Please note this Guide is a Work in Progress.
== Welcome to cooking Cooking with Blacklotus ==
==== The Tools of the Trade ====
[[Knife]], [[Spoon]], [[Fork]], [[Mortar and pestle]], [[Butchering Knife]], [[Measuring jug]], [[Grindstone]]
'''Extra notes: Baking stone and Mortar and Pestle both require marble to create. If you're a new player or don't have marble available I strongly suggest asking in trade or freedom for marble or these items to get you going. If you do have marble available you can mine that at any skill level and attempt to make one or both of these valuable tools. You don't absolutely require them but I strongly suggest getting one or both if you have the chance.'''
== Tutorial ==
==== Recipe 1: Bread ====
'''(Because this requires a baking stone if you do not have one you can skip this recipe and an alternative will be provided below.)'''
The first step in cooking is learning how the different processes work. In this Recipe you learn about preparing basic ingredients before turning them into a final product, and you will be learning about 'lore'.
For our purposes we will be using a campfire for all of our cooking recipes.
To begin with, you will take your grindstone and make it the active item. With it you'll right click one of the grains Cereals you got ready earlier and create Flour.
The next step is turning flour into Dough. This is accomplished by using water in your inventory on the Flour and create -> Dough.
In Recipe 2: Casserole (Bread) we will be looking at the layout of a common recipe, and the different things involved in it.
'''(If you did not have the baking stone and skipped Recipe 1: Bread. Please switch to using the recipe 'Casserole (Herb)' instead and simply do not include the bread.)'''
To start open your cookbook and find Casserole (bread) it will show the following:
Welcome to Recipe 3: Meals.
In your Previous Lessons you learned how to create more valuable ingredients from things found throughout Wurm Online. You have learned how to use 'Lore' to check your recipes and learned how an ingredient is prepared matters. To Continue this lesson it is suggested you have a minimum [[Hot food cooking]] skill of 10. Meals cook at your skill level and food under 10ql is generally not edible.
To Continue this lesson it is suggested you have a [[Hot Food Cooking]] skill of 10 or more.
To begin, you will need to chop your Remaining 5 Vegetables and Herbs. These can be added to your a Frying Pan as well as your remaining loaf of bread and continue to the next step.
In the beginning I asked you to collect either 1 piece of Meat, or 1 Fish.
Look into your cookbook and find Meal. In the known cookbook you'll see 3 different recipes, Meal (Meat), Meal (Fish), and Meal (fish fillet)
You have the tools to create each one of these recipes. Meat can be processed like veggies, by dicing it, and then once it's Diced Meat, you can process that into Minced Meat in the same way.
For Fish, you don't have to do anything extra, but if your fish is large enough, you can use a butchering knife to fillet it.
Fish Fillet can be chopped.
Once you've chosen your desired recipe follow the same steps as when we made casserole. Add your chosen protein into the frying pan and use lore to check your meal. Once it's showing your chosen meal, place the frying pan into the lit campfire to cook it.
You have completed Recipe 3: Meals.
= Notes =
Improving your cooking pans and tools will help in producing higher quality results. The benefit is small but when it comes to feeding yourself for the first time, every bit helps.
There are many recipes in Wurm Online. The Author has so far discovered over 649 recipes and suspects there to be more. Each one can be made many different ways. Even the recipes listed above can use other ingredients not mentioned there are loads of things to discover in your cooking journey. Experiment, try things, have fun and may you find all the nutrition your looking for.