Basic Cooking
skillAlso known as: [Basic Cooking]
An entry-level culinary Skill improving preparation of simple meals.
Profile
A limitation of the skill is revealed: it cannot be used to automatically cook unprepared food. When Erin Solstice tried to command it to bake a whole fish, it had no effect, implying it likely requires ingredients to be manually prepared first.
Timeline
The [Basic Cooking] skill appears in a system notification alongside [Basic Cleaning], granted to Erin as part of her new [Innkeeper] class.
Erin attempts to use this skill to magically cook the fish she caught, but it fails. This demonstrates to her that her skills are not simple magic spells and have limitations or specific requirements.
Erin reflects on this skill, realizing it's the source of her innate knowledge about how to make bread and pasta. The skill guides her in preparing her first complex meal in the new world.
Quotes
“[Basic Cooking]! Give me—baked fish!”
“Huh. I guess [Basic Cooking] doesn’t work on fish.”
“[Basic Cooking], huh?”