Find a cook
Cook Hessa works in the Cooking Guild, Payon's kitchen (the door at 223,117), where the Provisioner sells meat, milk, vegetables, fruit and pet food. There is a cook at the inn in Prontera, Payon, Geffen, Morroc, Alberta, Al De Baran and Hugel, and a camp cook at Mera's camp on the Payon field. The Cooking Guild's Kitchen Steward posts one small work order a day.
Ask a cook to cook one or five of a dish, or choose Open the kitchen. You can also open the kitchen from your profession journal (Ctrl+P), but it only cooks while you stand near a cook.
The kitchen window
The kitchen shows your cooking level and experience, the meal in effect, your next perk, and every recipe with its effect and the ingredients you carry. Locked recipes show the level they need, and blueprint recipes are marked until you learn them from an Old Blueprint.
Cooking levels
Cooking has levels 1 to 50. Each dish you cook earns experience, more for harder recipes and less for recipes you have long outgrown. If you cooked before levels arrived, those earlier meals already count.
| Level | Perk |
|---|---|
| 10 | Practiced Hands: cook ten at once |
| 20 | Second Helping: sometimes an extra serving |
| 35 | Generous Ladle: extra servings more often |
| 50 | Master Cook: the title, and extra servings most often |
One meal at a time
Eating a dish makes you Well Fed. A new meal replaces the one in effect, so pick the meal that suits the outing. Well Fed is saved with your character and ends if you fall. The Honeyed Fish Treat is for pets and does not count as your meal.
Recipes
| Level | Dish | Effect | Ingredients |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverside Fish Stew | STR +2, 25 min | Fresh Fish, Meat, Carrot |
| 1 | Honey-Glazed Carp | AGI +2, 25 min | 2 Raw Fish, Honey, Banana |
| 1 | Mushroom Fish Broth | INT +2, 25 min | Fresh Fish, 2 Mushroom Spore, Milk |
| 1 | Spiced Fish Skewers | DEX +2, 25 min | 2 Raw Fish, Red Herb, Potato |
| 1 | Watchman's Ration | Steady HP recovery while answering or hunting a Lantern Watch call, 30 min | Raw Fish, Meat, Potato |
| 1 | Breaker's Feast | Your first blow in each fight earns a Boost Point, 25 min | Fresh Fish, Meat, Honey, Apple |
| 1 | Forager's Pie | Mining, fishing and surveying go 10% faster, 30 min | Fresh Fish, Mushroom Spore, Potato |
| 1 | Honeyed Fish Treat | A pet treat worth even more intimacy than Grilled Fish | Grilled Fish, Honey, Pet Food |
| 1 (blueprint) | Pearl Chowder | LUK +3, 30 min | River Pearl, Fresh Fish, 2 Clam Shell, Milk |
| 1 (blueprint) | Hearthstone Stew | VIT +3, 30 min | 2 Fresh Fish, 2 Meat, Carrot |
| 5 | Moon Loach Dumplings | HIT +10, 25 min | Moon Loach, Egg, Potato |
| 5 | Meadow Perch Salad | FLEE +10, 25 min | Meadow Perch, 2 Green Herb, Carrot |
| 10 | Spring Smelt Fritters | AGI +1, DEX +1, 25 min | 2 Spring Smelt, Egg, Potato |
| 15 | Sunfish Skewers | STR +1, Critical +3, 25 min | 2 Summer Sunfish, Lemon, Banana |
| 15 | Spellscale Pepper Pot | INT +1, Max SP +5%, 25 min | Spellscale Pike, Red Herb, Milk |
| 20 | Redfin Harvest Stew | VIT +1, INT +1, 25 min | Autumn Redfin, 2 Mushroom Spore, Carrot |
| 20 | Whitefish Chowder | HP recovery +25%, 30 min | Ice Whitefish, Clam Flesh, Milk |
| 25 | Stormfin Gar Grill | DEX +2, HIT +5, 25 min | Stormfin Gar, Fish Oil, Carrot |
| 25 | Glacial Char Tartare | VIT +2, Water resistance +10%, 25 min | Glacial Char, Lemon, Apple |
| 30 | Spirit-Eel Lantern Soup | 10% less damage from Undead, 30 min | Spirit-Eel, Holy Water, Carrot |
| 30 | Catfish Curry | STR +3, 30 min | River Catfish, Shrimp, Red Herb, Potato |
| 35 | Lantern Carp Mooncake | INT +3, 30 min | Lantern Carp, Honey, Milk |
| 35 | Gearworks Fish Fry | AGI +3, 30 min | Rustfin Pike, Brassgill Loach, Fish Oil, Potato |
| 40 | Snowmelt Salmon Plank | DEX +3, 30 min | Snowmelt Salmon, Honey, Thin Trunk, Apple |
| 45 | Sturgeon Banquet | All stats +1, 30 min | Sturgeon, River Pearl, Meat, Apple |
Where meals matter
- Stat meals are a small, steady edge for a long hunt, and especially welcome in the hard campaign.
- Watchman's Ration keeps you on your feet through a Lantern Watch hunt.
- Breaker's Feast gets your first Boost Point flowing at the start of each fight.
- Forager's Pie speeds up a gathering session.
- Every cooked dish counts toward your guild's expeditions at the Expedition Quartermaster.