Cooking Stand
The Cooking Stand is a crafted eight-slot cooking attachment made from 2 Short Sticks and 1 Long Stick. Attach it directly to a Fireplace to support a Cooking Pot or Cauldron. It has 150 durability, lasts about 40 minutes over a fire, and can be dismantled with a Knife into 5 Short Sticks.
Quick item summary
Quick answer
The Cooking Stand is an improvised wooden support used with a Fireplace. Once attached, it creates a cookware position for a Cooking Pot or Cauldron, allowing food to be boiled or baked over an outdoor fire without finding a metal Campfire Tripod.
In-game description
“Some forked branches that provide support for pots, when properly fixed into the ground. It turns out to be useful when used in close proximity to a fireplace.”
Main Uses
- Attach to a Fireplace to create a cookware position
- Support a Cooking Pot over an outdoor fire
- Support a Cauldron over an outdoor fire
- Cook food without finding a metal Campfire Tripod
- Boil food or water in compatible cookware
- Bake food in an empty Cooking Pot or Cauldron
- Dismantle into 5 Short Sticks with a Knife
How to use this item
Craft a Cooking Stand
Combine 2 Short Sticks with 1 Long Stick to create the Cooking Stand.
- Collect 2 Short Sticks.
- Collect 1 Long Stick.
- Combine the Long Stick with the Short Sticks.
- Select the Cooking Stand recipe.
- Place the completed stand in your inventory or attach it to a Fireplace.
Attach the stand to a Fireplace
Install the Cooking Stand on a basic Fireplace to add support for compatible cookware.
- Prepare a Fireplace with kindling and fuel.
- Place the Cooking Stand in your hands.
- Target the Fireplace.
- Attach the Cooking Stand.
- Attach a Cooking Pot or Cauldron to the available cookware position.
Cook with a Cooking Pot
Use a Cooking Pot on the stand to boil or bake compatible food.
- Attach the Cooking Stand to a Fireplace.
- Add food to the Cooking Pot.
- Add water when you want to boil the food, or leave it empty to bake.
- Attach the Cooking Pot to the stand.
- Ignite the Fireplace and monitor the food.
- Remove the food before it burns.
Dismantle a Cooking Stand
Break the stand down with a Knife to recover 5 Short Sticks.
- Place the Cooking Stand where you can interact with it.
- Equip a Knife.
- Use the dismantle action.
- Collect the 5 Short Sticks.
How to get Cooking Stand
- Craft it from 2 Short Sticks and 1 Long Stick.
- Split a Long Stick or cut Firewood to obtain Short Sticks.
- Harvest a Long Stick from a bush.
- Loot a crafted Cooking Stand from another survivor, camp, or Fireplace.
Spawn info
- • The Cooking Stand must be crafted.
- • It requires 2 Short Sticks and 1 Long Stick.
- • It takes 8 inventory slots.
- • It has 150 durability.
- • It lasts approximately 40 minutes when continuously used over a Fireplace.
- • It can be dismantled with a Knife into 5 Short Sticks.
Crafting and item conversions
How to craft Cooking Stand
Cooking Stand
Result: Cooking Stand
Craft Cooking Stand using Long Stick and 2 Short Sticks.
View crafting guideImportant notes
- The Cooking Stand is crafted from 2 Short Sticks and 1 Long Stick.
- It takes 8 inventory slots.
- Its listed weight is unknown.
- It has 150 durability.
- It can be attached directly to a basic Fireplace.
- The Fireplace does not need a Stone Circle upgrade before attaching the stand.
- It supports a Cooking Pot or Cauldron.
- It lasts about 40 minutes from Pristine to Ruined while continuously used over a fire.
- It has roughly one-third the durability of a Campfire Tripod.
- It is longer than a Campfire Tripod and may not fit inside many clothing items.
- A Knife can dismantle it into 5 Short Sticks.
- The Cooking Stand cannot be repaired.