Obtain a Long Wooden Stick by using a Knife to cut one from a bush or interacting with a bush with empty hands (using empty hands can cause bleeding if unlucky and damages gloves).Note: House fireplaces with 1 cooking slot do NOT allow this cooking method as at Patch 1.08. House Fireplaces have 1-3 cooking slots attached so the Stick method may be unnecessary unless you want to cook more items than the Fireplace allows.This method leaves the player vulnerable whilst cooking because you have to sit and stay still whilst the item cooks as you hold it.This is the only possible state that can be achieved with this method.

This is the simplest but slowest method of Cooking in DayZ and results in the food items becoming Baked.Animals are not able to be cooked whole either, meaning players must first skin the animal to obtain meat which can be cooked.Ī complete list of cook-able items can be found below. Fruits and vegetables can be cooked whole with the exception of the Pumpkin, which must first be cut into slices. Players are able to cook most fruits, vegetables, and meat. Burned food is essentially a waste, because it cannot be eaten without making the person sick. Overcooking food, regardless of what is being cooked and the method used, will result in the food becoming burned. For meat, that means killing potential diseases to make it safe for consumption for produce, preventing it from rotting and becoming unsafe to eat after sitting too long.įood typically has varying nutritional value between its different states, meaning that certain ways of preparing it will have advantages over others in regards to energy, water, volume, or all of the above. The process of converting raw food into other states has several purposes behind it, but the primary drive to do so is making the food more useful to players.

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