Cooking

An Elixir recipe posted at a Stable

Cooking is a new gameplay mechanic and feature from The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. By using certain materials, Link can cook food to increase their effectiveness and create better food items. Food include potions such as several elixirs and dishes.

Cooking ingredients

Cooking ingredients are materials used in cooking food. Some cooking ingredients are also potions ingredients. They can be obtained in a variety of different ways. Some ingredients such as mushrooms, herbs, and plants can be obtained while traversing Hyrule, while other ingredients can be obtained by defeating enemies. Some ingredients can be used to restore health without cooking them; however, cooking them usually increases their effectiveness to create dishes.

Cooking monster parts, such as Bokoblin Horns, with insects, reptiles, etc. yields elixirs. Cooking normally edible items results in various dishes. All other combinations (gems, ancient parts, etc.) result in Dubious Food or Rock-Hard Food. Cooking over a campfire multiply by 1.5 the sum of Heart Containers each individual item restores and cooking over a pot multiply this sum by 2.

For example, an apple restores . Cooking an apple over a campfire via a torch yields a Baked Apple which restores . Cooking an Apple in a pot yields a Simmered Fruit which restores . Cooking 5 apples in a pot yields a Simmered Fruit which restores . Hearty items provide yellow Heart Containers.

Critical success can be guaranteed by adding certain items such as Star Fragments or Dragon parts obtained from Dinraal, Naydra or Farosh, to a recipe or cooking during a Blood Moon night,which lasts from 10:00 p.m. to midnight.

Material	Direct usage	Usage
Acorn	Healing	Cooking
Apple	Healing	Cooking
Armoranth	-	Cooking, potion
Armored Carp	-	Cooking, potion
Armored Porgy	-	Cooking, potion
Big Hearty Radish	Healing	Cooking
Big Hearty Radish	Healing	Cooking
Bird Egg	-	Cooking, potion
Bladed Rhino Beetle	-	Cooking, potion
Blue Nightshade	-	Cooking, potion
Bokoblin Fang	-	Cooking, potion
Bokoblin Guts	-	Cooking, potion
Bokoblin Horn	-	Cooking, potion
Cane Sugar	-	Cooking
Chillfin Trout	-	Cooking, potion
Cold Darner	-	Cooking, potion
Courser Bee Honey	Healing	Cooking
Electric Keese Wing	-	Cooking, potion
Electric Safflina	-	Cooking, potion
Endura Carrot	Healing	Cooking
Endura Shroom	Healing	Cooking
Fire Keese Wing	-	Cooking, potion
Fleet-Lotus Seeds	Healing	Cooking
Fortified Pumpkin	Healing	Cooking
Fresh Milk	Healing	Cooking
Goat Butter	-	Cooking, potion
Hearty Bass	Healing	Cooking
Hearty Durian	Healing	Cooking
Hearty Lizard	-	Cooking, potion
Hearty Radish	Healing	Cooking
Hearty Salmon	Healing	Cooking
Hearty Truffle	Healing	Cooking
Hightail Lizard	-	Cooking, potion
Hot-Footed Frog	-	Cooking, potion
Hydromelon	-	Cooking
Hylian Rice	Healing	Cooking
Hylian Shroom	Healing	Cooking
Hyrule Bass	Healing	Cooking
Hyrule Herb	Healing	Cooking
Ice Keese Wing	-	Cooking, potion
Ironshroom	-	Cooking
Keese Eyeball	-	Cooking, potion
Keese Wing	-	Cooking, potion
Lizalfos Horn	-	Cooking, potion
Lizalfos Talon	-	Cooking, potion
Mighty Bananas	Healing	Cooking
Mighty Carp	Healing	Cooking
Mighty Porgy	Healing	Cooking
Mighty Thistle	-	Cooking, potion
Moblin Fang	-	Cooking, potion
Moblin Guts	-	Cooking, potion
Moblin Horn	-	Cooking, potion
Octo Balloon	-	Cooking
Octorok Eyeball	-	Cooking, potion
Octorok Tentacle	-	Cooking, potion
Palm Fruit	Healing	Cooking
Raw Bird Drumstick	Healing	Cooking
Raw Prime Meat	Healing	Cooking
Raw Meat	Healing	Cooking
Razorshroom	Healing	Cooking
Restless Cricket	-	Cooking, potion
Rock Salt	-	Cooking
Rushroom	Healing	Cooking
Silent Princess	-	Cooking, potion
Silent Shroom	Healing	Cooking
Sizzlefin Trout	-	Cooking, potion
Sizzlewing Butterfly	-	Cooking, potion
Sneaky River Snail	-	Cooking, potion
Spicy Pepper	Healing	Cooking, potion
Stamella Shroom	Healing	Cooking
Staminoka Bass	-	Cooking, potion
Sunshroom	Healing	Cooking
Sunset Firefly	-	Cooking, potion
Swift Carrot	Healing	Cooking
Swift Violet	-	Cooking, potion
Tabantha Wheat	Healing	Cooking
Tireless Frog	-	Cooking, potion
Voltfruit	Healing	Cooking
Warm Safflina	-	Cooking, potion

Hearty ingredients

Cooking with hearty ingredients yields a dish that will fully recover your hearts and will add temporary hearts. Each hearty ingredient has a number of hearts it will add to the total, just like with regular hearts. Link cannot have more than a total of 30 temporary and permanent hearts, and any effect that would have exceed this is wasted. For example, if Link cooks a dish with five hearty radishes and makes a meal that would grant 25 extra hearts, but he already has 10 permanent hearts, he would only gain 20 extra temporary hearts.

