It gives you exact amounts of the right ingredients which alleviates a pain when grocery shopping.

Once you have enough recipes under your belt that you can figure out ways to use your leftover raw ingredients, it’s no longer worthwhile.

Awesome. Enjoy!

Play the Legendary Edition if you can. Assuming you’re starting with the first game, there are massive quality of life improvements in that one.

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Or was this comment by an AI?

It’s saltier because all the salt you added is now on the pasta instead of a bunch starting in the water and going down the drain when you strain it