Cooking Meals with the All Purpose Food Press

What the Press Does

The All Purpose Food Press is the core tool for turning raw ingredients into prepared foods. Craft it first, then use it to process harvested crops, tree fruits, and animal drops into the components that other recipes need.

Basic Prep Steps

Gather produce from your farm and orchard: Bell Pepper, Cabbage, Broccoli, Cauliflower, Celery, Carrot Cake ingredients, and fruits like Apple, Banana, Avocado, Apricot. Combine them at the press to make items such as Butter, Caramel, and other intermediates. From there, assemble finished dishes.

Example Dishes

Once you have Butter, you can make Buttered Toast and Buttered Green Beans. With fruit and dough you can bake Apple Pie, Banana Cream Pie, and Baked Crêpes. Savory options include Beef Stew, Beef Stir Fry, Beef Wellington, Burrito, Cabbage Roll, and Cashew Chicken. Sandwiches like Bacon Lettuce Tomato Sandwich and Avocado Toast use bread plus fillings.

Workflow Tip

Keep a stocked kitchen chest with Butter, Caramel, Bread, and common vegetables. Batch-cook several meals at once so you always have food ready for exploring. Smelt or smoke raw meats like Bacon and Beef Jerky ingredients before combining them into larger recipes.