Simple and short guide for Hot Food Cooking (HFC)
Going to take you from skill 1 to 40.
1 Knife, 1 Carvingknife, minimum 1 Pottery Bowl, Minimum 1 Frying pan iron, 1 Own.
After this 5 stop meat prepare, you should have "Minced fillet of meat".
This do not give you HFC, but it skills your "Cooking" and your "Butchering" skills.
Now you take your "Pottery Bowl" but 1 of your "Minced fillet of meat" in it, and turn on the own, this will make "Cooked meat".
Do this to your HFC skill hit 4.
After you are 4 in HFC you take 1 "Cooked meat" or raw "Minced fillet of meat", 1 "berry" of any kind put it on your "Pottery Bowl", light up the own, do this to you are skill 15 in HFC.
Take any kind of vegetable, open your "Crafting" window take your "Knife" in one box and the vegetable and "Raw chopped (name of vegetable.)
Then you should have "Minced fillet of meat" and "chopped (name of vegetable.)"
The best to use here is "Cabbage" or "Pumpkin" as they fills more in your dish.
Take 1 "Minced fillet of meat" and 1 "chopped (name of vegetable.)" in to your "Pottery Bowl" and light "Own".
Do this to you are skill 40 in HFC.
Do the same as told above, but use a "Frying pan" instead of a "Pottery Bowl".
Note as you skill up, you can add more vegetables or spices to your dish, to make it harder, and it makes the dish better as will.
When you put your food in the "Pottery Bowl", right klik it and press "Lore" then you can see in "Event chat" how difficult the dish is to make.
Try to keep your dish as close to 10 points over your skill LVL, but never over 10 points over.