Hot Milk
Food · FoodDishMeat0★Warming it only improves it, and it keeps hunger at bay.
Hot Milk is an early cooked dish: 45th of 45 by hunger restored, so treat it as a stepping stone, at 16 against the 418 of Mammorest Curry.
This is where the crafting chain ends — nothing downstream consumes it, so a stockpile earns you nothing.
Details
It stacks up to 9,999.
Using Hot Milk Well
One Milk is the entire recipe, and warming it is a straight upgrade: the raw bottle restores 12 hunger and no SAN, this restores 16 and 1 SAN, and it is worth 240 gold against milk's 200. There is no reason to drink milk cold or sell it unwarmed once you own a cooking bench.
The Campfire is the earliest bench that takes it, so this is cookable from technology level 2 — long before the Cooking Pot. Every cooking structure above it (Cooking Pot, Electric Kitchen, Large-Scale Stone Oven, Ancient Kitchen) accepts the same one-ingredient recipe, so there is never a point where you have to move the job to a better bench.
Milk is a Ranch product from Mozzarina, which makes this the rare cooked food with a genuinely infinite input. A Mozzarina on a Ranch plus a Kindling Pal on a Campfire turns base downtime into food you never have to farm for, which is worth more early than the modest amount each cup restores.
Alternatives and Upgrades
This is the floor of the cooked dish class on hunger restored. Fried Egg is the next step up at 23 — worth switching to as soon as you can craft or find one.
Other cooked dishs at a similar tier, for when you want to weigh this against the rest of its class:
