SEO ch 5 pt 1

I decided to stop by the restaurant before I turned in the quest, which taught me the finer points of crafting skills. The skill could be used in several ways to speed up or to be relied on if you didn't know how to actually cook. The first way, which is the quickest is to gather all the ingredients, and say -Cooking- then the dish that has been cooked before. The second way, is to do it step by step, cut the ingredients by touching it with the knife and saying what cut you need, put it in the specified cookware in the right order, spice it right, and then say -Cooking- then the dish that has been cooked before. The last which I did was full manual, cooking everything as if cooking in the real world. There are varying degrees in between with which a user can play with. Of course relying on the system to cook has its drawbacks, the more its relied on the lower the highest quality food can come out. Item quality is rated from 1-10, the only way to make a 10 is to do everything manually, of course if the skill is high enough you can take small shortcuts and full auto the highest is a 7 which happens rarely. This is a general rule of thumb, it can be increased using items and VERY high skills. The cooks at the restaurant use a semi-manual and their quality of food is always 8 sometimes a 9, the head chef goes full auto and gets 9s and 10s. I'm told he has a -Cooking- skill of over 120, and is very familiar with each dish.

I learned all this because I was on the line cooking, and not just in the back doing prep work. The job demands to be able to keep up with the NPCs and keep the quality of the food at an 8. This may have been a problem if I was manning the grill or the cold station as those are just all relying on the -Cooking- skill for speed. I somehow or other got the hardest part of the line, the sauté station. It also happened to be my favorite while I was still a cook. As the NPCs were doing one dish at a time because they could using the -Cooking- skill, I could have multiple pans on cooking several dishes at a time. At the beginning of the night, all I could churn out was 8s, then 8s and 9s, and by the end of the night all my dishes were coming out as 9s. This is due to the fact that the dish difficulties were high, and my -Cooking- skill should technically only have about a 5% chance in making them in full auto. I quickly leveled, all the way up to 20 actually, and my real cooking skills started to come out, hopefully next time I can actually get some 10s out.