| Ingredients per pot | Up to five |
|---|---|
| Cooking spots | Cooking pots in towns, stables and villages, and the pot outside Link’s house in Hateno |
| Dishes listed | 116 meals and dishes, 11 elixirs and the Fairy Tonic |
| Effects | Hearty, enduring, energizing, chilly, spicy, electro, fireproof, hasty, sneaky, mighty, tough |
Drop up to five ingredients into a lit cooking pot and the game turns them into a meal or an elixir. Food ingredients make meals that restore hearts, critters mixed with monster parts make elixirs that grant a buff, and anything that matches neither becomes Dubious Food. This page covers how the pot works, every recipe with its base hearts, all eleven elixirs and the strongest combinations for each buff.
How cooking works
Light a pot
Walk up to a cooking pot, hold the ingredients you want from the materials menu, and choose the cook option. A cold pot needs a light: carry a torch from a nearby fire, or drop Flint under it and strike the flint with a metal weapon. Rain puts the fire out if the pot has no roof.
Choose ingredients
A pot takes up to five ingredients, and the game matches them to a recipe on its own. Food and elixir ingredients do not mix: a monster part or critter together with plain food makes Dubious Food, and so does a monster part or critter cooked on its own. Cooked, an ingredient restores twice the hearts it would raw, and extras such as Goat Butter or Rock Salt only decide which dish you get.
Mind the effects
A dish can carry only one kind of effect. If you mix two different effect ingredients, such as a Chillshroom with a Sunshroom, they cancel each other and you get a plain heart-restoring dish. Several ingredients of the same effect stack: four Chillshrooms outperform one. In meals, extra meat means more hearts but leaves room for fewer effect ingredients, while an elixir with four critters is stronger than a meal with four effect ingredients.
Critical cooking
Every cook has a random chance of a critical success, which adds extra hearts, a stronger effect or a longer duration. A Blood Moon makes it a certainty: anything you cook in the stretch of night around midnight, from roughly 11:30 PM to 12:15 AM, on a Blood Moon day is a guaranteed critical success.
Cooking without a pot
A plain campfire only roasts single items. Drop an Apple, a mushroom or a piece of meat next to a fire and it turns into a roasted version that restores slightly more than the raw one. Take it out before it burns up. Dropped in a hot area such as Death Mountain, food roasts by itself, and in very cold areas some food flash-freezes into an improved version.
Effect types
| Type | What it does |
|---|---|
| Hearty | Adds temporary bonus hearts on top of a full heal |
| Enduring | Adds temporary bonus stamina |
| Energizing | Restores stamina |
| Chilly | Heat resistance |
| Spicy | Cold resistance |
| Electro | Electricity resistance |
| Fireproof | Protection from catching fire |
| Hasty | Movement speed |
| Sneaky | Stealth |
| Mighty | Attack power |
| Tough | Defense |
The name of an ingredient usually gives its effect away: Mighty Porgy raises attack, Silent Princess raises stealth, and anything called Hearty adds temporary hearts. Food ingredients restore hearts and elixir ingredients do not.
Meat and poultry dishes (34)
Skewers, curries, stews and fries. Base hearts assume the minimum ingredients; better meat adds hearts.
