Meals have higher base difficulty than other cooking, so beginners are recommended to use [[stone oven]]s when cooking them. If difficulty isn't an issue, any fire source can be used. Experienced cooks will sometimes use [[campfire]]s or [[stone forge]]s to intentionally increase the difficulty.
The base [[QL]] of a meal is your [[hot-food cooking]] skill, and at lower skill it will match this most of the time. As [[hot food cooking]] becomes higher, it also becomes harder and harder to maintain maximum quality. When it exceeds 70, the meal [[QL]] will drop and become more dependent on the ql of the items and the difficulty of making it (the easier the meal, the higher [[QL]] meal made)
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