Many a brave adventurer has set out on a quest prepared for any foe - except an empty belly! Perhaps even you, dear reader, have found yourself hungry in the wilds with nothing but crumbs left in your pack. You could cook yourself a nice meal at a campfire…if only you hadn’t spent all your time learning fighting skills instead of the noble art of cooking. Lucky for you, it’s never too late to learn, and our series of beginner-friendly cookbooks is here to teach you everything you need to know! Before you know it you’ll be baking potatoes, roasting beef, and stewing cabbage like a master. You can even turn your new culinary skills into wondrous arms and armor!

Features
Master Chef adds a progression system to cooking. You’ll start out unable to cook so much as a potato, but as you acquire cookbooks, you’ll learn recipes for a variety of meals, including two new meals from "Uncommon Taste." If you wish to fully pursue the path of the Master Chef, you can use your culinary and alchemical skill to infuse your chef’s clothes, knife, and fork with powerful enchantments.

Cookbooks
Cookbooks all have a handy prefix for easy sorting and identification. Basic cookbooks can be purchased from innkeepers. More advanced cookbooks can be purchased from chef NPCs, the Winking Skeever, and Nightgate Inn. Cookbooks also have a (rare) chance to drop as loot from enemies.

Some recipes may require multiple cookbooks, and some cookbooks need additional mods to be truly useful.


Chef Equipment
Chef equipment consists of three clothing items (Chef's Hat, Chef's Tunic, and Chef's Shoes) and two weapons (Knife and Fork). The cookbook Proper Kitchen Equipment will teach you how to make Special Seasonings which can be infused into your equipment at the forge for increasingly powerful enchantments.

Tier One - Tasty


Tier Two - Delicious


Tier Three - Scrumptious


Chef equipment uses vanilla textures and meshes.

Compatibility
Master Chef edits several vanilla records - it renames Chef's Shoes (from just Shoes), it adds cookbook leveled lists to various merchant containers and one vanilla level list (for random book loot), and it edits the book "Uncommon Taste." Consult xEdit to see if these changes impact your game.

Requirements
Master Chef requires the Apothecary Food and Drink addon and Thaumaturgy. It doesn't explicitly require the Apothecary potions module, or the rest of SimonRim, but I highly recommend them.

Available Patches
Creation Club (Camping, Rare Curios, Farming, Fishing, Nix Hound, Survival) - edits recipes
Apothecary Anniversary Update - edits recipes for Fishing CC, Survival CC, and the Rare Curios poison apples
Merchant - A Trading Expansion - adds cookbooks to new chef vendors
Brewer - An Alcohol Brewing Mod - edits recipes
Huntsman - A Hunting Expansion - edits recipes
Crystal Mudcrabs - edits recipes
Book Covers Skyrim - resolves "Uncommon Taste" conflict
Book Covers Skyrim Updated - resolves "Uncommon Taste" conflict
Humble Beginnings - adds basic cookbooks (meat, fish, vegetables) to Chef starter items
Tutorial Note - adds a note to the cookpot when the player doesn't know any recipes (useful for modlists)

New in 1.1
Bosmeri Cuisine - edits recipes
Mealtime - edits recipes
Cooking Adventures in Skyrim - edits recipes
Sweets and Such - Baking Expanded SE - edits recipes

Compatible without a patch
CHOCOLATE

Third-party patches
Random Master Chef Patches - muetzl
Beyond Skyrim: Bruma - StarRiseShine
Waterview - StarRiseShine
Waterview in Skyrim - StarRiseShine
Winterview - StarRiseShine

If you need a patch for another mod, drop me a comment and I'll do my best to make one when I have time, or make your own patch in xEdit or Creation Kit (it should be pretty straightforward, ask if you need help). If you do make your own patches, feel free to upload them to Nexus and let me know so I can add a link!

Recommended Mods
Master Chef works great with C.O.C.K.S. and Cooking Categories Improvement, no patch needed. If you want maximum chef roleplay, check out my lightweight starter class mod Humble Beginnings.

Credits
Master Chef wouldn't be possible without the creators of Apothecary (Simon and Delta) and Thaumaturgy (Simon, Delta, Oreo, and Hypebringer). I also wanted to shout out the nice folks in the SimonRim discord for all their help.