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Cooking is a crafting skill.

Overview

Cooking allows your character to make the most out of food items when used as recipe ingredients.

Character creation

Boosts to cooking skill from character creation can grant a significant boost to skill gain.

Occupations

Name	Starting points	Major skills	Description
Chef	-4	+3 cooking +1 maintenance +1 short blade	N/A
Burger Flipper	2	+2 cooking +1 maintenance +1 short blade	N/A

Traits

Name	Cost	Description	Notes
Cook	-6	Knows cooking recipes.^[1]	+2 cooking

Cooking

Cooking can be initiated from the context menu for a cooking vessel or base ingredient. If the player has at least one ingredient valid for that recipe, they will be able to add it to start cooking. Further ingredients can be added from the same menu, to a limit defined per-recipe. Food cooked this way benefits from an unhappiness reduction, increased nutrition and reduced overall food usage. Spices can be added for a boredom reduction and a stronger unhappiness reduction.

Evolved recipes crafted from a base ingredient (such as the bread in a sandwich) will inherit the age of the base ingredient. This means that base ingredients that have gone stale will result in a stale food item. However, the age of any other ingredients does not have any effect on the final food (so long as they have not gone rotten), so it can be very efficient to prioritize use of stale food in recipes before they rot.

Adding 3 of the same ingredient will remove the unhappiness reduction, and further additions of the same ingredient will add an unhappiness increase.

Cooking level

Cooking XP is easy to gain, but the XP can be maximized by reading appropriate skill books.

Cooking Vol. 1 (Levels 1-2)
Cooking Vol. 2 (Levels 3-4)
Cooking Vol. 3 (Levels 5-6)
Cooking Vol. 4 (Levels 7-8)
Cooking Vol. 5 (Levels 9-10)

Cooking experience is gained when cooking food in a heat source, when crafting cooking recipes and when adding ingredients to evolved recipes.

Benefits

Each level of cooking skill increases the amount of nutrition each ingredient provides and reduces the amount of ingredient that is used. At level 7 the player is able to safely use small amounts of rotten food in their recipes.

Cooking level	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Amount of ingredient used^[2]	100%	97%	94%	91%	88%	85%	82%	79%	76%	73%	70%
Nutrition added per ingredient^[3]	100%	103%	107%	109%	111%	113%	115%	116%	117%	117%	117%^[4]
Amount of rotten ingredient used	Cannot use rotten food							5%		10%

Each level of cooking skill also reduces the time it takes to add ingredients by a miniscule 0.05 seconds.

Poisoning

Evolved recipes with three or more ingredients can be poisoned with bleach. A higher cooking level makes it easier for the player to detect poisons, and harder for the player's poisons to be detected. Food that has been detected as poisonous is marked with an icon .

Poisoner's cooking level	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Level required to detect poison	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10

Recipes

Main article: Cooking (crafting)

References

↑ In-game description. Does not actually give any recipes.
↑ The base amount of an ingredient used is set per-recipe. This is a modifier to that per-recipe value.
↑ Each level increases nutrition added by 6.66%, but this is applied after the amount of the ingredient used is reduced, so the final value (displayed in the table) is much lower, and has greatly diminishing returns.
↑ The diminishing returns are so extreme that this is actually slightly lower than level 9.

[1] In-game description. Does not actually give any recipes.

[2] The base amount of an ingredient used is set per-recipe. This is a modifier to that per-recipe value.

[3] Each level increases nutrition added by 6.66%, but this is applied after the amount of the ingredient used is reduced, so the final value (displayed in the table) is much lower, and has greatly diminishing returns.

[4] The diminishing returns are so extreme that this is actually slightly lower than level 9.

