Expanded Foods: Chef's Tricks is a Vintage Story mod by l33tmaan. Expanded Foods: Chef's Tricks turns leftovers and gathered materials into salt, resin, lime, animal feed, candles, and useful oil-based products.
Why this mod is worth installing
This mod suits established settlements that want more uses for kitchen byproducts and natural resources. It is especially useful for players managing large farms, animal pens, or food stores.
What Expanded Foods: Chef's Tricks adds
Chef's Tricks expands the late-game kitchen with practical processing chains. Saltwater or brine can be sealed in a barrel to form damp salt crystals, which dry over time or can be baked immediately; grinding the dry crystals in a quern produces usable salt.
Pine trees become another source of materials when tapped with a spile and a liquid container. Collected resin needs time to harden before it can be recovered, while excess breadcrumbs and flax can be crafted into animal feed instead of occupying storage.
Eggshells gain a useful second life: washing them in a water-filled barrel and grinding them creates lime. Oil also becomes more versatile, working for hide treatment and mechanical recipes that normally require fat, while the mod adds a candle-making option for lighting a settlement.
Making candles for settlement lighting
The screenshot presents the candle-making feature, showing how Chef's Tricks turns available materials into a practical light source for the home.
Incompatible Mods
This image shows the mod's compatibility notice, which currently lists no known incompatibilities.
Where to download Expanded Foods: Chef's Tricks
The official Vintage Story Mod DB page is the right place to get the current release through the in-game mod manager.
Download the Expanded Foods: Chef's Tricks mod on mods.vintagestory.at