Cooking -- Intro to Recipes

In order to create meals using beYou kitchens, you will need to use recipes in combination with ingredients purchased from affiliate stores, co-ops, and user-made items from other beYou players (unless you do your own farming).

## Restrictions/Requirements

* beYou Hud not required (see note)
* No beYou level is required.
* Must own a kitchen to use.
* Additional equipment may be required, depending on the recipe.
* You only need to buy each recipe once per beYou user. That recipe will work in your kitchen regardless of the number of servings.

**NOTE**: if you are not a registered beYou member or you are a beYou member who hasn't selected cooking as a profession, you will only be able to cook NG meals. NG meals do NOT provide stats. They are for RP only.

## Recipe Levels

At present, there are three levels of recipes:

* TRAINEE (level 1): usually has 1-3 dishes/steps total
* BEGINNER (level 2): usually has 3 - 5 dishes/steps total
* BASIC (level 3): usually has 5 or more dishes/steps total

All recipes, regardless of level, can be cooked by anyone at any level. As you level up your cooking profession, earned skill point values may change based on the recipe’s level.

## Food Recipe Types

There are several types of food recipes:

* Prep Dish Recipes: these recipes are standalone recipes that are required as preliminary steps to a regular full-blown recipe. These are indicated on the recipe card vendor by "requires a separate recipe\*.
* Dinner Recipes: These recipes are full dinner entrees with sides. These recipes consist of a main dish and sides. These may require you to cook a prep dish recipe prior to completing the meal.
* Family Style Recipes: These are singular recipes that can be used together in any given combination. You **MUST** serve a FS Main dish to the plate before adding an FS side to the plate.
* Breakfast Recipes: These are similar to Family Style Recipes in that they can be mixed or match, with one exception. Breakfast sides have specific number slots on them. You can not use two sides with the same number on the same plate at the same time. One will override the other. If you wish to have two breakfast sides that occupy the same number slot, then you'd have to have two plates of food, serving a main with each serving.

## Using Recipes

Recipes can be understood & referenced in a few places: recipe card (like in the vendors & when you rezz the purchased card), the wiki recipe’s page (full list of available recipes found here), your inworld cookbook (rezzes from your kitchen), or the family recipe box.

Any meals made in a beYou kitchen unit will require a recipe. On purchase of a recipe and loading it into your kitchen, the recipe card adds any tools not already included in your kitchen and links your cookbook to the recipe via your assets.

### Recipe Card

When you buy a recipe, the card tells you a lot about what you’re buying.  The recipe card is also visible in both your kitchen’s cookbook and in the family recipe box. To better understand your recipe, let’s take a look at this card’s makeup (side photo, click to enlarge):

* **A - Recipe Name**: The recipe name gives a few hints as to not only what type of recipe you’re buying, but also where it will be found in your cookbook.
* **B - Dish/Step #**: Each recipe is broken down into a various number of steps (aka dishes).  These do not always have numbers next to them. When cooking, it is always best to start with the dish at the top of the list when you click ‘select dish’ while cooking.  By doing this, it ensures that any additional items needed will appear at the final step.
* **C - In Recipe Prep Dish**: Most in-recipe prep dishes will have an asterisk to the left of the name.  At the bottom of the recipe card’s photo is an explanation as to what the asterisk represents, which basically explains that this in-recipe prep dish will be added to the kitchen as an ingredient for another dish in the recipe.
* **D - Ingredients**: Ingredients are usually listed in black and will be a combination of grocery items, fresh produce, user-made foods (like some herbs for example), external prep dishes and of course in-recipe prep dishes.
* **E - External Prep Dish Recipes**: User-Made (aka external) prep dish recipes require a completely separate recipe card and should be purchased at the same time as your recipe.  These prep dishes are listed as ingredients on the recipe card and will be indicated with the phrase “This is from a separate recipe.” to the right of the item that is required to be made. These types of recipes can either be made (and in turn sold) or purchased via the local market page. **COOK THESE FIRST!**!
* **F - Recipe Cooking Level**: All recipes can be cooked by any beYou user at ANY level.  The cooking level basically indicates the complexity of the recipe. While the level doesn’t really have much impact as to what you can and can’t make, it does help later down the line if you’re leveling professions as some recipes offer additional cooking skill points as your profession’s level increases.

