Cooking

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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 ingredient.

Cooking

To begin cooking, you must right-click a Cooking Pot with Water, or a Bowl. If you have ingredients, you will be able to add them.

• Adding 3 of the same ingredients will remove the unhappiness reduction, and will even increase unhappiness if theres more than 3.

Cooking Level

To maximize XP gain, you should read the Cooking skill books first.

• Cooking for Beginners (Levels 1-2)
• Cooking for Intermediate (Levels 3-4)
• Advanced Cooking (Levels 5-6)
• Expert Cooking (Levels 7-8)
• Master Cooking (Levels 9-10)

Benefits

Having a higher level of cooking skill provide some benefits:

• Make the most out of a food item when used as an ingredient.

Cooking Skill	Mutton chop's hunger reduction	Stew/Soup hunger reduction(Uncooked)	Additional Hunger reduction / % (Uncooked)	Stew/Soup hunger reduction(Cooked)	Additional Hunger reduction / % (Cooked)	Total % Increase
0	-30	-30	- / -	-39	-9 / +30%	30%
10	-30	-39	-9 / +30%	-50	-11 / +22%	+66.66... Able to gain more nutrient values out of a food item when used as an ingredient. Cooking skill Calories in the product Calories(first product) Calories(second product) Overall calories Additional calories AC each skill level (%) 0 184 184 Product fully used 184 0 0% 5 184 209 5 214 30 +16.3% 10 184 215 51 266 82 +44.6% At level 7 Cooking, players are able to use an extremely small amount of rotten food as ingredients. The amount of Hunger and Nutrients you get from using rotten food will also increase as you level past 7. Recipes Heat source. Simple Recipes Formulas for basic cooking tasks. Template:Crafting table header
														Advanced Recipes Recipes for player-made foods. Certain recipes may require expertise from a recipe magazine or occupation. Template:Crafting table header