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{{Quote|Fire makes everything better.|Willow}}
'''Cooking''' is the process of turning raw [[Food]] into cooked, or otherwise improved, food which, in general, adds a [[Health]] bonus and sometimes improves their [[Hunger]] or [[Sanity]] benefits as well. There are three types of cooking: [[Fire]], [[Drying Rack]], and [[Crock Pot]].

Cooking food also reduces the [[spoilage]] of food. Fire and Crock Pot reduces spoilage by half (e.g. turning 20% fresh food back to 60% fresh), while Drying Rack completely removes spoilage.

==Cooking Stations==
[[File:Fire.png|frame|A Fire Pit.]]
[[File:Star Cooking.png|frame|Cooking with a Dwarf Star.]]
Cooking food on a [[Campfire]], a [[Fire Pit]] or a [[Dwarf Star]] is the most basic cooking method. To cook food, simply click on it, bring it to a burning Campfire, Fire Pit, or Dwarf Star and click again when the prompt shows up. Once a food has been cooked, it will be replaced in the inventory with its cooked counterpart. For example, a [[Morsel]] becomes a Cooked Morsel, and a [[Carrot]] becomes a Roasted Carrot. Cooked [[Meats]] generally spoil slower, while cooked Fruits and [[Vegetable]]s generally spoil faster. There is no difference between cooking on any of the fires.

In the ''[[Shipwrecked]]'' DLC, it is also possible to cook food on a [[Chiminea]], a [[Buoyant Chiminea]], an [[Obsidian Fire Pit]], a [[Lava Pool]] or an erupting [[Krissure]].

In the ''[[Hamlet]]'' DLC, it is also possible to cook food on [[Crumbling Brazier]] and [[Wall Brazier]].

In ''[[Don't Starve Together]]'', it's also possible to cook on the [[Scaled Furnace]], [[Willow's Lighter]], [[Extra-Adorable Lavae]], and [[Magma]] Pools. [[Willow]], [[Warly]] and [[Walter]] only take half as long (0.5 seconds) as other Characters (1 second) to cook food.

Some [[Fruits]] and Vegetables are generally better consumed cooked than used as ingredients in [[Crock Pot]]. Notable examples:
* {{pic32|Braised Eggplant}} [[Braised Eggplant]] [+20 [[File:HealthMeter.png|24px]] +25 [[File:HungerMeter.png|24px]]] &ndash; provides 17 more health and 3.125 more hunger
* {{pic32|Sliced Pomegranate}} [[Sliced Pomegranate]] [+20 [[File:HealthMeter.png|24px]] +12.5 [[File:HungerMeter.png|24px]]] &ndash; provides 12 more health
* {{pic32|Hot Pumpkin}} [[Hot Pumpkin]] [+8 [[File:HealthMeter.png|24px]] +37.5 [[File:HungerMeter.png|24px]]] &ndash; provides 5 more health

On the other hand, some Vegetables are best consumed raw:

*[[Corn]] {{pic32|Corn}} [+3 [[File:HealthMeter.png|24px]] +25 [[File:HungerMeter.png|24px]]] becomes Popcorn {{pic32|Popcorn}} [+3 [[File:HealthMeter.png|24px]] +12.5 [[File:HungerMeter.png|24px]]] when cooked.

==Drying Rack==
[[File:Lotsafood.jpg|thumb|Some of the raw food items on the left of their cooked counterpart. Three types of jerky can be seen as well.]]
[[File:DryingRack.jpg|thumb|A Morsel attached to a Drying Rack.]]
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While not exactly cooking in the full sense of the word, 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 and Sanity bonus than its raw or cooked counterparts.

In the ''Shipwrecked'' DLC, it is also possible to dry [[Seaweed]], [[Jellyfish]] and [[Rainbow Jellyfish]].

In the ''Hamlet'' DLC, it is also possible to dry [[Poison Dartfrog Legs]] and [[Flytrap Stalk]].

The Foods which can be dried are listed below:
{{Drying Rack List}}

==Crock Pot==
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[[File:CrockPot.png|thumb|150px]]
Cooking foods using the Crock Pot can [[Crock Pot#Crock Pot recipes|combine them into a more ample dish]]. The Crock Pot requires 4 accepted (some foods such as [[Seeds]] cannot be added) items to be combined to produce a dish. Some recipes require or allow for non-foods to be added (most recipes accept twigs as filler). Recipes sometimes produce a dish with a greater Hunger/Health/Sanity bonus than all the ingredients combined. Keep in mind Crock Pots don't always improve the nutritional value of what's put into them, look at [[Wet Goop]] or the [[Powdercake]] as examples. 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. In the ''Shipwrecked'' DLC, [[Warly]] brings an exclusive [[Portable Crock Pot]], that can be used to cook four additional recipes.

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