Wait a second, the Dst community completely fell asleep on this thing....

[Lovens]

8 hours ago, arubaro said:

Is useful to cook, more if you are using fast spoiling ingredients like avocado or raw barnacles

Or just put it in a saltbox. Twice the lasting time compared to fridge/insulated backpack. Both can be salted too if needed.

[arubaro]

2 hours ago, Lovens said:

Or just put it in a saltbox. Twice the lasting time compared to fridge/insulated backpack. Both can be salted too if needed.

I can move the salt box arround a big kitchen or i might not want to use them while cooking for a variety of reasons

[Lovens]

55 minutes ago, arubaro said:

I can move the salt box arround a big kitchen or i might not want to use them while cooking for a variety of reasons

What is exactly a "big kitchen" for you? May I see your setup, if you don't mind sharing? Here's mine (I assume we're talking long-term worlds here. For short/challenge runs crockpots in general are quite irrelevant unless you're playing as Warly). After the last update which allowed to place structures closer I upgraded my main kitchen to have 10 crockpots around a fridge/saltbox setup and it feels like it's way too much for my needs. I usually store food stacks in bundles, unwrap and put them into salt boxes before I start cooking, and only move to the central fridge just the quantity I need for the current food batch, and only right before loading it in crockpots.

Even when I do batch cooking, by the time I finish loading the last crockpot the first one is usually done and is ready to grab. If it's not ready yet, there's just enough time for me to prepare a next batch of ingredients (move them to the center fridge in the exact quantity I need, refresh with salt/fry on the furnace if needed). If I had a separate crockpot setup nearby and loaded them, by the time I finished loading the next 10 crockpots the food on the first 10 crockpots would have been sitting for a while already and would start losing in freshness.

Before this update I had a classic 6 crockpot setup and to be fair it was enough for casual cooking as well:

The only small drawback for me was that I liked to cook a stack of 40 at a time and it's not divisible by 6 so I had to do 6 loads of all crockpots and then 4 extra crockpots. With 10 crockpots it's now just 4 full cycles for a stack of the same dish (I usually cook bacon and eggs and taffy) and then I can forget about cooking for almost a full year.

If I needed to do batch cooking I switched to Warly and cooked in his 10 crockpot kitchen with a similar setup:

Similar process but I'd go out of my way to cook with the freshest ingredients possible and only cook his exclusive dishes in winter to delay their spoilage. If I see even 1mm "lost" on the freshness of a green stack of frog legs before putting them in fish cordon bleu, I would apply salt until it's 100% fresh, same with fish morsels. I even have a fridge near my spice stations. I used it when I would spice up a stack of one dish at a time, and the only time I'd have a dish in my inventory would be a brief second when I just "harvested" it from a spicing station. It would then immediately go in the fridge, until I was done with a stack of 40, and then I'd bundle them and moved on to cook another stack. The last time I batch cooked with Warly was before a bearger bin was introduced so now I will probably use it for this purpose instead. 

[arubaro]

11 hours ago, Lovens said:

What is exactly a "big kitchen" for you? May I see your setup, if you don't mind sharing? Here's mine (I assume we're talking long-term worlds here. For short/challenge runs crockpots in general are quite irrelevant unless you're playing as Warly). After the last update which allowed to place structures closer I upgraded my main kitchen to have 10 crockpots around a fridge/saltbox setup and it feels like it's way too much for my needs. I usually store food stacks in bundles, unwrap and put them into salt boxes before I start cooking, and only move to the central fridge just the quantity I need for the current food batch, and only right before loading it in crockpots.

Even when I do batch cooking, by the time I finish loading the last crockpot the first one is usually done and is ready to grab. If it's not ready yet, there's just enough time for me to prepare a next batch of ingredients (move them to the center fridge in the exact quantity I need, refresh with salt/fry on the furnace if needed). If I had a separate crockpot setup nearby and loaded them, by the time I finished loading the next 10 crockpots the food on the first 10 crockpots would have been sitting for a while already and would start losing in freshness.

Before this update I had a classic 6 crockpot setup and to be fair it was enough for casual cooking as well:

The only small drawback for me was that I liked to cook a stack of 40 at a time and it's not divisible by 6 so I had to do 6 loads of all crockpots and then 4 extra crockpots. With 10 crockpots it's now just 4 full cycles for a stack of the same dish (I usually cook bacon and eggs and taffy) and then I can forget about cooking for almost a full year.

If I needed to do batch cooking I switched to Warly and cooked in his 10 crockpot kitchen with a similar setup:

Similar process but I'd go out of my way to cook with the freshest ingredients possible and only cook his exclusive dishes in winter to delay their spoilage. If I see even 1mm "lost" on the freshness of a green stack of frog legs before putting them in fish cordon bleu, I would apply salt until it's 100% fresh, same with fish morsels. I even have a fridge near my spice stations. I used it when I would spice up a stack of one dish at a time, and the only time I'd have a dish in my inventory would be a brief second when I just "harvested" it from a spicing station. It would then immediately go in the fridge, until I was done with a stack of 40, and then I'd bundle them and moved on to cook another stack. The last time I batch cooked with Warly was before a bearger bin was introduced so now I will probably use it for this purpose instead. 

I cant share right now but the crockpots arent build in a single place but divided in 2 spots because i made warly kitchen in a classic way in a dock but decided to make some crockpots in other places in the kitchen in the rare moments im not playing him. 

Also the warly kitchen, despite being made arround a saltbox, is surrounded by big trees that cover some screen areas si is more confortable for me to simply have the stuff on me and move to confortable angles

And sometimes i simply open a bunch of bundles with different ingredients so i need more slots

[SapoLover]

I don't like the skin very much either, but I do use the item. I use it because I don't like piggyback and don't struggle with the "limited" inventory. The slow spoilage helps me save on ropes! Although, I would like an storage upgrade in between backpack and piggyback.