# French Fries

Potato cut and deep-fried, and impossible to stop once the first one goes down. Holds SAN loss back for a time.

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

## Basics

- Type: Food / FoodDishVegetable
- Gold value: 600
- Weight: 0.5
- Max stack: 9999
- restoreSanity: 10
- restoreFood: 35

## Recipe

- Potato x2
- High Quality Pal Oil x1

## Notes we already publish

- (use) The "holds SAN loss back for a time" line has numbers behind it. The game's food-effect table gives this dish a single buff — SAN resistance +25, running for 600 seconds — and that is entirely separate from the 10 sanity it hands back the moment you eat it. Ten minutes is the standard cooked-food window, so the practical move is to eat before a long stretch of caving, night travel or cold-region work rather than after your sanity has already slid. For scale on that field: the three suspicious juices sit at -25,000 to -100,000 on it, which is what "resistance switched off" looks like, and the best cooked dishes reach +50.
- (strategy) Twelve dishes carry a SAN-resist value and every one of them runs the same 600-second window, so duration is never what separates them — only the number is. The ceiling is +50, held by [[item:FriedKelpie]], [[item:SpringRolls]] and [[item:Quiche]]. French Fries shares the +25 tier with [[item:Pancake]], [[item:FriedChicken]] and [[item:Hamburger_2]], and the floor is +20 on Bolognese Sauce, Grilled Lamball and Stewed Galeclaw. What makes this the one worth keeping stocked early is that it is the only member of the +25 tier that needs neither Flour nor a butchered Pal — no Mill, no ranch, no meat. Everything above it in the table wants Flour.
- (use) Do not treat it as a meal. At restoreFood 35 it is the thinnest of the SAN dishes by a wide margin — Mozzarina Hamburger is 162 off the same tier of buff, Mushroom Quiche is 184 — so eating fries to fill a hunger bar burns two potatoes for almost nothing. Cook them for the buff, carry something heavier for the hunger, and never load them into a feed box where Pals will eat through the stack as ordinary rations.
- (use) The recipe goes on the Cooking Pot, the level 17 technology, and it needs a Pal with Kindling assigned or the order sits in the queue untouched. The same recipe is accepted further up the line by the Electric Kitchen at 41 and the Large-Scale Stone Oven at 49, and by the Ancient Kitchen at 70, so nothing about the dish expires as the base grows — the later cookers just work through a backlog faster.
- (strategy) For a standing supply, the potatoes are the easy half and the oil is the limiter. A Potato Plantation turns over in 5.8 minutes for 10 [[item:Potato]] a harvest at 51,000 work, which is five servings per cycle and effectively unlimited once the plot is planted and watered. The single [[item:PalOil]] per batch cannot be farmed, so however much High Quality Pal Oil you have on hand is the real batch size — bank it before you queue a long cook rather than discovering the shortfall mid-order.

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