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Cooking is the process of turning raw food -- such as meat collected by hunting wild animals or produce grown via horticulture -- into prepared food using a variety of methods, and is one of the main sources of energy for people surviving in the wilderness.
Players are able to utilize a variety of cooking methods, all of which are accomplished with one of three tools:
Long Wooden Stick
Cooking Pot
Frying Pan
Choice of cooking method will depend upon available resources, tools at the player's disposal, and their end goal for using the cooked food.
Contents
1 Why Cook?
2 What to Cook
3 How to Cook
3.1 Method 1: Long Wooden Stick
3.2 Method 2: Cooking Pot
3.2.1 Cooking Methods:
3.3 Method 3: Frying Pan
3.3.1 Cooking Methods:
4 Visual Examples
5 Media
6 See Also
Why Cook?
The process of converting raw food into other states has several purposes behind it, but the primary drive to do so is making the food more useful to players. For meat, that means killing potential diseases to make it safe for consumption; for produce, preventing it from rotting and becoming unsafe to eat after sitting too long.
Food typically has varying nutritional value between its different states, meaning that certain ways of preparing it will have advantages over others in regards to energy, water, volume, or all of the above.
Overcooking food, regardless of what is being cooked and the method used, will result in the food becoming burned. Burned food is essentially a waste, because it cannot be eaten without making the person sick.
What to Cook
Players are able to cook most fruits, vegetables, and meat. Fruits and vegetables can be cooked whole with the exception of the Pumpkin, which must first be cut into slices. Animals are not able to be cooked whole either, meaning players must first skin the animal to obtain meat which can be cooked.
A complete list of cook-able items can be found below.
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Fruits & Vegetables
Apple
Pear
Plum
Elderberries
Green Pepper
Potato
Pumpkin Slices
Rose Hips
Tomato
Zucchini
Meat
Boar Steak
Carp Fillet
Chicken Breast
Cow Steak
Deer Steak
Fox Steak (not implemented as at patch 1.06)
Goat Steak
Human Steak
Mackerel Fillet
Pig Steak
Rabbit Leg (not implemented as at patch 1.06)
Sheep Steak
Wolf Steak
Other
Animal Fat
How to Cook
Method 1: Long Wooden Stick
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Note:
This is the simplest but slowest method of Cooking in DayZ and results in the food items becoming Baked. This is the only possible state that can be achieved with this method.
This method leaves the player vulnerable whilst cooking because you have to sit and stay still whilst the item cooks as you hold it.
House Fireplaces have 1-3 cooking slots attached so the Stick method may be unnecessary unless you want to cook more items than the Fireplace allows.
Note: House fireplaces with 1 cooking slot do NOT allow this cooking method as at Patch 1.08.
Obtain a Long Wooden Stick by using a Knife to cut one from a bush or interacting with a bush with empty hands (using empty hands can cause bleeding if unlucky and damages gloves).
Combine a long wooden stick with a Knife to sharpen it.
Put the Stick in your empty hands and attach the food to be cooked in order to prepare it for cooking. Only one item at a time can be cooked this way.
A Fire of some sort is necessary to then cook the food. Either build your own or use one of the natural Fireplaces found inside of certain houses.
Place stick in hand with food item attached, stand close to the fire and then select the option 'Roast' to do the action described. Your character will sit and hold the stick in place while the action is being performed.
Click and hold until the Cooking circle fills one revolution (approximately 1m30sec) and the item changes state visibly. Do not hold click on the circle for too long past the first revolution or you risk Burning your food.
Remove the Food item from the stick and enjoy consuming or cook another piece.
Method 2: Cooking Pot
Note:
When cooking with Water in the Pot, it purifies the water within which can then be drunk straight from the Pot or poured into Plastic Bottle, Canteens or a Leather Bottle without Cholera risks.
To empty a Pot of Water for a cooking method, put the Pot in your hands, look at your feet and choose the 'Empty Pot' option.
Food items and Pots retain heat when cooked and if stored in clothing or inventory on the Upper/Lower body can be used to keep a player warm. Be wary of overheating!
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While it does have to be found as loot rather than being gathered practically anywhere as a resource like the Long Wooden Stick: the Cooking Pot is arguably far more versatile, making it worth your time (and Inventory space as it can store items within itself) to carry one around if you plan to cook regularly. It can be used in conjunction with a Portable Gas Stove, any kind of advanced Fireplace found in houses, player-created Stone Ovens, or alongside a Cooking Tripod.
