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Immersive Improvised Cooking

Become self-reliant. Cook ANYTIME, ANYWHERE using your fire spells and the existing in-game kitchenware. To cook anywhere you need a knife, a pot and a fire spell.

You can also use a torch or fire shouts to start cooking:

This mod gives purpose to several kinds of pots you can find in game:
- Cast Iron Pot
- Dwemer Pan
- Kettle

How to cook (general instruction):
1) Find a knife. You should have the Dwemer Knife or the regular knife in your inventory. You can also just equip a dagger to your hand.
2) Drop a pot to the ground and cast a fire spell to it. The pot will gain heat
3) Hide your hands after you have enough heat to cook. The pot MUST remain static while cooking (if your follower or another NPC touch it, the cooking session will end)
4) The pot will LOSE HEAT with time, you have LIMITED time to cook. After that the menu will disappear. If you want to continue, you will have to heat the object again.

Additional factors:
- Taking a hot pot will damage your health. You can cool it down using the Frost spells. Gauntlets will reduce damage a bit.
- Wall of flames provides more heat and you can cook longer.
- Drop Firewood nearby to heat faster and cook longer (one log will be burned down after each cooking session)
- Search campfires, forges and other fire sources to heat faster and have unlimited cooking time (just put the pot near the fire, stay close and cast the fire spell).
- You can also start cooking using just a torch near the campfire (perform bash attack on the pot)
- Weather conditions matter a lot. In cold or rainy day it will require more time to heat the pot and the item will lose heat faster. Also, you won't be able to cook without fuel (Firewood or campfire) in cold weather.
- The pot size affects how fast it will cool down while cooking. For example, kettle will keep heat much longer than the small iron pot.

Known issues:
If the animation is stuck, use jump or try to equip another magic or weapon.