Without food nobody survives. Chefs make the meals beYou lives on.
Cooking is the backbone of beYou: without food, players cannot survive. Chefs provide the skilled meals and edible items everyone lives on.
You can make low-grade meals as soon as you turn the profession on, and your food improves in grade as you level.
Turning Cooking off leaves you able to make only no-grade food. Turn it back on and your food returns to the grade you had reached.
Buy a station when the level that needs it arrives, not before.
Levelling Cooking is research: a set list of tasks for each level, done in world. Alongside them a level needs skill points and LEP, and its training books.
15 tasks, 59 things to do in all, to reach level 1.
Some of these only start counting once the task before them is finished, so work down the list in order.
Every level needs skill points, LEP (life experience points, earned over time while you wear the HUD) and that level's research. Cooking is built on Cooking, which reaches 3,448 points by the top level.
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| 1 | Trainee | – | – | – | – | – | – | 690 |
| 2 | Beginner | 10 | 60 | 20 | 10 | 10 | 600 | 1,235 |
| 3 | Basic | 10 | 110 | 100 | 10 | 50 | 165 | 2,596 |
| 4 | Basic | 10 | 50 | 100 | 10 | 50 | 265 | 2,778 |
| 5 | Basic | 10 | 50 | 100 | 10 | 50 | 271 | 2,968 |
| 6 | Basic | 10 | 50 | 100 | 10 | 50 | 277 | 3,162 |
| 7 | Basic | 10 | 50 | 100 | 10 | 50 | 283 | 3,364 |
| 8 | Basic | 10 | 50 | 100 | 10 | 50 | 290 | 3,570 |
| 9 | Basic | 10 | 50 | 100 | 10 | 50 | 297 | 3,784 |
| 10 | Basic | 10 | 50 | 100 | 10 | 50 | 304 | 4,002 |
| 11 | Basic | 10 | 50 | 100 | 10 | 50 | 312 | 4,228 |
| 12 | Basic | 10 | 50 | 100 | 10 | 50 | 320 | 4,458 |
| 13 | Basic | 10 | 50 | 100 | 10 | 50 | 328 | 4,696 |
| 14 | Basic | 10 | 50 | 100 | 10 | 50 | 337 | 4,938 |
| 15 | Basic | 10 | 50 | 100 | 10 | 50 | 346 | 5,188 |
| 16 | Basic | 10 | 50 | 100 | 10 | 50 | 355 | 5,442 |
| 17 | Basic | 10 | 50 | 100 | 10 | 50 | 365 | 5,702 |
| 18 | Basic | 10 | 50 | 100 | 10 | 50 | 375 | 5,970 |
| 19 | Basic | 10 | 50 | 100 | 10 | 50 | 385 | 6,242 |
| 20 | Basic | 10 | 50 | 100 | 10 | 50 | 396 | 6,522 |
| 21 | Basic | 10 | 50 | 100 | 10 | 50 | 407 | 6,806 |
| 22 | Basic | 10 | 50 | 100 | 10 | 50 | 418 | 7,098 |
| 23 | Basic | 10 | 50 | 100 | 10 | 50 | 430 | 7,394 |
| 24 | Basic | 10 | 50 | 100 | 10 | 50 | 442 | 7,696 |
| 25 | Apprentice | 30 | 100 | 100 | 30 | 100 | 454 | 8,006 |
| 26 | Apprentice | 30 | 100 | 100 | 30 | 100 | 467 | 8,320 |
| 27 | Apprentice | 30 | 100 | 100 | 30 | 100 | 480 | 8,640 |
| 28 | Apprentice | 30 | 100 | 100 | 30 | 100 | 494 | 8,968 |
| 29 | Apprentice | 30 | 100 | 100 | 30 | 100 | 508 | 9,300 |
| 30 | Apprentice | 30 | 100 | 100 | 30 | 100 | 523 | 9,640 |
| 31 | Apprentice | 30 | 100 | 100 | 30 | 100 | 538 | 9,984 |
| 32 | Apprentice | 30 | 100 | 100 | 30 | 100 | 554 | 10,334 |
| 33 | Apprentice | 30 | 100 | 100 | 30 | 100 | 570 | 10,692 |
| 34 | Apprentice | 30 | 100 | 100 | 30 | 100 | 587 | 11,054 |
| 35 | Apprentice | 30 | 100 | 100 | 30 | 100 | 604 | 11,422 |
| 36 | Apprentice | 30 | 100 | 100 | 30 | 100 | 622 | 11,798 |
| 37 | Apprentice | 30 | 100 | 100 | 30 | 100 | 640 | 12,178 |
| 38 | Apprentice | 30 | 100 | 100 | 30 | 100 | 659 | 12,564 |
| 39 | Apprentice | 30 | 100 | 100 | 30 | 100 | 678 | 12,958 |
| 40 | Apprentice | 30 | 100 | 100 | 30 | 100 | 698 | 13,356 |
| 41 | Apprentice | 30 | 100 | 100 | 30 | 100 | 718 | 13,760 |
| 42 | Apprentice | 30 | 100 | 100 | 30 | 100 | 739 | 14,170 |
| 43 | Apprentice | 30 | 100 | 100 | 30 | 100 | 760 | 14,588 |
