indefinitely, so it can be stockpiled. A cupboard or a shelf is all the storage it needs.

Locations

Tomato paste is a common find in the right places. Pizza kitchens hold it almost every time, both on counters and in other storage. Food caches and survivor crates turn it up now and then. Western and cafeteria kitchen counters hold it about one time in ten. Kitchen counters, shelves and cupboards in houses each hold it a few times in a hundred.

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

ShopsCachesHomes

Location	Container	Chance
Pizza kitchen	Other	100%
Pizza kitchen	Counter	90.9%
Cafeteria kitchen	Counter	10.8%
Restaurant kitchen	Counter	6.5%
Fancy restaurant kitchen	Counter	6.5%
Diner kitchen	Counter	2.2%

Location	Container	Chance
Food cache1	Food box	19%
Survivor cache	Survivor crate	14.3%
Survivor cache	Survivor crate	7.1%
Survivor cache (large building)	Survivor crate	7.1%
Survivor safehouse (mid game)	Counter	6.4%
Survivor cache	Counter	5.9%
Survivor cache	Counter	5.9%
Survivor cache (large building)	Counter	5.9%
Survivor safehouse	Counter	3.6%
Survivor safehouse (late game)	Counter	1.1%

Location	Container	Chance
Western kitchen	Counter	11.7%
Kitchen	Counter	5.9%
Kitchen	Metal shelves	5.9%
Kitchen	Overhead cupboard	5.9%
Kitchen	Shelves	5.9%
Living room	Counter	5.9%
Living room	Overhead cupboard	5.9%
Hoarder kitchen	Counter	4.7%