| Dish | Ingredients | Hearts restored | Bonus | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Meat Skewer | Any meat | 2 | None |
 | Salt-Grilled Meat | Raw Meat or Raw Bird Drumstick, Rock Salt | 2 | None |
 | Spiced Meat Skewer | Goron Spice, Raw Meat | 2 | None |
 | Meat and Mushroom Skewer | Any meat, any mushroom | 3 | None |
 | Meat-Stuffed Pumpkin | Fortified Pumpkin, any meat | 3 | Defense up (small) |
 | Pepper Steak | Any meat, Spicy Pepper | 3 | Cold resistance (small) |
 | Prime Spiced Meat Skewer | Goron Spice, Raw Prime Meat | 3 | None |
 | Salt-Grilled Prime Meat | Raw Prime Meat or Raw Bird Thigh, Rock Salt | 3 | None |
 | Meat and Rice Bowl | Raw Meat or Raw Bird Drumstick, Hylian Rice, Rock Salt | 4 | None |
 | Meat and Seafood Fry | Raw Meat or Raw Bird Drumstick, any seafood | 4 | None |
 | Meat Curry | Goron Spice, Hylian Rice, Raw Meat | 4 | None |
 | Meat Pie | Goat Butter, any meat, Rock Salt, Tabantha Wheat | 4 | None |
 | Meaty Rice Balls | Hylian Rice, any meat | 4 | None |
 | Poultry Curry | Hylian Rice, Goron Spice, Raw Bird Drumstick | 4 | None |
 | Steamed Meat | Any meat, any greens | 4 | None |
 | Creamy Meat Soup | Fresh Milk, Rock Salt, any greens, any meat | 5 | None |
 | Meat Stew | Raw Meat or Raw Bird Drumstick, Goat Butter, Fresh Milk, Tabantha Wheat | 5 | None |
 | Prime Meat and Rice Bowl | Raw Prime Meat or Raw Bird Thigh, Hylian Rice, Rock Salt | 5 | None |
 | Prime Meat and Seafood Fry | Raw Prime Meat or Raw Bird Thigh, any seafood | 5 | None |
 | Prime Meat Curry | Goron Spice, Hylian Rice, Raw Prime Meat | 5 | None |
 | Prime Poultry Curry | Goron Spice, Hylian Rice, Raw Bird Thigh | 5 | None |
 | Glazed Meat | Courser Bee Honey, any meat | 6 | Stamina restored (partial) |
 | Gourmet Spiced Meat Skewer | Goron Spice, Raw Gourmet Meat | 6 | None |
 | Poultry Pilaf | Bird Egg, Goat Butter, Hylian Rice, Raw Bird Drumstick | 6 | None |
 | Prime Meat Stew | Raw Prime Meat or Raw Bird Thigh, Goat Butter, Fresh Milk, Tabantha Wheat | 6 | None |
 | Salt-Grilled Gourmet Meat | Raw Gourmet Meat or Raw Whole Bird, Rock Salt | 6 | None |
 | Prime Poultry Pilaf | Bird Egg, Goat Butter, Hylian Rice, Raw Bird Thigh | 7 | None |
 | Gourmet Meat and Rice Bowl | Raw Gourmet Meat or Raw Whole Bird, Hylian Rice, Rock Salt | 8 | None |
 | Gourmet Meat and Seafood Fry | Raw Gourmet Meat or Raw Whole Bird, any seafood | 8 | None |
 | Gourmet Meat Curry | Hylian Rice, Goron Spice, Raw Gourmet Meat | 8 | None |
 | Gourmet Poultry Curry | Goron Spice, Hylian Rice, Raw Whole Bird | 8 | None |
 | Gourmet Meat Stew | Raw Gourmet Meat, Tabantha Wheat, Goat Butter, Fresh Milk | 9 | None |
 | Copious Meat Skewers | Four different kinds of meat | 10 | None |
 | Gourmet Poultry Pilaf | Bird Egg, Goat Butter, Hylian Rice, Raw Whole Bird | 10 | None |
Seafood dishes (23)
Fish, crabs and snails. Dishes made with an effect fish or crab carry that effect.
