Cooking Industry

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To survive, you need at the very least food, water, and maybe sleep. Cooking covers all forms of food and water, and sometimes sleep. (with poppy sleep, etc.) Most projects require a heat source, (hotplate, fire, etc.) but sometimes it can involve just making a sandwich.

Cooking

To cook food, you need a fire, hotplate, or other heat source, often a food cooking quality tool, usually a pot will cover almost all recipes. Also, you need the raw food in question. (e.g. water -> clean water)

Water

Most of the time you will just want plain clean water, but the drinks section has a lot of recipes, like herbal tea, soup, etc. You only need a tool with containing and a heat source, then water. Sometimes you need clean water (for milk) but it's more efficient to craft with raw water.

Woods stuff

At low level cooking and maybe survival you won't be able to cook most food you find in the woods. (acorns, buckwheat, cattails, etc.) That's why you should get to high level cooking skill.

Pastries

Pastries are incredibly easy to make and sustain. Most of the time you can only make flatbread because yeast is rare. But you can sustain yourself with pastries if you live on a farm. You need flour, you can use grains on the farm, or if you're a woodsman, you can use acorns. Preferably you want a quern but a mortar and pestle will also work, it just takes longer. Next you'll want to start a fire near the water pump on the farm with your flour. Start making flatbreads. Enjoy your nearly unlimited food supply. Make meat sandwiches to compact the bread and meat.