Cooks are to slow

[Yousek]

I have basic cooks and tones of food. I can spend above 600 meat from hunters only for fertilizer but i had no clue how to speed up the proces of cooking food - my 2 cooks are on basic 3 lvl and i got around 30 roasted meat/6,5 potage per cook which is way to small to feed whole village of 30+ villans. From calc i have around 330/870...
PS: Yes i know i can craft by myself but is a waste of time doing this few years until they lvl up and i don't want to banish them

[kyew]

Originally posted by Yousek:

I have basic cooks and tones of food. I can spend above 600 meat from hunters only for fertilizer but i had no clue how to speed up the proces of cooking food - my 2 cooks are on basic 3 lvl and i got around 30 roasted meat/6,5 potage per cook which is way to small to feed whole village of 30+ villans. From calc i have around 330/870...
PS: Yes i know i can craft by myself but is a waste of time doing this few years until they lvl up and i don't want to banish them

If you have more than 30 villagers at this point, you're recruiting too fast for what the game is designed for. Your cooks can't keep up because you have too many people, basically.

You could build another kitchen, then destroy it after your skills catch up with your population, but honestly, the simplest and best solution would be to dismiss some villagers. It's either that or you're the new cook.

[Kwalyz]

Have you considered getting your hunters to spend some of their time making dried meat. Dried meat is 5 units of food so you need about 6 per day per adult.
Also do you have any vegetables being produced not being used in the kitchen Eg carrots, beetroot, onion = allow your villagers to eat those.
Do you have a fishing hut? Get your villagers to eat fish meat as well - 4 units of food per fish meat, so 7.5 fish meat per day per adult. From memory a level 3 fisher can provide enough food for four adults per day.
Are you getting fruit from the orchard and not using it? If yes then allow them to eat those as well.

(I find the seamsters level up faster than cooks. So when a seamster has gained a level above that of a cook then I’ll switch them. The NPCs don’t care which job they do within the same skill type.)

[pdoan8]

When you have more than ten or more villagers, you should not rely on roast meat, plain fruit as main food. they should only be used as ingredient and supplement. You should consider making more higher value food (30 or more) such as scrambled egg, pottage, stew, bread, cheese,.. as your main food. Your villagers would need less of them per day.

Make sure that your kitchen is running at 100%. However, only 2-5% for roasting meat. Build another kitchen if need to. I usually have a second build for myself and for future use. For food, I just help making bread and cheese.

[Yousek]

Originally posted by Kwalyz:

Have you considered getting your hunters to spend some of their time making dried meat. Dried meat is 5 units of food so you need about 6 per day per adult.
Also do you have any vegetables being produced not being used in the kitchen Eg carrots, beetroot, onion = allow your villagers to eat those.
Do you have a fishing hut? Get your villagers to eat fish meat as well - 4 units of food per fish meat, so 7.5 fish meat per day per adult. From memory a level 3 fisher can provide enough food for four adults per day.
Are you getting fruit from the orchard and not using it? If yes then allow them to eat those as well.

(I find the seamsters level up faster than cooks. So when a seamster has gained a level above that of a cook then I’ll switch them. The NPCs don’t care which job they do within the same skill type.)

TY <3