Gourmet Cooking Stock

Can be added to meals to make gourmet meals.  When cooking food during rest actions, you can create gourmet food which grants non-stacking buffs.  Can only be used when cooking fresh food with a Culinary Kit or a Kitchen.  Cooking stocks typically come in a pack of 10 and it uses one cooking stock per meal.  If you are cooking a big meal for your party members, you need one stock per serving.  When using the Culinary Kit action with a stock, you must have enough stock to cover all of the food being made, otherwise the effect does not work.  For example, if you are cooking for 4 people, you need 160u of food and 4 cooking stocks to get the cooking stock effect.  (Remember, you can only use your culinary kit once per rest).

To make a cooking stock you start with a base, which requires 500u of any mix of food. 

• Mushroom Stock (+Focus)
• Meaty Stock (+Power)
• Fish Stock (+Toughness)
• Vegetable Stock (+Agility)
• Spicy Stock (+Crafting)
• Herbal Stock (+Gathering)

Culinarians can make multi-flavored stocks as well, which can increase more than one attribute at once.

When using a Gourmet stock, the meal counts as a gourmet meal and gives +1 mana.

When crafting a stock, you make 10 at a time.

Using stock from scratch example:

1. Obtain 500u of Mushrooms.
2. Errand action to create a box of fresh mushrooms.
3. Craft Base Stock for 500u of any food.
4. Change base stock to mushroom stock by putting in the box of fresh mushrooms and using the Culinarian skill.
5. Use Stir Layered Flavors to add another ingredient.  Adding a box of fresh meat to make a Meaty Mushroom stock.
6. Use Every Last Drop to increase stock yield by 2.
7. You obtain 10+2 Meaty Mushroom Stock which grants +1 Focus and +1 Power Food Bonus for 24 hours.
8. During a rest action, cooking for 5 people, you add 5 Meaty Mushroom Stock and 200u of food to make 5 Meaty Mushroom Dishes to feed your party and give them buffs.