| Dish | Ingredients | Hearts restored | Bonus | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Fish Skewer | Any fish | 2 | None |
 | Salt-Grilled Fish | Any fish, Rock Salt | 2 | None |
 | Seafood Skewer | Any crab or snail | 2 | From the seafood used |
 | Salt-Grilled Crab | Any crab, Rock Salt | 2 | From the crab used |
 | Crab Stir-Fry | Any crab, Goron Spice | 2 | From the crab used |
 | Fish and Mushroom Skewer | Any fish, any mushroom | 3 | None |
 | Pepper Seafood | Any seafood, Spicy Pepper | 3 | Cold resistance (small) |
 | Steamed Fish | Any fish, any greens | 4 | None |
 | Seafood Rice Balls | Any fish, Hylian Rice | 4 | None |
 | Seafood Meunière | Goat Butter, any seafood, Tabantha Wheat | 4 | None |
 | Porgy Meunière | Any porgy, Goat Butter, Tabantha Wheat | 4 | From the porgy used |
 | Fish Pie | Goat Butter, Rock Salt, any seafood, Tabantha Wheat | 4 | None |
 | Crab Risotto | Any crab, Goat Butter, Hylian Rice, Rock Salt | 4 | From the crab used |
 | Seafood Curry | Hearty Blueshell Snail or any porgy, Hylian Rice, Goron Spice | 4 | From the seafood used |
 | Seafood Fried Rice | Hearty Blueshell Snail or any porgy, Hylian Rice, Rock Salt | 4 | From the seafood used |
 | Creamy Seafood Soup | Fresh Milk, Rock Salt, any greens, any seafood | 5 | None |
 | Crab Omelet with Rice | Any crab, Bird Egg, Hylian Rice, Rock Salt | 6 | From the crab used |
 | Glazed Seafood | Courser Bee Honey, any seafood | 6 | From the fish used |
 | Copious Seafood Skewers | Four different kinds of fish | 8 | None |
 | Seafood Paella | Any porgy, Hearty Blueshell Snail, Hylian Rice, Goat Butter, Rock Salt | 12 | None |
 | Clam Chowder | Fresh Milk, Goat Butter, Hearty Blueshell Snail, Tabantha Wheat | All hearts | Temporary extra hearts |
 | Salmon Meunière | Goat Butter, Hearty Salmon, Tabantha Wheat | All hearts | Temporary extra hearts |
 | Salmon Risotto | Goat Butter, Hearty Salmon, Hylian Rice, Rock Salt | All hearts | Temporary extra hearts |
Vegetable and mushroom dishes (27)
Greens, mushrooms and carrots. Whatever effect the ingredient has passes into the dish.
| Dish | Ingredients | Hearts restored | Bonus | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Mushroom Skewer | Any mushroom | 1 | None |
 | Salt-Grilled Mushrooms | Any mushroom, Rock Salt | 1 | None |
 | Fragrant Mushroom Sauté | Goron Spice, any mushroom | 1 | None |
 | Sautéed Peppers | Spicy Pepper | 1 | Cold resistance (small) |
 | Fried Wild Greens | Any greens | 2 | None |
 | Herb Sauté | Goron Spice, any greens | 2 | None |
 | Salt-Grilled Greens | Rock Salt, any greens | 2 | None |
 | Fruit and Mushroom Mix | Any fruit, any mushroom | 2 | None |
 | Veggie Cream Soup | Any carrot or Fortified Pumpkin, Fresh Milk, Rock Salt | 2 | From the vegetable used |
 | Copious Fried Wild Greens | Four different kinds of greens | 2 | None |
 | Cream of Vegetable Soup | Fresh Milk, Rock Salt, any greens | 3 | None |
 | Steamed Mushrooms | Any mushroom, any greens | 3 | None |
 | Mushroom Omelet | Bird Egg, Goat Butter, any mushroom, Rock Salt | 3 | None |
 | Mushroom Rice Balls | Hylian Rice, any mushroom | 3 | None |
 | Mushroom Risotto | Goat Butter, Hylian Rice, any mushroom, Rock Salt | 3 | None |
 | Vegetable Curry | Any carrot or Fortified Pumpkin, Goron Spice, Hylian Rice | 3 | From the vegetable used |
 | Vegetable Risotto | Any carrot or Fortified Pumpkin, Goat Butter, Hylian Rice, Rock Salt | 3 | From the vegetable used |
 | Pumpkin Pie | Cane Sugar, Fortified Pumpkin, Goat Butter, Tabantha Wheat | 3 | Defense up (small) |
 | Carrot Stew | Any carrot, Fresh Milk, Goat Butter, Tabantha Wheat | 4 | From the carrot used |
 | Cream of Mushroom Soup | Fresh Milk, any mushroom, Rock Salt, any greens | 4 | None |
 | Pumpkin Stew | Fortified Pumpkin, Fresh Milk, Goat Butter, Tabantha Wheat | 4 | Defense up (small) |
 | Vegetable Omelet | Bird Egg, Goat Butter, Rock Salt, any greens | 4 | None |
 | Veggie Rice Balls | Hylian Rice, any greens | 4 | None |
 | Copious Mushroom Skewers | Four different kinds of mushroom | 5 | None |
 | Glazed Mushrooms | Courser Bee Honey, any mushroom | 5 | From the mushroom used |
 | Glazed Veggies | Courser Bee Honey, any vegetable | 6 | From the vegetable used |
 | Creamy Heart Soup | Fresh Milk, Hydromelon, any radish, Voltfruit | 8 | None |
Fruit, honey and dessert dishes (18)
Pies, tarts, cakes and crepes call for Cane Sugar and Tabantha Wheat, usually with Goat Butter or Fresh Milk. Honey restores a partial amount of stamina.
