# Fried Kelpsea

A crisp batter shell playing off the plumpness of the Kelpsea inside. Grants +10% Defense and slows SAN loss for a while.

Source: https://palworld-db.com/item/FriedKelpie

## Basics

- Type: Food / FoodDishFish
- Gold value: 1070
- Weight: 0.5
- Max stack: 9999
- restoreSanity: 14
- restoreFood: 108

## Recipe

- Raw Kelpsea x1
- Flour x1
- Egg x1
- High Quality Pal Oil x1

## Notes we already publish

- (use) "Slows SAN loss for a while" is worth pinning down: the plate grants 50% resistance to SAN drain and +10% Defense, and both run 600 seconds. Ten minutes flat per serving, so a full stack of nine is an hour and a half of cover.
- (use) That 50% is the ceiling — only [[item:Quiche]] and [[item:SpringRolls]] match it, and every other SAN dish sits at 25% or below. If a base is bleeding sanity, this is one of the three plates worth cooking at all.
- (strategy) The Defense half is the weak half. +10% is the bottom rung of the defense buffs, and [[item:MeatAndPotatoes]] gives two and a half times as much for the same 600 seconds. Cook Fried Kelpsea for the sanity, not the armour, and eat something else before a boss.
- (strategy) It costs 32,000 work to cook, against 1,600 for [[item:BakedMeat_Kelpie]] off the same single [[item:Meat_Kelpie]]. Twenty times the bench time for one piece of fish, so queue these in bulk with Kindling Pals assigned rather than cooking a plate at a time.
- (use) The four-ingredient recipe is locked behind the upper cooking benches — the Electric Kitchen at Technology 41, the Large-Scale Stone Oven at 49, or the Ancient Kitchen at 70. The level 17 Cooking Pot will not list it, and the Electric Kitchen additionally needs a powered generator feeding it before it will run.

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Source: Palworld Database — https://palworld-db.com/item/FriedKelpie