Outward – Efficient Cooking Tips & Tricks

Tips and Tricks for Efficient Cooking

• You can cook single ingredients on any campfire but need a cooking pot or a kitchen to combine multiple ingredients.

• Your character does not need to know a recipe to cook it if you yourself know. Just use the Manual Recipe feature. Once you’ve done it once, your character will remember it.

• Food only rots when you are actively carrying it on your person. Dropping it on the floor, leaving it in a pack that you are not wearing, or putting it into your stash keeps it from rotting.

• Any recipe that says things like “any meat” or “any fish,” etc., includes cooked items too. So, you don’t have to carry around Raw Meat, for example—feel free to cook it on a campfire to preserve it for longer or to consume it in an emergency, and it will still be okay to use in such a recipe the next time you get to a kitchen or a cooking pot.

• Not unlike the food effects of the same type—i.e., health recovery, stamina recovery, etc.—they don’t stack, and overriding existing food effects seems inconsistent. It’s best to just wait until the previous effect has worn off rather than trying to extend it by eating something that grants the same effect type.

However, food does stack with things like Bandages, drinking Clean Water, and probably potions, and you can have different effect types from different food at the same time just fine.

• If you cook the ingredient all by itself, such as over a campfire with no cooking pot, its positive effect will not change, along with the weight and monetary value of the ingredient.

It just removes possible negative effects, resets its current decay, and the new cooked version will decay slower. If you don’t specifically need the raw version for a recipe later, you might as well cook it, except for beetles and seaweed, which can’t be cooked alone.

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