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 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

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
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

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.
- 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
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

Heat Source.

Simple Recipes

Formulas for basic cooking tasks.

Product

Recipe

Description

Skill Level

Pot of Soup x1

+

(+)

Can Opener x1

Canned Soup x1

Cooking Pot x1

Heat Source

(consumed)

(cooked:50min burned:100min)

Increase morale by putting your soup into a pot and heating it up. Adds -40 hunger.

Cooking Level 0

Bowl of Beans x1

	+		+
Can Opener x1		Canned Beans x1		Bowl x1
		(consumed)		(consumed)

Bowl of Beans.

Cooking Level 0

Bowl of Soup x4

	+		(+)
Pot of Soup x1		Bowl x4		Heat Source
(consumed)		(consumed)		(cooked:15min burned:25min)

Bowl of Soup.

Cooking Level 0

Watermelon Chunks x5

	+
Watermelon x1		Blunt Weapon or Log x1
(consumed)

Watermelon Chunks.

Cooking Level 0

Watermelon Slice x10

	+
Watermelon x1		Hand Axe or Kitchen Knife or Saw or Stone Knife or Axe or Hunting Knife or Machete or Meat Cleaver or Stone Axe or Wood Axe or x1
(consumed)