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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, Frying Pan, Griddle Pan 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 safely use rotten food as ingredients. The amount of Hunger and Nutrients gained from rotten food is substantially reduced.
- THIS IS JUST AN EXAMPLE OF A SINGLE ROTTEN 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% |
- At level 7 Cooking, players are able to see if food contains poison. This does not allow the player to see which mushrooms or berries are poisonous as it only displays the poisonous icon on the specific dish the poisonous item is added to, not the poisonous item itself. This also allows the player to see if bleach has been added. Each additional "dose" of poison from berry, mushroom, or bleach will lower the cooking level at which the player can recognize the food as poisoned by approximately 1.
Recipes
Simple Recipes
Formulas for basic cooking tasks.
Product | XP Gained | Skill(s) | Recipe | Ingredient 1 | Ingredient 2 | Ingredient 3 | Ingredient 4 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() Pot of Soup x1 |
none | ![]() Can Opener x1 |
![]() Canned Vegetable Soup x1 (consumed) |
![]() Cooking Pot x1 (consumed) |
![]() Heat Source (cooked:50min burned:100min) | ||
![]() Bowl of Beans x1 |
none | ![]() Can Opener x1 |
![]() Canned Beans x1 (consumed) |
![]() Bowl x1 (consumed) | |||
![]() Bowl of Soup x4 |
none | ![]() Pot of Soup x1 (consumed) |
![]() Bowl x4 (consumed) |
![]() Heat Source (cooked:15min burned:25min) | |||
![]() Watermelon Chunks x5 |
none | ![]() Watermelon x1 (consumed) |
![]() Blunt Weapon or Log x1 | ||||
![]() Watermelon Slice x10 |
none | ![]() Watermelon x1 (consumed) |
![]() 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 | ||||
![]() Canned Tuna x1 |
none | ![]() Can Opener x1 |
![]() Canned Tuna x1 (consumed) | ||||
![]() Bowl of Beans x1 |
none | ![]() Open Can of Beans x1 (consumed) |
![]() Bowl x1 (consumed) | ||||
![]() Open Can of Beans x1 |
none | ![]() Can Opener x1 |
![]() Canned Beans x1 (consumed) | ||||
![]() Bread Slices x3 |
none | ![]() Bread x1 (consumed) |
![]() Bread Knife or Butter Knife or Kitchen Knife or Hunting Knife or Machete or Meat Cleaver or Stone Knife x1 |
Advanced Recipes
Recipes for player-made foods. Certain recipes may require expertise from a recipe magazine or occupation.
Product | XP Gained | Skill(s) | Recipe | Ingredient 1 | Ingredient 2 | Ingredient 3 | Ingredient 4 | Ingredient 5 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() Hot Cuppa x1 |
none | ![]() Tea Bag or Coffee (2 units) (consumed) |
![]() Kettle of Water (2 units) |
![]() Empty Mug x1 (consumed) |
![]() Sugar (1 unit) (consumed) |
![]() Heat Source (heat: -0.22) | ||
![]() Chicken x1 |
none | ![]() Chicken x1 (consumed) |
![]() Heat Source (cooked:30min burned:60min) | |||||
![]() Salmon x1 |
none | ![]() Salmon x1 (consumed) |
![]() Heat Source (cooked:80min burned:130min) | |||||
![]() Steak x1 |
none | ![]() Steak x1 (consumed) |
![]() Heat Source (cooked:Xmin burned:Xmin) | |||||
![]() Pot of Stew (Recipe) x1 |
none | ![]() Water (consumed) |
![]() Cooking Pot x1 (consumed) |
![]() Stew Ingredients (consumed) |
![]() Heat Source (cooking) | |||
![]() Pot of Soup (Recipe) x1 |
none | ![]() Water (consumed) |
![]() Cooking Pot x1 (consumed) |
![]() Soup Ingredients (consumed) |
![]() Heat Source (cooking) | |||
![]() Salad (Recipe) x1 |
none | ![]() Bowl x1 (consumed) |
![]() Salad Ingredients (consumed) | |||||
![]() Bread Dough x1 |
none | ![]() |
![]() Rolling Pin |
![]() Water (1 unit) (consumed) |
![]() Flour (1 unit) (consumed) |
![]() Salt (1 unit) |
![]() Yeast (1 unit) (consumed) | |
![]() Pie Dough x1 |
none | ![]() |
![]() Water (2 units) (consumed) |
![]() Flour (2 units) (consumed) |
![]() Salt (2 units) (consumed) |
![]() Butter (15 units) (consumed) | ||
![]() Bread x1 |
none | ![]() Bread Dough x1 (consumed) |
![]() Heat Source | |||||
![]() Pie Preparation x1 |
none | ![]() Rolling Pin x1 |
![]() Baking Pan x1 (consumed) |
![]() Pie Dough x1 (consumed) | ||||
![]() Cake Preparation x1 |
none | ![]() Cake Batter x1 |
![]() Baking Pan x1 (consumed) | |||||
![]() Recipe Ingredients x1 |
none | ![]() Bread Slices x1 |
![]() Recipe Ingredients x1 (consumed) |
See also
Skills v • d • e | |
Passive | Fitness • Strength |
Agility | Skills • Lightfooted • Nimble • Sneaking |
Combat | Axe • Long Blunt • Short Blunt • Long Blade • Short Blade • Spear • Maintenance |
Crafting | BlacksmithRemoved! • Carpentry • Cooking • Farming • First Aid • Electrical • Metalworking • Mechanics • Tailoring |
Firearm | Aiming • Reloading |
Survivalist | Fishing • Trapping • Foraging |