Perfect Cooking
Perfect Cooking is an uncommon codex entry.
A guide on what perfect cooking is and how to achieve it. Explains the Perfect Cooking mechanic of alta food.
This guide explains the art of perfect cooking - that magical moment when a dish transcends its base recipe to become something truly special.
Ingame
Species descriptions:
- Alta: You’re telling me I can cook by the book to cook better than by the book?!
Radiomessages on pickup:
- You’ve found an alta ebook - a collimator electronic reader usually used as a reusable substitute for books. Often crafted in alta datacenters.
Contents
By Miara, Grand Alta Chef
Every chef knows that magical feeling - when you taste a dish fresh from preparation and realize it’s come out absolutely perfect. Not just good, but extraordinary.
This guide will help you understand and recognize when you’ve achieved culinary perfection!
When you finish preparing a dish - in that brief window before it begins aging - there’s a chance it will develop enhanced properties beyond the base recipe.
Think of it as all the variables aligning perfectly: temperature, timing, ingredient quality, even your mood while cooking!
The transformation happens right after preparation, not while aging. Once a dish starts its aging process, what you have is what you get!
Some dishes are more likely to achieve perfection than others. Complex preparations with multiple components have more variables to align.
A perfectly cooked dish will have:
- Enhanced name (often legendary rarity)
- Improved effects or duration
- Better presentation
- Sometimes unique coloration
For example, a standard Alta Dinner might become 
Caretaker’s Love - made with that extra care!
Some dishes naturally vary during preparation, separate from perfect cooking:
Nia Cocktails will polarize into Ceternia, Alternia, or Enternia variants. Perfect cooking creates the rare 
Staris Cocktail instead!
Make sure to pour your efforts and love into a single dish, and not try to mass-produce! Perfect cooking is more likely to occur when focusing on one preparation at a time (a 10% chance). Stacking multiple preparations reduces this chance significantly (5% for a stack of 2 items, 3.3% for a stack of 3, etc).
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Fresh ingredients matter! Higher tier produce creates better results.
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Complex dishes (higher tier) have more potential for perfection.
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Some recipes are designed for variation rather than perfection.
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Perfect cooking cannot be forced or predicted - that’s what makes it special!
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Even ‘failed’ variations can be delicious in their own way~
Good luck in your kitchen, and may your dishes always come out perfectly!
Usage
Crafting
Unlocks blueprints for:
Sources
Blueprint unlocked by obtaining:
Can be obtained via 
Spawnable Item Pack or 
Technical Information
- In-game ID:
ct_alta_food_perfect-codex - Level:
4 - Power:
1.0 - Rarity:
Uncommon - Tags:
cooking,data_source,ebook,uncommon - File:
/codex/alta/ct_alta_food_perfect.codex