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[VerdantSF]

My forts always have tons of tallow.  In the past, I've used it in lavish meals, but now I've been setting aside tallow so that more expensive ingredients like flour and quarry leaves are included instead (after making a few bars of soap).  I could just sell the extra pots of tallow, but can I get more dorf bucks by processing it into soap first? 

[GreatWyrmGold]

Probably not, including the cost of lye.

[Drazinononda]

On the other hand, lye is a tertiary wood product... so if you have extra dwarves that otherwise wouldn't be doing anything, you can make them wood burners, potash makers and lye makers and set up the production chain. However, soap doesn't have quality levels, whereas meals do, so you'd probably be better off using separate stockpile-fed kitchens to cook the good stuff into food for your dwarves and the tallow into TV dinners for export to the humans.

[VerdantSF]

However, soap doesn't have quality levels, whereas meals do, so you'd probably be better off using separate stockpile-fed kitchens to cook the good stuff into food for your dwarves and the tallow into TV dinners for export to the humans.

Ah, perfect solution!

[thegoatgod_pan]

Soap is always good anyway, happy civilians living military

[VerdantSF]

On a side note, is rock jug oil better for cooking than tallow, value-wise?  I read on the wiki that rock nut oil has a value of 5, but there wasn't a number associated with tallow.

[Mr S]

that's because the tallow is based upon the creature's material multiplier that it was rendered from.

[Mushroo]

Cooking with rock nut oil requires jugs and micromanagement, whereas tallow cooking is pretty much fire-and-forget.