Guides:Cooking With Mamadarkness

see Cooking for a general overview

This is my skillgain information.

Basically my main grind is for soul depth, but you can do that by cooking up stew/meals.

Cooking Guide

You will want a few forges with frying pans in each (some people use 10 forges with 1000 frying pans) Pre-Load all the pans with meat/veggies (anyone can load the pans) Make sure the character who you want skillgain to be the one who put the pans in the forge. Turn on sleep bonus Light the forges When all cooked, turn off sleep bonus. (for me 1 kindling is enough and no additional fuel is required. All cooks in 4 minutes, so wait one more minute and turn off SB)

Skillgain Summary

It takes about 1700 cooks to get up to 50 skill and approx 4100 to 70 HFC skill You are limited only by your available resources

Skillgain Actuals

Here is some actual data. Note that I mostly have made stew since it gave me more skillgain per unit than meals. It could be that making meal difficulty higher will compensate, but for grinding skill I do not mess with putting 3 or 4 types of items in one pan. I would rather just cook more qty. Most recent cooking over 70 skill is having meals with more HFC gains, I will keep updating. Note that garlic and meat in a frying pan makes stew.

Also of note is the Soul Depth Gains. Stew still seems better for that.

Skillgain Results

Type	Difficulty	Type	Amount	HFC Start	HFC End	HFC Gain	HFC Gain / Unit	SD Start	SD End	SD Gain	SD Gain / Unit
Interpolated			31	1	4.99	3.99	0.129
Rye + filet of cooked meat	4 (Oven)	Stew	95	4.99	17.17	12.18	0.128	22.47	22.54	0.07	0.0007
Onion + Fish	4 (Oven)	Stew	94	17.17	23.16	5.99	0.064	22.577	22.658	0.081	0.0009
Corn + Fish	27 (Oven)	Meal	94	23.16	26.09	2.93	0.031	22.66	22.726	0.066	0.0007
Rye + Fish	4 (Oven)	Stew	94	26.09	29.73	3.64	0.039	22.727	22.806	0.079	0.0008
Pumpkin + Fish	30 (Oven)	Meal	22	29.73	30.24	0.51	0.023	22.806	22.814	0.008	0.0004
Onion + meat	4 (Oven)	Stew	94	30.24	32.22	1.98	0.021	22.876	22.933	0.057	0.0006
Rye + meat	4 (Oven)	Stew	94	32.22	34.68	2.46	0.026	22.955627	23.03488	0.0793	0.0008
Rye + meat	4 (Oven)	Stew	94	34.68	36.89	2.21	0.024	23.04	23.1258	0.0858	0.0009
Rye + meat	4 (Oven)	Stew	94	36.89	38.91	2.02	0.021	23.142	23.234	0.092	0.001
Rye + meat	4 (Oven)	Stew	94	38.91	40.99	2.08	0.022	23.234	23.3156	0.0816	0.0009
Rye + meat	4 (Oven)	Stew	94	40.99	42.81	1.82	0.019	23.3156	23.388	0.0724	0.0008
Rye + meat	4 (Oven)	Stew	94	42.81	44.37	1.56	0.017	23.388	23.464	0.076	0.0008
Pumpkin + meat		meal	55	44.37	45.05	0.68	0.012	23.464	23.506	0.042	0.0008
Corn + Fish	27 (Oven)	meal	94	45.05	46.25	1.2	0.013	23.680998	23.742262	0.0613	0.0007
Garlic + Fish	14	Stew	100	46.25	47.75	1.5	0.015	24.214	24.2945	0.0805	0.0008
Garlic + Fish	14	Stew	100	47.75	49.25	1.5	0.015	24.2945	24.365	0.0705	0.0007
Garlic + Fish	14	Stew	100	49.25	50.41	1.16	0.012	24.365	24.4438	0.0788	0.0008
Potato + Fish	37	Meal	156	50.41	51.79	1.38	0.009	24.47	24.537	0.067	0.0004
Garlic + Fish	14	Stew	168	51.79	53.517	1.73	0.01	24.537111	24.6578	0.1207	0.0007
Garlic + Fish	14	Stew	168	53.517	55.476	1.96	0.012	24.6578	24.7838	0.126	0.0008
Garlic + Fish	14	Stew	204	55.48	57.66	2.18	0.011	24.87101	25	0.129	0.0006
Garlic + Fish	14	Stew	100	57.66	58.533	0.87	0.009	25.03	25.0893	0.0593	0.0006
Garlic + Fish	14	Stew	280	58.53	61.07	2.54	0.009	25.687	25.885	0.198	0.0007
Garlic + Fish	14	Stew	264	61.07	63.14	2.07	0.008	25.885	26.0759	0.1909	0.0007
Garlic + Fish	14	Stew	264	63.14	65.03	1.89	0.007	26.0759	26.27	0.1941	0.0007
Garlic + Fish	14	Stew	264	65.03	66.71	1.68	0.006	26.35	26.54	0.19	0.0007
interpolated			41	66.71	66.95	0.24	0.006
Potato + Meat	37	Meal	264	66.95	68.51	1.56	0.006	26.8859	27.024	0.1381	0.0005
Corn + Meat	37	Meal	351	68.51	70.54	2.03	0.006	27.074753	27.23	0.1552	0.0004
Garlic + Fish	14	Stew	352	70.54	72.21	1.67	0.005	27.337	27.584	0.247	0.0007

NOTE: gains are based on different amounts of cooking at one time, use the gain per unit column