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. You will be able to add ingredients.
Cooking Level
To maximize XP gain, you should read the Tailoring 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.
- For example - A raw Mutton Chop only decrease hunger by -30 on it's own, while used as an ingredient with 10 Cooking Level in stew/soup will increase it to -39, giving a 10% bonus with 10 Cooking Level when adding ingredients.
- However, the stew/soup will decrease even more hunger when cooked, going up to -50 hunger vs -39 hunger(no cooking level), giving a 22% bonus with hunger when cooking.
- For example - A raw Mutton Chop only decrease hunger by -30 on it's own, while used as an ingredient with 10 Cooking Level in stew/soup will increase it to -39, giving a 10% bonus with 10 Cooking Level when adding ingredients.
- Able to gain more nutrient values out of a food item when used as an ingredient.
Simple Recipes
Formulas for basic cooking tasks.
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Advanced Recipes
Recipes for player-made foods. Certain recipes may require expertise from a recipe magazine or occupation.
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