Cooking

Cooking is an activity that can be performed in , but is not a skill. Cooking can be accomplished through the use of cooking pots and spits found in locations throughout the province. Food from cooking can restore magicka, health, or stamina and grant temporary effects determined by the recipe. The recipes require items such as raw meats, vegetables, and alchemical ingredients (especially salt piles). Characters start the game knowing every possible cooking recipe.
Cooking is a basic method of living off the land. Most of the food the Dragonborn can cook typically restores five to ten points of Health or Stamina. This is less than the healing from a minor potion. As alchemical skills improve, some cooked food may have less real value than the ingredients put into it.
However, those with low alchemy skill may benefit more from cooking than producing their own healing potions. Very long duration effects (12 minutes) can be produced as well, which can extend the time before one tires from power attacks or running and generally reduce the need to enter a menu to heal with other items. Due to the abundance of free food that can be obtained, making use of cooking can save a significant amount of money over time as well.
==Cooking locations==
*Alvor and Sigrid's House, Riverwood
*Any built homestead 
*Any house bought with a kitchen upgrade
*Any Imperial or Stormcloak camp – Each is only available to neutrals or members of the corresponding faction
*Autumnwatch Tower – In the tower on the right as it is approached from the dragonstone
*The Bannered Mare, Whiterun
*Calixto's House of Curiosities, Windhelm
*Corpselight Farm, Falkreath
*Dragonsreach, Whiterun
*The Drunken Huntsman, Whiterun
*Embershard Mine, between Helgen and Riverwood – Cooking here can complete the Hard Worker achievement along with mining and wood chopping
*Faendal's House, Riverwood
*Fletcher, Solitude
*Fort Dawnguard, Dayspring Canyon 
*Fort Greymoor, Whiterun Hold
*Hod and Gerdur's House, Riverwood
*Lost Knife Hideout, Lost Knife Cave
*Sadri's Used Wares, Windhelm
*Severin Manor, Raven Rock 
*Silus Vesuius's House, Dawnstar
*Solitude Stables, Haafingar
*The White Phial, Windhelm
*Ysolda's House, Whiterun
==Recipes==
Finished Product 	Effect 	Ingredients 	 	
Apple Cabbage Stew 	Restores 10 Health and 15 Stamina Points. 	Salt Pile, Red Apple, Cabbage 	0.5	8
Beef Stew 	Increases maximum Stamina by 25 for 720 seconds and restores 2 Stamina per second for 720 seconds.	Raw Beef, Carrot, Salt Pile, Garlic 	0.5	8
Cabbage Potato Soup 	Restores 10 Health and 10 Stamina Points.  	Potato, Salt Pile, Leek, Cabbage 	0.5	5
Cabbage Soup 	Restores 10 Health and 8 Stamina Points. 	Salt Pile, Cabbage 	0.5	5
Clam Chowder 	Restores 10 Health and 10 Stamina Points. 	Clam Meat, Potato, Jug of Milk, Butter	0.5	5
Cooked Beef 	Restores 10 Health Points. 	Salt Pile, Raw Beef 	0.5	5
Elsweyr Fondue 	Increases Magicka regeneration by 25% and increases maximum Magicka by 100 for 720 seconds. 	Eidar Cheese Wheel, Moon Sugar, Ale 	0.5	5
Grilled Chicken Breast 	Restores 5 Health Points. 	Chicken Breast, Salt Pile 	0.2	4
Horker Loaf 	Restores 10 Health Points. 	Salt Pile, Horker Meat 	1 	4
Horker Stew 	Restores 15 Health and 15 Stamina Points. Restores 1 Health per second for 720 seconds. 	Lavender, Tomato, Garlic, Horker Meat 	0.5	8
Horker and Ash Yam Stew	Restores 16 Health and 12 Stamina Points. 	Ash Yam, Garlic, Horker Meat 	0.5	9
Horse Haunch 	Restores 10 Health Points. 	Salt Pile, Horse Meat 	2 	4
Leg of Goat Roast 	Restores 10 Health Points. 	Salt Pile, Leg of Goat 	1 	4
Mammoth Steak 	Restores 10 Health Points. 	Salt Pile, Mammoth Snout 	2 	8
Pheasant Roast 	Restores 5 Health Points. 	Salt Pile, Pheasant Breast 	0.2	4
Potato Soup 	Restores 10 Health and 10 Stamina Points. 	Potato, Salt Pile 	0.5	5
Rabbit Haunch 	Restores 5 Health Points. 	Salt Pile, Raw Rabbit Leg 	0.1	3
Salmon Steak 	Restores 5 Health Points. 	Salt Pile, Salmon Meat 	0.1	4
Steamed Mudcrab Legs 	Restores 12 Health Points. 	Mudcrab Legs, Butter 	0.1	4
Tomato Soup 	Restores 10 Health and 10 Stamina Points. 	Tomato, Salt Pile, Garlic, Leek 	0.5	5
Vegetable Soup 	Restores 1 Health per second and 1 Stamina per second for 720 seconds. 	Cabbage, Potato, Leek, Tomato 	0.5	5
Venison Chop 	Restores 5 Health Points. 	Salt Pile, Venison 	2 	5
Venison Stew 	Restores 15 Stamina Points. Restores 1 Health per second and 1 Stamina per second for 720 seconds.	Venison, Salt Pile, Potato, Leek 	0.5	8
==Ingredients used for cooking==
*Ale
*Ash Yam 
*Butter 
*Cabbage
*Carrot
*Chicken Breast
*Clam Meat
*Eidar Cheese Wheel
*Garlic
*Horker Meat
*Horse Meat
*Jug of Milk 
*Lavender
*Leek
*Leg of Goat
*Mammoth Snout
*Moon Sugar
*Mudcrab Legs 
*Pheasant Breast
*Potato
*Raw Beef
*Raw Rabbit Leg
*Red Apple
*Salmon Meat
*Salt Pile
*Tomato
*Venison
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es:Cocinar (Skyrim)
it:Cucinare (Skyrim)
Category:Skyrim: Gameplay