The Fishmonger's Guide to Feast Cooking 3/2/20

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				The Fishmonger's Guide to Feast Cooking
					By Thorald Grog-Mane (@ThoraldGM)
					Owner of The Stewed Horker Tavern
		(ESO > PC NA > Windhelm > ThoraldGM > Grymharth's Woe)

							Created on 3/2/20
							Updated on 3/2/20
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Note: ESO+ & PC addons are not required, but make bulk cooking more enjoyable.

1. Skill Requirements
	- Provisioning 50
	- Brewer 3 (to create 4 drinks with every craft)
	- Chef 3 (to create 4 meals with every craft)

2. Equipment Requirements
	- Provisioning Station (placed in home next to merchant is easiest)
	- NPC merchant (Nuzhimeh or Fezez in home are easiest)
	- Known recipes (see list in #6)

3. Storage Recommendations
	- Craft Bag encouraged (ESO+)
	- As much inventory space as possible / affordable

4. Shopping Recommendations
	- A love for hours of travel & shopping
	- Access to guild kiosks in most or all DLC areas (ESO+)
	- Unlocked wayshrines in most or all DLC areas (ESO+ & adventuring)
	- Addons for travel and shopping
		- EasyTravel: https://www.esoui.com/downloads/info1454-EasyTravel.html
		- AwesomeGuildStore: https://www.esoui.com/downloads/info695-AwesomeGuildStore.html
		- Master Merchant: https://www.esoui.com/downloads/info928-MasterMerchant.html
		- Price Tooltip: https://www.esoui.com/downloads/info2221-PriceTooltip.html
		- MailLooter: https://www.esoui.com/downloads/info1149-MailLooter.html
	- Websites for shopping
		- TTC: https://tamrieltradecentre.com

5. Cooking Addons
	- ESO Update 23 introduced multi-crafting, so cooking addons are no longer needed
	- Outdated links (for archiving)
		- CookeryWiz: https://www.esoui.com/downloads/info1034-CookeryWiz.html
		- MultiCraft: https://www.esoui.com/downloads/info399-MultiCraft.html

6. Recipes (Crafted items that sell for 5 gold & only have 2 ingredients!)
	- Alabaster Honey Rum
	- Comberry Citrus Quencher
	- Crawdad Quiche
	- Crystal Tower Whiskey
	- Falkreath Rosy Mead
	- Firsthold Fruit & Cheese Plate
	- Fredas Night Infusion
	- Fyr's Hyperagonal Potation
	- Hagraven's Tonic
	- Hasphat's Sticky Guar Tonic
	- House Hlaalu Pumpkin Risotto
	- Kragenmoor Zinger Mazte
	- Lilmoth Garlic Hagfish
	- Markarth Mead
	- Muthsera's Remorse
	- Nocturnal's Everblack Coffee
	- Old Hegathe Lemon Kaveh
	- Soothing Bard's-Throat Tea
	- Thrice-Baked Gorapple Pie

7. "Do the Math"
	- Each crafted item sells for 5 gold
	- Each craft creates 4 items (if you have Brewer 3 & Chef 3)
	- 4 items x 5 gold = 20 gold
	- Ingredient 1 cost < 10 gold
	- Ingredient 2 cost < 10 gold
	- Profit = 20 gold - Ingredient 1 cost - Ingredient 2 cost
	- Note the slim profit margin requires cooking THOUSANDS of servings!
	* This is why I place merchant near cooking fire (cook, max inventory, sell, repeat)

8. Tips
	- Keep 100 minimum of each ingredient in stock at all times for daily writs
	- Know your craft
		- Metheglin pairs with "borb" (barley or bittergreen)
		- Fish pairs with "gorm" (garlic or millet)
		- Saltrice pairs with "pora" (pumpkin or apple)
		- Honey pairs with "yorg" (yeast or guarana)
		- Lemon pairs with "cocoja" (coffee, comberry, or jasmine)
	- Avoid lopsided stock!
		- Each max profit recipe has a pair of ingredients
		- If you spend all of your gold on apples, but have no saltrice...
			- you'll be broke (no gold left to shop with)
			- and your unpaired ingredient will sit unused in craft bag
	- Track inventory
		- Craft bag totals
		- Optional physical journal (I kept one when starting out, complete with horker & beer stamps)
		- Optional spreadsheet (I prefer Google Sheets in Drive)
		- Optional addon
			- Urich's Craftbag Viewer: https://www.esoui.com/downloads/info1648-UrichsCraftbagViewer.html
		- Identify your largest surplus ingredient in craft bag
			- the pairing needed to cook becomes your "driver" for next shopping session
			- this focuses effort & maximizes profit, especially when getting started with low mats / gold
			- optional: look up "driver" on TTC to determine shopping route
			- if you can afford it, buy other good deals as you shop for the "driver"
	- Shop responsibly
		- Only buy ingredients for less than 10 unit cost! (garlic or millet < 13 if fish cheap)
		- If lopsided surplus has sat unused for awhile, ok to spend slightly more on pairing to move product
		- Once your business grows, keep a reserve of gold and ingredients in stock
	- Markets fluctuate
		- Ingredients are seasonal, sometimes unpredictably (that reserve helps weather "lopsided" storms)
		- Markets need time to "recover" (sellers gather bulk mats, list for sale)
		- Be aware of price spikes, addons not working immediately after game updates, etc
	- Watch out for similar ingredient names (one day I bought thousands of ginseng instead of ginger!)
	- Furnishing a home as a tavern is optional, but I found it helps me to center my game activities

9. Helpful Links
	- Beverage Recipes: https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Online:Beverage_Recipes
	- Food Recipes: https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Online:Food_Recipes
	- BenevolentBowD: http://benevolentbowd.ca
	- JHartEllis: https://spicyeconomics.com
	- ThoraldGM: https://twitter.com/ThoraldGM
	- The Stewed Horker: https://stewedhorker.wordpress.com

Don't be fooled by the glitter of gold. Running a tavern is a labor of love.

"Why be a Sober Nord when you can be a Stewed Horker?!"

The Stewed Horker is always open to all Konunleikar revelers & visitors.
Located, as Skyrim Grandma Shirley said, in "the backside of Windhelm".

ESO > PC NA > ThoraldGM > Grymharth's Woe

If not my primary residence, visit by using these addons:
- Essential Housing Tools: https://www.esoui.com/downloads/info1959-EssentialHousingTools.html
- Port to Friend's House: https://www.esoui.com/downloads/info1758-PorttoFriendsHouse.html

Cheers!