Cooking question

[Goletitout]

Just wondering if you cook canned food for instance peaches beans etc and you burn the food so it’s no longer edible . Does your cooking skill still increase ?  

[AdamvR]

if you burn it, you do not get a skill increase. When your skill increases, you see an image (i think it is a can) shown up for a second on the right side.
the same happens when you hit an animal with a bow: a bow icon shows up.
If there is nothing shown up, you did not get a skill point.