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+{{About|the Cooking [[skill]]|category of items|Items#Cooking}}
-{{About|the Cooking [[skill]]|category of items|Items}}
-{| class="wikitable theme-red" align="right"
-| style="background-color:#DFDFDF; padding:0;" | [[Image:Spiffo_Cooking.png|x250px]]
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-! style="font-weight:normal" | ''Spiffo needs some help with cooking...''
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 {{Infobox skill
 |name=Cooking
 |icon=BowlFull.png
-|type=crafting
+|type=Crafting
-|modifies=Increases nutrition<br>Can use stale and rotten food at high levels
+|modifies=Increases nutrition of evolved recipes<br>Decreases ingredient consumption by evolved recipes<br>Poison detection
 }}
+[[File:Spiffo_Cooking.png|thumb|[[Spiffo]] needs some help with cooking…]]
 '''Cooking''' is a crafting [[skill]].
 ==Overview==
-'''Cooking''' is a skill in Project Zomboid that allows your character to make the most out of a [[food]] item when used as an [[Recipe ingredients|ingredient]].
+Cooking allows your character to make the most out of [[food]] items when used as [[recipe ingredients]].
+==Character creation==
+Boosts to cooking skill from character creation can grant a significant boost to skill gain.
+===Occupations===
+{| class="wikitable theme-red sortable" style="text-align: center;"
+|-
+! class="sortable" | Name
+! class="sortable" | Starting points
+! class="unsortable" | Major skills
+! class="unsortable" | Description
+|-
+| [[File:profession_chef2.png|link=Chef]] [[Chef]]
+| -4
+| +3 cooking<br>+1 [[maintenance]]<br>+1 [[Short Blade|short blade]]
+| N/A
+|-
+| [[File:profession_burgerflipper.png|link=Burger Flipper]] [[Burger Flipper]]
+| 2
+| +2 cooking<br>+1 [[maintenance]]<br>+1 [[Short Blade|short blade]]
+| N/A
+|}
+===Traits===
+{| class="wikitable theme-red sortable" style="text-align: center;"
+|-
+! class="sortable" | Name
+! class="sortable" | Cost
+! class="unsortable" | Description
+! class="unsortable" | Notes
+|-
+| [[File:trait_cook.png|link=Cook]] [[Cook]]
+| -6
+| Knows cooking recipes.<ref>In-game description. Does not actually give any recipes.</ref>
+| +2 cooking
+|}
 ==Cooking==
-To begin cooking, you must right-click a [[Cooking Pot with Water]], [[Frying Pan]], [[Griddle Pan]] or a [[Bowl]]. If you have ingredients, you will be able to add them.
+Cooking can be initiated from the context menu for a cooking vessel or base ingredient. If the player has at least one ingredient valid for that recipe, they will be able to add it to start cooking. Further ingredients can be added from the same menu, to a limit defined per-recipe. Food cooked this way benefits from an unhappiness reduction, increased nutrition and reduced overall food usage. Spices can be added for a boredom reduction and a stronger unhappiness reduction.
-*Adding 3 of the same ingredients will remove the unhappiness reduction, and will even increase unhappiness if there's more than 3.
+Evolved recipes crafted from a base ingredient (such as the [[Bread Slices|bread]] in a [[Recipe ingredients#Sandwich & burger ingredients|sandwich]]) will inherit the age of the base ingredient. This means that base ingredients that have gone stale will result in a stale food item. However, the age of any other ingredients does not have any effect on the final food (so long as they have not gone rotten), so it can be very efficient to prioritize use of stale food in recipes before they rot.
+*Adding 3 of the same ingredient will remove the unhappiness reduction, and further additions of the same ingredient will add an unhappiness increase.
 ==Cooking level==
-Cooking XP is easy to gain, but you should still maximize it by reading Skill Books.
+Cooking XP is easy to gain, but the XP can be maximized by reading appropriate [[skill books]].
-*[[File:CookingSkillbook.png]] [[Skill Books#Types|Cooking Vol. 1]] (Levels 1-2)
+*[[File:CookingSkillbook.png]] [[Skill books#Types|Cooking Vol. 1]] (Levels 1-2)
-*[[File:CookingSkillbook.png]] [[Skill Books#Types|Cooking Vol. 2]] (Levels 3-4)
+*[[File:CookingSkillbook.png]] [[Skill books#Types|Cooking Vol. 2]] (Levels 3-4)
-*[[File:CookingSkillbook.png]] [[Skill Books#Types|Cooking Vol. 3]] (Levels 5-6)
+*[[File:CookingSkillbook.png]] [[Skill books#Types|Cooking Vol. 3]] (Levels 5-6)
-*[[File:CookingSkillbook.png]] [[Skill Books#Types|Cooking Vol. 4]] (Levels 7-8)
+*[[File:CookingSkillbook.png]] [[Skill books#Types|Cooking Vol. 4]] (Levels 7-8)
 *[[File:CookingSkillbook.png]] [[Skill Books#Types|Cooking Vol. 5]] (Levels 9-10)
-Cooking experience is gained by cooking food in a [[Heat Source|heat source]] or by [[Cooking (crafting)#Recipes|making food]].
+Cooking experience is gained when cooking food in a [[Heat Source|heat source]], when crafting [[Cooking (crafting)#Recipes|cooking recipes]] and when adding ingredients to [[Cooking (crafting)#Evolved_recipes|evolved recipes]].
-Ways to gain XP:
-*Add ingredients
