Cooking
Cooking allows you to prepare food.
Cooking food requires a mix of meats and ingredients placed over a range or fire. A meal feeds 4 people. If you wish to feed more, you must make another batch for every 4 people you attempt to feed.
Food prepared using Cooking can be sold, traded, or eaten only if it's still fresh. A meal is considered fresh within 24 hours of being cooked. Food can be preserved for longer by cooled. Also, to be sold or traded, a meal cannot have been eaten from prior.
Having a higher Cooking level will allow you to create more valuable meals.
Cooking Process
You can cook twice per long rest. This activity takes 2 hours. Eating a meal requires another hour to consume, after the preparation process has been completed.
To cook any meal, you must already have the required ingredients for it. You must have access to an open flame or a cooking range to prepare food.
Sometimes, a chef prepares a meal so skillfully, that meal tastes of a finer quality. When you successfully cook an item, roll percentile dice. If you roll a 95% or higher, then the meal you made increases by one tier of the same type.
If the meal cannot increase by a tier and the item bestows temporary hit points, increase the number bestowed by +2. If the meal cannot increase by a tier and the item adds a bonus to your skill checks or saving throws, increase the bonus to a +4.
Cooking food requires a mix of meats and ingredients placed over a range or fire. A meal feeds 4 people. If you wish to feed more, you must make another batch for every 4 people you attempt to feed.
Food prepared using Cooking can be sold, traded, or eaten only if it's still fresh. A meal is considered fresh within 24 hours of being cooked. Food can be preserved for longer by cooled. Also, to be sold or traded, a meal cannot have been eaten from prior.
Having a higher Cooking level will allow you to create more valuable meals.
Cooking Process
You can cook twice per long rest. This activity takes 2 hours. Eating a meal requires another hour to consume, after the preparation process has been completed.
To cook any meal, you must already have the required ingredients for it. You must have access to an open flame or a cooking range to prepare food.
Sometimes, a chef prepares a meal so skillfully, that meal tastes of a finer quality. When you successfully cook an item, roll percentile dice. If you roll a 95% or higher, then the meal you made increases by one tier of the same type.
If the meal cannot increase by a tier and the item bestows temporary hit points, increase the number bestowed by +2. If the meal cannot increase by a tier and the item adds a bonus to your skill checks or saving throws, increase the bonus to a +4.
- Roll a Sleight of Hand or an Acrobatics skill check. If your roll equals or exceeds the DC of the meal, you cook the item.
- You gain Cooking XP equal to the level of the item you cook + your Cooking level (If you fail to cook the item, you gain 1d4-1 XP instead, and you burn the food. All ingredients used to prepare that item are still consumed; burnt food is useless and cannot be sold).
Career
Qualifications
To start Cooking you will need at least:
- 14 DEX
- Cook's Utensils (1gp – PHB page 154) are needed to prepare food
Career Progression
XP to Level a Profession
| Level | Title | XP required |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Novice | 0 |
| 2 | Apprentice | 10 |
| 3 | Expert | 30 |
| 4 | Master | 60 |
| 5 | Legendary | 100 |
Other Benefits
Achieving Level 5
- Character gains immunity to Diseases and can always detect poison in food and drinks.
- Character can cook meals twice as fast.
- Halflings and other NPCs who love to eat and cook become friendlier.
Perception
Purpose
Prepare food for consumption
Operations
Tools
Cook's Utencils and a heat source.
Items That Assist in Cooking
Below are items that can assist in Cooking.
Cook's Utensils +1
Tool, Uncommon
This set of tools allows you to add a +1 to any Cooking skill check you make to prepare food.
Cook's Utensils +2
Tool, Rare
This set of tools allows you to add a +2 to any Cooking skill check you make to prepare food.
Cook's Utensils +3
Tool, Very Rare
This set of tools allows you to add a +3 to any Cooking skill check you make to prepare food.
Pete's Portable Kitchen
Wondrous Item, Rare
This station is specifically built to be portable, allowing chefs with the money to purchase this item the luxury of cooking on the go. This station counts as a range, and only allows you to prepare food up to level 3.
Below are items that can assist in Cooking.
Cook's Utensils +1
Tool, Uncommon
This set of tools allows you to add a +1 to any Cooking skill check you make to prepare food.
Cook's Utensils +2
Tool, Rare
This set of tools allows you to add a +2 to any Cooking skill check you make to prepare food.
Cook's Utensils +3
Tool, Very Rare
This set of tools allows you to add a +3 to any Cooking skill check you make to prepare food.
Pete's Portable Kitchen
Wondrous Item, Rare
This station is specifically built to be portable, allowing chefs with the money to purchase this item the luxury of cooking on the go. This station counts as a range, and only allows you to prepare food up to level 3.
Alternative Names
Baking
Type
Culinary
A meal requires a food pack or herb pack to be prepared. A food pack is considered fresh for 24 hours after being made. Food packs can be preserved for longer by being cooled.
Fish pack: 5 lbs of fish. See Fishing
Meat Pack: 5 lbs of meat. See Hunting
Herb pack: 1/2 lb of herbs. See Foraging
A meal pack does not have to be directly obtained from other professions. All meal packs can be purchased from a store, however, some are hard to find.
Buff Clarifications
Any buff granted by meals prepared using the Cooking profession lasts for 8 hours after consuming.
You may only have 1 meal buff active at any time. Any meal eaten afterward replaces the previous buff with the new one.
You may only have 2 meals made this way per day.
Fires Used for Cooking Different flames will affect the DC of cooking an item.
| Flame Type | DC Adjustment |
|---|---|
| Conjured Flame | +4 |
| Standard Campfire | - |
| Cooking Range | -2 |
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