How do you use food ingredients to cook?

[Tiberius]

i have reciepes but i'm only able to use superior meal or whatever it iscalled. what's the point of thisd stuff?

[stormfeather]

I know I bought one recipe from a merchant, might have to buy/find some first

[Tiberius]

i have all the ingredients needed for multiple reciepes. the issue is i dont know where to use them

[Ventus]

Originally posted by Emperor_Tiberius:

i have reciepes but i'm only able to use superior meal or whatever it iscalled. what's the point of thisd stuff?

If you haven't found this already, simply having the recipes in inventory isn't enough. You should be able to right click, copy recipe, which is apparently the new slang for 'add this to the list of things that can be prepared'. They will appear on the camping list for the cook.

Now we just need to figure out how in the magical world 5 people are eating 50 pounds of food a day (seriously, 1 ration is 10 lbs!). By comparison, average intake is between 3-5 lbs, with serious hikers going as high as 6 lbs.

My group misses a couple fights or gets a wagon to travel and they'll be a bunch of fatties in no time.

[Javaed]

Originally posted by Ventus:

Originally posted by Emperor_Tiberius:

Now we just need to figure out how in the magical world 5 people are eating 50 pounds of food a day (seriously, 1 ration is 10 lbs!). By comparison, average intake is between 3-5 lbs, with serious hikers going as high as 6 lbs.

Don't forget that the ration is what you'd need to survive, plus packaging. So you'd include water weight in what you're carrying.

[//\\Bridgeburner//\\ Quick Ben]

Still don't understand why you have ingredients AND rations. If I have the ingredients to make a meal, why do I still need rations or hunting to go with it? Shouldn't rations provide bare minimum R&R when you don't have ingredients for recipes (like having bread and water as opposed to Owlbear Omellette), while recipe meals should do recuperation plus bonuses? Seems odd that in a dungeon I have a tonne of ingredients for a tonne of recipes, but I can't rest and recuperate because I have no rations....

[RACHMANOVSKI]

Originally posted by //\\Bridgeburner//\\ Quick Ben:

Still don't understand why you have ingredients AND rations. If I have the ingredients to make a meal, why do I still need rations or hunting to go with it? Shouldn't rations provide bare minimum R&R when you don't have ingredients for recipes (like having bread and water as opposed to Owlbear Omellette), while recipe meals should do recuperation plus bonuses? Seems odd that in a dungeon I have a tonne of ingredients for a tonne of recipes, but I can't rest and recuperate because I have no rations....

Valid points, but perhaps the idea is that the rations is typically used in Dungeon rests, where you only took short rest, while the cooking stuff typically when you do it out in the open and at the end of the day when all of the party is exhausted.

[//\\Bridgeburner//\\ Quick Ben]

Originally posted by RACHMANOVSKI:

Originally posted by //\\Bridgeburner//\\ Quick Ben:

Still don't understand why you have ingredients AND rations. If I have the ingredients to make a meal, why do I still need rations or hunting to go with it? Shouldn't rations provide bare minimum R&R when you don't have ingredients for recipes (like having bread and water as opposed to Owlbear Omellette), while recipe meals should do recuperation plus bonuses? Seems odd that in a dungeon I have a tonne of ingredients for a tonne of recipes, but I can't rest and recuperate because I have no rations....

Valid points, but perhaps the idea is that the rations is typically used in Dungeon rests, where you only took short rest, while the cooking stuff typically when you do it out in the open and at the end of the day when all of the party is exhausted.

Sure, that would make sense - allow either recipes OR rations in the countryside and consume either one or the other and apply bonuses respectively - but disable recipe cooking in dungeon mode to cater for short recuperative rests but without recipe bonuses.
Taking it a bit further, rations might be considered cold meals (no fire) - so if you want to keep a low profile (like in dungeons) they're preferable to lighting a fire and sending the smell of cooked food throughout the dungeon. Same might apply outside if you want to lower the chance of being attacked while camping.

