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.

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 forge will raise the difficulty by 10. Another good trick is to add a leather piece or wood scrap to your pan which will raise the difficuly without using up the piece/scrap.

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.

Items

Ingredients Meat, Fish and Other Meat Filets of meat Cooked meat Fish Filets of fish Eye Hoof 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 Gulasch 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 Campfire

Guides

Here's a compilation of guide pages for cooking. NB: Some of them have not been checked for a very long time so watch out for outdated info.

• Guide To Cooking
• Cooking With Tritus
• Recipes by Kameo and Realwurld
• Speed Cooking Guides
• Porridge Tips
• HFC with Poolsclosed

Titles

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