Cooking Guide

Frying

• Place a Frying Pan or Frying Pan (Makeshift) on a Stove or powered Portable Stove.
  • The Office Sector cafeteria has an Industrial Stove with a single useable cooktop. Stoves in other locations require a Reinforced Hose and a Screwdriver or Pipe Wrench to repair.
• Equip the raw food and place it in the pan. It will then start cooking.
• Once the food is cooked, remove it from the stove. Leaving it there for too long will cause it to overcook, becoming burned.
  • Burned food restores minimal hunger and depletes thirst.

List of Fried Food

Raw	Cooked	Cook Time
Raw Carbuncle	Cooked Carbuncle	0:50
Raw Pest	Cooked Pest	0:45
Raw Pest Rump	Cooked Pest Rump	1:00
Raw Peccary Chop	Cooked Peccary Chop	1:10
Raw Peccary Sausages	Cooked Peccary Sausages	1:20
Raw Alien Drumstick	Cooked Alien Drumstick	1:20
Raw Exor Heart	Cooked Exor Heart	1:20
Egg	Cooked Fried Egg	0:20
Antecheese Sandwich	Antecheese Toastie	1:00
Raw Egg & Peccary Tartine	Cooked Egg & Peccary Tartine	0:30

Soup

• Cooking level 3 is required to make soup. Fry food to increase the skill.
  • Some Jobs provide a bonus to Cooking, specifically Epimedical Bionomicist (+1), Phytogenetic Botanist (+2), and Somatic Gastrologist (+4).
  • The Hobbyist Chef Trait doubles Cooking XP.
• Find a Cooking Pot or craft a Cooking Pot (Makeshift).
• Fill the pot with clean Water, commonly collected from Water Coolers or Sinks while holding the empty pot.
  • Alternatively, a Water Bottle can be used to add water to the pot.
  • A pot of Tainted Water can be boiled to create clean Water.
  • Antejuice is a suitable alternative to water.
• Place the filled pot on a stove powered by electricity. Ingredients can now be added to the pot.
• If the ingredients match a valid recipe, the name will change and the recipe is added to the Soup Recipes tab in the Compendium. Otherwise, it will remain an Unknown Soup until it finishes cooking.
  • The soup created as a result of not following a recipe depends on the ingredients added. In most cases, it will become Bad Soup.
  • If a recipe requires a Super Tomato but a Tomato is used instead, the proper recipe will be added when the soup finishes cooking, despite resulting in Bad Soup.
• When the soup is done cooking, the pot will have a lid and "Uncooked" will be removed from the soup name. Remove the pot from the stove and place it down as a deployable.
• A Soup Bowl must be equipped to take a portion of soup from the pot. The soup can then be consumed from the Soup Bowl while equipped.
  • Interacting with a placed pot of soup without a Soup Bowl unlocks its crafting recipe.

List of Soups

Most soups produce four portions, and each portion has two servings.

The hunger and thirst fill values listed are per-serving. Most have decimal values, which are truncated here (as they are in-game) for better readability. See the individual item pages for the exact values.

Effective Soups

Name	Ingredients	Effect(s)	Hunger Fill	Thirst Fill	Portions	Cook Time
Bland Pea Soup		Lightfooted	9	21	4	2:00
Split Pea Soup		Souper Satisfied	14	21	4	2:00
Pest Goulash		Souper Satisfied	11	16	4	2:00
Meaty Stew		Heightened Senses	26	16	4	2:00
Simple Tomato Soup		Souper Satisfied	9	22	4	2:00
Creamy Tomato Bisque		Souper Satisfied	9	37	4	2:00
Veggie Stew		Living Off the Land	17	24	4	2:00
Sustenance Soup		Quick Reflexes	18	16	4	2:00
Sweet Porridge		Sweet Tooth	10	24	4	2:00
Sugary Slop		Sugar High	18	17	4	2:00
Mashed Potatoes		Souper Satisfied	5	33	4	2:00
Potato and Sausage Stew		Souper Satisfied	20	17	4	2:00
Hearty Stew		Souper Satisfied Bodacious	23	23	4	2:00
Balanced Stew		Big Brain	10	17	4	2:00
Peccary Stew			21	23	4	2:00
A&L Mega-Stew		Mega-Ante	37	16	4	2:00
Greyeb Chowder		Desire of the Flesh	12	42	4	2:00
Carbuncle N' Dumplings		Souper Satisfied	23	21	4	2:00
Homey Pasta			33	22	4	2:00

Some recipes do not create soups, but are used to make items instead. These items are collected directly from the pot, without requiring a Soup Bowl.

Utility Soups

Name	Ingredients	Item Produced	Amount	Cook Time
Alien Cheese Curds		Ripening Alien Cheese Wheel	1	2:00
Glue		Giga Glue	4	2:40
Solder (Soup)		Solder (Material)	4	5:50

When a soup is made that does not match one of the valid recipes above, one of the following soups will be created. The exact result depends on the ingredients. A soup containing any one of the listed ingredients will create the applicable soup.

Ineffective Soups

Name	Possible Ingredients	Effect(s)	Hunger Fill	Thirst Fill	Portions	Cook Time
Bad Soup	Anything other than the harmful ingredients below	Sick (50% chance)	10	16	2	2:00
Poop Soup	Bag of Feces (sole ingredient)	Sick Stinky	3	20	4	1:00
Toxic Soup	Plastic Scrap Giga Glue Bag of Feces	Sick	15	20	4	2:00
Killer Soup	Glass Scrap Tech Scrap Metal Scrap 9mm Ammo .357 Magnum Ammo 12g Buckshot Leyak Essence	Death	15	20	4	2:00

Baking

• Reaching Cooking skill level 10 unlocks the crafting recipes for the Convection Oven and Raw Dough.

List of Baked Food

Raw	Cooked	Cook Time
Raw Dough	Bread	5:00
Potato	Cooked Baked Potato	2:00
Raw Pestato	Cooked Pestato	0:10
Raw Fries	Cooked Fries	0:45
Raw Stuffed Roast Peccary	Cooked Stuffed Roast Peccary	0:10

Some foods can be divided into six individual portions after baking.

Whole (Raw)	Whole (Cooked)	Piece	Cook Time
Raw Simple Pest Pie	Baked Simple Pest Pie	Slice of Simple Pest Pie	3:20
Raw Pest Pot Pie	Pest Pot Pie	Slice of Pest Pot Pie	3:20
Raw Creepy Meat Pie	Creepy Meat Pie	Slice of Creepy Meat Pie	3:20
Raw Gumdrop Cookie Tray	Gumdrop Cookie Tray	Gumdrop Cookie	1:40
Raw Carbuncle Casserole	Carbuncle Casserole	Slice of Carbuncle Casserole	3:20
Raw Pekkie Brekkie Hash	Pekkie Brekkie Hash	Slice of Pekkie Brekkie Hash	1:30
Raw Carbuncle Pizza	Carbuncle Pizza	Slice of Carbuncle Pizza	6:40
Raw Glowing Gâteau	Glowing Gâteau	Slice of Glowing Gâteau	3:20