Cooking -- Introduction

Category:Professions
Category:Cooking
The Culinary profession is the basic backbone of beYou. Without food you can not survive. Chefs are responsible for providing skilled meals and edible items to sustain living in beYou.
== Restrictions/Requirements==
In order to participate in the Culinary Profession, you will need to know the following:
*beYou Hud required
*beYou level 5 required to enable culinary profession
*Health does not need to be enabled for this profession until you're at a level 3 cook
*Have land to rez on (with ample prims)
*Can not change professions for 60 days once profession has been enabled
WARNING: By disabling the cooking profession on your account, you will only be able to prepare foods at level NG (no grade). Re-enabling the Culinary profession, will deliver food the at the grade matching the cooking level you were at before disabling. For more information see: leveling benefits (below).
==Becoming a Cook==
How do I become a cook?Easy. Once you are level 5, you can choose the culinary profession.
Does this mean you can't cook before then? NO. What it does mean is that anything you cook before you are a beYou level 5 player with the culinary profession enabled will come out as No Grade (NG), meaning you can't boost your stats with that food.
Once you activate the cooking profession, you can immediately begin making low grade [LG] meals.
=== Additional Tips===
You will need to advertise your services to procure clientele. You can do this straight away by either joining several inworld spam groups, using the beYou Ad Service prims that you can get at the main beYou sim by the adboards, or by doing grassroots advertising on your own via your social circles or other social media outlets. However, you can not advertise in the main beYou group; This is against the group charter.
==Leveling Your Profession==
In order to level up your profession, you need a combination of: 
*Skill Points - Each profession requires skill points before leveling up. Once you level up those skill points are removed from your total. You will need to have enough skill points.
*LEP Points - You must have a specific number of Life Experience Points before moving up for each level.
*Research Credits (see figure below)
You can see the skill requirements on your profile page via the Career Path option under the blue Account Options button. To access your career path, click the Blue Account Options button and then click on Career Path. Here you will see all of the leveling up requirements for the level you are currently on. Below is an example of Level 1.
For each profession's level there are 15 research circles that must be completed. As you progress, the percentage for each will go up.
===Leveling Benefits===
What are the benefits of leveling the cooking profession? Simple!
With each new level, regardless of profession, there is always a greater benefit, be it higher yields, better grades of items, more efficient use of time, higher point values, etc.
Below is a description/brief summary of each level for cooking:
* No Level: This means you have not selected cooking as a profession. Any food prepared will receive a food grade of NG, also known as No Grade. You will not earn stats from this food.
*Level 1 (LG Cook): Any meals and sides you prepare by completing a recipe, uninterrupted, will earn you cooking points. Your prepared meals and sides will now help you boost your stats. All meals and sides completed will have a suffix of LG, also known as Low Grade.
* Level 2 (SG Cook): Any meals and sides prepared by completing a recipe, uninterrupted, will earn cooking points. Some meals or sides will earn higher cooking points. In addition, all meals and sides completed will have a suffix of SG, also known as Standard Grade. This will give you higher stats as well as a minor social boost that you weren't earning in previous levels.
===Leveling Up Indicator===
Congratulations!
Once you have completed the all research circles, earned enough LEP and your skill points have reached 100% for your professions, you will see a blue button that reads 'Level Up' on the professions window on your beYou Profile page.
Once you see the Level Up button, press it and you will be walked through the remainder of the leveling process in order to move forward.
After you have advanced to your next level, you must reset your kitchen in order for changes to take effect.
If you have leveled up and your kitchen is still in cooking mode, reset your kitchen so that your new level will take effect when you cook. If you do not rez a new cookbook after you have leveled up, then your cookbook will not check to see that you are a new level and you will continue to prepare food at your previous cooking skill level.NOTE: This is VERY important. Once you have leveled up in cooking, you will need to take one additional step before you can cook the next level of meals.
In order for your kitchen to prepare meals in the newest level you've achieved, do the following:
#Sit on your stove/oven unit.
#Click cookbook. Choose 'End Cooking.'
#Click the countertop. Choose reset.
