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, 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

Cooking XP is easy to gain, but you should still maximize it by reading Skill Books.

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)

Ways to gain XP:

Add ingredients
Cook raw/uncooked food
Slice dead animals

Benefits

Having a higher level of cooking skill provide some benefits:

Each cooking level reduces how much ingredients is used when crafting 1 dish, which increase hunger reduction.
- 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

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 nutrition values out of a food item when used as an ingredient.
- Each cooking level reduces how much ingredients is used when crafting 1 dish, which indirectly increase nutrition value.
  - 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

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%
5	234	132.60	132.70	35.34	300.56	76.56	+28.45%
10	234	136.5	137.5	81.9	354.9	120.9	+51.67%

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 |- |
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Advanced Recipes

Recipes for player-made foods. Certain recipes may require expertise from a recipe magazine or occupation. Template:Crafting table header |- |
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