Guide:Consumables/Consumables usefulness list

Brief explanation of tiers:
S(Chests) - Reserved for rare consumables obtained form chests that last for 5k steps, as they are often way better at anything other consumables may provide.
S - Best consumables in the game. Should always be used when necessary.
A+ - Really close to S-tier consumables, but they have some downside or have less use cases. Should always be used when necessary.
A - Overall great food but may have some hard requierments or get outclassed. Should be used when you already have materials for them.
B+ and B - consumables that have more limited use cases, but still provide good bonuses.
C+ and C - consumables with very limited use that almost never worth to obtain.
F - should never be used.
5k is added to consumables that last for 5k steps and did not make it in S(Chests) tier.

Tier	Name	Ingame image	Stats	Note	Recommended use
S(5k)	Fruit Cake				Cooking with fine/rare materials i.e. Sweet Carrot Pie. Do not use on cooking activities
S(5k)	Frozen Bait
S(5k)	Veggie Soup				Gathering fine materials for cooking i.e. Sweet Carrot Pie or Kelp for crafting Hydrilium. Shoudn't be used on Glacier Foraging
S(5k)	Jarvonian Pastry				Gathering for crafting with fine materials i.e. Mine Coal or Mine Farganite Ore
S(5k)	Spicy Pumpkin Juice				Smithing fine endgame bars like Farganite Bars or Gold Bars for trinketry. Do not use on smithing activities
S(5k)	Creme Brulee				Shaping rare gems like Ethernite or Ruby
S(5k)	Schnitzel				Low step activity like Cut Birch Trees preferably combined with Adventurers' Guild Tokens and Gems
S	Sweet Carrot Pie			Best food for quality crafting, should always use when possible	Don't use them on crafting activities and material processing like Hydrilium. Should only be used on crafting gear and tools that have rarities
S	Underwater Salad			Best food for cooking without using Fruit Cake. Pretty easy to cook, awards good xp.	Use while cooking when Fruit Cakes are too valuable to spend or you have no access to them. Can be used to lower step counts on Soup Kitchen Volunteering or cooking Mud Pies, but not recommended if you have a limited supply of salads
S	Saltrum			Best food after Spicy Pumpkin Juice for fine bars, and pretty decent for normal bars. Easy to craft.	Use while smithing when Spicy Pumpkin Juice is too valuable to spend or you have no access to them. Do not use on smithing activities
S	Pickles			Best food for fine material crafting. Easy to craft	Shoud be used for material crafting like Hydrilium
S	Jelly Sandwich			Best food for Agility, really easy to craft.	Travel, Guard Duty, Rescue Team, Guard Duty, Underwater Swimming, House Jumping
A+	Mushroom Curry			Really useful effect with being relatively easy to cook. Would be a solid contender for S-tier once tomatoes become more available.	Kelp Foraging, Summer Cave Foraging. Shoudn't be used on Glacier Foraging
A+	Chocolate Milk			Best food for fine planks. Will be moved to S-tier once chocolate becomes farmable. Impossible to get fine	Processing logs into planks. Shoudn't be used on Carpentry activities
A+	Dynamite			Great bonus for material gathering, but such a big hit for xp might be a big turnaround for some players. Solid contender for S-tier	Mine Coal, Mine Farganite Ore, Underwater Aqueduct Digging, Fossil Mining
A+	Cooked Pike			Almost similar to Saltrum, but for lacking DR and lasting only for 500 steps(may require more inventory space) should be a bit lower.	Can be used when not smithing with fine materials. Do not use on smithing activities
A+	Bread			Solid always useful food. One of the easiest crafts and part of ingridient for other useful foods.	Travel, cooking Jelly Sandwiches
A+	Wine			If activity has collectible there is almost no reasons to not use wine.	Shouldn't be used on activities where a unique drop is more rare then collectible(unless you got it before collectible). Best activities are Fossil Mining and Treasure Hunt
A+	Trout Soup			Easy to craft and has good bonuses.	Magnet Fishing, Predator Hunting (Spear), Sea Fishing (Cage)
A	Cooked Squid			Solid food for Job Board runs.	Travel
A	Porridge			Early recipie with really easy craft and not bad bonus.	Forest Foraging, Litter Looting, Plains Foraging, Glacier Foraging
A	Cooked Shark			While bonuses are good the requierments are quite high. Requires advanced kitchen(location without a bank with negative WE bonus and locked behind Soup Kitchen collectible), and can only be farmed in Darkside Trench(Expert Diving Gear requirement)	Low step token farming on Cut Birch Trees or farming money at Cut Willow Trees
A	Cooked Swordfish			Great bonus for gathering fine logs with multiple ways to obtain, but all of them are located underwater.	Cut Willow Trees for money. Cut Mangrove Trees and Cut Birch Trees for eternals
A	Cooked Lobster			A bit worse then Pickles, but still decent.	Crafting materials like Hydrilium. Ice Sculpting for chests
B+	Cooked Trout			Can be helpful on low step actions for chest farming.	Soup Kitchen Volunteering or cooking Mud Pies for chests
B+	Fried Noodles(5k)			It doesn't help with processing fine materials. Being the food coming only from chests it has a really limited quantity. Can be used to speed up normal processing, speed up for a bit chest and xp farming.	Wood Carving, Brig Repair, Hull Repair
B+	Bug Bait(5k)			Fishing doesn't have an activity with low enough min steps for it to shine, but there is no harm in putting it on when you get it from chest.	Magnet Fishing, Sea Fishing (Cage)
B+	Fried Fish Sandwich			Harder craft then Trout Soup for almost the same outcome.	Magnet Fishing, Predator Hunting (Spear), Sea Fishing (Cage)
B	Cooked Carp			Biggest Find Bird Nest bonus in the Game, but at the moment aside from getting a bit more gold from opening and selling their loot has no use. Will rank higher if Bird Nests recieve change.	Cut Birch Trees or Cut Willow Trees for bonus income
B	Beer			You'll get quite a few as you play from chests, can be used at something like Rescue Team.	Rescue Team
B	Mud Pie			While the bonus itself has no practical use in game at the moment, it has lowest step requierment to cook and can be used as a way to farm chests.
C+	Cooked Anglerfish			Can be used to cap WE on Spelunking or Cave Diving, but it has all the same requierments as shark while bonus is lacking.	Spelunking, Cave Diving
C+	Cooked Largemouth Bass			As its the only Trinketry consumable, it can be used to cap WE which is hard to come by for trinketry, but in reality never worth it.	Antique Market Assessor
C+	Bagel			Bonus is too low, should only be used as an early sandwich for achievement.	Guard Duty, Underwater Swimming, House Jumping
C+	Kelp Rolls			While bonus can be useful, getting materials to cook enough takes just too long.	Forest Foraging, Spring Cave Foraging, Seashell Searching
C+	Salmon Pie			Can be used to cap WE	Coral Cutting, Cut Mangrove Trees
C+	Cooked Shrimp			Bonus is too low, should only be used as early leveling method.
C	Nettle Tea			Bonus is too low, not worth to cook/bring.
C	Cooked Perch			Bonus is too low, not worth to cook/bring.
C	Cooked Stingray			Bonus is too low, not worth to cook/bring.
C	Cooked Jellyfish			Carpentry activities and crafts have too high Min steps for it to be worth going for.	Wood Carving, Brig Repair, Hull Repair
C	Pancake			Bonus is too low, not worth to cook/bring.
C	Cooked Salmon			Bonus is too low, not worth to cook/bring.
F	Roasted Bell Pepper			It's bad. Just buy some Beer please.