This means that your character can eat ruined cooked meat or any other ruined food once you reach this level, which is good since no meat will go to waste. With this level, you'll obtain 25% more calories from cooked items, won't lose calories when smashing open cans, the cooking time will be reduced by 30%, the food will be ready 20% faster, and you'll never get parasites or food poisoning from food.

Level 5 is the final level and requires you to have 350 Skill Points.

Level 4 requires 150 Skill Points, but you'll get 20% more calories from a cooked item, you won't lose calories when smashing open cans, the cooking time will be reduced by 20%, and the food will be ready 20% faster.

You can now bring up these options by interacting.

Level 3 requires 75 Skill Points and will give you 15% more calories from any cooked food item you won't lose calories when smashing open cans, and it'll require 10% less time to cook things. In Dec 2018, the way Survivors interact with fires to cook food, melt snow, and boil water was updated.

which turns them dark brown or black and intensifies their flavor. Likely wrong on that, just comes from personal experience. Brown short grain varieties are also available and are ideal for long, slow cooking. That means you can conserve raw meat for about a day before cooking it.

Level 2 requires 25 Skill Points, and you'll receive +10% calories from any item you cook iirc, if you cook a piece of meat at 51 condition or higher, the cooked meat will always come out to 100.

Level 1 requires 0 Skill Points, and it's just the base level for this skill.

Moreover, each different level of the Cooking Skill will give you different benefits and effects.

Getting bonuses from drinking hot beverages This is when your character's Cooking Skill will become pivotal for surviving the game's harsh environments since cooking raw food will offer many benefits like: It'll take some trial and error to know what works best with each prey, but after successfully catching or trapping something, the work isn't over since you'll have to cook the meat you just got.

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