Eight skills
Cooking training
Player guide
Starting out
Cook meat, potatoes or kelp in a furnace or smoker.
Read when furnace progress is credited.
Eating and crafting food do not train Cooking.
Building your skill
Use your Farming harvest to supply cooking sessions.
Keep enough finished food for travel and hunting.
Read perk effects; names do not promise extra food or healing.
Long-term goals
Plan cooking around your food supply and current tasks.
Check output-item totals separately from relic actions.
Large stored batches do not bypass the current progress rules.
In Minecraft: open /skills, choose Cooking and read How to Train. Its live cards show accepted rates and requirements.