Cutting Edge Cooking Upgrade

Efficiency Modules

Modern Upgrade that greatly increases efficiency when crafting Cutting Edge Cooking recipes.

Notes

The Cutting Edge Cooking Upgrade is a Modern efficiency module that reduces resource and labor costs when crafting Cutting Edge Cooking recipes at a compatible station. As a Modern Upgrade, it requires the station to be placed in a room of sufficient material tier to function. Stocking this upgrade allows skilled chefs to produce advanced dishes faster and with fewer materials, making it a valuable investment for a settlement's food industry.

Notes are AI-generated and may be imprecise.

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Upgrade modules (one per slot)

Basic (none)Basic Upgrade (−10% cost · −5% labor · −25% time)Advanced (none)Advanced Upgrade (−10% cost · −10% labor · −35% time)Modern (none)Modern Upgrade (−15% cost · −10% labor · −50% time)Specialty (none)Cutting Edge Cooking Upgrade (−5% cost · −25% time)

Cutting Edge Cooking level 0Skill level changes labor only.

Talents

Cutting Edge Cooking Focused Speed (−50%) Cutting Edge Cooking Parallel Speed (−20%)

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Quantity to craftScales ingredients, labor, time, output & total raw by the number of crafts.

Ingredients

Ingredients for this recipe

Ingredient	Qty	Type
Ethanol	10	item

Byproducts (garbage)

Garbage byproducts of this recipe

Material	Qty / craft
Garbage	0.2
Bio Residue	0.08

Crafting waste collects in the station's garbage output and must be hauled away or recycled — see the Garbage & Recycling guide.

Crafting

Crafting stats

Labor	9000 calories
Craft time	18 min
Throughput	≈ 3.3 Cutting Edge Cooking Upgrade / hour (base)

As an upgrade module

• -5% Resource Cost when crafting with Cutting Edge Cooking.
• -25% Craft Time when crafting with Cutting Edge Cooking.

How the Update 14 module system works

Recycling & waste

• 1× Garbage

The same salvage value leaks out as garbage when this item is consumed in crafting.

How garbage, sorting & recycling work

Total raw to craft this

Recompute for my setup

• 100× Corn

Categories

• Product
• Specialty Module
• Upgrade

Obtained from

• Cutting Edge Cooking Upgrade

See also

Advanced Baking UpgradeAdvanced Cooking UpgradeAdvanced Masonry UpgradeAdvanced Smelting UpgradeBaking UpgradeBasic Engineering Upgrade