TotK | How To Cook Guide - Cooking Pot | Zelda Tears Of The Kingdom

How to cook in the Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (ToTK). See guide on how to cook, where to cook, pots, excellent dishes, effects, great success, pot locations and more!

Basic Cooking Method & Mechanism

Cook By Holding An Ingredient & Place It In A Pot

Cooking is done by holding the ingredients for the dish from the "Ingredients" tab and cooking them in a pot over a fire. There is no need to memorize the recipe, and a wide variety of combinations of ingredients can be used to cook food freely.

Cooking Procedures
Step 1: Hold the ingredients in your hand...	Step 2: Put it into the pot!

Insect & Monster Parts For Medicine

In Hyrule, materials that ordinary people would not eat, such as insects and lizards, can be collected and cooked. When combine with Monster Parts, these materials can be used to create medicines with special effects.

If The Combination Is Not Right, The Dish Will Fail

If the dish is out of the frame from the combinations mentioned above, it will be a failure. Link with an iron stomach can provide a small amount of recovery effect when eaten, but it will not be as effective as it should be.

Acquired Food Or Dish Will Unlock Recipes

Once you have obtained/cooked a dish, you can check the recipe in the cooking memo by pressing the "X" button. You can also check the effect time at a glance, so cook efficiently!

Maximum Number In The Inventory Is 60

The maximum number of inventory you have per dish is fixed. Similar to the previous work, you can only have a maximum of 60 in the beginning. It is a waste to fill up your inventory with dubious Food that does not help much, so it is better to eat those food as soon as possible.

There Is No Way To Make A Batch Of Food

There is no way to make multiple dishes at once. Even if you know what you want to make, there is no other way but to steadily create them one by one.

Multiple Simple Dishes Are Possible

When left at extreme temperatures for a certain period of time, some ingredients like animal meat, transform into a simple dish like frozen meat which has a heat-resistant effect. Simple cooking, such as the following, can be created all at once because all you have to do is leave them in a specific location.

The Effect Is Not Very Strong

When cooking in a pot, the cooking effect is stronger due to the fusion of multiple ingredients. In comparison, simple dishes cannot produce an effect greater than the one from the ingredients. If you want to get a good effect, cook in a pot.

Where & When Can You Cook?

You Can Cook If You Have A Pot At The Start

If you have a pot on fire, you can cook anywhere in Hyrule. They can be found in various places, and are always located in human settlements and around horse inns, so stop by when you need them.

▲ There are cooking pots scattered throughout the Great Sky Island (marked by a red box in this photo), so take advantage of them.

In This Work, You Can Cook Anywhere With A Portable Pot

The key point in this work is that you can cook once, anytime and anywhere with the portable for that appears from the Zonai Gacha Station. However, it is really a one-time use, and it will disappear after cooking once, so it should only be used in an emergency.

Only Simple Cooking Is Possible Over A Campfire Alone

Some ingredients can be cooked just by placing them on a bonfire. For example, an apple becomes a baked apple after a certain amount of time over a fire. If you just need a simple dish, bringing the ingredients close to a fire will do.

You Can't Do It Without A Fire

If there is no fire under the pot, you should prepare it by lighting it first. You can use any method to start a fire, such as with a Flint, carrying a fire started by lightning, or with a torch.

Rain Will Extinguish The Fire

Most cooking areas, such as Horse inns and field campsites, are often under blue skies. However, on rainy days, it is impossible to cook because the fire cannot be lit. In this case, it is better to use a covered cooking area in the village or town.

Effects Of Dishes & Medicine

Only One Effect Per Dish

Only one special effect or ingredient can be given per dish. When multiple effects are combined, they cancel each other out and the dish becomes a normal dish.

Tips!!	Cooking Sunshroom and Stambulb will result in "Steamed Mushroom" which has neither Cold resistance nor Stamina Recovery effect.

