'''Hot food cooking''' ('''HFC''') is a [[skill]] used to create cooked [[food]] by combining other ingredients in a container and heating in a cooker. The food made with this skill has a higher [[nutrition]] value than raw (uncooked) meat, [[foraged]], or [[botanized]] food.
*To gain HFC skill, optimal skill in HFC you should try to keep gain will occur when the difficulty of the dish within a range of +/is your HFC skill -20 . Skill gain is reduced the further from your skilloptimal difficulty you get. That means that if you have At 1 hfc you should not skill, aim for the lowest difficulty in order to make have a dish better chance of higher difficulty than 21. Likewise if you have 34 hfc you can gain gaining skill from food with a difficulty of 14 as well as 54. A +/- range of 5 seems to help to get the optimal skillgain. Right-clicking on the container and selecting Lore lets you check the difficulty of the recipe.
'''NB:''' Rumours have circulated that you will not gain any hfc skill if you leave the forge/oven/campfire. This has been proven wrong. You do not have to stand shackled to the heat source.