'''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.
== Notes ==
*To raise this skill, the [[player]] should start out with a simpler dish like a [[stew]] or [[casserole]]. After having gained reached about 10-15 in HFC skill the player can move on to creating a [[meal]].
*To gain skill in hfc it is important HFC you should try to keep the difficulty of the dish lower than within a range of +/-10 from your current hfc skill +10. 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 up to of 24 as well as 44. A +/- range of 5 seems to help to get the optimal skillgain. *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 adds 0**Campfire adds 5**Forge adds 10*Some items can be added to raise the difficulty, for example leather pieces, small nails and coins (they will not be consumed)
*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*(nr_of_unique_ingredients-1), eg 2 meats + 1 onion counts for difficulty only as 2 ingredients
***A forge will raise the difficulty by 10*(nr_of_unique_ingredients-1)
**Another good trick is to add a leather piece to your pan which will raise the difficuly without using up the piece.
'''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.