Name	Temporary Hearts
Hearty Truffle	❤
Hearty Radish	❤❤❤
Hearty Bass	❤❤❤
Hearty Blueshell Snail	❤❤❤
Hearty Durian	❤❤❤❤
Hearty Salmon	❤❤❤❤
Big Hearty Truffle	❤❤❤❤
Big Hearty Radish	❤❤❤❤❤

Endurance ingredients

Cooking with endurance ingredients yields a dish that will fully recover the Stamina Wheel, and add a temporary amount of extra stamina which is used after the normal Stamina Wheel is depleted. Each endurance ingredient will add a certain amount of stamina. One unit of Stamina is 1/5 of a Wheel, the same increase when a Stamina Vessel is traded in Spirit Orbs at Goddess statues.

Name	Temporary Stamina
Endura Shroom	1
Endura Carrot	2

Cold Resistance ingredients

Cold resistance is a timed effect that has two levels. Each ingredient you add with cold resistance adds 2:30 to the duration.

It is unclear what the exact formula for a level 2 cold resistance dish is, but here are some observations:

• Five spicy peppers yields a level 1 dish.
• Three or more sunshrooms yields a level 2 dish, but any less yields a level 1 dish.
• One sunshroom and four spicy peppers yields a level 2 dish, but any less yields a level 1 dish.

Spices

Adding a spice to a dish that has a timed status effect will increase the duration of the effect by a different amount depending on the spice. Adding additional copies of the same spice, or adding non-spices, will add 30 seconds to the duration for each one. Some spices will produce dubious food when cooked alone.

Name	Duration	Can be cooked alone	Hearts
Chickaloo Tree Nut	0:40	yes
Acorn	0:50	yes
Rock Salt	1:00	no	0
Hylian Rice	1:00	no
Goat Butter	1:20
Sugar Cane	1:20
Goron Spice	1:30
Bird Egg	1:30	yes

It is interesting to note that the Acorn and Chickaloo Tree Nut only provide when eaten alone and when cooked, but when paired with any other ingredient, the first one you add will contribute 1 whole heart to the dish.

Dishes

Dishes are foods created via cooking, including potions. By combining different ingredients, Link can cook up a variety of dishes depending on the ingredients used. Up to a maximum of five food materials can be used as base ingredients for one dish.

Link's default pouch can only simultaneously carry up to a maximum of sixty dishes or elixirs at any given time. Duplicate dishes that are cooked over a campfire (Baked Apple, etc.) occupy the same slot in the pouch, however, duplicate dishes that are cooked in a pot occupy their own slots in the pouch. When cooking with hearty-type items, yellow Heart Containers will stack: 5 for the Big Hearty Radish or Hearty Lizard, 4 for the Big Hearty Truffle or Hearty Durian, 3 for the Hearty Radish, 2 for Hearty Bass, and 1 for the Hearty Truffle. For example, cooking 5 Big Hearty Radishes will give Link 25 yellow Heart Containers.

The Rupee values of cooked meals are as follows:

• 1 or 2 ingredients = 2x sell value of ingredients, rounded to nearest 10
• 3 ingredients = 2x sell value of ingredients, plus 10%, rounded to nearest 10
• 4 ingredients = 2x sell value of ingredients, plus 25%, rounded to nearest 10
• 5 ingredients = 2x sell value of ingredients, plus 40%, rounded to nearest 10