Let it run all the way and then you can start cooking using your new cooking level.
=== Books===
In order to advance you must complete the following books in order. If you are new to beYou, you will need to complete the Learn to train book that comes with the beYou Study Hall Skill Trainer desk prior to the starter profession books. (note if you completed these books prior to March 2023, you will need to do these books again. They should be reset for you within your beYou Study Hall Skill Trainer)
STARTER BOOKSPlease note that when you go to buy these books, the beginner books show above the trainee books. This is due to naming conventions and can not be changed. You will need to buy the TRAINEE books prior to to beginner books to advance.
Also note you need to do the books ONLY showing in your guided tasks. DO NOT do the beginner books before you are level 1. There are 2 level 1 bubbles that look for you to complete the books, due to limitations, if you complete them before time you cant get the credit. If you have mistakenly started the beginner books while still in level 0 of your new career, there is a button on the beYou website to reset your books, you will need to redo them when you get to level 1.
Culinary MUST do all 4 books to advanceLEVEL 0 
*Culinary Cookery - Part 1 (TRANIEE LEVEL 0)
*Culinary Cookery - Part 2 (TRANIEE LEVEL 0)
LEVEL 1
DO NOT COMPLETE TILL YOU LEVEL AND HAVE A BUBBLE!!!
*Know Your Kitchen - Vol 1 (BEGINNER LEVEL 1)
*Know Your Kitchen - Vol 2 (BEGINNER LEVEL 1)
ALL books after the starters are gained through the new education class process.
===Other standard leveling requirements: ===
While viewing 'My Career Path’, there are some main task you will need to complete, each level, in addition to your book trainings.
*Certificate - Go see a lawyer, they can process your certification, provided you have completed all prerequisite books.
*Culinary Paintings - Artisans not only pamper you.. good ole relaxation, They also are tasked with making your professions artwork templates. Find your artwork templates on the markets.
* Exercise Sessions - No slacking for you - grab a few mats, from the markets, and stretch those hamstrings out... need to be fit for all the running back n forth from the printer.
*Maintenance - Coming soon.
*Clean professional Equipment - Coming soon
*Personal Care - Go see a relaxing artisan to get your personal care credits. (COMING SOON)
* lvl0-2 Cure an illness - get sick and get cured... I mean you will anyway, why not get a credit while doing it?
*lvl 3+ Immunity Boost - unlike other professions, cooks are not mandatory health enabled... So we are sending you to get shots. Hope you arent afraid of needles :D (Coming soon)
==FAQ's==
I used my Exercise Mat and did not see my Guided research path change.Do you have more than one profession enabled that requires the mat? If so it is possible it filled the requirement in your other professions path.
Did you use the correct mat? beYou has some older fitness mats that only gave fitness points and were sold by beYou, not the community, these will not fulfill the Exercise training session requirement.
Did you use the non-copy version of the player created mat? One of the mats is for rp only while the other completes a session and is single use, No copy (this mat starts with "bY").I had a lawyer do my certification and started the forms but I didn't get the credit.Certification can not be completed till you have done BOTH book Basic Rules of Law - Part 1 and Basic Rules of Law - Part 2 (TRANIEE). Complete your books first or you will need to go to a lawyer again after they have completed. Any form completed before your books are done, will be invalid.
My training book will not allow me to start it.Have you done the "Learn to train" book that came with your Study Hall Trainer? You are required to complete that introduction book prior to any other books.
Are you doing the books in order? See the order of books here BeYou Training Books
You also require completion of your books - If you are returning and did your books prior to December 2023. Open a Ticket for you bubbles to be completed and you research credit awarded for your books.I want to finish my guided research bubbles but I haven't been able toBeYou professions are very intertwined. That being said only a few of the most important new professions have been rolled out. We are currently waiting on Artisan and Mixology, until items under those professions are released, you will not be able to level up completely. The hopes are for them to be pushed out to first quarter 2024.I am done with all my guided research bubbles, what nowYour profession should tell you on your page that you can level up. Click level up and you should get a new set of guided tasks. DO NOT!!!! do your 002 books until you have a circle for it and have leveled.It looks like we need a "pamper session" what is this.Artisan items are coming - once released, visit your local barber, hair salon, nail tech etc. CURRENTLY THIS IS NOT ROLLED OUT- COMING SOONWhat is the Waste, Recycle, And all those other bubbles at the end of my guided tasks...In order to keep things a lil fresh and mixed up, were going to have a few tasks you have to complete for leveling each level. More to come soon.I don't want to do Culinary but I turned it onYou will be locked in any profession for 60 days. You can change your profession after 60 days.
