'''Hot food cooking''' ('''HFC''') is a [[skill]] used to create cooked [[food]]. The food made with this skill has a higher [[nutrition]] value than raw (uncooked) meat, [[foraged]], or [[botanized]] food.
== Notes ==
*To raise this skill, the [[player]] should start out with a simpler dish like a [[stew]] or [[casserole]]. After having gained about 10-15 in HFC skill the player can move on to creating a [[meal]].
*To raise this gain skill, in hfc it is important to keep the difficulty of the [[player]] dish lower than your current hfc skill +10. That means that if you have 1 hfc you should start out with not aim to make a simpler dish like of higher difficulty than 11. Likewise if you have 34 hfc you can gain skill from food with a [[stew]] or [[casserole]]difficulty up to 44. After having gained about 10A +/-15 in HFC skill range of 5 seems to help to get the player can move on to creating a [[meal]]optimal skillgain.
To gain skill in hfc it is important to keep the difficulty of the dish within a +/- range of 10 from your current hfc skill. That means that if you have 1 hfc you should not aim to make a dish of higher difficulty than 11. Likewise if you have 34 hfc you can gain skill from food with a difficulty of 24 but also from food with a difficulty of 44. A +/- range of 5 seems to help to get the optimal skillgain. *After placing the ingredients into your pan, etc, you can examine it and find out what you will make and what the difficulty to make it is. **You can adjust the difficulty of a recipe by what you cook it in also. ***Cooking with an oven does not change the difficulty. ***A campire will raise the difficulty by 5 and a *(nr_of_unique_ingredients-1), eg 2 meats + 1 onion counts for difficulty only as 2 ingredients***A forge will raise the difficulty by 10. *(nr_of_unique_ingredients-1)**Another good trick is to add a leather piece to your pan which will raise the difficuly without using up the piece.
'''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.
[[Category:Cooking]]
[[Category:Skills]]
10*(nr_of_unique_ingredients-1), eg 2meats+onion counts for difficulty only as 2 ingr.