Guides:Cooking With Mamadarkness
see Cooking for a general overview
This is my skillgain information.
Basically my main grind is for soul depth, but you can do that by cooking up stew/meals.
Cooking Guide
You will want a few forges with frying pans in each (some people use 10 forges with 1000 frying pans) Pre-Load all the pans with meat/veggies (anyone can load the pans) Make sure the character who you want skillgain to be the one who put the pans in the forge. Turn on sleep bonus Light the forges
When all cooked, turn off sleep bonus. (for me 1 kindling is enough and no additional fuel is required. All cooks in 4 minutes, so wait one more minute and turn off SB)
I have had it happen where the wrong character gets the gains, if using a different loader I cycle the pans through my cooker inventory before lighting.
Skillgain Summary
It takes about 1700 cooks to get up to 50 skill and approx 4100 to 70 HFC skill You are limited only by your available resources
Skillgain Actuals
Here is some actual data. Note that I mostly have made stew since it gave me more skillgain per unit than meals. It could be that making meal difficulty higher will compensate, but for grinding skill I do not mess with putting 3 or 4 types of items in one pan. I would rather just cook more qty. Most recent cooking over 70 skill is having meals with more HFC gains, I will keep updating. Note that garlic and meat in a frying pan makes stew.
Also of note is the Soul Depth Gains. Stew still seems better for that.
| Type | Difficulty | Type | Amount | HFC Start | HFC End | HFC Gain | HFC Gain / Unit | SD Start | SD End | SD Gain | SD Gain / Unit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Interpolated | 31 | 1 | 4.99 | 3.99 | 0.1287 | ||||||
| Rye + filet of cooked meat | 4 (Oven) | Stew | 95 | 4.99 | 17.17 | 12.18 | 0.1282 | 22.47 | 22.54 | 0.07 | 0.00074 |
| Onion + Fish | 4 (Oven) | Stew | 94 | 17.17 | 23.16 | 5.99 | 0.0637 | 22.577 | 22.658 | 0.081 | 0.00086 |
| Corn + Fish | 27 (Oven) | Meal | 94 | 23.16 | 26.09 | 2.93 | 0.0312 | 22.66 | 22.726 | 0.066 | 0.0007 |
| Rye + Fish | 4 (Oven) | Stew | 94 | 26.09 | 29.73 | 3.64 | 0.0387 | 22.727 | 22.806 | 0.079 | 0.00084 |
| Pumpkin + Fish | 30 (Oven) | Meal | 22 | 29.73 | 30.24 | 0.51 | 0.0232 | 22.806 | 22.814 | 0.008 | 0.00036 |
| Onion + meat | 4 (Oven) | Stew | 94 | 30.24 | 32.22 | 1.98 | 0.0211 | 22.876 | 22.933 | 0.057 | 0.00061 |
| Rye + meat | 4 (Oven) | Stew | 94 | 32.22 | 34.68 | 2.46 | 0.0262 | 22.955627 | 23.03488 | 0.0793 | 0.00084 |
| Rye + meat | 4 (Oven) | Stew | 94 | 34.68 | 36.89 | 2.21 | 0.0235 | 23.04 | 23.1258 | 0.0858 | 0.00091 |
| Rye + meat | 4 (Oven) | Stew | 94 | 36.89 | 38.91 | 2.02 | 0.0215 | 23.142 | 23.234 | 0.092 | 0.00098 |