==How it all Works==
===Cooking Levels===
There are currently 3 available cooking designations for meals that go along with your cooking levels (or lack thereof):
* NG (no grade) Meals: created by non-beYou users as well as beYou users who do not have Cooking selected as a profession. This level does not give you stats when eaten.
*LG (low grade) Meals: created by registered beYou users who have chosen cooking as a profession. As a registered user, you will create LG meals until you reach level 2 in your Cooking Profession. This food grade gives stats, except for social.
*SG (standard grade) Meals: created by registered beYou users who have leveled their Cooking Profession level to level 2. This food grade gives slightly higher stats with a slight boost in social as well.
====FOOD LEVEL WARNING====
Any food prepared by either a non-player (aka unregistered person), a player that has not reached beYou user level 5 and declared cooking as a profession, or a beYou user with the cooking profession disabled will only be able to prepare food with an NG rating (will have the NG suffix on the end of the completed recipe). NG food does not provide stats and is strictly for roleplay. Once the cooking profession has been activated/reactivated, one's last profession level will be reinstated, meaning they will not have to start over.
Summary of Use 
*Buy and load a recipe card and the ingredients you need to cook it.
*Sit on oven section. Click counter and choose cookbook.
*Click cookbook; start cooking.
*Choose a recipe, select serving size, then select a dish. Continue until recipe is completed.
====Warnings & Cautions====
=====ASSET LOSS WARNING=====
IF you REZ MORE THAN ONE KITCHEN AND ATTEMPT TO COOK MULTIPLE MEALS AT THE SAME TIME you MAY LOSE INGREDIENTS OR HAVE MISSED DELIVERIES! ALTHOUGH THIS DOES TECHNICALLY WORK IT ALSO COMES AT A PRICE. THIS PRICE IS THAT IT MAY ALSO CAUSE ISSUES WITH GETTING DELIVERIES AND COMPLETING DISHES & MEALS. WE DO NOT RECOMMEND THIS COOKING STYLE AND WE RECOGNIZE IT MAY LEAD TO MISSED PLATTER DELIVERIES. STAFF MEMBERS CAN TELL WHEN THIS COOKING STYLE IS BEING USED AND CANNOT ACCOMMODATE REPLACEMENTS UNDER THESE CIRCUMSTANCES.
=====FOOD LEVEL WARNING=====
Any food prepared by either a non-player (aka unregistered person), a player that has not reached beYou Level 5 and declared cooking as a profession, or a beYou with the cooking profession disabled will only be able to prepare food with an NG rating (will have the NG suffix on the end of the completed recipe). NG food does not provide stats and is strictly for roleplay.
IMPORTANT: you can not cook your recipes on someone else's kitchen. You can only cook the recipes the kitchen's owner has in their assets on their stove. Everything, including the ingredients, must be in the kitchen owner's assets as well.
When cooking, you will use hygiene, energy and wellness.
===beYou Cooking Instructions===
We'll cover the absolute basics at first and then move on to the more advanced options.
====Cooking Basics====
#All cooking ingredients for your kitchen get stored in YOUR assets (beYou account). Nothing gets stored in the kitchen. What are assets? Assets are every item stored on your player account by the beYou cooking system. You can allow other people to use your kitchen (we'll explain how to do this below) but all of the ingredients that get used while cooking will come from your account. If someone else is cooking on your kitchen or you are cooking on someone else's kitchen be aware of who owns the kitchen because assets will always come from the owner. We do have ways to add ingredient assets to someone else's kitchen however this is a kitchen add-on and must be obtained separately (Family Recipe Box).
