Mozzarina Steak
Food · FoodDishMeat0★A thick cut taken all the way to well done. The heavy flavour leaves whoever eats it energised.
Mozzarina Steak is an early cooked dish: 35th of 45 by hunger restored, so treat it as a stepping stone, at 80 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.
Mozzarina Steak Crafting Recipe
Mozzarina MeatCrafting it takes 1 material across 1 type.
Where to Find Mozzarina Steak
Mozzarina Steak is not something you find lying around — you craft it, and the recipe is below.
Using Mozzarina Steak Well
No kitchen required — the plain Campfire, the first cooker unlocked on the tech tree, already accepts this recipe, so a steak is available the night you first bring meat home. The Cooking Pot, Electric Kitchen, Large-Scale Stone Oven and Ancient Kitchen take the identical one-ingredient recipe and only finish it sooner.
Supply is 2 to 3 steaks per cow: Mozzarina drops 2-3 Mozzarina Meat every time, whether you catch it or kill it, and nothing else on the island produces the meat. Do not clear a herd, though — a live Mozzarina on a ranch is your only source of Milk, so pen a few and butcher the surplus.
Fire alone takes 57 nutrition to 80 and 190 gold to 230, so raw Mozzarina Meat is never worth eating while a campfire is lit. The 40-gold spread does not make grilling-to-sell a trade; cook because the meat is perishable and the steak is not, not for the margin.
The cook is 3,200 work — twice a grilled fish, a tenth of what either burger asks. One Kindling Pal turns a whole hunt into steaks while a real recipe is still on its first plate, which is what makes this the default way to clear a meat stack rather than the best thing to do with it.
The same one piece of meat plus Flour and 2 Lettuce is Mozzarina Hamburger at 162 nutrition and 20 SAN against 80 and 1 here, and 2 meat with Flour, 2 Tomato and 2 Milk make Mozzarina Cheeseburger at 288 nutrition, 36 SAN and a +20% Attack buff. Once a flour mill and a vegetable plot are running, banking the meat is worth roughly double per cut — and the burgers weigh 0.5 against this steak's 2.5, so they are the food you carry on a long trip too.
Alternatives and Upgrades
Herb Roasted Caprity matches it exactly at 80 hunger restored — those two differ in what they resist and what they weigh, not in raw hunger restored, so picking between them is a swap rather than an upgrade. The next real step is Stir-Fried Veggies at 89; below it is Roast Eikthyrdeer at 70.
Other cooked dishs at a similar tier, for when you want to weigh this against the rest of its class:
