Cooking

Cooking is the process of making raw Food into more healthy food. In general, cooking adds a Health bonus to foods and sometimes improves their Hunger or Sanity benefits as well. There are 3 types of cooking: Campfire/Fire Pit, Drying Rack, and Crock Pot.

Campfire/Fire Pit
Cooking food on a Campfire (or Fire Pit) is the most basic cooking method. To cook a food, simply click it onto a burning Campfire or Fire Pit. This is often done at night since the campfire also provides light to keep Grue away. Once a food has been cooked it will be replaced in inventory with its cooked (or prepared) counterpart. For example a Morsel becomes a Cooked Morsel and a Carrot becomes a Roasted Carrot. Cooked meats generally spoil slower, cooked vegetables generally spoil faster.

Some Vegetables are generally better consumed cooked than used as ingredients in Crock Pot. Notable examples:
 * Braised Eggplant [+20 HealthMeter.png +25 HungerMeter.png]
 * Sliced Pomegranate [+20 HealthMeter.png +12.5 HungerMeter.png]
 * Hot Pumpkin [+8 HealthMeter.png +37.5 HungerMeter.png]

Corn  is better consumed raw than cooked.

Drying Rack
Using the Drying Rack to prepare Meats provides a longer-term food storage option to those without an Ice Box. When dried, meats become jerky and spoil at a much slower rate. Additionally, Jerky tends to give more of a Health bonus than its raw or cooked counterparts. To dry a piece of Meat, simply place it on the Drying Rack. The Foods which can be dried are listed below:

Crock Pot

 * CrockPot.png Article: Crock Pot Recipes

Cooking foods using the Crock Pot recipes can combine them into a more ample dish. The Crock Pot requires 4 food items to be combined to produce a dish. Some recipes require or allow for non-foods to be added (like Twigs for Kabobs). Recipes sometimes produce a dish with a greater Hunger/Health/Sanity bonus than all the ingredients combined. Some recipes are designed to specifically provide a large Sanity or Health boost, but do not fill as much Hunger. The cooking times for Crock Pot recipes vary. A few foods like Waffles are cooked in as little as 10 seconds, while recipes like Mandrake Soup take a full minute. Most recipes require a certain amount of food (such as Meats or Vegetables) as opposed to specific food items. Please refer to the Crock Pot page for a greater detailing of this cooking process.