#You must be a beYou member in order to cook meals that affect the beYou Hud stats. If you are not a beYou member (or you are a beYou member who has not chosen the cooking profession once you are able to at level 5), you can still use the kitchen however it will deliver NG (No Grade) platters and those do not increase game stats. There are still many other features in the kitchen aside from cooking and you will always have access to these features. Higher grade meals however require that you have a valid account in the system and that you've enabled the "Cooking" profession (Must be game level 5).
#Only the kitchen owner can add recipes to the kitchen. These recipes are available to anyone who has is allowed to cook in the kitchen but only the kitchen owner can add them. So if you go shopping for recipes and you do NOT own your own kitchen, you will not be able to use them.  Feel free to share your kitchen with whoever you want, or lock it down so only you can cook in your kitchen. Click this for a Full Recipe List. Ingredients can be added to someone else's kitchen using a Family Recipe Box*
#You must be sitting on the main kitchen section with the oven. Once standing you will be able to click the kitchen counter and see a menu with an option for "CookBook". If you want to cook, you will have to click on that option and rez out your cookbook. On the same menu are other options as well: (No beYou Account necessary to use the following. These do not affect any cooking assets.)
##Do Stuff* - Play the various cooking animations such as "Slice veggies" or "Dough Prep".
##Rez Stuffs* - Will rez the various kitchen contents such as pots and pans.
## Tend Food* - Play the various cooking animations that would be used while cooking.
##Anims* - Play some of the food prep animations or couples animations.
##RESET ALL - Reset the kitchen. Will put the kitchen into basic mode.
##[ADJUST] - Adjust your position relative to the kitchen.
#Important: the kitchen has two modes: "Cooking Mode" & "Basic Mode". Please make sure you know which mode your kitchen is in before you use it.
#Don't forget that after you cook 9 dishes you will have to wash the dirty dishes in either the sink or dishwasher if you have one.
NOTE: This step can not be skipped. Your cooking will not be able to continue until you complete this step.
==== Cooking Mode====
Once you've rezzed your cookbook you can click on it and be given the following options:
* Start Cooking - This will put your kitchen into cooking mode.
*Add User - Allows you to add someone else to use your kitchen (in cooking mode).
*Remove User - Removes someone who is on your "allowed list" whom you want to remove.
*Show Users - Prints out the names of who is on your "allowed list"
Once clicked, the "Start Cooking" option will notify you in local that you're ready to go: "Your Kitchen is now in Cooking Mode. Make sure you are sitting on the stove/oven section!"
Are you ready to start cooking? Well, if you haven't added any recipes to your cookbook you actually aren't ready yet. You can go to the beYou shopping center and choose whatever recipes you like. We like to recommend starting off slow and working forward at a slow and comfortable pace. Click here for a full recipe list.
Don't go crazy and buy up the whole place all at once. Remember, things do expire! What? Didn't know that? Yes, certain products do expire. Anything that would expire in real life will also expire in your assets.
** Important - Certain foods will expire. Once acquired you have quite a bit of time before something will expire. Approximately 30 days. But, do not worry about losing things if they expire. You can compost your expired items and convert them into other things. So all is not completely lost.
#Add Recipes to your Kitchen - When you purchase a recipe card you must rez the actual card out inworld and click it in order to add it to your account. You do not need to be near your kitchen to load the recipe.
#Add ingredients to your kitchen - you can add ingredients by buying ingredients from beYou Grocers or Individual Privately Owned Stores/Farmers Markets. You will rez these out in world, Some will load automatically and some need you to click on them and they will automatically add assets to your account. You can also find ingredients from our Markets search page.
#Start Cooking!
Once you're ready to start cooking a recipe, and you've done all the things mentioned above, it's time to get going. Keep in mind we've given a lot of detail but once you start doing this you'll realize that getting started is a very simple process that you can repeat easily.
====Cooking a Recipe====
Click on your cookbook and choose "Select Recipe". The other option "End Cooking" we'll cover in a minute.
