Veggie Poppers

Veggie Poppers is a cooked food item that is prepared over 600 seconds and then removed from the cooking building by hand. The process does not require any duplicant operation while it is cooking, but duplicants must still load the ingredients and collect the finished food. One recipe yields 4 servings with a total of 11,450 kcal, which is an increase of 5,850 kcal over the ingredients used.

Its main practical use is as critter feed: Veggie Poppers can be given to Hatches and Sage Hatches to produce Coal. This makes it a useful surplus food when a colony is already self-sufficient in meals and wants to turn extra calories into a steady resource stream for generators and other coal consumers.

Because the recipe is calorie-efficient compared with the ingredients going in, Veggie Poppers can serve as a compact food stockpile before being redirected to critters. That makes it convenient for colonies that want to avoid wasted produce while still keeping a food reserve available.

• Feed it to Hatches or Sage Hatches if you want Coal.
• The cooked output is more calorie-dense than the input ingredients, so it is suitable for storage.
• The recipe completes in 600 seconds and does not need a duplicant to stay assigned to the building during processing.
• Since the finished item must be collected manually, plan storage and hauling so the product does not sit in the building after cooking.