Going to warn everyone now. Some of my ideas are jokes but if they get a following cool. Most of the time the jokes ones are first. AKA Serious ones start at PICKLES!
Jorb Burgers. Hear me out new super food. Needs: 1 Bread, 1 Ground beef, 1 cheese curd or better, 1 onion, 1 garden green(I want to just say lettuce leaf only) This leads into another old idea I had in the past.
Condiments. Apply to food like a star shard to an item. Changes hunger/FEPs based on pairing.
Since we have no tomatoes we cant do catsup (we have bitter nightshade and technically tomatoes are nightshades *wink wink*)
But how about:
Egg+ grapeseed oil=mayo. This could lead into sandwiches for use of grilled meats.
Seeds+ oil= mustards. We have sausages etc. Where's my stone ground spicy mustards?
New workstation: Repair bench. Use materials used to make the armor to repair armor. Lowers Q if you have low skill or use low q materials. This is a half hearted idea mainly due to the fact ive found great armors in my travels that were broken and pretty much useless.
PICKLES! New cooking item. Fermenting pickle pot. Clay based item needing to be fired first. Works like tanning tub. Add Dill to Vinegar in a container to make Brine for "fuel" and cucumbers. Let sit in a cave, mine, or basement for 1 week or 1 IG month. Run them through a grinder or recipe to make relish. Can also pickle boiled eggs, beets, turnips, carrots, most grown veggies. Do we have something besides pepper to make them spicy? Fermenting can also be used to make Garum with sardine, salt water, onions, whatever else we should add. Also Worcestershire sauce. Love me some W sawce.
New workstation: Ice cream maker. Distill salt water to get rock salt. Too impure to eat. Use recipe to mix water, snow or ice, with rock salt for machine fuel or maybe just use salt water from ocean. Open and add Milks, Milks mixed with sweeteners or use meat grinder or extraction press with fruits to make Sorbet base. Add to machine. Now crank that soldier boy. Maybe new herbs of mint and vanilla.
I would like to also see Garlic as a plant. We have infected wounds. Garlic is a super amazing immune booster. I evicted a nasty parasite once just by eating raw cloves. But also how about a necklace of garlic to ward off bats instead of taking up a cloak spot, roasting it to boost con food, new medicines or elixirs from it.
This one is only going here as I like the concept but HnH doesn't need it. Canning. Use tin at anvil to make Tin sheets, Use a Coin press/anvil to make cans and a tin nugget for some lids. Alternatively for easier process Glass mason jars with tin lids. Cans need soldering to seal glass jars would just be put in a cauldron of boiling water. I can't see a use for this as food doesn't really spoil on us but the idea is there. Maybe it can be used for making medicines or something. Maybe for an alternative pickle process.
Also I missed saying this in an old old post. Jorb thank you for listening to my idea of snakeskin boots. I was walking around in a pair for a week and loving them when I looked back at old posts and realized I was the one who mentioned them and it took off.