I only started playing a few days ago and so far my best run was as a cook. I only figured out how to make stir fry. This guide is going to help me take it all to the next level.
Hmm. it's a little complicated and requires you to keep a lot of random gubbins on-hand. (baking sheets, saucepans, ect) but if you either set up in somewhere with a kitchen or go out on a dedicated raid to get that stuff, you can probably keep them all in a cupboard near your oven. Stews and soups are probably the best thing to make early on, because you can just throw anything in there.
Stews, soups, and stirfries keep you alive. I think they should buff how much happiness and boredom more complicated recipes cure for the trouble of making them.
Loved this video. Crafting complicated recipes can actually become overwhelming quite quickly when you think you have the ingredients but something is always missing. I would like to add a few points to what you mentioned: You can add bourbon to beverages like coffee (very important :p). And note that with a high enough cooking skill, you can use stews to cook rotten food with no penalty. And if you are cooking quick and basic dinners a good tactic is to use a lot of butter, margarine and lard in recipes too add extra calories.
The only drawback with this is that eggs and milk become very rare after about a month in game. Build 42 will be bringing farm animals to remedy this but build 42 seems to be taking a long time. In addition, you can cook rotten food for cooking experience.
@@WavesyGetsGood I reckon you'll be able to make both. Vinegar can be made from malted barley or oats and hopefully you can grow that. Yeast is a fermentation of water and flour, you might have heard of sourdough starters, basically it is just letting flour ferment in water, it produces yeast bacteria which expand as you feed it (with more flour and water).
Now that I've passed cooking academy, I might start cooking.
👨🍳 make The Cook Show jealous!
I love the "we got a little queezy but nothing to bad" straight into "hi it's me on a new character" 😂 like the chef died shortly after filming
Unintentional! I promise the chef survived 😅
Good guide, now I understand the cooking in this game.
Just as a note for build 42, a lot of right click options have been moved to the crafting screen, but conceptually it still works the same.
I only started playing a few days ago and so far my best run was as a cook. I only figured out how to make stir fry. This guide is going to help me take it all to the next level.
Can't wait for the first 5 course meal, gotta treat yourself real nice during the apocalypse ;)
This is the best chef course for PZ on UA-cam
Bon Apetit, friend 👨🍳 thank you!
I laughed too much at the first salad recipe, adding Mayonnaise as a "spice" lol
Spiciest Salad in the Midwest ;)
Hmm. it's a little complicated and requires you to keep a lot of random gubbins on-hand. (baking sheets, saucepans, ect) but if you either set up in somewhere with a kitchen or go out on a dedicated raid to get that stuff, you can probably keep them all in a cupboard near your oven.
Stews and soups are probably the best thing to make early on, because you can just throw anything in there.
Stews, soups, and stirfries keep you alive. I think they should buff how much happiness and boredom more complicated recipes cure for the trouble of making them.
Super informative and also wholesome video! Thanks man! :)
Glad to be of service!
Loved this video. Crafting complicated recipes can actually become overwhelming quite quickly when you think you have the ingredients but something is always missing.
I would like to add a few points to what you mentioned: You can add bourbon to beverages like coffee (very important :p). And note that with a high enough cooking skill, you can use stews to cook rotten food with no penalty. And if you are cooking quick and basic dinners a good tactic is to use a lot of butter, margarine and lard in recipes too add extra calories.
All great points, especially being able to use some rotten food. Glad you enjoyed the video, I'm going to be getting back into it soon.
Underrated Video
Thanks my friend, glad you liked it!
The only drawback with this is that eggs and milk become very rare after about a month in game. Build 42 will be bringing farm animals to remedy this but build 42 seems to be taking a long time. In addition, you can cook rotten food for cooking experience.
Build 42 is taking forever, however I didn't know about cooking rotten food, great way to get exp out of waste!
Let the Cookening begin.
With all these delicious farm critters running around, we may need a part 2...😉
@@WavesyGetsGood does most of this still apply?
Thank you, I have wondered how to bake in PZ. Now, I can.
For build 42, some options that were in the right click menu may have been moved to the crafting menu, so if something isn't working, check there.
yeah good vid dude
Thanks man, I really appreciate it, hopefully the next one will be better 😅
Brother is so useful
I gotchu homie 🫡
@@WavesyGetsGood Yeahh!!! I'd love to play with you sometime too! You seem pretty fun to play wit! 💪💪
Now I am the cook 🧑🍳
You're not just the cook, you're the CHEF!
Needs 1 billion views
A day at a time 😉 I should probably go back to making zomboid content...
oh yeah im cooking now, great video brutha
Any time my friend, glad I could help 🫡
This is the best cooking video available. Trust me I watched one before this lol
Glad you liked it! 😎
so, a pie give -61 hunger, but a sliced pie gives 5 slices at -5 each. which is -25 total?
so I see this right?
I would do another test in-game to confirm, but there's definitely some funky math in cooking.
I never eat something without making a meal out of it (i am talking after setting in a base)
This is the way. No reason to waste ingredients! But it does get kind of boring to be like, "guess I'm eating cabbage fish stir-fry forever now."
You cooked so that we may cook. Thank you 🙏
Bake bread to break bread 🫡
I always struggle with finding vinegar (for jarred veggies) and yeast (for bread) 🥲
It's a bit stingy with the vinegar and yeast, hopefully it'll be either upgraded, more generous, or renewable in some way in b42.
@@WavesyGetsGood I reckon you'll be able to make both. Vinegar can be made from malted barley or oats and hopefully you can grow that. Yeast is a fermentation of water and flour, you might have heard of sourdough starters, basically it is just letting flour ferment in water, it produces yeast bacteria which expand as you feed it (with more flour and water).