Cooking

Cooking turns raw ingredients into food with a skillet — the only cooking tool on Sagas. What sets it apart from other crafts is that most recipes also need a nearby station: a heat source, an oven, or a flour mill. On Sagas the skill is far more than flavor — the custom buff food dishes give real combat bonuses, and their best recipes need a cook at 100+. General crafting rules are in the Crafting Overview.

Stations

Station	Needed for	Counts as
Heat source	Barbecue meats and all buff food	Campfires, fireplaces, fire pits, forges, braziers, ovens
Oven	All baking (bread, pies, pizza, cakes)	Stone and sandstone ovens
Flour mill	Milling wheat into flour	Flour mills

Every oven is also a heat source, so a house with a stone oven covers both. Carpenters craft stone oven and flour mill deeds for houses; out in the world, a simple campfire handles all barbecue and buff-food cooking.

The baking chain

Baked goods are built in steps, each its own recipe (all trainable from skill 0):

Sack of Flour — 2 wheat sheaves at a mill
Dough — flour + water
Sweet Dough — dough + jar of honey; Cake Mix — flour + sweet dough; Cookie Mix — honey + sweet dough
Unbaked pies, pizzas, and quiche — dough + a filling (eggs, ribs, sausage, cheese, fruit)
Bake in an oven: bread, cookies, cake, muffins, quiche, meat/fruit/apple/peach/pumpkin pies, sausage and cheese pizza

Barbecue is simpler: raw bird, chicken, lamb, ribs, fish steaks, and eggs cook over any heat source — and a whole stack cooks in one action.

There is no exceptional food — cooked items are always normal quality, and a failed cook sometimes wastes the ingredients.

Buff food (Sagas custom)

The reason to be a serious cook: four tiers of plated dishes that grant buffs when eaten. Every recipe needs a heat source and consumes a plate and spices on top of the food itself; the top tiers also need carpenter-made tablets (see Ingredients for sourcing the components).

Tier	Skill	Example dishes	Extra components
Poor	50–75	Poor Fish, Poor Steak, Poor Cooked Vegetables	plate + spices
Medium	70–100	Fish / Meat / Vegetable Stew	plate + spices
High	80–115	High Fish / Meat / Vegetable Plate	+ Craftable Tablet
Chef Feast	100–120	Chef Fish / Meat / Vegetable Feast	+ Craftable Large Tablet, recipe required

Each tier comes in a fish, meat, and vegetable version, so any hunter, farmer, or fisherman can feed the pipeline. The Chef Feast recipes must be learned from recipe scrolls found as loot, and both tablet types are made by carpenters (the large one needs a 100+ carpenter).

Raising the skill

Cooking reaches 120 with Crafting skill scrolls — needed to cook the Chef Feasts (100–120) and High Plates (80–115) reliably.

Training is cheap because almost every basic recipe works across the whole skill range:

Skill	Cook
0–50	Cook fish steaks or ribs over a campfire (stacks cook in one go), or bake bread
50–70	Poor buff dishes (fish is cheapest if you fish your own)
70–80	Medium stews
80–100	High plates, or keep cooking cheap stews and bread
100–120	Chef Feasts once you have the recipes; High plates otherwise

Fishing pairs naturally with Cooking — raw fish steaks feed you from 0 all the way to the Chef Fish Feast (which wants a Big Fish). See Fishing.

What you can craft

Baking

Item	Skill	Resources
bread loaf	0 – 120	1 × Dough
pan of cookies	0 – 120	1 × Cookie Mix
cake	0 – 120	1 × Cake Mix
muffins	0 – 120	1 × Sweet Dough
baked quiche	0 – 120	1 × Uncooked Quiches
baked meat pie	0 – 120	1 × Uncooked Meat Pies
sausage pizza	0 – 120	1 × Uncooked Sausage Pizzas
cheese pizza	0 – 120	1 × Uncooked Cheese Pizzas
baked fruit pie	0 – 120	1 × Uncooked Fruit Pies
baked peach cobbler	0 – 120	1 × Uncooked Peach Cobblers
baked apple pie	0 – 100	1 × Uncooked Apple Pies
baked pumpkin pie	0 – 120	1 × Unbaked Pumpkin Pies

Barbecue

Item	Skill	Resources
cooked bird	0 – 120	1 × Raw Birds
chicken leg	0 – 120	1 × Raw Chicken Legs
fish steak	0 – 110	1 × Raw Fish Steaks
fried eggs	0 – 120	1 × Eggs
leg of lamb	0 – 120	1 × Raw Legs of Lamb
cut of ribs	0 – 120	1 × Raw Ribs

Buff Food

Item	Skill	Resources
fish dish	50 – 75	4 × raw fish steak, 1 × spices, 1 × plate
steak	50 – 75	1 × Raw Ribs, 1 × spices, 1 × plate
cooked vegetables	50 – 75	3 × Carrot, 2 × Lettuce, 1 × spices, 1 × plate
fish stew	70 – 100	6 × raw fish steak, 1 × spices, 1 × plate
meat stew	70 – 100	3 × Raw Ribs, 1 × spices, 1 × plate
veggie stew	70 – 100	4 × Carrot, 1 × Turnip, 1 × spices, 1 × plate
fish plate	80 – 115	8 × raw fish steak, 1 × spices, 1 × plate, 1 × small tablet
meat plate	80 – 115	5 × Raw Ribs, 1 × spices, 1 × plate, 1 × small tablet
veggie plate	80 – 115	2 × Potato, 2 × Turnip, 1 × spices, 1 × plate, 1 × small tablet
fish feast	100 – 120	1 × a big fish, 1 × spices, 1 × plate, 1 × large tablet
meat feast	100 – 120	7 × Raw Ribs, 1 × spices, 1 × plate, 1 × large tablet
veggie feast	100 – 120	2 × Potato, 1 × Mushroom, 1 × spices, 1 × plate, 1 × large tablet

Ingredients

Item	Skill	Resources
sack of flour	0 – 100	2 × Wheat
dough	0 – 100	1 × Flour, 1 × Water
sweet dough	0 – 100	1 × Dough, 1 × Honey
cake mix	0 – 100	1 × Flour, 1 × Sweet Dough
cookie mix	0 – 100	1 × Honey, 1 × Sweet Dough

Preparations

Item	Skill	Resources
unbaked quiche	0 – 100	1 × Dough, 1 × Eggs
unbaked meat pie	0 – 100	1 × Dough, 1 × Raw Meat
uncooked sausage pizza	0 – 100	1 × Dough, 1 × Sausage
uncooked cheese pizza	0 – 100	1 × Dough, 1 × Cheese
unbaked fruit pie	0 – 100	1 × Dough, 1 × Pears
unbaked peach cobbler	0 – 100	1 × Dough, 1 × Peaches
unbaked pumpkin pie	0 – 100	1 × Dough, 1 × Apples
Darkglow	0 – 100	1 × Dough, 1 × Pumpkin
savage kin paint	105 – 80	1 × Flour, 1 × Tribal Berries

Crafting Overview — shared crafting rules
Collectable Ingredients — turnips, potatoes and mushrooms, picked by hand for the best dishes
Fishing — raw fish for barbecue and buff food
Carpentry — oven and mill deeds, craftable tablets
Skill Scrolls — raising Cooking to 120