benefit to weight ratio makes food nothing more than RP fluff. .5 lbs to resore 5 hp? or .5 lbs to restore 25/50/75/all hp? at the least beth could've tied it into restoration or alchemy skill to increase healing benefits (or included food into the perks that heal more or restore stamina while healing etc.).

Yeah after finding that out I kind of wonder what the use of Stam pots where. Running longer?

Absolutely. Who the [censored] has a steak in the middle of a fight?

for me right now as a warrior,the vegetable soup and beef stew are one of the MOST important items i should carry around,even more important than health potions...as they provided me with literally unlimited access to perform power attacks or power bash between hits for 11 minutes....

about the matters regarding the food may be required for such features,i think there's mod out there that provides us with the mentioned features above...i think it's hardcor mod by punxdog...

as for the realism on the method to consume foods in the midst of the battle i would agree too...

I think I would prefer a combination of both, just for added realism. As I mentioned only the recipies would give you a bonus. Just eating an apple would just negate the negative buff.

Yea I would like to see a hardcoe mode DLC, so long as it only applies to the role-playing aspect and not the general difficulty. I am finding the fighting challenging enough on the default setting. Maybe they could make several modes for role-playing. Like Standard being the way it is now, then adding adept and make sleeping, eating, and drinking required. Then do a hardcoe that removes fast travel and what I mentioned for adept. Just a thought anyway, and it is the best way to give multiple groups what they want.

Cooking is useful for making stolen food sellable.

I wasn't expecting much, so not really.

It is amazing to think that a modder could fix the cooking system in a single weekend. Beth on the other hand couldn't do that in 3-4 years....

The only thing I use it for is role play. My thief loves to sneak into people's house and cook at their pot while they are sleeping.

it's an alt for those who don't want to use alchemy ... again

and it's sort of like hardcoe mode i'm playing right now with my bosmie archer heh no enchanting no potions with well rested bonuses.

Thanks for that one, the idea of that gives me a good laugh. I would love it if they made some kind of special NPC reaction to that if you got caught, just to be funny.

Hoping for a hardcoe DLC that makes cooking more useful. Since we all have very different views on what makes hardcoe good hardcoe, we should be able to tweak the rules to our hearts desire. I'm incapable of role playing for the sake of role playing without underlying rules and mechanics to support and demand it.

I prefer stews for my archer character because they regenerate stamina and health over the period of a fight, so it reduces the number of times you have to take potions. Gives you a good edge.

Oy vey, people want a DLC for everything. Mods already add some recipes, but I think cooking is fine as it is. Otherwise it becomes ridiculously overpowered. Eat a sandwich- become a he man.

as a RP u need to eat every day
else u are starving haha

I am with you Cotax, I think I mentioned before, but maybe in a different post that they should add different role-playing modes (this way hardcoe mode would not up the diffculty of combat as well) Maybe 3 modes like standard, which would leavethe game as it is now. Then have adept, which would add requirements to eat, drink, and sleep. Then add hardcoe, which would have all the requirements of adept, but also remove fast travel. They could so the same things with and economy mode as well... maybe add things as someone else had suggested (maybe in another post as well) that you have to pay taxes on your house, pay up keep for the horse. Make it so that you have to pay for your followers room in a inn... etc. This way the game could be as complicated or as simple as you would like it to be.

WIthout the need for sustenance it really does seem like a lot of wasted time and effort. Time better spent on spears or beast legs...

Yea unfortunatly MODS don't help the console players out, it would be nice if there would be a way to get some of the more popular ones into a DLC or something. I wonder if Bethesda has a way to track that or not.

Food is useful....It saves me from using potions.

My problem with cooking is that you need salt for most of the recipes - which is too usefull as alchemic ingredient to "waste" it on cooking...

if you're going for reality: make the char vomit an acid attack if he eats more then 5 pieces of food per second - the animation is already there, from the Peryite-Quest

Well yea, i would have wanted better food stuff, but the thing is people usually don't really care about this; it isnt a major buying point. Although stuff like vegetable soup is quite useful for melee characters; unlimited power attacks

terrific idea. I like the whole hard-core mode thing also, for the non-hardcoe RPGers.

They should have made it scale with your HP because cooking is great at level 1 but the player quickly outgrows it to the point where you can barely notice it doing anything. Plus they should have put in some bonuses/penalties for well fed/starved state like faster magicka regen (food makes you concentrate better and recover from exercise faster) and without it you would be freezing up in the mountains and taking frost damage, moving slower, etc. Mods will make it epic but for now we have to suffer with another rough feature similar to vampirism. So much more could have been done but wasn't.

... am I the only one who's always wondered what potions actually taste like? If I lived in Skyrim, I imagine I'd much rather scarf down a sweetroll than a liquid made of butterfly wings and charred hides. *shudders* Maybe health potions are just as filling as regular food but nobody can stomach them except the the fiercest of warriors. It would explain why you never see normal folk chugging them.

That is an interensting thought, but then there is Wjeeta who works at the Riften Fishery asking for one to help cure her skooma addiction, so I guess other people use them too. I also remember handing one out to a hunter north of Falkreath.