Cooking

What this skill does

Cooks and rescues real dishes at the stove: heat control, seasoning, doneness, timing, substitutions, and food safety. Use when a dish is bland, too salty, burnt, tough, dry, watery, rubbery, greasy, or gummy; when a sauce breaks, splits, curdles, or will not thicken; when meat, fish, eggs, rice, pasta, beans, bread, or a cake come out wrong; when adapting a recipe for a missing ingredient, a different pan, an air fryer, altitude, or a doubled batch; when asking what temperature something is done at, how long to rest it, how much salt, or whether leftovers are still safe; when searing, braising, roasting, frying, grilling, baking, fermenting, or curing; or when ordering the work so a whole meal lands hot at once. Not for weekly menus and shopping lists (`meal-planner`, `grocery`), recipe collections and recipe walkthroughs (`recipe`, `chef`), calorie or macro counting (`calories`), or micronutrients (`nutrition`).

Cooking is part of the Automation & Workflows category — automation and workflow skills that schedule, trigger, and orchestrate tasks. You can install it on its own or alongside other automation & workflows skills from the OpenClaw catalog.

How to install Cooking

The easiest path is via the OpenClaw Easy desktop app — one click, no terminal required:

1. Download OpenClaw Easy for macOS or Windows (free, one-click installer, ~30 seconds).
2. Open the in-app Skills panel.
3. Search for cooking and click Install.
4. The skill activates automatically when an incoming message matches its description.

Install from the command line

If you already run the OpenClaw CLI, add Cooking with a single command:

openclaw skills add cooking

This pulls cooking from ClawHub and installs it into ~/.openclaw/skills/cooking/. Restart the OpenClaw gateway afterwards so the new skill is discovered.

How to use Cooking

Once installed, Cooking activates on its own: when an incoming message on WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, Discord, Feishu or Line matches the skill's description, your OpenClaw agent loads it and runs the workflow. You can also trigger it explicitly by describing the task in chat. No extra configuration is required after install.

Manual install (advanced)

If you prefer manual installation:

1. Click the Download .zip button above to grab cooking-1.0.2.zip directly from our S3 mirror.
2. Unzip into ~/.openclaw/skills/cooking/ (create the directory if it does not exist).
3. Restart OpenClaw Easy (or the OpenClaw CLI gateway) so the new skill is discovered.

Frequently asked questions

How do I install Cooking?

Install Cooking in the OpenClaw Easy desktop app by opening the Skills panel, searching for cooking, and clicking Install. From a terminal you can run: openclaw skills add cooking. Either way the skill is placed in ~/.openclaw/skills/cooking/.

Is Cooking free?

Yes. Cooking is free and open-source, distributed under the Apache-2.0 license through ClawHub. No account or payment is required to download or run it.

What does Cooking do?

Cooks and rescues real dishes at the stove: heat control, seasoning, doneness, timing, substitutions, and food safety.

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