Servings - When you cook a recipe you will be asked how many servings you want to make. Remember that 2 servings will require 1 of each ingredient. If you go higher you will be required to have more ingredients in your assets. Each serving size requires more and more ingredients to prepare it, just as it would in real cooking.
Recipes categories can be seen here. If you are unsure of what recipes you have, there is a convenient cooking page setup for you on the beYou website: http://www.beyouworld.com/professions/cooking
On the cooking page, you can search your ingredients and your recipes. The recipes will be organized with the same categories as the menu.
End Cooking - Will stop all progress and end cooking mode. IF you are in the middle of a recipe and have not completed it will be ended for you.
Once you've selected a recipe please give the cookbook a second or two for the next menu. It has to load in the recipe details and then record how many servings you want to make. Be sure that you select the correct serving size. Higher serving sizes require more ingredients! Remember, the cookbook will allow you to select a serving size that you do not have enough ingredients for. It's not smart enough to know every dish requirement upfront.  But if you select a dish in that recipe that you don't have enough ingredients for it will let you know then.
====Possible Problems====
Two common problems may go wrong here. Both are expected at some point in time because of the nature of playing a game like Second Life but both we can handle very quickly. You may see a message like this:
Problem #1: Preloaded Items Not in Kitchen[11:42] Meryll Oven Section: Some ingredients don't appear to be inside this kitchen: Cubed Bread Crumbs, beYou Celery, beYou Yellow Onion, Chicken Broth. Our kitchens come preloaded with any ingredient prims needed to be used in a recipe. These prims are just the items you click to animate during cooking and do not give assets of any kind. This means when we add new ingredients, we will need to do a kitchen update.Problem #2: Missing Ingredients[11:42] Meryll Oven Section: Unable to make this dish. For the serving size (16) you need uses for the following: beYou Onion(5/8), beYou Celery(3/8) This means in order to cook 16 servings of the dish in that recipe you will need 3 more onions and 5 more celery. You won't be able to cook for that amount of servings unless you have the available ingredients. IF you have enough ingredients for the recipe you will never see this message.
====Completing Dishes====
As you go through the recipe you will have to select each dish one by one until you've cooked them all.
Once you select a dish you will see all of the ingredients rez on the counter. You will need to use each ingredient (by clicking on it) before the dish begins cooking. Depending on the dish you are working on the cooking may occur on the counter, on the stove, or in the oven.
A progress bar will appear while the food is cooking and will indicate to you how long it will take to complete. Once the dish completes you will be notified by either having the dish delivered to you in inventory or it will result in more assets added for a prepped dish.
If you run out of ingredients and the dish isn't completing, click on the cookbook and choose the "Get Progress" button. It will tell you what ingredient(s) the dish needs in order to complete the dish.
It could be something you know you've already used! That does happen from time to time. But, all you need to do is click the cookbook again and chose the "Rez One" option. This will bring up a menu of anything the dish needs to complete. Click the item name and it will re-appear for you again.
Once you've gone through all of the dishes & completed the recipe, you will be given the following message from the cookbook:
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If you have cooking enabled as a Profession then at this time Cooking skill points will get added to your account based on your cooking level and the level of the recipe you cooked.        
At any point in time during the cooking process you should have the option to select "Start Over" or "End Cooking". Both of these will end your current cooking progress, but "End Cooking" will also turn the kitchen back to "Basic Mode". The "Start Over" option will leave you in "Cooking Mode" end your current recipe by removing any ingredients from the counter. You must then select another recipe to start again.
====Adding Users====
If you have family or friends that you want to share your kitchen with you may absolutely do this. From the start only the kitchen owner can use the cookbook. But if you have someone over and they want to cook you can add them as a user in your kitchen. They must be standing within 30 meters of your kitchen for this to work. Once they are standing close to the kitchen select the "Add User" option on the main menu. It will do a quick scan to find the Avatars standing close by and let you select the one you want to add. Once selected, that's it! They can now use your kitchen. You may also remove them from the cooking access with the "Remove User" option.