| 44 | Apprentice | 30 | 100 | 100 | 30 | 100 | 782 | 15,010 |
| 45 | Apprentice | 30 | 100 | 100 | 30 | 100 | 804 | 15,438 |
| 46 | Apprentice | 30 | 100 | 100 | 30 | 100 | 827 | 15,874 |
| 47 | Apprentice | 30 | 100 | 100 | 30 | 100 | 850 | 16,314 |
| 48 | Apprentice | 30 | 100 | 100 | 30 | 100 | 874 | 16,760 |
| 49 | Apprentice | 30 | 100 | 100 | 30 | 100 | 898 | 17,212 |
| 50 | Advanced | 30 | 100 | 150 | 30 | 100 | 923 | 17,672 |
| 51 | Advanced | 30 | 100 | 100 | 30 | 100 | 949 | 18,136 |
| 52 | Advanced | 30 | 100 | 100 | 30 | 100 | 976 | 18,606 |
| 53 | Advanced | 30 | 100 | 100 | 30 | 100 | 1,004 | 19,082 |
| 54 | Advanced | 30 | 100 | 100 | 30 | 100 | 1,033 | 19,564 |
| 55 | Advanced | 30 | 100 | 100 | 30 | 100 | 1,063 | 20,054 |
| 56 | Advanced | 30 | 100 | 100 | 30 | 100 | 1,094 | 20,548 |
| 57 | Advanced | 30 | 100 | 100 | 30 | 100 | 1,126 | 21,048 |
| 58 | Advanced | 30 | 100 | 100 | 30 | 100 | 1,159 | 21,554 |
| 59 | Advanced | 30 | 100 | 100 | 30 | 100 | 1,193 | 22,066 |
| 60 | Advanced | 30 | 100 | 100 | 30 | 100 | 1,228 | 22,586 |
| 61 | Advanced | 30 | 100 | 100 | 30 | 100 | 1,264 | 23,110 |
| 62 | Advanced | 30 | 100 | 100 | 30 | 100 | 1,301 | 23,640 |
| 63 | Advanced | 30 | 100 | 100 | 30 | 100 | 1,339 | 24,176 |
| 64 | Advanced | 30 | 100 | 100 | 30 | 100 | 1,378 | 24,718 |
| 65 | Advanced | 30 | 100 | 100 | 30 | 100 | 1,418 | 25,266 |
| 66 | Advanced | 30 | 100 | 100 | 30 | 100 | 1,459 | 25,822 |
| 67 | Advanced | 30 | 100 | 100 | 30 | 100 | 1,501 | 26,382 |
| 68 | Advanced | 30 | 100 | 100 | 30 | 100 | 1,544 | 26,948 |
| 69 | Advanced | 30 | 100 | 100 | 30 | 100 | 1,588 | 27,520 |
| 70 | Advanced | 30 | 100 | 100 | 30 | 100 | 1,590 | 28,098 |
| 71 | Advanced | 30 | 100 | 100 | 30 | 100 | 1,722 | 28,682 |
| 72 | Advanced | 30 | 100 | 100 | 30 | 100 | 1,726 | 29,272 |
| 73 | Advanced | 30 | 100 | 100 | 30 | 100 | 1,774 | 29,868 |
| 74 | Advanced | 30 | 100 | 100 | 30 | 100 | 1,823 | 30,472 |
| 75 | Expert | 50 | 200 | 200 | 50 | 200 | 1,873 | 31,080 |
| 76 | Expert | 50 | 200 | 100 | 50 | 200 | 1,924 | 31,694 |
| 77 | Expert | 50 | 200 | 100 | 50 | 200 | 1,976 | 32,314 |
| 78 | Expert | 50 | 200 | 100 | 50 | 200 | 2,029 | 32,940 |
| 79 | Expert | 50 | 200 | 100 | 50 | 200 | 2,083 | 33,574 |
| 80 | Expert | 50 | 200 | 100 | 50 | 200 | 2,138 | 34,212 |
| 81 | Expert | 50 | 200 | 100 | 50 | 200 | 2,194 | 34,858 |
| 82 | Expert | 50 | 200 | 100 | 50 | 200 | 2,251 | 35,510 |
| 83 | Expert | 50 | 200 | 100 | 50 | 200 | 2,309 | 36,166 |
| 84 | Expert | 50 | 200 | 100 | 50 | 200 | 2,368 | 36,830 |
| 85 | Expert | 50 | 200 | 100 | 50 | 200 | 2,428 | 37,500 |
| 86 | Expert | 50 | 200 | 100 | 50 | 200 | 2,489 | 38,174 |
| 87 | Expert | 50 | 200 | 100 | 50 | 200 | 2,551 | 38,856 |
| 88 | Expert | 50 | 200 | 100 | 50 | 200 | 2,614 | 39,542 |
| 89 | Expert | 50 | 200 | 100 | 50 | 200 | 2,678 | 40,236 |
| 90 | Expert | 50 | 200 | 100 | 50 | 200 | 2,743 | 40,936 |
| 91 | Expert | 50 | 200 | 100 | 50 | 200 | 2,809 | 41,640 |
| 92 | Expert | 50 | 200 | 100 | 50 | 200 | 2,876 | 42,352 |
| 93 | Expert | 50 | 200 | 100 | 50 | 200 | 2,944 | 43,068 |
| 94 | Expert | 50 | 200 | 100 | 50 | 200 | 3,013 | 43,792 |
| 95 | Expert | 50 | 200 | 100 | 50 | 200 | 3,083 | 44,520 |
| 96 | Expert | 50 | 200 | 100 | 50 | 200 | 3,154 | 45,256 |
| 97 | Expert | 50 | 200 | 100 | 50 | 200 | 3,226 | 45,998 |
| 98 | Expert | 50 | 200 | 100 | 50 | 200 | 3,299 | 46,744 |
| 99 | Expert | 50 | 200 | 100 | 50 | 200 | 3,373 | 47,498 |
| 100 | Master | 80 | 200 | 300 | 80 | 200 | 3,448 | 48,256 |