Cooking Pot

A Cooking Pot is a tool primarily used for melting snow, boiling water, and Cooking food. A cooking pot will reduce the amount of time required for food inside it to cook by 20% and will allow for the creation of broths, stews, and porridges that cannot be cooked directly by the fire.

Overview[]

A cooking pot can melt or boil up to 2.00 liters of snow or water at a time. The amount of time required to melt snow per liter does decrease a bit when using a Cooking Pot, compared to a Recycled Can.

A Cooking Pot will degrade by 5% if its contents are burned or boiled dry. The Cooking Pot will not degrade in any other circumstances.

A Cooking Pot can be harvested for 1 unit of Scrap Metal.

It can also be repaired with Simple Tools or Quality Tools for 1 unit of Scrap Metal.

Locations[]

Cooking Pots typically spawn in houses and buildings with kitchens, especially kitchens with wood-burning cooking stoves.

Examples of places that Cooking Pots are known to spawn on Interloper:

Ash Canyon
- Angler's Den
- cave from Ash Canyon to Timberwolf Mountain
Bleak Inlet
- Pensive Lookout
Forsaken Airfield
- Mindful Cabin
- Bunker Omega
Hushed River Valley
- Large chamber of northern ice cave system, near the entrance closest to Mammoth Falls
- Potential snow shelter campsite in between Lonely Cave, Cloudtop Falls, and Stairsteps Lake
Mountain Town
- Milton House (Grey Mother's) and the other houses in Milton
- Paradise Meadows Farm
Mystery Lake
- Carter Hydro Dam in the room where the Memento is found
Pleasant Valley
- Pleasant Valley Farmstead
- Community Hall and the houses nearby
Sundered Pass
- Bolt Chopper's Haven
- Placid Notch on the patio
- Station Bunkhouse on the table near the potbelly stove
Zone of Contamination
- Idle Camp

It is not guaranteed that every region will spawn a Cooking Pot. Some regions, like Coastal Highway and Desolation Point, may have no Cooking Pots in a given game.

Recipes[]

The following recipes can only be created within a Cooking Pot, and are available to cook from the start:

Item	Weight	Cooking Times	Cooking Level
Broth	0.80 kg	60 min	1
Cooking Oil	0.75 kg	24 min	1
Ptarmigan Stew	0.35 kg	2 hr	1
Venison Stew	0.35 kg	2 hr	1
Trout Stew	0.35 kg	2 hr	1
Rabbit Stew	0.35 kg	2 hr	1
Porridge	0.20 kg	20 min	1

These Unique Recipes can only be cooked after their Recipe Cards are found:

Item	Weight	Cooking Times	Cooking Level
Camber Flight Porridge	0.30 kg	20 min	4
Last Resort Soup	0.10 kg	40 min	1
Pemmican Bar (4)	0.25 kg	40 min	5
Porter's Soup	0.10 kg	40 min	4
Ranger Stew	0.40 kg	2 hr	4
Thomson Family Stew	0.35 kg	2 hr	4
Vagabond Soup	0.10 kg	40 min	1

Trivia[]

The Cooking Pot was originally a harvestable environmental object called the Metal Pot, which was cut in the Vigilant Flame update and added as an item using the same model as the Metal Pot.

Update history[]

HOTFIX 28 Apr 2021 (Update):
- [Audio] Cans and Pots now play sound effects when placed onto a cooking slot, as intended.
UPDATE 19 May 2020 (Update):
- [Gameplay] The Cooking Pot now provides the correct bonus when cooking meat.
UPDATE 17 December 2018 (Update):
- [All] Fixed Cooking Pots sinking into cooking surfaces
HOTFIX 27 August 2018 (Update):
- [ALL] Player’s last Cooking Pot will no longer drop during a Struggle.
HOTFIX 20 June 2018 (Update):
- [All] Fixed players being able to use a Recycled Can/Cooking Pot to cook when the item was at 0% Condition.
UPDATE 14 June 2018 (Update):
- Added to game.