Material	Healing	Effect	Ingredient(s)
Baked Apple		-	Apple
Charred Pepper		-	Spicy Pepper
Dubious Food		-	-
Electro Elixir	-	Granting electricity resistance during 3:40	-
Enduring Mushroom Skewer		Increasing temporary stamina	Raw Meat or Raw Bird Drumstick Endura Shroom
Energizing Elixir	-	Restoring fully Stamina Wheel	Bokoblin Horn Restless Cricket
Energizing Glazed Meat	-	Restoring a part of the Stamina Wheel	Acorn Apple Courser Bee Honey Hylian Shroom Raw Bird Drumstick
Energizing Honeyed Apple	-	Healing	Apple Courser Bee Honey
Energizing Meat and Mushroom Skewer		Restoring 1/3 Stamina Wheel	Raw Meat or Raw Bird Drumstick Stamella Shroom
Energizing Meaty Rice Balls	Healing	Restoring a part of the Stamina Wheel	Raw Meat Hylian Rice
Energizing Mushroom Skewer		Restoring fully Stamina Wheel	Raw Meat Hylian Shroom Stamella Shroom
Energizing Salt-Grilled Fish		Restoring a part of the Stamina Wheel	Rock Salt Fish
Failed Experiment		-	-
Fried Wild Greens		-	Any vegetable, herb or flower
Hasty Elixir	-	Granting haste effect during 2:10	Hightail Lizard monsters' parts
Hasty Meat and Mushroom Skewer		Increasing temporary movement speed during 1:20	Raw Meat or Raw Bird Drumstick Rushroom
Hasty Mushroom Skewer		Increasing temporary movement speed	Raw Meat or Raw Bird Drumstick Hylian Shroom
Hearty Fried Wild Greens	Fully	Adding temporary ❤❤❤	Hearty Radish any vegetable, herb or flower
Hearty Meat and Mushroom Skewer	Fully	Adding temporary ❤❤❤	Raw Meat or Raw Bird Drumstick Hearty Truffle
Hearty Mushroom Skewer	Fully	Adding temporary ❤❤❤❤	Raw Meat Hearty Truffle
Hearty Salmon Meunière	Fully	Adding temporary ❤❤❤❤	Tabantha Wheat Goat Butter Hearty Salmon
Hearty Salt-Grilled Fish	Fully	Adding temporary ❤❤	Rock Salt Fish
Hearty Steamed Meat		Adding temporary ❤❤❤	Raw Meat Hearty Radish Hearty Truffle
Hearty Steamed Mushrooms	Fully	Adding temporary ❤❤❤❤	Hearty Radish Hearty Truffle
Hearty Wild Greens	Fully	Adding temporary ❤❤❤❤	Hearty Radish Hyrule Herb mushroom Raw Meat or Raw Bird Drumstick
Honeyed Fruits		-	Courser Bee Honey Spicy Pepper
Meat and Mushroom Skewer		-	Raw Meat or Raw Bird Drumstick Hylian Shroom
Meat and Seafood Fry		-	Raw Meat Mighty Carp Spicy Peppers
Meat Skewer		-	Raw Meat Raw Bird Drumstick
Mushroom Skewer		-	Big Hearty Truffle Rushroom Acorn Blue Nightshade
Omelet	Healing	-	Bird Egg
Roasted Bass		-	Hyrule Bass
Salt-Grilled Greens	Healing	-	Rock Salt Leafy greens
Salt-Grilled Meat		-	Raw Meat Raw Bird Drumstick Rock Salt
Seared Steak		-	Raw Meat
Simmered Fruit		-	Apple Acorn or Spicy Pepper
Sneaky Elixir	-	Granting a level two stealth effect	Keese Eyeball Sunset Firefly
Sneaky Mushroom Skewer	Healing	Granting stealth effect	Mushrooms
Sneaky Steamed Fish		Granting sneak ability	Hyrule Bass Blue Nightshade
Sneaky Steamed Meat		Granting one level stealth boost during 2:30	Raw Meat Blue Nightshade
Sneaky Steamed Mushrooms		Granting one level stealth boost during 3:30	Mushrooms
Spicy Elixir		Increasing resistance to cold	Sizzlewing Butterfly Bokoblin Fang
Spicy Fruit and Mushroom Mix		Granting low-level cold resistance	Spicy Pepper Hylian Shroom
Spicy Pepper Steak		Granting cold resistance during 5:30	Raw Meat Hylian Shroom Spicy Pepper
Spicy Sautéed Peppers		Granting cold resistance during 10:00	Spicy Peppers
Spicy Simmered Fruit		Granting cold resistance during 6:30	Spicy Peppers
Steak Skewer		-	Seared Steak
Steamed Meat		-	Raw Meat
Steamed Mushrooms		-	Stamella Shroom Blue Nightshade
Toasty Hylian Shroom		-	Hylian Shroom
Toasty Stamella Shroom		-	Stamella Shroom

Roasted and frozen foods

In addition the Cooking Pot usage, Link can cook a single item such as an Apple, Raw Meat, or Bird Egg by exposing it to an open flame from Campfire, lit Torch, Fire Arrow, or high-temperature areas of Death Mountain. This makes a roasted food such as Baked Apple, Seared Steak, or Campfire Egg, that increases the number of Heart Containers restored when consumed by 150%. They are not ingredients, thus they cannot be cooked again. Killing animals with Fire Arrows or fire element weapons will automatically yield roasted food.

Additionally, Link can cook Hard-Boiled Eggs by dropping Bird Eggs in Hot Springs.

Link can create frozen foods by exposing meat or seafood to extremely cold temperatures or by killing animals and freezing seafood with Ice Arrows or Ice element weapons. Frozen foods restore the same amount of health as usual but grant low level heat resistance (chilly effect), making them useful for traversing hot areas of the desert. Like roasted food and dishes, they are not ingredients, thus they cannot be cooked again.

Unlike meals, roasted or frozen foods can be stacked in Link’s inventory, allowing him to carry several without taking up additional space.

Recipes

Link can learn or get recipes from various sources such as posters inside stables or shops. Others can be known by talking to certain people, for example Beedle will mention the recipes of items he offers to trade for Rhino Beetles, or reading certain books such as Misa's Recipe Book. Link can also consult the recipes along with descriptions and effects provided, of dishes present in his inventory. Link can also learn recipes during certain side quests, once completed, the recipe for the dish in question is recorded in the Adventure Log.