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[Furious Fish]

The wiki says you can cook alcohol on its own at the kitchen, and advises you do so to maximise food production, but I've never seen it happen; when I tell my kitchens to create meals with just alcohol products flagged for cooking I get a "needs unrotten food products" message. Is the wiki out of date or am I doing something wrong?

[Chthon]

It will say Needs 2, 3, or 4 unrotten food items depending on whether or not you choose, easy, fine, or lavish meal.  Make sure you have another food type as the game checks to see that there are 2 types of food to cook before it'll cook food.

Lavish meals being made of 4 plump helmets are a bug, says Toady.  There should be variety in every meal.

[schnobs]

To clarify: you need *different* food items in stock in order to make a meal; if there's not enough variety in the larder, the cook won't even begin his job.

[Jaqie Fox]

Can you cook alcohol? yes. Can you do it alone? no.  I have noticed my alcohol supplies plummit when cooking lavish meals nonstop, so the game does use it, just not solely.

I like to keep at the very least meat, plump helmets, and alcohol around for meal ingredients... dwarven syrup would be a great fourth ingredient but I haven't bothered making it lately.

[Valarauka]

That's why sweet pods are my favorite crop. Brew them and process them to barrels and you'll have syrup and rum; cook up the syrup with some rum to get food as well as booze.

[Paul]

I've never had a problem cooking multiple barrels of the same alcohol. I can cook the lavish meals with 4 barrels of just rum or wine, for instance. Apparently, dwarven liquor doesn't get filtered - chunky drinks, and you get to cook it and eat all those lovely rotten bits and yeast clumps. Mmm, chunky wine roasts! Like stew, but with more dwarven goodness. (this coming from a people who 'milk' maggots, mind you)
I dont see any other way they could be making meals out of liquid, unless it's just a bit of goo left over from boiling it all away - but that wouldn't have any alcohol, and it wouldn't be much of a meal.

[Slartibartfast]

quote:Originally posted by Paul:
<STRONG>I've never had a problem cooking multiple barrels of the same alcohol. I can cook the lavish meals with 4 barrels of just rum or wine, for instance. Apparently, dwarven liquor doesn't get filtered - chunky drinks, and you get to cook it and eat all those lovely rotten bits and yeast clumps. Mmm, chunky wine roasts! Like stew, but with more dwarven goodness. (this coming from a people who 'milk' maggots, mind you)
I dont see any other way they could be making meals out of liquid, unless it's just a bit of goo left over from boiling it all away - but that wouldn't have any alcohol, and it wouldn't be much of a meal.</STRONG>

There are always rum popcicles  
Or you could spill some starchy material into the wine and get something like winepudding.