>game has a hunger mechanic
>cooking meat increases it's stats

cooking food increases its caloric value, so you are kinda "buffing" the food when you cook it

>>715940893 (OP)
Game won't let you cook meat without salt.

>>715941017
Unless you are keeping the cooking environment in a relatively self-contained ecosystem, how does cooking maintain the innate properties of the starting material?
I sometimes cook my rice in water I boiled my vegetables in, but still, there is escape of the initial chemical energy and the contents of all ingredients considered

>game has a hairline modifier

>>715941017
It technically doesn't improve its caloric value directly, but it does make it substantially easier to digest; meaning we can take up the nutrients within it more readily.

>>715941158
There is a marginal loss in both nutrient and calorie content from cooking, but the massive increase in digestibility more than makes up for it, especially since the body has to use more energy to try and break down more difficult to digest foods and does so at a reduced efficiency.

Combine that with the additional food safety from killing bacteria and parasites, cooked meat is sometimes cited by evolutionary biologists as the innovation that catapulted early advanced primates from tool users to thinkers, on account of the massive increase in available energy and time, as foraging and hunting did not fully dominate all active living hours.

>>715941017
>cooking meat increases its caloric value,
What caused this brainwashing?

>>715941529
Because you are a human with a digestive system that can more efficiently break down cooked meats and absorb their contents for energy, as opposed to eating raw meat that is harder on the digestive system, not to mention the parasites etc. you can get. I hope you don't actually eat raw meats.

>>715941643
>I hope you don't actually eat raw meats.
but what all of those delicious worm eggs

>>715941643
>I hope you don't actually eat raw meats.
I see what you're trying to do. You can't fool me.

>>715941529
you introduce energy into a food it increases its calories

>>715940893 (OP)
>game has attractive side characters

>>715940893 (OP)
Eat a pack of raw pork chops and see what happens

>permanently
kino

>>715940893 (OP)
Yes.

>>715941394
This is correct. Cooking food technically does decrease nutritional value, but makes it much easier for the body to absorb.

>>715940893 (OP)
DRINKING HOOMAN BLAAD IS GOOD 4 U AND ALSO HAIR TRANSPLANT IS VERY NATURAL, NOT LIKE MAN MADE BALDNESS BEING BALD IS MAN MADE AND NOT NATURAL IN NATURE. PLEAZE DONAATE TO MY FACKING MOTHER FAAACKING CULT TO SUPPORT ME EATING RAW MEAT AND TO HIDE FROM DE POELEES FOR ATTEMPTING TO MURDER MY WIFE. ALSO I AM JESUS.

>>715941060
Skyrim is a trash game