Same Effect Can Be Obtained With Different Ingredient

Cooking Stamella Shroom and Stambulb to will create food that restores Stamina Wheel, so if all materials has the same effect, cooking them together can give the same effect.

Effect Has Level And Duration

Each ingredient has an effect level and duration. Effect level refers to things like cold resistance Lv 2, and duration refers to how long the effect lasts

Each Ingredient Has Fixed Effect

Ingredients such as Chillshroom and Restless Cricket have an effect on their name, whereas ingredients such as Apple and Raw Meat which has ordinally name have no extra effect. Ingredients that have an effect or not can easily be identified by reading the name.

Most of the ingredient that has no special effect will increase the duration of the food's effect.

▼Duration of Each Ingredient

List Of Effects

Effect Name	Detail
Hearty	Heals Hearts all the way Increase max hearts temporary
Energizing	Heals Stamina Wheel
Enduring	Heals Stamina Wheel all the way Increases max stamina temporary
Mighty	Increases Damage Lv1：1.2x Lv2：1.3x Lv3：1.5x
Tough	Reduces incoming damage Lv1：Approx 1 Heart Lv2：Approx 3 Hearts Lv3：Approx 6 Hearts
Hasty	Increases Movement Speed Lv1：1.2x Lv2：1.3x Lv3：1.4x
Chilly	Heat resistance Lv1：Able to endure heat (Equivalent to 1 Heat Resistance armor) Lv2：Able to endure extreme heat (Equivalent to 2 Heat Resistance armor)
Spicy	Cold resistance Lv1：Able to endure cold (Equivalent to 1 Cold Resistance armor) Lv2：Able to endure extreme cold(Equivalent to 2 cold resistance armor
Fireproof	Able to endure heat from volcano Lv1：Equivalent to 1 Fireproof Armor Lv2：Equivalent to 2 Fireproof Armor
Electro	Electricity resistance Lv1：Equivalent to 1 Electric Resistance armor Lv2：Equivalent to 2 Electric Resistance armor Lv3：Equivalent to 3 Electric Resistance armor
Sneaky	Reduces sound while moving Lv1：Harder to get spotted by sleeping enemy while crouching Lv2：Gets easier to catch bugs while walking normally Lv3：Harder to get spotted while moving normally
Sticky	Less likely to slip while climbing
Gloom Resistance	Gloom resistance Lv1：1 Hearts Lv2：2 Hearts Lv3：3 Hearts
Sunny	Heals Hearts lost from Gloom effect
Glow	Glows and lights up nearby areas.

Methods & Effects Of Great Success

Effects Of Great Success

• Effects duration extended by 5 minutes
• Effect level up
• Hearts recovery +3

Getting an excellent dish and eating it will grant one of the above effects at random. In normal cooking, the probability of an excellent dish is not very at around 5-10%.

Blood Moon For Easy Great Success

Most of the food cooked during Blood Moon will be Great Success. Store ingredients and cook during Blood Moon to cook high-quality food

Tips!!	Blood Moon rises to the sky, and time between 11: 45PM and 0:10AM have increased rate of Great Success!

Dragon Material, Star Fragment and Golden Appl Can Be Used For Great Success

Valuable materials such as all dragon material, Star Fragments and Golden Apples can be used for cooking for Great Success. You can expect an enhancement in the effect of the food, so make sure to use them when cooking.

Reference Recipe

Material	Food & Effect
・Mighty Bananas ×4 ・Farosh's Horn ×1	Mighty Simmered Fruit Mighty Power: Lv3 Duration：30 min
・Fleet-Lotus Seeds ×4 ・Light Dragon's Horn ×1	Hasty Simmered Fruit Hasty Power： Lv3 Duration：30 min

Music Will Be Different When Great Success Happens

Sound effects will be different during Great Success. If you skipped the cooking scene it is harder to know if it is a Great Success or not.

List of Materials and Duration

Lists of all the hidden attributes of materials with no special effects. Refer to the list below for which material to add when cooking foods such as Hasty, Mighty and Tough.

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