A couple fixes are required for the dehydrator, as mods wont fix them kind of problems.

[gonsy]

First, thanks for reading.

1) Storing the dryed food dont actually stack the item. You get this interface with "1x dryed meal A". But you never get to have "2x", or "10x".... so it makes a list of "1x dryed meal"s thats its just anoying to deal with.

2) Dupes dont have any option on the allowed food sheet to be able to select when they are allowed to use dryed food, or if you want them to priorize dryed food over the other kind of food. Imposible to make them use one kind of dried food over the other.

3) If you manage ta way for them to use dryed food, the hole system is just thinking on the "standard" 1kcal per cicle. Cool. But I like to play on max difficulty. What about those dupes that they like to eat more?
I really thouhgt the idea of having a "storage" capacity of 5 rations inside the rehydrator building was because of that problem. But its just goes into the 1kcal per use.

4) Dryed food are not the only items on the game that are made form some other 2. But you never get those weird interactions. I really dont see the problem of destroying the food and just get the plastic, if you cant keep some decent conditions for the plastic not to melt down.

5) Dont know when you decided that water was better to be on bottles. Specially since autosweepers cant manage bottles. Nothing wrong with autosweepers, but then dont give me a bottle of water that is preventing me to try to get an automated kitchen to work. This is an extra errand that cannot be prevented to be there. And all it needed before was to set up a pump...

Anyway. I uderstand I might sound  critical. But specially since you decided to face on the DLCs direction, I think it will be nice to sort the dehydrator, since its a really nice way to manage food on lategame, other than mods or the all knowing frezzers that i personaly dislike.

Again, thanks for reading. And i hope you can have a look on this subject.