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[Five chickens]

As my soap-making industry levels up, I'm accumulating vast amounts of various types of press cake.  What can I do with it?  How do I get rid of it?  On the Wiki, it says it will be used in cooking, if enabled under the Kitchen tab... but I can't find any type of press cake listed there.  Will it be used for cooking, or is it just taking up space?  Thank you in advance for your answers.

[A_Curious_Cat]

I think the kitchen tab has been in need of an update for a while…

I would suggest that you examine your prepared meals in the stocks menu to see if your cook(s) are using the press cakes.

[mightymushroom]

I found this advice to quote from the wiki page on Quarry Bush:

Both the rock nut paste and rock nut press cake are cookable and considered a single food category, referred to as "rock nut" in the cooking permissions screen (not to be confused with "rock nuts", the entry for the seeds), the Stocks screen compacted view, and Prepared meal descriptions.

The other pastes & cakes presumably have the same name contraction going on.

[Five chickens]

Ah.  Thank you for pointing that out.  The problem, of course, is that I can't allow rock nut press cakes to be cooked without also allowing the rock nut paste, which is needed for soap production.

[mightymushroom]

If cooking won't work, and you can't be bothered to trade them to merchants for their pittance value, may I endorse the Fun with Volcanoes^TM dumping method?

[FantasticDorf]

I tend to when im able, use it as animal-catering fodder-food as most of the tied up animals who can be hand-fed would be in cages or chains with a full time dwarf accomodated in the burrow.

Its useful when your embark is sparse or tightly contested for grazing, but it also works for awkward creatures such as elk-birds who need a bit of supervision and help eating when they're roosting and staying still, or starving having quickly devoured any of the surrounding moss/grass in the pen when on the chain.

[Eniteris]

Ah.  Thank you for pointing that out.  The problem, of course, is that I can't allow rock nut press cakes to be cooked without also allowing the rock nut paste, which is needed for soap production.

Judicious use of stockpiles could help with this, if you're fine with press cake x4 lavish meals.

[Thisfox]

If you weren't forbidding the cakes, just putting the press next to the kitchen could help as if it's close, it gets cooked first.

[anewaname]

Yeah... Eniteris's method would do it. The screw press gives to a stockpile that the kitchen takes from. If that stockpile accepts all eggs, milled grains, quarry bush leaves, and other can't-eat-this-raw foods, then the those cooked meals can have variety too.