🔓 How to Unlock Cooking
Unlock Requirements
💡 Recommendation: Choose Cooking first among available hobbies (Cooking, Insect Catching, Birdwatching) — it synergizes perfectly with Gardening and Fishing!
🍳 Cooking Basics
📍 How to Cook
- Interact with a stove in your home
- Select a recipe you've learned
- Add the required ingredients
- Complete the QTE mini-game to regulate heat
- Collect your finished dish!
⚠️ Watch the Heat!
If you miss the QTE timing, your dish will burn!
- 🔥 Burned food = Bizarre Food
- 🥤 Burned drink = Bizarre Drink
- These sell for much less, so focus!
⭐ Star Quality
Dishes can be 1-5 stars. Higher star = much higher sell price!
🔥 Multiple Stoves
Craft additional stoves at workbench (timber + ore) for mass production!
🧈 Ingredient Sources
🛒 Buy from Massimo (Can't be farmed!)
| Ingredient | Price | Used In |
|---|---|---|
| 🥛 Milk | 50 Coins | Latte, Roll Cake, Corn Soup, Cheesecake |
| 🥚 Eggs | 100 Coins | Roll Cake, Mushroom Pie, Carrot Cake |
| 🧀 Cheese | 100 Coins | Cheesecake, Pizza, Tiramisu |
| 🧈 Butter | 150 Coins | Beef Steak, Corn Soup |
🌱 From Gardening
Wheat, Tomatoes, Potatoes, Corn, Strawberries, Carrots, Lettuce, Coffee Beans, etc.
🎣 From Fishing
Any Fish, Shellfish (crabs, shrimp), Salmon, Tuna, Lobster
🍄 From Foraging
Mushrooms (Button, Shiitake, Oyster, Penny Bun, Black Truffle), Wild Fruits
🍎 Free Fruits
Apples, Raspberries, Blueberries, Mandarins — perfect for jam!
📖 All Recipes by Level
🌱 Starter Recipes (Auto-Learn)
| Recipe | Ingredients |
|---|---|
| 🥗 House Salad | Any Vegetable (2) |
| 🍯 Mixed Jam | Mixed Fruits (4) |
📊 Level 1 (Buy from Massimo)
| Recipe | Ingredients |
|---|---|
| 🍟 Fish and Chips | Any Fish (2), Potatoes (2) |
| 🍰 Cheesecake | Cheese (1), Milk (1), Wheat (1) |
| 🍄 Grilled Mushroom | Any Mushrooms (4) 💰 PROFIT |
📊 Level 2-3
| Lvl | Recipe | Ingredients |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 🥯 Smoked Fish Bagel | Fish (1), Cheese (1), Vegetable (1), Wheat (1) |
| 2 | ☕ Coffee | Coffee Beans (4) |
| 2 | ☕ Latte | Coffee Beans (2), Milk (2) |
| 3 | 🍚 Seafood Risotto | Shellfish (2), Wheat (1), Tomato (1) |
| 3 | 🥘 Rustic Ratatouille | Tomato (1), Potato (1), Lettuce (1) |
| 3 | 🍝 Black Truffle Cream Pasta | Black Truffle (1), Wheat (2), Milk (1) |
📊 Level 4-5
| Lvl | Recipe | Ingredients |
|---|---|---|
| 4 | 🍕 Seafood Pizza | Cheese, Tomato Sauce, Wheat, Fish (1) |
| 4 | 🍝 Meat Sauce Pasta | Wheat, Tomato, Cheese, Meat |
| 4 | 🥩 Beef Steak | Herbs (2), Butter (1), Beef (2) |
| 5 | 🥕 Carrot Cake | Carrots (2), Eggs (1), Wheat (1) |
| 5 | 🥧 Apple Pie | Flour (2), Sugar (1), Apples (4) |
| 5 | 🍲 Corn Soup | Milk, Butter, Corn (2) |
| 5 | 🍛 Curry Rice | Carrots (2), Rice (3), Potatoes (2), Curry Powder (1) |
| 5 | 🥟 Dim Sum | Pork (2), Flour (2), Shrimp (1) |
📊 Level 6-7
| Lvl | Recipe | Ingredients |
|---|---|---|
| 6 | 🍰 Tiramisu | Coffee, Eggs, Milk, Cheese |
| 6 | 🦐 Deluxe Seafood Platter | Shellfish (2), Fish (2) |
| 6 | 🥩 Beef Wellington | Mushrooms (2), Egg (1), Beef (3), Flour (2) |
| 6 | 🦀 Crab Cakes | Flour (1), Crabs (3), Herb (1), Egg (1) |
| 7 | 🫖 Afternoon Tea | Tiramisu |
| 7 | 🧺 Picnic Set | Seafood Pizza, Apple Pie, Fish and Chips, Any Beverage |
| 7 | 🍚 Bibimbap | Egg (1), Beef (1), Rice (3), Carrots (2), Mushrooms (2) |
⭐ Level 8-13 (High-End Recipes)
| Lvl | Recipes |
|---|---|
| 8 | Crayfish Sashimi, Meat Burger |
| 9 | Candlelight Dinner, Baked Eggplant w/ Meat, Kaiseki Course |
| 10 | Steamed King Crab, Dragon's Breath, Full Course Dinner |
| 11 | Mellow Black Tea, Milkshake |
| 12 | Refreshing Green Tea, Exquisite Afternoon Tea |
| 13 | Shrimp Avocado Cup, Cheese Shrimp Stuffed Crab |
🔄 Recipe Variants
Unlock the base recipe to access all its variants! Great for XP and variety.
🍓 Jam Variants (Unlock Mixed Jam first)
🥧 Mushroom Pie Variants (Complete Massimo's Gossip Quest)
Base ingredients: [Mushroom Type] (2), Wheat (1), Eggs (1)
🍰 Roll Cake Variants (Buy Original from Doris for 50 ⭐)
Base ingredients: Eggs (1), Milk (1), [Color] Sugar (2)
💰 Best Profit Strategies
🏆 Top Money-Making Recipes
🌱 Early Game Strategy
- Forage mushrooms everywhere
- Cook Grilled Mushrooms (free!)
- Sell 5-star dishes for 1,440g
- Reinvest in more stoves
🍓 Mid-Late Game Strategy
- Grow Corn + Strawberries (rotation)
- Make Corn Soup + Strawberry Jam
- 5-star Strawberry Jam = 12,640g!
- Use multiple stoves for mass production
💡 Pro Tip: Always cook ingredients before selling! Raw items sell for much less than cooked dishes. Even "failed" Bizarre Food is sometimes better than raw ingredients.
📈 Fast Leveling Tips
Use Multiple Stoves
Craft 2-4 stoves to cook in parallel. More cooking = faster XP!
Cook New Recipes
First time cooking any recipe/variant = huge XP bonus!
Free Ingredients
Jams from free fruits (apples, berries) = easy XP with no cost!
Lattes at Level 3
No harvesting needed! Buy coffee beans from Massimo and cook.
💡 Pro Tips
Grown ingredients boost recipe profits. Plant wheat, tomatoes, and strawberries for best synergy.
Fish and Chips needs 2 fish + 2 potatoes. Catch fish, grow potatoes, profit!
Complete daily cooking quests for bonus XP on top of regular cooking XP!
Use cooking fuel to reduce wait times when you're in a hurry!