# New Butchered Organs Don't Need Fire to Become Cooked
**URL:** https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/new-butchered-organs-dont-need-fire-to-become-cooked/17892
**Category:** The Garage
**Created:** [December 13, 2018, 4:30am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/new-butchered-organs-dont-need-fire-to-become-cooked/17892 "2018-12-13T04:30:11Z")
**Posts on this page:** 14
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### Author:  [@Mega\_Glub](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Mega_Glub)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2018, 4:30am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/new-butchered-organs-dont-need-fire-to-become-cooked/17892/1 "2018-12-13T04:30:11Z")
The title says it all: All of the new organs you can get from butchering (except for brains?) don’t require a fire source to craft into their cooked varieties, meaning that you can cook them without a fire/hobo stove/chemistry set/etc.
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### Author:  [@Malkeus](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Malkeus)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2018, 4:34am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/new-butchered-organs-dont-need-fire-to-become-cooked/17892/2 "2018-12-13T04:34:33Z")
I think they also retain the parasite flag if some chatter in the discord is any indicator. MM brain parasites.
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### Author:  [@Malkeus](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Malkeus)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2018, 5:22am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/new-butchered-organs-dont-need-fire-to-become-cooked/17892/3 "2018-12-13T05:22:01Z")
```
"id": "brain",
"type": "COMESTIBLE",
"copy-from": "lung",
"looks_like": "offal",
"name": "raw brains",
"name_plural": "raw brains",
"description": "The brain from an animal. You wouldn't want to eat this raw...",
"color": "light_gray",
"healthy": -15,
"quench": 10,
"fun": -20,
"parasites": 100,
"calories": 78,
"vitamins": [[ "vitA", 0], ["vitC", 2], ["calcium", 1], ["iron", 8], ["vitB", 54] ]
```
},
{
“id”: “brain\_cooked”,
“type”: “COMESTIBLE”,
“copy-from”: “brain”,
“looks\_like”: “offal\_cooked”,
“name”: “cooked brains”,
“name\_plural”: “cooked brains”,
“description”: “Now you can emulate those zombies you love so much!”,
“parasites”: 15,
“healthy”: -2,
“fun”: -8
As you can see here, cooking the brains, only REDUCES the amount of parasites…it’s never a good idea to eat brains.
but acording to this:
“type”: “recipe”,
“result”: “brain\_cooked”,
“charges”: 1,
“category”: “CC\_FOOD”,
“subcategory”: “CSC\_FOOD\_MEAT”,
“skill\_used”: “cooking”,
“difficulty”: 1,
“time”: 45000,
“autolearn”: true,
“qualities”: [{ “id”: “COOK”, “level”: 1 }],
“tools”: [[ [ “surface\_heat”, 100, “LIST”] ] ],
“components”: [[ [ “brain”, 1] ] ]
It should require some kinda heat source to craft.
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### Author:  [@MamaLlama](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/MamaLlama)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2019, 3:49pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/new-butchered-organs-dont-need-fire-to-become-cooked/17892/4 "2019-03-28T15:49:08Z")
I wondered how my character got parasites. It was all that organ flesh I was gulping down in a desperate bid to get some Vit A
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### Author:  [@Dredd501](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Dredd501)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2019, 4:51pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/new-butchered-organs-dont-need-fire-to-become-cooked/17892/5 "2019-03-28T16:51:21Z")
Liver, kidneys, heart, that stuff should he fine. Brains lead to prion diseases,
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### Author:  [@crazykiddeath](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/crazykiddeath)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2019, 6:49pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/new-butchered-organs-dont-need-fire-to-become-cooked/17892/6 "2019-03-28T18:49:20Z")
Freezing might help with that, when I came across some raw frozen human flesh (don’t ask) it was specifically labeled as parasite free because it had been frozen.
Edit: it says deep freezing, not sure what difference that makes or how it’s achieve if it does
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### Author:  [@MamaLlama](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/MamaLlama)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2019, 7:21pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/new-butchered-organs-dont-need-fire-to-become-cooked/17892/7 "2019-03-28T19:21:54Z")
Unless you’re a cannibal most prion disorders aren’t communicable to humans, I think the big exception is Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow) but I’d have to actually look that up to confirm it. (Looked it up: its transmits vCJD to humans so the same applies here as below)
As for human-borne prion disorders: kuru is mostly contained in one small region and dying out as ritual cannibalism is being phased out, CJD wouldn’t add anything meaningful to the game if implemented except dying a slow and somewhat painful death.
There are a few other hereditary prion disorders that I learned of while confirming mad cow is transmissible to humans but they are so rare as to be non-existent.
Sometimes I wonder why I chose to learn so much about prion disorders since its mostly useless and inapplicable to anything I do 😒
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### Author:  [@Vastin](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Vastin)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2019, 7:37pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/new-butchered-organs-dont-need-fire-to-become-cooked/17892/8 "2019-03-28T19:37:42Z")
This thread reminds me that we need at least one class of zombie that suffers spontaneous human combustion upon death - maybe an advanced evolution of the smoker?
Those would be an amusing terror when encountered indoors or in other highly flammable environments.
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### Author:  [@Dredd501](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Dredd501)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2019, 8:21pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/new-butchered-organs-dont-need-fire-to-become-cooked/17892/9 "2019-03-28T20:21:38Z")
I believe that we do infact have those zombies that walk around with a flame thrower, leaking napalm where ever they go. They probably explode if you kill them with a firearm.
Never tried, so don’t hold me to that.
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### Author:  [@Trigon](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Trigon)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2019, 10:10pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/new-butchered-organs-dont-need-fire-to-become-cooked/17892/10 "2019-03-28T22:10:22Z")
Because everyone knows all you need to cook a heart is the heat of your passion.
I don’t know if I’d ever want to eat a brain given that it’s almost exclusively nerve tissue, which feels like it would be a very uncomfortable thing to pass through your digestive system regularly.
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### Author:  [@Invalid\_Username](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Invalid_Username)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2019, 10:23pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/new-butchered-organs-dont-need-fire-to-become-cooked/17892/11 "2019-03-28T22:23:25Z")
You’re missing out. Brain tacos. Eat them.
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### Author:  [@Mega\_Glub](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Mega_Glub)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2019, 4:05am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/new-butchered-organs-dont-need-fire-to-become-cooked/17892/12 "2019-03-29T04:05:58Z")
Just grind it up and put it into something, you won’t taste it.
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### Author:  [@QuietCoyote](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/QuietCoyote)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2019, 9:50pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/new-butchered-organs-dont-need-fire-to-become-cooked/17892/13 "2019-03-30T21:50:42Z")
Please change that horrifying thing you call a profile pic, lmao I’m already freaked out from the giant spiders in-game, I don’t need to have nightmares about a spider dog…
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### Author:  [@Mega\_Glub](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Mega_Glub)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2019, 2:55pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/new-butchered-organs-dont-need-fire-to-become-cooked/17892/14 "2019-03-31T14:55:17Z")
I just wanted to show what would happen if you drank canine mutagen and spider mutagen at the same time.