Cooking
Cooking is one of the newer crafting miniskills. Its sister miniskill is Gathering. The cooking permit is purchased within the Culinary Institute in the Crafters Union in Delos for a cost of 200 credits.
As a licensed chef, one may design, prepare, and alter recipes as well as prepare certain ingredients collected during gathering into other more complicated ingredients.
Cooking abilities include:
| Ability | Description |
| Prepare | Prepare existing recipes. |
| Grain | Use grain to prepare new ingredients. |
| Recipes | Create your own recipes. |
| Milk | Use milk to prepare new ingredients. |
| Preserve | Salt your food to increase its life span. |
| Alteration | Make minor alterations to recipes you prepare. |
| Portions | Wasting less means larger portions. |
Ingredients such as milk, salt, grain and flour may also be used to create new ingredients such as pasta, dough, cheese and butter. The following lists the possibilities:
| Ingredient | Recipe |
| Dough | 1 grain, 2 water, 2 flour |
| Pasta | 1 egg, 1 grain, 1 water, 2 flour |
| Butter | 4 milk |
| Cheese | 3 milk, 1 salt |
Finally, chefs are able to design their own recipes. However, contrary to the process of tailoring and jewellery design, chefs must specify the necessary ingredients needed as well as the first-person and third-person messages given when the dish is consumed.
Ingredients currently available are: salt, sugar, flour, spices, seeds, nuts, fruits, vegetables, cheese, butter, eggs, grain, dough, pasta, meat, fish, poultry, milk, water, oil, chocolate.
Cooked dishes require a cooking stove or campfire. A single stove exists in each city and can also be purchased as a permanent, unmovable piece of furniture directly from Fronck, manager of the Delosian Furniture showroom for 200,000 gold sovereigns. For a period of time, a portable potbellied stove was also available from the Shop of Wonders at a price of five mayan crowns.
The following is a list of the base recipes sold in the Culinary Institute in Delos:
| Item | Item |
| a plate of cooked food | a bowl of cooked food |
| a cup of cooked food | a platter of cooked food |
| a plain drumstick | a plain cake |
| a plain pie | a recipe for a plain loaf of bread |
| a skewer of cooked food | a plain steak |
| a plain haunch of meat | a plain salad |
| a plain pastry | a plain sandwich |
| a plain tart | a plain wrap |
| a plain cupcake | a plain muffin |
| a plain bread roll | a plain scone |
| a plain bagel | a plain cookie |
| a plain doughnut | a plain burger |