How to cook basic meats?

[Aggrobiscuit]

I have a powered oven and a plucked chicken. Can chop the chicken down into smaller pieces, but regardless basic recipes for cooking meat aren't visible on the oven UI to drag the items into the slots even if I had them.

[Dies Fourth]

check YT, hopefully some stream have mad " how to " guides on the new sustems

[Aggrobiscuit]

There is some, but they cover recipes rather than basic cooking like roasted meat that doesn't seem to be in any of the recipe books.

[Andi]

Easiest, make a simple fire, light it up, hit F and look for skewers. Make a meat skewer.
To use the oven you need a pan or pot.

[saiyuk976]

No idea how to cook chicken, can'y see a way in game, may need a recipe.

Other meats, bear deer wolf pig etc, it's as simple as an improvised campfire with a skewer in inventory, access cooking menu on fire, navigate to skewers and drag the meat into the meat slot and click cook.

[Andi]

Don't need to have a skewer.
Just the fire and the meat. Hit F at the fire, select meat skewer, cook away.

[Aggrobiscuit]

Originally posted by Andi:

Easiest, make a simple fire, light it up, hit F and look for skewers. Make a meat skewer.
To use the oven you need a pan or pot.

Seems like meat skewers only accept steaks not poultry. It's impossible to cook chicken without a pot or a grill rack since you can't skewer it.

[Andi]

Originally posted by Aggrobiscuit:

Originally posted by Andi:

Easiest, make a simple fire, light it up, hit F and look for skewers. Make a meat skewer.
To use the oven you need a pan or pot.

Seems like meat skewers only accept steaks not poultry. It's impossible to cook chicken without a pot or a grill rack since you can't skewer it.

Ah ok. Didn't try chicken yet. Thx

[Aggrobiscuit]

Seems kinda unrealistic that I have to throw a chicken away because I don't possess a pot to make a stew with. In Dayz even if you had no cooking equipment you could cook chicken on a sharpened stick.

Future hunts I'll have to ignore chickens because I don't lug a pot and a generator around with me?

[smokey57]

Originally posted by Aggrobiscuit:

In Dayz even if you had no cooking equipment you could cook chicken on a sharpened stick.

+1 This is the way. DayZ got this 100% right. Not sure why the rather patently obvious 'poke a stick through ANY hunk of meat and hold it over a fire till cooked' method didn't find it's way into this supposedly realistic cooking system.

[Afro Moose]

Pretty sure you can just set the smaller pieces of chicken on the ground close to the fire and they will cook, just have to watch them. Unless that's changed, I have not tried since the update

[BigV419]

and this is why the new cooking system is already broken, cant even cook anything other then steak and a few vegetables on a fire without the need for a pot or pan. smash my head, talk about starvation for no reason. the whole game is becoming a starvation simulator

[Dies Fourth]

Originally posted by BigV419:

and this is why the new cooking system is already broken, cant even cook anything other then steak and a few vegetables on a fire without the need for a pot or pan. smash my head, talk about starvation for no reason. the whole game is becoming a starvation simulator

cooking hasnt worked properly for over a year if not more, ALOT of us never cooked in that time.

Theres plenty of food out there in crops farms and gardens even clam shell greenhouses.

We even ate raw meat with little to no ill effects b4 85.

Express your opinion any way you want but please try the advice youve been given several times by players who have played the game and adapted to it.

[BigV419]

so saying the system are broken is offensive??

[Dies Fourth]

Originally posted by BigV419:

so saying the system are broken is offensive??

no saying its a starvation simulator is mis information, your talking from emotion and lack of experience

[Barnes]

Originally posted by BigV419:

and this is why the new cooking system is already broken, cant even cook anything other then steak and a few vegetables on a fire without the need for a pot or pan. smash my head, talk about starvation for no reason. the whole game is becoming a starvation simulator

Putting meat on the ground is not only immersion breaking, it's impractical. You get sand in your teeth.

A lot of us have extensive survival experience, or even full lifetime backpacking and trekking XP: to cook healthfully, you need pans and a good source of consistent heat. This seems like the right direction.

Meat skewers, if you can indeed find any meat. Or grills for fish. Once I run out of potatoes and cabbage, I'll be forced to do something else.