*After placing the ingredients in your cooking utensil you can examine it to find out what it will become and what the difficulty of the dish is
*The type of fireplace you use to cook your food in has an impact on the difficulty:
**Oven An oven adds 0difficulty.**Campfire A campfire adds 55x(U-1) where U is the number of unique ingredients.**Forge adds 1010x(U-1) where U is the number of unique ingredients.
*Some items can be added to raise the difficulty, for example leather pieces, small nails and coins (they will not be consumed)