new cooking is disappointing

[Demonocolips]

while i am glad new ingredients and foods were added there is certainly a letdown with how limited and limiting the new food system is.
honestly an interface more like firestarting would have been better.
water-broth
meat
vegetables
spices
if you just use water, meat and spices you get a new button for just broth.
adding all the calories together and using a flat modifier plus cooking skill to get the final caloric content of the food you just made.
different options for the different cooking implements would be good as well.
at least from my experience with real life this works. sure it usually ends up in the hobo stew category but its not restrictive in an unrealistic way.

[Gary Childress]

It'd be nice if there was some incentive in cooking the fancy new recipes. I saw someone suggest that instead of "Well Fed" perk being awarded for simply avoiding starvation, have it a perk that you can only get from cooking some of the special recipes. I also thought maybe make it so that the new recipes will counter "cabin fever" or something like that. It just doesn't seem like there's a whole lot of point in cooking the new recipes. Might as well just go with slabs of meat or canned goods "as is" instead of fooling with the new recipes.

[iwasa]

The devs could have allowed for a more basic form of stew using only naturally available stuff (pot, water, meat) but it may have slipped their minds. If the pot and skillet can only be used for recipes that require ingredients that cannot be obtained in nature it makes Frontier Cooking somewhat less useful and more inconvenient.

[Definitely NOT a robot]

Originally posted by AfLIcTeD:

I thought of a system like that, similar to the alchemy in KCD. Although I don't know if it would be possible in this game.

It definitely needs some tweaking. Some recipes cost way too much for what you get, such as the stews and not worth it at all. Some of them are pretty good though, like the rosehip pies, the three meat pies are good and some of the unique ones.

... what?

I played the game on Stalker difficulty, so I don't know if it's different for Interloper, but the stews are absolutely worth it. Particularly venison stew. At level 5 of cooking, you get over 1100 calories for just half a kilogram of venison, 1 cup of broth, and a little bit of flour. To me, that's exceptionally good value. How do your calculations differ?

Originally posted by Gary Childress:

I also thought maybe make it so that the new recipes will counter "cabin fever" or something like that.

Some of them do.

[Massikommunikatsioon]

To be honest, seeing the full pot of food and only getting a single portion is just sad. Or even not being able to make multible portions at the same time (I mean in the same pot/pan). If I wanted to do some food prep for a few days it takes me a full day of cooking.

[wilemon]

Cooking the recipes on the whole is not worth the time and weight. It would be better served and attract more use if cooking a recipe increased cooking skill by a larger factor. On Stalker or Loper I want level 5 as fast as I can get it. If cooking a recipe gave a skill bonus over cooking anything else I would sure do it.

[Uncle Bud]

Originally posted by wilemon:

Cooking the recipes on the whole is not worth the time and weight. It would be better served and attract more use if cooking a recipe increased cooking skill by a larger factor. On Stalker or Loper I want level 5 as fast as I can get it. If cooking a recipe gave a skill bonus over cooking anything else I would sure do it.

You get 2 pts. for cooking the new stuff. Pancakes take nine min. to cook, with two skillets you can level faster then reading.

[PowerOn]

Originally posted by nextgengranny:

I've read much speculation that the Trader will be a purveyor of oil, flour, & the like.

Will he accept spray can as payment?

[wilemon]

Originally posted by Uncle Bud:

Originally posted by wilemon:

Cooking the recipes on the whole is not worth the time and weight. It would be better served and attract more use if cooking a recipe increased cooking skill by a larger factor. On Stalker or Loper I want level 5 as fast as I can get it. If cooking a recipe gave a skill bonus over cooking anything else I would sure do it.

You get 2 pts. for cooking the new stuff. Pancakes take nine min. to cook, with two skillets you can level faster then reading.

Thank You-Good to hear -I never saw anything about that in the releases and of course you can't tell much from the skill bar for any one event.