| Text | These special tools include the items needed to pursue a craft or trade. Proficiency with a set of artisan's tools lets you add your proficiency bonus to any ability checks you make using the tools in your craft. Each type of artisan's tools requires a separate proficiency.
Adventuring is a hard life. With a cook along on the journey, your meals will be much better than the typical mix of hardtack and dried fruit.
Components: Cook's utensils include a metal pot, knives, forks, a stirring spoon, and a ladle.
History: Your knowledge of cooking techniques allows you to assess the social patterns involved in a culture's eating habits.
Medicine: When administering treatment, you can transform medicine that is bitter or sour into a pleasing concoction.
Survival: When foraging for food, you can make do with ingredients you scavenge that others would be unable to transform into nourishing meals.
Prepare Meals: As part of a short rest, you can prepare a tasty meal that helps your companions regain their strength. You and up to five creatures of your choice regain 1 extra hit point per Hit Die spent during a short rest, provided you have access to your cook's utensils and sufficient food.
Cook's Utensils:
Activity | DC
Create a typical meal | 10
Duplicate a meal | 10
Spot poison or impurities in food | 15
Create a gourmet meal | 15
Source: Player's Handbook p. 154,
Xanathar's Guide of Everything p. 80 |