What the peeling bench numbers mean: grade, waste, raw stock and output

Peeled percentage, waste and the letter grade are separate readings

On an English screenshot a potato is 91% peeled and still has a D grade; the red Waste line beside it reads 60%. The percentage of skin removed does not tell you how much edible flesh you kept. Take a short stroke along a patch of remaining brown skin. If the peeled figure improves while waste changes little, you are solving the right problem. If both climb rapidly and the surface gets dented, make the next cut shallower.

The waste line also shows a negative coin amount. Read it as the displayed penalty on the current piece rather than the amount in your wallet. The wallet is in the upper right. Look there before making a purchasing decision.

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An S on the knife can sit next to a B in the output

The Chinese-language player capture shows the current potato at grade S, while the Output box to its right already shows one potato at grade B. You are looking at two stages of work. The central readout changes as you cut the potato on the board. The right-hand box describes finished output. Watch it when the next potato finishes before comparing grades.

On a fresh station the numbers can also read sixteen raw and zero output. Raw Stock is the supply waiting to be worked. Output stays empty until a piece has finished. For a delivery objective, collect from the finished side; taking more from the raw side makes the board busier without advancing deliveries.

Rot can stay high after most of the skin is gone

One Czech screenshot has separate values for rot, the surface that is peeled and waste. The player has peeled most of the surface but the rot reading is still high. Stop stripping clean yellow areas. Turn the potato around its axis, look for the damaged patch, and trim that area while watching which readout actually moves. Check both surface and rot again before assuming the potato failed to register.

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Use the control hints that match your input device

An English mouse capture labels the lower-left actions Peel, Rotate potato, Stop peeling and Zoom. A player using a PlayStation-style layout has button glyphs in the same place: R2 for the cutting stroke, the left stick for rotation, Circle to stop and the D-pad for zoom. Use those prompts while attached to the station. Outside it, a button can pick up or throw instead. If you have rebound an action or Steam Input provides a different layout, follow your on-screen glyphs.

The right edge identifies the selected hand tool. The Rusty Knife appears as slot 1 in a keyboard capture; Steel Knife appears as slot 2 in a later one. Check the tool name after switching. This catches the case where you purchased steel at the supply window but are still drawing cuts with the starter blade.

Add up the receipt over the finished tray

Leave the board and look directly at the tray of peeled potatoes. The floating receipt in the screenshot prices nine pieces at 0.25 each. That gives 2.25 before waste. The red deduction is 0.88 and the green total is 1.37. If you need the value of this batch per finished potato, divide the green total by nine, about 0.15 here. The printed unit price is a starting price. Check the fresh receipt on your own tray each time because the amount of flesh lost can change.

Separate a batch deduction from the cut you just made

A bad last cut can spoil one potato without describing the rest of the tray. In this player capture the workbench is empty and the finished tray labels the red percentage as an average. A nine-potato batch shows 39% there. At the board the red waste readout instead belongs to the potato in your hand. To diagnose a poor batch, read the current-piece value before finishing, then step off and read the tray again. Work on the individual strokes that push up the first number.

Read the streak and output counts independently

In this player's workbench capture the streak reads ×6 with a small bonus beside it, but the finished-output panel on the right holds ×1 and reports its value separately. If you are preparing several potatoes to carry, look to the right for the available quantity. A higher streak tells you about the active chain of cuts or peels, and does not create six pieces to carry. The real-world check in the game is to leave the board and count the peeled pieces in the output tray.

Decide whether an S-grade potato is ready to carry

Watch the surface as well as the grade. In the Russian-language screenshot the selected Steel Knife III is beside a potato that still has broad brown patches although the grade already reads S. Stop the stroke, turn the potato, and peel the remaining skin without digging deeper into the exposed pale part. Use a change in the finished-output count to confirm completion. If the potato is still attached to the board, the current grade alone gives you nothing new to pick up from the tray.

Recognise projected value when your wallet is negative

The player’s Japanese capture has three money figures in different places. The current cut shows 0.04 on the board, the finished tray shows seven pieces worth 2.11, and the wallet at top right is −1.72. If you need to pay off that debt, deliver the seven finished pieces first. In the absence of another payment or deduction, 2.11 applied against −1.72 leaves 0.39. The 0.04 attached to the current knife work is still a separate piece in progress. Recheck the actual wallet after delivery before going to the counter.

Follow removal at the edge of a dark-red potato

The elongated piece in the Chinese capture has reddish-purple material along one side and a broad orange face along the other. Compare just the edge of a shallow pass with the Peeled and Rot readings. A growing peeled area with no matching change in rot can be ordinary coloured skin. Look for a localized damaged spot before digging into an entire dark side. If your aim is to identify a problem piece across containers, compare that same piece after pouring it out on its own. Hotfix 1.0.3 addressed appearance changes in containers.

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Calculate just the deduction on the potato you are cutting

One English capture displays 0.21 for the current piece and Waste 7% −0.02. The red two cents are the recorded loss for this piece, while the output box still shows zero finished pieces. If you are comparing precision between tools, record the red amount for each complete cut under the same settings. Wait for the potato to reach the finished tray before using that tray to measure earnings. Subtracting that two-cent current-potato loss again from the separate finished-tray total would mix two different readings.

Find the meter that belongs to this potato before comparing two tools

Use the physical raw-bin count on the left, the active cut at the centre, and the Output count on the right. At the start of the tutorial a photographed shift has fifteen raw potatoes, zero delivered, and an S already visible in the active cut display. That provisional grade can still change as you remove skin and waste flesh. For a tool comparison, finish the piece and read the resulting output before starting the next. Using the letter shown on a completely uncut potato as the result would give every trial a falsely strong start.

Read the previous output and current trial as two separate potatoes

The pictured board shows the active potato at 51% with an S in its own strip, while the finished side shows one piece, a B and 0.22. Read a grade from the same panel as its piece. Finish the current cut and watch the output update before comparing these grades. The previous potato's completion does not certify that the new one is ready.

Use the two trays to follow a changeover at the bench

In a Chinese capture a steel knife is actively cutting a tilted broad potato, yet a small orange piece and a pale one already sit in the right tray. Treat that tray as completed output from prior work. To track one specific specimen, empty the output before starting, work only that piece, then follow it out after its cut. Comparing both trays by color while several results remain can confuse their identities.

Compare the wall standards with the actual workbench evaluation

The large Russian sign near the door lists loss during cleaning at no more than 12 percent, eyes left uncleaned at no more than 3 percent, and forbids deep cutting. Use it as workplace scenery when reading the story. In a live cut the bench shows its own rot, peeled percentage, waste deduction, grade and projected value. Read those numbers and the output tray when the board releases the potato. No source ties the sign's 12 percent number to a separate mandatory discard control.

Related field notes

• Rotten spots and slipping grades at the peeling table
• Knife And Streak upgrades: tier prices and savings targets
• First potato controls: cut, turn, zoom and deliver on PC