Cooking -- Leveling Up

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* Cooking -- Intro to Cooking
When leveling any profession, you will need to fulfill certain requirements.

## 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.

With each new level, new benefits will be revealed.

## Level Up Requirements

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.

### Research Credits

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 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.*

## IMPORTANT: Resetting Kitchen

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:

1. Sit on your stove/oven unit.
2. Click cookbook. Choose 'End Cooking.'
3. Click the countertop. Choose reset.

Let it run all the way and then you can start cooking using your new cooking level.

## 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.