[Invisible]

You cook when you camp. You need someone with high skill in "knowledge world" to succeed. Right from the begin of the game you can cook the "hearty meal" with DC 20. Some merchants sell and in some loot containers you can find additional recipies. Oleg has one. Click right on the recipie in your inventory to "copy it".

You can't cook in dungeons. So rations are neccessary. BUT rations don't need hunting time. Hunting time can be up 18 hours. So less time wasting in a timed game. And less chance to be ambushed in the camp.

Hope this clears cooking up.

[//\\Bridgeburner//\\ Quick Ben]

Originally posted by Invisible:

You cook when you camp. You need someone with high skill in "knowledge world" to succeed. Right from the begin of the game you can cook the "hearty meal" with DC 20. Some merchants sell and in some loot containers you can find additional recipies. Oleg has one. Click right on the recipie in your inventory to "copy it".

You can't cook in dungeons. So rations are neccessary. BUT rations don't need hunting time. Hunting time can be up 18 hours. So less time wasting in a timed game. And less chance to be ambushed in the camp.

Hope this clears cooking up.

...not really.
I get that you either have rations on you, or you can hunt for rations to avoid consuming the rations you have on you as long as you're outside.
I get that recipes make for better food and provide buffs.
I also get that you can't 'hunt' inside a dungeon, so you would need to consume rations you have on you. It also makes sense that you also wouldn't 'cook' while in a dungeon, so not using recipes/ingredients in a dungeon also makes sense - but in the game as long as you have rations you can still cook a recipe in a dungeon.
So what I don't get is why rations and recipes/ingredients are mutually inclusive. You can have ingredients and recipes, but without rations they are unusable...

[Invisible]

Originally posted by //\\Bridgeburner//\\ Quick Ben:

Originally posted by Invisible:

You cook when you camp. You need someone with high skill in "knowledge world" to succeed. Right from the begin of the game you can cook the "hearty meal" with DC 20. Some merchants sell and in some loot containers you can find additional recipies. Oleg has one. Click right on the recipie in your inventory to "copy it".

You can't cook in dungeons. So rations are neccessary. BUT rations don't need hunting time. Hunting time can be up 18 hours. So less time wasting in a timed game. And less chance to be ambushed in the camp.

Hope this clears cooking up.

...not really.
You can have ingredients and recipes, but without rations they are unusable... :cozyovercooked2:

This is so very wrong. You NOT need any ration to cook.

[//\\Bridgeburner//\\ Quick Ben]

Seems wrong to me too, but if you're camping outside and don't assign a hunter to get rations, and don't use rations from your inventory - then you can only skip time, meaning you cannot rest and no cooking happens, regardless of how many recipes and ingredients you have on hand - so it seems like you can't cook without rations.

[Finarfin]

My experience has also been that you can't cook without rations. Doesn't make sense.

[Immortal Reaver]

Originally posted by Finarfin:

My experience has also been that you can't cook without rations. Doesn't make sense.

Well how would you cook without firewood?

[Finarfin]

Originally posted by Immortal Reaver:

Originally posted by Finarfin:

My experience has also been that you can't cook without rations. Doesn't make sense.

Well how would you cook without firewood?

You don't carry firewood in your rations.

[The.Spaz.]

Originally posted by Tiberius:

i have all the ingredients needed for multiple reciepes. the issue is i dont know where to use them

Cooking does not work the same way as it does in Divinity Original Sin 2. You can only cook food and use the recipes when you are making camp. I wouldn't worry too much about the ingredients as you will stumble across most of them as you adventure along with more recipes that have different bonuses. If for whatever reason, your party does not have someone skilled in hunting (Lore(nature)), you might need to add a second member to the hunt to bolster the odds or you can always use camping rations that you can buy from stores. Each ration is for one person so if you six members in your party you need to have atleast 6 camping rations. If you have only 4 then the hunting party can hunt for two more people at substantial reduced time cost.