How do I cook?

[Tyler McRae]

I've got rabbit meat, cookingpots, and Wood Logs. Isn't that enough to cook?

[Eedrah]

Do you have a campfire?

[Tyler McRae]

Originally posted by Eedrah:

Do you have a campfire?

Yes, and I figured out I needed water. xD What do I do with "Murky Water," though? Can I just boil it at a campfire?

[Toonarmy]

put cooking pot in camp fire then add your bottles of murky water they will boil to clean water so you can drink it or use it to boil pork and venison.

[CatPerson]

Yes, you boil murky water in the cooking pot to make bottled water.

[Tyler McRae]

Awesome. How about 'tallow'? Isn't that just rendered fat? How do you make that? Just put fat in a campfire?

[Big Duffy]

Yeah that it bud it will make you tallow to make some candles.

[CatPerson]

I think you need the cooking pot for tallow too? But no bottled water. Just the pot and the fat.

edit - I believe you can't cook anything with just the "campire" - have to put a utensil in that utensil slot, from a plain little "stick" to the grill or cooking pot etc. What cooking utensil you use determines the recipes potentially available.

[Fruts]

yeah... build a campfire from a few stones... if ur lucky to score an animal early, put a stick in the cooking material slot cause u probably won't have a cooking pot or grill yet. U can put the meat in, some woond and have a nice meal.

Always cook murky water first... cause u need the "clean" water for a lot of other stuff like Tea, Coffee, Cornbread etc etc

;)

[Eedrah]

Oh yeah, also you could have used a stick instead of a cooking pot, then you won't need water, but of course you need water to "boil" the meat....

[Krizzt]

If you use a stick to cook it with, the food will smell the most, grilling it with the grill makes it smell slightly less, and boiling it in a pot with water makes it smell even less. they all roughly give the same amount of hunger back, maybe boiling water is also better for Wellness im not sure there, but it does smell the least. I'd suggest: using a stick until you can find a pot or grill, use the grill to make bacon and eggs (pig meat and 2 eggs, Also it does not smell) and use your other meat for stews in the pot. if you can't make the stews yet then yeah stick to grilling food on a stick/grill until then. you can also make things like blueberry pie, cornbread and some other nice meals you can live off, i won't go into detail on how to make them because this post is already getting long :P. Also yes, you cook animal fat in a pot to turn it into tallow, and with tallow you can make either candles, or the beloved biofuel which is needed with grain alchohol to make precious gas cans :D. You can only make biofuel and grain alchohol in Beakers. So save every beaker you find for mass fuel production later on :) hope this helps, have fun.

[Labrat-dk]

If you are new, might be a good idea to take some time in here: http://7daystodie.gamepedia.com/7_Days_to_Die_Wiki
Lots of good info on stuff, how to make it and what you need to do so.

And yes, bacon and eggs are good, no smell and taste good.

[Fruts]

Does it actually matter if u store grilled/cooked meat in a Refrigerator, a Storage chest or a cooler?

I know it matters when u carry it on u to draw zombies near, but is there a difference in storage device also?

[FuzzyAnimator]

Doesn't matter where you store food. It doesn't go bad.

You can use the cooking pot to purify murky water. You can also use it to cook together purified water and goldenrod to make goldenrode tea, one of the best ways to hydrate in the game.

If you are not in a position to make your own bottles yet, then do NOT use bottled water and meat to boil the meat in a cooking pot. That uses up the bottled water and you may run out of bottles.

I generally use a grill to make ham and eggs. Ham and eggs gives a great boost to fullness, and DOESN'T SMELL when it's in your inventory. To make a grill, you craft a 3x3 grid of metal pipes. Then, using the grill instead of the cooking pot, you use 1 pork and 2 eggs for each ham and eggs you want to make.

Hope that helps!

[Stiuck007]

the stick in the campfire for fuel or a cookware - can boil cans of murky water but they don't stack. just adding a note after reading the entire page.

[Labrat-dk]

Cans of water don't stack, devs want it this way since it have no lid. You can cook any meat on a stik but it's better to use a grill if you have one (see FuzzyAnimators comment) As cookware can be used a stick, a pot or a grill. Grill Is the best way since it don't need water to make food. You, of course need a pot to cook things like water or fat. Sticks is ment as a basic survial thing. Bakers is for chemical stuff like tallow to Bio fuel and other things.