Until you Hax0r the Hermit, every item you obtain from him costs a Worthless Item AND a Hermit Permit. When we create the Concoctions associated with Hermit items, we include the Worthless Item as an ingredient. We should also include the Hermit Permit as an additional ingredient (until you Hax0r the Hermit, at which point we should rebuild the Concoctions) so that Item Creation will take Hermit Permits in inventory and/or acquired for 100 Meat each from the Market Demon into account; you can't make a recipe using the jaba pepper if you can't afford a Hermit Permit.