| Dish | Ingredients | Hearts restored | Bonus | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Simmered Fruit | Any fruit | 1 | None |
 | Honey Candy | Courser Bee Honey | 2 | Stamina restored (partial) |
 | Hot Buttered Apple | Apple, Goat Butter | 2 | None |
 | Steamed Fruit | Any fruit, any greens | 3 | None |
 | Apple Pie | Apple, Cane Sugar, Goat Butter, Tabantha Wheat | 3 | None |
 | Carrot Cake | Cane Sugar, any carrot, Goat Butter, Tabantha Wheat | 3 | From the carrot used |
 | Egg Pudding | Bird Egg, Cane Sugar, Fresh Milk | 3 | None |
 | Fried Bananas | Cane Sugar, Mighty Bananas, Tabantha Wheat | 3 | Attack up (small) |
 | Fruit Pie | Cane Sugar, Goat Butter, any fruit, Tabantha Wheat | 3 | None |
 | Nutcake | Cane Sugar, Goat Butter, any nut, Tabantha Wheat | 3 | None |
 | Copious Simmered Fruit | Four different kinds of fruit | 4 | None |
 | Egg Tart | Bird Egg, Cane Sugar, Goat Butter, Tabantha Wheat | 4 | None |
 | Fruitcake | Apple or Wildberry, any other fruit, Cane Sugar, Tabantha Wheat | Varies | None |
 | Honeyed Apple | Apple, Courser Bee Honey | 5 | Stamina restored (partial) |
 | Honeyed Fruits | Courser Bee Honey, any fruit | 5 | Stamina restored (partial) |
 | Plain Crepe | Bird Egg, Cane Sugar, Fresh Milk, Tabantha Wheat | 5 | None |
 | Honey Crepe | Bird Egg, Cane Sugar, Courser Bee Honey, Fresh Milk, Tabantha Wheat | Varies | Stamina restored (partial) |
 | Wildberry Crepe | Bird Egg, Cane Sugar, Fresh Milk, Tabantha Wheat, Wildberry | Varies | None |
Basic and failed dishes (9)
Simple recipes with one or two ingredients, plus the fallbacks the game uses when a mix is not a real recipe.
| Dish | Ingredients | Hearts restored | Bonus | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Rock-Hard Food | Wood or any gemstone | 1/4 | None |
 | Sautéed Nuts | Any nut | 1/2 | None |
 | Dubious Food | A monster part or critter plus any other ingredient, or any mix that matches no recipe | 1 | None |
 | Curry Pilaf | Goat Butter, Goron Spice, Hylian Rice | 2 | None |
 | Curry Rice | Goron Spice, Hylian Rice | 2 | None |
 | Omelet | Bird Egg | 2 | None |
 | Wheat Bread | Rock Salt, Tabantha Wheat | 2 | None |
 | Milk | Fresh Milk | Small amount | None |
 | Fried Egg and Rice | Bird Egg, Hylian Rice | 4 | None |
Monster foods (5)
Monster Extract from Kilton makes these. The hearts they restore are random from cook to cook.
