Hot food cooking

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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.

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.

Items

Ingredients Meat and fish Meat Filets of meat Cooked meat Fish Filets of fish Berries, herbs, nuts, vegetables Botanised items Farmed items Foraged items Harvested items

Resulting products High nutrition value Meal Low nutrition value Bread Casserole Cooked meat Goulash Porridge Stew Soup No nutrition value Juice Tea Unknown nutrition value Wine

Tools Containers Cauldron Frying pan Pottery bowl Pottery flask Pottery jar Sauce pan Fire containers Forge Stone oven

Guides

Kameo's way to casserole guide

• Blueberry - Nettles
• Blueberry - Parsley
• Hazelnuts - Nettles
• Hazelnuts - Parsley
• Lingonberry - Garlic
• Lingonberry - Nettles
• Lingonberry - Onion
• Lingonberry - Parsley
• Strawberry - Garlic
• Strawberry - Onion
• Strawberry - Nettles
• Strawberry - Parsley

Recipe book (started by Realwurld)

All difficulties should be quoted as base difficulty. Putting the container in a fire may then alter that base difficulty so check the difficulty as it is in your inventory.

Goulash

• Filet of fish/meat + vegetable, 14 Difficulty
• Filet of fish/meat + vegetable + herb, 18 Difficulty

Casserole

• Blueberry with Lovage, 16 Difficulty

Meals

• Catfish with corn and potato#
• Deer meat with Pumpkin and Onion, Difficulty 28 (for difficulty 38 add wemp seeds)

Madt's guide to speed cooking

This guide basically is a way to make meals really fast.

• Light the oven/forge and throw in the veggies (corn, potato, onion)
• Throw in the meat and grab 10 frying pans.
• Wait for the ingredients to get to glowing with heat.
• Drag 1 meat and 1 veg to each pan while the pans are in your inventory.
• Once you have placed 1 meat and 1 veg in each pan, drop the pans into the forge/oven.
• You will have 10 instant meals, one in each pan.
• Repeat process until either you're out of ingredients or until you get bored.

Christian's good guide to speed cooking

This guide is another easy way to fast speed cooking. WARNING: Can be rough on players' wrists

• Light the forge or oven.
• Put all meat and veggies in backpacks or not.
• Have at least a few pans (5 always worked for me).
• Put one small nail in each pan this allows the pans to stay open as you cook the meals.
• Once the meat and veggies are glowing take from the backpack/forge/oven and put one of each in each pan.
• It will then make a meal in each pan.
• Then add another veggie and meat and then remove the original meal from the pan and it will make another meal.

Tips: Once you reach 40 Hot food cooking you should add pig food to each meal for best skill gain. It basically increases the difficulty of the meal for most skill gain at higher cooking skill levels. The pig food must be glowing in order to be used in the meal.

Jayz's speed cooking guide

• Light the oven.
• Put meat and vegetables in the oven.
• Wait until they are glowing from heat.
• Grab a few frying pans.
• Take 1 meat and 1 veggie and put both in a frying pan in your inventory.
• Put the pan back into the oven.
• Enjoy your instant meal

BOB Auer's porridge

• Light the oven.
• Put 3 grains and water in a sauce pan
• Wait until they are glowing from heat
• Continue this until you have no grains left

You will get much skill for that at lower level. I cooked 14 sauce pans of porridge and get 2,6 skill in hot food cooking.

Poolsclosed's guide to HFC

• Light the Stone forge. (NOT Stone oven)
• Place 7x frying pan, 7x sauce pan, and all the meat you have inside of a backpack inside the forge.
• Filet 2x 1.20 kg cooked meat and 2x 0.90 kg cooked meat resulting 14x 0.30 kg Filet of cooked meat.
• Add 0.001 kg water and 1x Filet of cooked meat in each sauce pan.
• Add 1x cooked meat and 1x Filet of cooked meat in each frying pan.
• Collect the resulting stew and gulasch for use in Animal taming.
• Rinse and repeat.

The idea is to use your hunting kills or the butchered remains of other people's kills carelessly left on the road for your own hot food cooking skill gain. This method works well when doing smithing or mining because only the Filet action uses the action timer. It is recommended to store quantities of food in backpacks so as to avoid inadvertent cooking. Use of a Stone forge instead of a Stone oven makes the result more difficult, resulting in increased skill gain. This method is an effective way to gain hot food cooking skill at any level. This method also will work with fish and their associated Filets, or in quantities other than what is described above. The mechanism by which this works is that using two separate meat types makes the dish cook faster. For example, a whole cooked meat and a Filet of cooked meat will turn into stew much more quickly than just using 2x Filet of cooked meat.

Titles

• Caterer at 50 skill
• Iron chef at 70 skill
• Saucier at 90 skill