Cooking
{{Improve}}. Last edit was 13/08/2021.
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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 are used when crafting 1 dish, which helps with Hunger reduction.
- 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
- Compared to a level 0 chef, a higher level one is able to make a dish more filling, even when using the same ingredients.
| 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 |
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| 0 | -30 | -30 | - | - | -39 | -9 / +30% | +30% |
| 10 | -30 | -39 | -9 | +30& | -50 | -11 / +22% | +66.67% |
- 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
- Compared to a level 0 chef, a higher level one is able to squeeze more nutrients out of a food item.
| 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 |
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| 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.
- 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/Hunger (Rotten) | 1st piece Calories | hunger reduction | % used for calories | % used for hunger reduction |
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| 7 | 234/-13 | 9.04 | 1 | 3.86% | 11.54% |
| 8 | 234/-13 | 9.09 | 1 | 3.89% | 11.54% |
| 9 | 234/-13 | 27.33 | 3 | 11.68% | 23.08% |
| 10 | 234/-13 | 27.3 (Lower than lvl 9) | 3 | 11.67% | 23.08% |
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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