| Dish | Ingredients | Hearts restored | Bonus | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Monster Cake | Cane Sugar, Goat Butter, Monster Extract, Tabantha Wheat | Random | None |
 | Monster Curry | Goron Spice, Hylian Rice, Monster Extract | Random | None |
 | Monster Rice Balls | Hylian Rice, Monster Extract, Rock Salt | Random | None |
 | Monster Soup | Fresh Milk, Goat Butter, Monster Extract, Tabantha Wheat | Random | None |
 | Monster Stew | Any meat, Monster Extract, any seafood | Random | None |
Elixirs
An elixir needs at least one critter and at least one monster part. The critter fixes the effect, the monster part adds duration, and each extra critter raises the level of the buff. The times below are the best-known samples.
| Elixir | Critter | Effect | Sample result | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Chilly Elixir | Cold Darner or Winterwing Butterfly | Heat resistance | Four Cold Darners and a Moblin Horn: 11:10 |
 | Spicy Elixir | Warm Darner or Summerwing Butterfly | Cold resistance | Four Warm Darners and a Fire Keese Wing: 11:50 |
 | Electro Elixir | Electric Darner or Thunderwing Butterfly | Electricity resistance | Four Electric Darners and a Bokoblin Horn: 11:10 |
 | Fireproof Elixir | Fireproof Lizard or Smotherwing Butterfly | Immunity to catching fire | Two Fireproof Lizards and a Bokoblin Horn: 6:10 |
 | Hasty Elixir | Hot-Footed Frog or Hightail Lizard | Movement speed | Four Hot-Footed Frogs and a Bokoblin Horn: 5:10 |
 | Energizing Elixir | Restless Cricket or Energetic Rhino Beetle | Restores stamina | Four Restless Crickets and a Bokoblin Horn: one wheel restored |
 | Enduring Elixir | Tireless Frog | Temporary extra stamina | Critter count sets the size of the bonus |
 | Hearty Elixir | Hearty Lizard | Full recovery plus temporary extra hearts | Critter count sets the number of extra hearts |
 | Mighty Elixir | Bladed Rhino Beetle | Attack power | Critter count sets level and duration |
 | Tough Elixir | Rugged Rhino Beetle | Defense | Critter count sets level and duration |
 | Sneaky Elixir | Sunset Firefly | Stealth | Critter count sets level and duration |
The Fairy Tonic is the odd one out: it needs a Fairy rather than a monster part, and each Fairy used restores about seven hearts.
Strongest combinations
| Goal | Recipe and result |
|---|---|
| Most hearts | Five Hearty Durians: full recovery and 20 extra hearts. One Big Hearty Radish and four Hearty Radishes: full recovery and 17 extra hearts. |
| Bonus stamina | Raw Meat with three Endura Carrots: one extra stamina wheel and a fifth. |
| Stamina refill | Raw Meat with three Staminoka Bass: three wheels restored. |
| Heat resistance | Four Chillshrooms with Raw Meat: level two, 10:30. Four Cold Darners with an Ice Keese Wing: level two, 11:50. |
| Cold resistance | Four Sunshrooms with Raw Gourmet Meat: level two, 10:30. Four Warm Darners with a Fire Keese Wing: level two, 11:50. |
| Electricity resistance | Four Zapshrooms with Raw Meat: level two, 10:30. Four Electric Darners with an Electric Keese Wing: level two, 11:50. |
| Movement speed | Four Fleet-Lotus Seeds with Raw Meat: level three, 4:30. Four Hot-Footed Frogs with a Keese Wing: level three, 5:10. |
| Stealth | Four Silent Princess flowers with Raw Meat: level three, 8:30. |
| Attack power | Four Mighty Porgy with Rock Salt: level three, 9:20. Three Mighty Porgy, Monster Extract and Raw Prime Meat make a Monster Stew with level three attack for 30 minutes. |
| Defense | Four Armored Porgy with Rock Salt: level three, 9:20. |
| Rupees | Five Raw Gourmet Meat make a Meat Skewer that sells for 510 rupees; five Raw Prime Meat make one that sells for 210. |
Dubious and Rock-Hard Food
Dubious Food is what you get when the pot cannot make a recipe from what you put in, for example a monster part or a critter with plain food. It restores one heart and carries no effect. Rock-Hard Food comes from putting a gemstone or Wood in a pot; it restores only a quarter of a heart. Neither is worth cooking on purpose, so check what you have held before you cook.
