Grilled Chikipi
Food · FoodDishMeat0★Chicken on a skewer, taken slowly over charcoal. Clean and light in the mouth.
Grilled Chikipi is an early cooked dish: 41st of 45 by hunger restored, so treat it as a stepping stone, at 50 against the 418 of Mammorest Curry.
Nothing is crafted from it — it is an end product, so anything you make is meant to be used rather than banked as a component.
Details
It stacks up to 9,999.
Grilled Chikipi Crafting Recipe
Chikipi PoultryCrafting it takes 1 material across 1 type.
Where to Find Grilled Chikipi
Grilled Chikipi is not something you find lying around — you craft it, and the recipe is below.
Using Grilled Chikipi Well
No kitchen needed — a bare Campfire, the first cooker on the tech tree, already takes this recipe, so it is the meal you can make on your first night out. The Cooking Pot, Electric Kitchen, Large-Scale Stone Oven and Ancient Kitchen accept the same single ingredient and only shorten the wait.
The cook is 500 work — the cheapest in the food list, roughly a third of what grilling a fish like Grilled Kelpsea costs and about one-sixtieth of a full dish. One low-level Kindling Pal clears an entire hunt's worth of meat in the time a real recipe needs for one serving.
Supply is one skewer per bird: Chikipi drops exactly 1 Chikipi Poultry, always, whether you catch it or kill it, and nothing else on the island produces the meat. A pen of caught Chikipi and a Butcher's Cleaver is therefore the steady supply line; hunting wild ones only pays while you are already out there.
Fire alone turns 36 nutrition into 50 and 100 gold into 120, so there is never a reason to eat Chikipi Poultry raw when a campfire is lit. Buying the raw meat off a merchant to grill and resell is not a business, though — the 100 gold it costs at the Village, Caravan and Dungeon shops leaves 20 gold a skewer.
Two Berries are what separates this from Chikipi Sauté — 92 nutrition and 12 SAN against 50 and 1, for the same one piece of poultry. The moment a berry plantation and a Cooking Pot are running, grilling is a waste of meat; save it, and save some for Fried Chikipi at 108 nutrition once Flour, an Egg and Pal Oil are coming in.
Alternatives and Upgrades
Step up from here and you get Lamball Kebab at 52 hunger restored; step down and it is Grilled Galeclaw at 50. That gap is the honest measure of whether an upgrade is worth the materials right now.
Other cooked dishs at a similar tier, for when you want to weigh this against the rest of its class:
