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.
- THIS IS JUST AN EXAMPLE OF A SINGLE FOOD ITEM! RESULTS MAY OR MAY NOT BE DIFFERENT FOR DIFFERENT INGREDIENTS
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 |
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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.
- THIS IS JUST AN EXAMPLE OF A SINGLE FOOD ITEM! RESULTS MAY OR MAY NOT BE DIFFERENT FOR DIFFERENT INGREDIENTS
Cooking skill | Calories in the product | Calories(first product) | Calories(second product) | Overall calories | Additional calories | AC each skill level (%) |
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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
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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