-*Cook raw/uncooked food
-*Slice dead animals
 ===Benefits===
-Having a higher level of cooking skill provides some benefits:
+Each level of cooking skill increases the amount of nutrition each ingredient provides and reduces the amount of ingredient that is used. At level 7 the player is able to safely use small amounts of rotten food in their recipes.
-*''' Each cooking level reduces how much ingredients are used when crafting 1 dish, which helps with Hunger reduction. '''
+{| class="wikitable theme-red"
-**Compared to a level 0 chef, a higher level one is able to make a dish more filling, even when using the same ingredients.
-***'''THIS IS JUST AN EXAMPLE OF A SINGLE MUTTON CHOP ADDED INTO A STEW/SOUP! RESULTS MAY OR MAY NOT BE DIFFERENT FOR DIFFERENT INGREDIENTS'''
-{| class="wikitable theme-red" style="text-align:center;"
-! Cooking Skill
-! Mutton chop's hunger reduction
-! Stew/Soup hunger reduction(Uncooked)
-! Additional Hunger reduction (Uncooked)
-! % Increase
-! Stew/Soup hunger reduction(Cooked)
-! Additional Hunger reduction / % (Cooked)
-! Total % Increase
 |-
-| 0 || -30 || -30 || - || - || -39 || -9 / +30% || +30%
+! Cooking level
+| 0 || 1 || 2 || 3 || 4 || 5 || 6 || 7 || 8 || 9 || 10
 |-
-| 10 || -30 || -39 || -9 || +30% || -50 || -11 / +22% || +66.67%
+! Amount of ingredient used<ref>The base amount of an ingredient used is set per-recipe. This is a modifier to that per-recipe value.</ref>
-|}
+| 100% || 97% || 94% || 91% || 88% || 85% || 82% || 79% || 76% || 73% || 70%
-*''' Each cooking level reduces how much ingredients are used when crafting 1 dish, which indirectly increase [[Nutrition]] Values. '''
-**Compared to a level 0 chef, a higher level one is able to squeeze more nutrients out of a food item.
-***'''THIS IS JUST AN EXAMPLE OF A SINGLE MUTTON CHOP ADDED INTO A STEW/SOUP! RESULTS MAY OR MAY NOT BE DIFFERENT FOR DIFFERENT INGREDIENTS'''
-{| class="wikitable theme-red" style="text-align:center;"
-! Cooking skill
-! Mutton Chop's Calories (Uncooked)
-! 1st Piece of Mutton
-! 2nd Piece of Mutton
-! 3rd Piece of Mutton
-! Overall Calories
-! Additional calories
-! Total % Increase
 |-
-| 0 || 234 || 117 || 117 || - || 234 || - || +0%
+! Nutrition added per ingredient<ref>Each level increases nutrition added by 6.66%, but this is applied after the amount of the ingredient used is reduced, so the final value (displayed in the table) is much lower, and has greatly diminishing returns.</ref>
+| 100% || 103% || 107% || 109% || 111% || 113% || 115% || 116% || 117% || 117% || 117%<ref>The diminishing returns are so extreme that this is actually slightly lower than level 9.</ref>
 |-
-| 5 || 234 || 132.60 || 132.70 || 35.34 || 300.56 || 76.56 || +28.45%
+! Amount of rotten ingredient used
-|-
+| colspan = 7 | Cannot use rotten food || colspan = 2 | 5% || colspan = 2 | 10%
-| 10 || 234 || 136.5 || 137.5 || 81.9 || 354.9 || 120.9 || +51.67%
 |}
+Each level of cooking skill also reduces the time it takes to add ingredients by a miniscule 0.05 seconds.
-*At level 7 Cooking, players are able to safely use rotten food as ingredients. The amount of Hunger and Nutrients gained from rotten food is substantially reduced.
+==Poisoning==
-**'''THIS IS JUST AN EXAMPLE OF A SINGLE ROTTEN MUTTON CHOP ADDED INTO A STEW/SOUP! RESULTS MAY OR MAY NOT BE DIFFERENT FOR DIFFERENT INGREDIENTS'''
+Evolved recipes with three or more ingredients can be poisoned with [[bleach]]. A higher cooking level makes it easier for the player to detect poisons, and harder for the player's poisons to be detected. Food that has been detected as poisonous is marked with an icon [[File:SkullPoison.png|link=]].
+{| class="wikitable theme-red"
-{| class="wikitable theme-red" style="text-align:center;"
-! Cooking skill
-! Mutton Chop's Calories/Hunger (Rotten)
-! 1st piece Calories
-! hunger reduction
-! % used for calories
-! % used for hunger reduction
 |-
-| 7 || 234/-13 || 9.04 || 1 || 3.86% || 11.54%
+! Poisoner's cooking level
+| 0 || 1 || 2 || 3 || 4 || 5 || 6 || 7 || 8 || 9 || 10
 |-
-| 8 || 234/-13  || 9.09 || 1 || 3.89% || 11.54%
+! Level required to detect poison
-|-
+| 3 || 4 || 5 || 6 || 7 || 8 || 9 || colspan = 4 | 10
-| 9 || 234/-13  || 27.33 || 3 || 11.68% || 23.08%
-|-
-| 10 || 234/-13  || 27.3 (Lower than lvl 9) || 3 || 11.67% || 23.08%
 |}
-*At level 7 Cooking, players are able to see if food contains poison. This does not allow the player to see which mushrooms or berries are poisonous as it only displays the poisonous icon on the specific dish the poisonous item is added to, not the poisonous item itself. This also allows the player to see if bleach has been added. Each additional "dose" of poison from berry, mushroom, or bleach will lower the cooking level at which the player can recognize the food as poisoned by approximately 1.
 ==Recipes==
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 ==See also==
-*[[Heat source]].
+*[[Heat source]]
+==References==
+<references />
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