| Rye + meat | 4 (Oven) | Stew | 94 | 38.91 | 40.99 | 2.08 | 0.0221 | 23.234 | 23.3156 | 0.0816 | 0.00087 |
| Rye + meat | 4 (Oven) | Stew | 94 | 40.99 | 42.81 | 1.82 | 0.0194 | 23.3156 | 23.388 | 0.0724 | 0.00077 |
| Rye + meat | 4 (Oven) | Stew | 94 | 42.81 | 44.37 | 1.56 | 0.0166 | 23.388 | 23.464 | 0.076 | 0.00081 |
| Pumpkin + meat | meal | 55 | 44.37 | 45.05 | 0.68 | 0.0124 | 23.464 | 23.506 | 0.042 | 0.00076 | |
| Corn + Fish | 27 (Oven) | meal | 94 | 45.05 | 46.25 | 1.2 | 0.0128 | 23.680998 | 23.742262 | 0.0613 | 0.00065 |
| Garlic + Fish | 14 | Stew | 100 | 46.25 | 47.75 | 1.5 | 0.015 | 24.214 | 24.2945 | 0.0805 | 0.00081 |
| Garlic + Fish | 14 | Stew | 100 | 47.75 | 49.25 | 1.5 | 0.015 | 24.2945 | 24.365 | 0.0705 | 0.00071 |
| Garlic + Fish | 14 | Stew | 100 | 49.25 | 50.41 | 1.16 | 0.0116 | 24.365 | 24.4438 | 0.0788 | 0.00079 |
| Potato + Fish | 37 | Meal | 156 | 50.41 | 51.79 | 1.38 | 0.0088 | 24.47 | 24.537 | 0.067 | 0.00043 |
| Garlic + Fish | 14 | Stew | 168 | 51.79 | 53.517 | 1.73 | 0.0103 | 24.537111 | 24.6578 | 0.1207 | 0.00072 |
| Garlic + Fish | 14 | Stew | 168 | 53.517 | 55.476 | 1.96 | 0.0117 | 24.6578 | 24.7838 | 0.126 | 0.00075 |
| Garlic + Fish | 14 | Stew | 204 | 55.48 | 57.66 | 2.18 | 0.0107 | 24.87101 | 25 | 0.129 | 0.00063 |
| Garlic + Fish | 14 | Stew | 100 | 57.66 | 58.533 | 0.87 | 0.0087 | 25.03 | 25.0893 | 0.0593 | 0.00059 |
| Garlic + Fish | 14 | Stew | 280 | 58.53 | 61.07 | 2.54 | 0.0091 | 25.687 | 25.885 | 0.198 | 0.00071 |
| Garlic + Fish | 14 | Stew | 264 | 61.07 | 63.14 | 2.07 | 0.0078 | 25.885 | 26.0759 | 0.1909 | 0.00072 |
| Garlic + Fish | 14 | Stew | 264 | 63.14 | 65.03 | 1.89 | 0.0072 | 26.0759 | 26.27 | 0.1941 | 0.00074 |
| Garlic + Fish | 14 | Stew | 264 | 65.03 | 66.71 | 1.68 | 0.0064 | 26.35 | 26.54 | 0.19 | 0.00072 |
| interpolated | 41 | 66.71 | 66.95 | 0.24 | 0.0059 | 0 | |||||
| Potato + Meat | 37 | Meal | 264 | 66.95 | 68.51 | 1.56 | 0.0059 | 26.8859 | 27.024 | 0.1381 | 0.00052 |
| Corn + Meat | 37 | Meal | 351 | 68.51 | 70.54 | 2.03 | 0.0058 | 27.074753 | 27.23 | 0.1552 | 0.00044 |
| Garlic + Fish | 14 | Stew | 352 | 70.54 | 72.21 | 1.67 | 0.0047 | 27.337 | 27.584 | 0.247 | 0.0007 |
| Corn + Fish | 37 | Meal | 351 | 72.21 | 73.87 | 1.66 | 0.0047 | 27.59 | 27.7389 | 0.1489 | 0.00042 |
| Corn + Meat | 37 | Meal | 88 | 73.87 | 74.32 | 0.45 | 0.0051 | 27.95149 | 27.988955 | 0.0375 | 0.00043 |
| Garlic + Meat | 37 | Stew | 352 | 74.32 | 75.56 | 1.24 | 0.0035 | 28.154915 | 28.38768 | 0.2328 | 0.00066 |
| Corn + Meat | 37 | Meal | 352 | 75.56 | 77.04 | 1.48 | 0.0042 | 28.38768 | 28.55282 | 0.1651 | 0.00047 |
| Garlic + Meat | 14 | Stew | 352 | 77.041878 | 78.143608 | 1.1 | 0.0031 | 28.756746 | 28.970795 | 0.214 | 0.00061 |
NOTE: gains are based on different amounts of cooking at one time, use the gain per unit column
