Short answer
You cook at two stations in the Home: the Kitchen Table (31 recipes, Farming mastery 1–6, worked by hand) and the Kitchen Oven (36 recipes, mastery 2–8, finishes on its own but burns Fuel). Both come from repairing broken furniture. Each dish is unlocked by its own technology, the Cook perks add servings, and the strongest food — Elder's meal, 120 energy — also pays tech points.

Home and garden
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The two kitchen stations
Kitchen Table: repair the Broken Kitchen Table with 2 Wooden Plank (Building 3). It is a workbench, so every tick costs you energy. Kitchen Table II adds one recipe, Chocolate.
Kitchen Oven: repair the Broken Oven with 2 Piece of stone (Building 3). It is an auto-crafter — start a recipe and it finishes without you — but every bake burns 10 to 25 Fuel.
Kitchen Oven II adds no recipes; each of its ticks takes half as long.
A zombie can work either station, but it only starts recipes its own Farming mastery allows.
Kitchen Table recipes
Berry smoothie — 4 Berry + 2 Apple, mastery 1, makes 3 (5 with Cook). Yogurt — Jug of Milk + Honey, mastery 2, makes 3.
Beet slices — 3 Beet, mastery 2. Grated beets — 4 Beet + Seed oil, mastery 3. Dough — 6 Flour + 2 Water, mastery 2, makes 6 for the oven.
River fish fillet — 1 to 4 fillets per fish at mastery 3, depending on the fish; the Fish Filleter perk doubles it.
Bowl of sauerkraut (3 Cabbage, Salt, Seed oil) and Vegetable salad (2 Onion, 2 Carrot, 2 Beet) are star crafts at mastery 4: 4 successful ticks give silver, 7 give gold.
Sandwich — Cabbage, Baked meat and 2 Bread, mastery 4, makes 4. Burger — Onion, Minced Meat and 2 Bread, mastery 5, makes 4.
Kitchen Oven recipes
Mastery 2: Baked apple (5 Apple), Baked mushrooms (5 Brown Mushroom), Baked pumpkin, and Bread (4 Dough) — 10 Fuel each.
Mastery 3: Carrot cutlet (4 Carrot), Fish nuggets (River fish fillet + Seed oil) and Onion rings (3 Onion + Seed oil).
Mastery 4: Baked fish, Baked meat (Flesh + Salt), Berry Pie (4 Dough + 6 Berry), Carrot soup, Muffin, Soldier's stew and Toast with onions.
Mastery 5: Cabbage soup, Croissant, Fish soup, Pumpkin soup and Vegetable soup. Mastery 6: Baked salmon, Fisherman's pie and Lasagna.
Mastery 8: Elder's meal (Elder Catfish + Chicken Egg, 25 Fuel) and Fried golden carp (Mythic Carp).
Original diagram of the wood-to-fuel chain. The Kitchen Oven burns 10 to 25 Fuel per bake, supplied the same way.
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Ingredient quality changes the yield
Several oven recipes come in bronze, silver and gold versions of the same vegetable. Two gold pumpkins bake into 7 Baked pumpkin, against 2 from bronze.
Cabbage soup goes from 4 servings with bronze cabbage to 10 with gold; Onion rings and Toast with onions jump from 2 to 7.
That is why better seeds and fertilizer pay off in the kitchen, not only at the market.
The best energy food
Elder's meal restores 120 energy and gives 90 of each tech point — its tooltip only shows 30.
Fisherman's pie (2 Mysterious fish fillet, 2 Frog) and the Burger restore 80. Lasagna and the Sandwich restore 50, but the Sandwich adds 5 insanity and Lasagna 1.
Cheap starter food is weak: a Baked apple restores only 21.
The pre-order Sauna's Steamed Up buff adds 10% to cooked food while it lasts — Elder's meal becomes 132.
Perks that save food and fuel
Cook adds servings to Kitchen Table dishes and the basic bakes — Baked apple, Bread, Berry Pie. Cook II does the same for most other oven dishes, from soups to Lasagna.
Heat Saver cuts the oven's Fuel cost by half or more — 10 becomes 5, 25 becomes 10.
Fish Filleter doubles the fillets each fish gives.
Sources
- communitywikily.gg — Kitchen Table
- communitywikily.gg — Kitchen Oven
- communitywikily.gg — Crafting stations
- communitywikily.gg — Elder's meal
- communitywikily.gg — Pre-order bonus (Steamed Up)
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