Broths and soups

[aragaer]

Quite simple - you boil meat/fish/vegetables and water turns into broth that can be used in crafting more food like soups. Or you can just drink it for some boost.

Alternatively - a total cooking revamp where instead of "crafting" food items you "process" it - like chopping and sauteing vegetables and boiling meat to create some dish which depends on input components and gets a name based on what you actually created. A recipe book would describe steps like what should be combined to get a final dish but the intermediate products are created independently.

This would definitely add depth and complexity, turning Salem from Mortal Combat with corn into Mortal Combat with cooking.

[jcwilk]

Quite simple - you boil meat/fish/vegetables and water turns into broth that can be used in crafting more food like soups. Or you can just drink it for some boost.

+1 for broth, sounds like a great way to rescue some value out of large quantities of excess meat before it spoils (though we have no idea about the specifics at this point anyways)

[TotalyMeow]

It's funny that you should suggest this.

[saltmummy]

It's funny that you should suggest this.

Oh, I am suddenly quiet eager for the upcoming change to meats.

[gustavohvg]

Oh please do not change this I like to use the same cooking water over and over...

[Victor]

More vegetable recipes, yay for that. Make carrots useful please

[JohnCarver]

It's funny that you should suggest this.

And carrots are useful. They are a required ingredient in quite a few great recipes.

[loleznub]

This is already in the upcoming patch.