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 1,700 cooks to get up to 50 skill and about 4,100 to 70 HFC skill. Around 12,750 cooks to 90 HFC. (All with sleep bonus) You are limited only by your available resources. More actuals: - ~20,500 cooks to 95 HFC skill - ~36,000 cooks to 99 HFC skill - ~40,000 cooks to 45 Soul Depth

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	376	36.89	44.37	7.48	0.0199	23.142	23.464	0.322	0.00086
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	300	46.25	50.41	4.16	0.0139	24.214	24.4438	0.2298	0.00077
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	1712	51.79	66.71	14.92	0.0087	25.332	26.54	1.208	0.00071
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
Garlic + Meat	14	Stew	352	78.14	79.17	1.03	0.0029	29.086672	29.289339	0.2027	0.00058
Garlic + Meat no sb	14	Stew	291	79.17	79.56	0.39	0.0013	29.289339	29.37594	0.0866	0.0003
Corn + Meat	37	Meal	180	79.56	80.21	0.65	0.0036	29.37594	29.450218	0.0743	0.00041
Corn + Meat	37	Meal	597	80.21	81.9	1.69	0.0028	29.529432	29.755	0.2256	0.00038
Garlic + Meat	14	Stew	655	82.6	82.6	0	0	30.091408	30.471573	0.3802	0.00058
Corn + Meat	37	Meal	352	83.41	84.32	0.91	0.0026	30.479013	30.626104	0.1471	0.00042
Garlic + Meat	14	Stew	3350	84.32	89.21	4.89	0.0015	30.810831	32.702682	1.8919	0.00056
88 meals rest stew		Mix	1055	89.21	90.37	1.16	0.0011	32.776424	33.334145	0.5577	0.00053
Garlic + Meat	14	Stew	1584	90.37	91.9	1.53	0.001	33.374149	34.149368	0.7752	0.00049
88 meals rest stew		Mix	1056	91.9	92.71	0.81	0.0008	34.333038	34.830685	0.4976	0.00047

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

Additional Data at a higher level for stew vs meals. (note that SD start to end is not all from cooking but the gains are listed only from the cooks) Total cooks at this point is at 65.5k and you can see that meals have overtaken stew on the SD gains.

Skillgain Results

Type	Difficulty	Type	Amount	HFC Start	HFC End	HFC Gain	HFC Gain / Unit	SD Start	SD End	SD Gain	SD Gain / Unit
Summary Stew			5280	99.92	99.95	0.029212999999999	0.000005532765152	50.813164	51.95636	1.137709999999991	0.000215475378788
Summary Meals			7656	99.95	99.98	0.027419999999992	0.000003581504702	51.979717	53.98867	1.783892000000002	0.000233005747126