🍜 Meal Prep

Turn bargains into meals. Food keeps your Sanity up when you fight scammers.

Type: Artisan skill · Levels: 1–99 (XP table)

Actions

Base time and XP, before tools, Expertise and other bonuses. XP/h assumes no bonuses.

Action	Level	Time	XP	XP/h	Needs	Makes
Loaded Noodles	1	3 s	6	7,200	1 × 🍜 Instant Noodles	1 × 🍲 Loaded Noodles
Sample Platter	5	3.5 s	11	11,314	1 × 🍜 Instant Noodles, 1 × 🧀 Free Samples	1 × 🍢 Sample Platter
Cheese Toastie	10	3.5 s	15	15,429	1 × 🍞 Reduced Bread	1 × 🥪 Cheese Toastie
Chicken Wrap	25	4.5 s	30	24,000	1 × 🍗 Yellow-Sticker Chicken	1 × 🌯 Chicken Wrap
Loaded Pizza	45	6 s	55	33,000	1 × 🫓 Frozen Pizza Base, 1 × 🎋 Bamboo Flatpack	1 × 🍕 Loaded Pizza
Poke Bowl	60	4.5 s	49	39,200	1 × 🐟 Clearance Salmon, 1 × 🟤 Walnut Slab	1 × 🍱 Poke Bowl
Steak Frites	70	5 s	52	37,440	1 × 🥩 Short-Dated Steak, 1 × ⬛ Carbon Panel	1 × 🍽️ Steak Frites
Sushi Platter	80	5.5 s	56	36,655	1 × 🥫 Wholesale Tuna, 1 × 🌫️ Aerogel Panel	1 × 🍣 Sushi Platter
Gold-Leaf Burger	90	6 s	61	36,600	1 × 🐄 Discount Wagyu, 1 × ☄️ Meteorite Slab	1 × 🍔 Gold-Leaf Burger

Tools

One tool slot. Tools are built in Rig Building from parts and a Battlestation part (see tools); the tier 1 tool is also sold in the shop for $150.

Tier	Tool	Level	Speed	Sell value
1	🍳 Budget Air Fryer	1	+5%	$30
2	🍳 Refurb Air Fryer	15	+10%	$80
3	🍳 Gamer Air Fryer	30	+15%	$170
4	🍳 Pro Air Fryer	45	+20%	$260
5	🍳 Enterprise Air Fryer	60	+25%	$420
6	🍳 Lab Air Fryer	70	+30%	$650
7	🍳 Prototype Air Fryer	80	+35%	$1,000
8	🍳 Quantum Air Fryer	90	+40%	$1,600

Expertise

Every action earns its own Expertise level (1–50) as you repeat it. Milestones for Meal Prep:

Expertise	Completions	Perk
10	1,300	+5% speed
20	5,379	+5% chance to save materials
30	12,011	+5% double output
40	21,089	+10% XP
50	32,539	Expert title

Full curve: Expertise.

Memorabilia

Meal Prep can turn up memorabilia from the 🍕 Early Days set: 1 in 12,000 per action, before rare-find bonuses. Only memorabilia you are still missing can drop.