Photos of almost every recipe are available here in this wiki with a breakdown of each recipe as well. You can see a full list of all available recipes on the full recipe list page.  By clicking each link, you’ll be directed to each recipe, a reference photo card (when available), and a breakdown of what you may need in order to successfully complete your recipe.

You can also see each recipe card in the family recipe box.

The Family Recipe Box, your beYou Cooking Page’s Recipe List & the beYou Full Recipe List Wiki Page mirror your cookbook in that they will tell you exactly where to find a recipe in your cookbook.  While the Wiki page will sometimes not sync with your cookbook, both the Family Recipe Box and your cooking page will.

**PREP DISH NOTE:** Most prep dishes are made in the meal. If the ingredient doesn't say "separate dish/separate prep dish" then it is an in-recipe prep dish (see C above).

## Loading Recipes

As of 11/2022, purchased recipes no longer will need to be loaded into the kitchen owner's assets.

Purchased recipes will automatically be loaded into the account owner's assets, unless they purchase a recipe as a gift for someone else. In the event that the recipe is gifted to another beYou user, the recipe will be added to the recipient's assets on purchase.

**IMPORTANT**: Once a recipe is purchased, it is automatically loaded into the assets of the person for whom the recipe is bought. If you are using someone else's kitchen you **must** use the gift option on the recipe vendor to ensure that they receive the recipe. By doing this, the recipe will load into their assets automatically so that you can use their kitchen immediately.

## Cooking Points

When you have the cooking profession enabled in your profile, you are able to earn cooking points toward your profession for every recipe that you complete start to finish...uninterrupted.

What this means is that if you have to stop cooking (not stand up and walk away but completely stop cooking the recipe), then you won't be able to earn a cooking point for the recipe even after you reopen the recipe and pick up where you left off.

How does this relate to recipes?

Easy! Each completed recipe, regardless of the number of servings you're making, can earn you at least 1 cooking point. This means that you can cook a 2-serving or a 16-serving recipe and it will still only equal 1 point.

As your level goes up, the recipe's cooking level (trainee, basic or beginner) can potentially earn you more cooking points. But for now we'll just say 1 cooking point per recipe completed.

This is also important when picking what you'd like to cook.

For example if you take a look at the recipe posted above (see photo), it has the potential to earn at the very least 3 cooking points for a 2-serving meal.

How?

If you look at the recipe card, the recipe itself counts as 1 point. But there are also two separate prep dishes (see the E meaning on the card). Each of those recipes ALSO count as 1 point when they are completed.

So the recipes (and in turn cooking point) breakdown for (1) 2-serving recipe for Family Style Main - Homestyle Meatloaf would be:

* Family Style Main - Homestyle Meatloaf (1 cooking point)
* Separate Prep Dish Recipe - bY Sauteed Onions & Garlic (1 cooking point)
* Separate Prep Dish Recipe - bY Diced Green Peppers aka Sliced n Diced Green Peppers (1 cooking point)

All three combined total 3 cooking points for a 2-serving recipe of FS Main - Homestyle Meatloaf when finished.

There are some recipes that will no longer award cooking points. They can be found on the beYou Updates page under "Discontinued Cooking Points".

## Additional Recipe Hint

When using the Recipe Checker on the beYou Website & you see 'bowl, pan, drippings' on the list of ingredients this is something that creates while you're cooking the recipe and will add as you go. User-made recipes usually have bY as the prefix in the title.

## Reminder

* A full list of available recipes for sale are listed on the Full Recipe List Wiki Page.
* You will only earn cooking points for recipes that are completed without interruption.