🔓 How to Unlock Cooking
Cooking is one of the most valuable hobbies in Heartopia. Here's how to unlock it:
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Reach DG Level 5-6
Complete daily quests and main story to level up your Developer Grade.
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Get Hobby Expansion Ticket
You'll receive this automatically when reaching the required DG level.
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Find Massimo
He's the cooking mentor, located outside his café in the town center.
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Give Ticket to Massimo
Speak with him and use your Hobby Expansion Ticket. You'll also get a free stove for your home!
💡 Why Cooking First? Cooking synergizes perfectly with Fishing and Gardening (your first two hobbies), letting you turn raw ingredients into high-value dishes for massive profit.
👨🍳 How to Cook
- 1. Approach a stove (there's one at Massimo's café, or use the one at home)
- 2. Interact with the stove to open the recipe menu
- 3. Select a recipe you've already learned (you can't experiment with random ingredients)
- 4. Add the required ingredients from your inventory
- 5. Watch for the QTE (Quick Time Event) — a spatula icon with green timer
- 6. Tap the spatula before the timer runs out to prevent burning
⚠️ Warning: If you miss the QTE, your dish becomes "Bizarre Food" which has reduced value and effects. Pay attention to the spatula icon!
🌱 Starter Recipes (Unlocked Immediately)
These recipes are available as soon as you unlock the cooking hobby:
🍯 Mixed Jam
Ingredients: 4× Any Fruit
The base jam recipe. Using 4 of the same fruit unlocks that specific jam variant!
🥗 House Salad
Ingredients: 2× Any Vegetable
A simple starter dish. Great for using excess vegetables.
🍓 All Jam Recipes
Jams are one of the most profitable early-game recipes. Each requires 4× of the same fruit:
| Jam Type | Ingredients | Base Price |
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| 🍎 Apple Jam | 4× Apple | ~170 Gold |
| 🫐 Blueberry Jam | 4× Blueberry | ~170 Gold |
| 🍇 Grape Jam | 4× Grape | ~170 Gold |
| 🍊 Mandarin Jam | 4× Mandarin | ~170 Gold |
| 🍍 Pineapple Jam | 4× Pineapple | ~170 Gold |
| 🍓 Strawberry Jam | 4× Strawberry | ~170 Gold |
| 🫐 Raspberry Jam | 4× Raspberry | ~170 Gold |
💡 Tip: Higher-star jams sell for more! 2-star Blueberry Jam = 255 Gold, 3-star Mixed Jam = 320 Gold.
📚 Recipes by Cooking Level
Buy these recipes from Massimo as you level up your cooking hobby:
1 Level 1 Recipes
| Recipe | Ingredients |
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| 🧀 Cheesecake | 1× Cheese, 1× Milk, 1× Wheat |
| 🍟 Fish and Chips | 2× Any Fish, 2× Potato |
| 🍄 Grilled Mushrooms | 4× Any Mushroom |
2 Level 2 Recipes
| Recipe | Ingredients |
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| 🥯 Smoked Fish Bagel | 1× Any Fish, 1× Cheese, 1× Any Vegetable, 1× Wheat |
| ☕ Coffee / Latte | 4× Coffee (or 3× Coffee + 1× Milk for Latte) |
3 Level 3 Recipes
| Recipe | Ingredients |
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| 🍝 Black Truffle Pasta | 1× Black Truffle, 2× Wheat, 1× Milk |
| 🦐 Seafood Risotto | 2× Any Shellfish, 1× Wheat, 1× Tomato |
| 🥘 Ratatouille | 1× Tomato, 1× Potato, 1× Lettuce |
4 Level 4 Recipes
| Recipe | Ingredients |
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| 🍕 Seafood Pizza | 1× Cheese, Tomato Sauce, 1× Wheat, 1× Any Fish |
| 🍝 Meat Sauce Pasta | 1× Wheat, 1× Tomato, 1× Cheese, 1× Meat |
🍄 Mushroom Pie (Quest Unlock)
Ingredients: 2× Any Mushroom, 1× Wheat, 1× Egg
Unlocked by completing Massimo's Gossip Quest. This recipe has variants based on mushroom type!
💡 Cooking Tips
✅ Do
- • Use 1-star ingredients for better profit margins
- • Set up multiple cooking pots for efficiency (3 is ideal)
- • Cook low-value fish into dishes (100 Gold or less)
- • Make jam from foraged fruits — it's free profit!
- • Watch for the QTE spatula to avoid burning
❌ Don't
- • Sell raw ingredients — always cook first!
- • Cook high-value fish (200+ Gold) — sell them raw
- • Eat cooked food for energy — sleep instead to save profits
- • Use expensive ingredients in low-tier recipes