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Guides/Cooking for Dummies
The Foundation of this Guide
Cooking in ATITD is great. It gives you stats! Who doesn't want to be able to run faster, carry more, or get more from a hookah? Everyone should be able to do it.
People who want to learn to cook are most commonly referred to the Recipes page, [[ ]] These pages will tell you all about the basics of cooking
This approach would perhaps be better called food science, since it is very involved in the science you need to create recipes. But creating recipes is not cooking; cooking is throwing some food in a pot to make a meal. To make an omelette, I don't need to know the science of an egg's albumin breakdown; I just need to know that for a country omelette, I hardly stir my eggs in the pan at all, and for a classic French omelette, I stir them almost constantly as they cook. (Thanks, | Jacques Pippin!)
Food Science is absolutely necessary for recipe creation -- and thank God we have people who do this clever work or we'd all starve. (While jogging very slowly.) But most of us do not start out (or ever get to) creating new recipes; we cook from existing recipes on the Wiki. This guide is for the budding cook who just wants to be able to throw some things together in a pot, feed some people, and not kill them in the process.
Step 1: Get Some Cooking Skills
You cannot use a kitchen until you have the Cooking skill. Your cooking level (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, or 7) determines how many ingredients you can cook with.
Step 2: Ready, Set, SINK!
Before you eat any meal, you must first eat a helping of Sink Food. Why? Because if you don't, Bad Things Happen when you eat your meal.
Step 5: This Has All Gone Horribly, Horribly Wrong
If you suddenly can't carry anything or can barely move or something else unexpected has happened, it is likely your recipe proportions were wrong. (Unless you're making up your own recipes, in which case it is likely your food pairings were wrong, and since I don't even know what that really means, I can't help you.)
Eat your sink food or eat some grilled cabbage to reset your stats. Throw the pot of bad food against the wall and start over. Welcome to the joy of cooking!
