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)

I have had it happen where the wrong character gets the gains, if using a different loader I cycle the pans through my cooker inventory before lighting.

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	0.1287
Rye + filet of cooked meat	4 (Oven)	Stew	95	4.99	17.17	12.18	0.1282	22.47	22.54	0.07	0.00074
Onion + Fish	4 (Oven)	Stew	94	17.17	23.16	5.99	0.0637	22.577	22.658	0.081	0.00086
Corn + Fish	27 (Oven)	Meal	94	23.16	26.09	2.93	0.0312	22.66	22.726	0.066	0.0007
Rye + Fish	4 (Oven)	Stew	94	26.09	29.73	3.64	0.0387	22.727	22.806	0.079	0.00084
Pumpkin + Fish	30 (Oven)	Meal	22	29.73	30.24	0.51	0.0232	22.806	22.814	0.008	0.00036
Onion + meat	4 (Oven)	Stew	94	30.24	32.22	1.98	0.0211	22.876	22.933	0.057	0.00061
Rye + meat	4 (Oven)	Stew	94	32.22	34.68	2.46	0.0262	22.955627	23.03488	0.0793	0.00084
Rye + meat	4 (Oven)	Stew	94	34.68	36.89	2.21	0.0235	23.04	23.1258	0.0858	0.00091
Rye + meat	4 (Oven)	Stew	94	36.89	38.91	2.02	0.0215	23.142	23.234	0.092	0.00098
Rye + meat	4 (Oven)	Stew	94	38.91	40.99	2.08	0.0221	23.234	23.3156	0.0816	0.00087
Rye + meat	4 (Oven)	Stew	94	40.99	42.81	1.82	0.0194	23.3156	23.388	0.0724	0.00077
Rye + meat	4 (Oven)	Stew	94	42.81	44.37	1.56	0.0166	23.388	23.464	0.076	0.00081
Pumpkin + meat		meal	55	44.37	45.05	0.68	0.0124	23.464	23.506	0.042	0.00076
Corn + Fish	27 (Oven)	meal	94	45.05	46.25	1.2	0.0128	23.680998	23.742262	0.0613	0.00065
Garlic + Fish	14	Stew	100	46.25	47.75	1.5	0.015	24.214	24.2945	0.0805	0.00081
Garlic + Fish	14	Stew	100	47.75	49.25	1.5	0.015	24.2945	24.365	0.0705	0.00071
Garlic + Fish	14	Stew	100	49.25	50.41	1.16	0.0116	24.365	24.4438	0.0788	0.00079
Potato + Fish	37	Meal	156	50.41	51.79	1.38	0.0088	24.47	24.537	0.067	0.00043
Garlic + Fish	14	Stew	168	51.79	53.517	1.73	0.0103	24.537111	24.6578	0.1207	0.00072
Garlic + Fish	14	Stew	168	53.517	55.476	1.96	0.0117	24.6578	24.7838	0.126	0.00075
Garlic + Fish	14	Stew	204	55.48	57.66	2.18	0.0107	24.87101	25	0.129	0.00063
Garlic + Fish	14	Stew	100	57.66	58.533	0.87	0.0087	25.03	25.0893	0.0593	0.00059
Garlic + Fish	14	Stew	280	58.53	61.07	2.54	0.0091	25.687	25.885	0.198	0.00071
Garlic + Fish	14	Stew	264	61.07	63.14	2.07	0.0078	25.885	26.0759	0.1909	0.00072
Garlic + Fish	14	Stew	264	63.14	65.03	1.89	0.0072	26.0759	26.27	0.1941	0.00074
Garlic + Fish	14	Stew	264	65.03	66.71	1.68	0.0064	26.35	26.54	0.19	0.00072
interpolated			41	66.71	66.95	0.24	0.0059				0
Potato + Meat	37	Meal	264	66.95	68.51	1.56	0.0059	26.8859	27.024	0.1381	0.00052
Corn + Meat	37	Meal	351	68.51	70.54	2.03	0.0058	27.074753	27.23	0.1552	0.00044
Garlic + Fish	14	Stew	352	70.54	72.21	1.67	0.0047	27.337	27.584	0.247	0.0007
Corn + Fish	37	Meal	351	72.21	73.87	1.66	0.0047	27.59	27.7389	0.1489	0.00042
Corn + Meat	37	Meal	88	73.87	74.32	0.45	0.0051	27.95149	27.988955	0.0375	0.00043
Garlic + Meat	37	Stew	352	74.32	75.56	1.24	0.0035	28.154915	28.38768	0.2328	0.00066
Corn + Meat	37	Meal	352	75.56	77.04	1.48	0.0042	28.38768	28.55282	0.1651	0.00047
Garlic + Meat	14	Stew	352	77.04	78.14	1.1	0.0031	28.756746	28.970795	0.214	0.00061

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