Rat Connoisseur

The Rat Connoisseur is not a crop you plant at all, but an NPC introduced in the second half of the Cooking Event. That distinction matters for anyone treating this page as a buy-or-skip seed decision: there is no seed cost, no sell price, and no growth timer to weigh, because nothing about it sits in your garden plot.

Instead, the value here is event progression rather than per-harvest economics. Connoisseur-style NPCs in Grow a Garden typically request finished dishes or specific cooked ingredients and pay out event currency or limited rewards in return. The "profitability" question becomes one of opportunity cost: which crops you cook and hand over versus what you could have sold raw on the open market.

Practically, the Cooking Event tie-in means the Rat Connoisseur only mattered while the event window was live, so this is a historical reference rather than an active farming target. If you are reading this during a later season, treat it as lore and a reminder that event NPCs reward planning your harvest schedule around their recipe demands, not around raw sheckle-per-minute math.