[REQUEST] QoL - Right Click + Add Unopened Canned Foods To Food Preparation

[Ouija]

I'm dying for a mod that will just let me walk up to my canned foods, right click the cooking pot, and add them with no hassle like every other non-canned ingredient in the game.

 

Currently, cooking with canned foods is:

1. Open the laggy crafting window

2. Search for prepare stew, soup, etc.

3. Scroll down, see what cans of food can actually be added to the stew/soup I'm trying to prepare.

4. Cross-reference the list of 'compatible' cans with what I have.

5. Open can.

6. Add to recipe.

 

The whole process is exhausting. I'm surprised nobody's done this yet. I've actually considered opening and refrigerating cans of food just so I can use them like normal ingredients. Admittedly, a large part of the issue is my inability to memorize which cans can work in which recipes. But I don't think it's too much to expect closed cans to behave like normal ingredients, and I'm sure TIS will make it a thing in the upcoming crafting update. Hopefully.

 

-Ouija

[Dorraj]

I seriously don't know how little people have complained about this. What's especially annoying is you can use the same menu as you do to make a salad bowl, to automatically open up a can of beans and put it in the bowl. You already need tools to add stuff to pots and pans, so it's not the can opener stopping it from happening. I just find it super weird how specifically canned foods are off the block for cooking recipes. There genuinely is only this post and one reddit post of people complaining/wishing there was a mod for this. Does no one else find this even slightly frustrating? The whole point of canned food is that it's non perishable till it's ready to use, but if I wanna have a list of stuff I can use in a recipe like normal cooking, I gotta open all my cans first? (or do what you mention and cross-reference "compatible" cans) maaaaaaan

[flawy]

tbf canned food is less perishable bc it is contained

and then becomes usable once the container is open

I am not sure but the game may already offer the feature you want if you have already taken the time to open the canned food?

 

If not then yeah I agree that would be annoying.

Edited September 19 by flawy

[flawy]

upon rereading your complaint...I somewhat disagree that time management should be automated as an interface option without consequence.

 

Opening canned goods takes time...as a compromise, however...sometimes canned goods have self-opening tabs...so as long as you use self-opening canned loot your time management and loot organization should be mitigated.
But imo Self-opening loot should be a more rare form of canned loot.

 

Or at least that is my experience with IRL shopping.