Topic: Breath of the Wild Test Kitchen: Share your Recipes!

[Soren]

So until Aonuma gives us the cook book DLC were all so desperately deserve, I thought it would be a cool idea to share some of the meals we've created in the game and put them in a thread for easy reference. I'll play the recipes in this OP and you guys can chime in.

Meals
5 Spicy Peppers (Spicy Sauteed Peppers) - Cold protection for 12:30 minutes.
5 apples (Simmered Fruit) - 5 hearts
1 Raw Prime Meat/1 Bird Egg/ 1 Hylian Rice/1 Pepper/1 Apple (Spicy Fried Egg and Rice) - 9 hearts, 6 minutes cold protection.

Elixirs


I'll add more when I get home.

[Khushrenada]

I eat my mushrooms and apples raw! Like nature intended. You can take your cooking, shove it in a pot and boil it!

I know there is one recipe I learned yesterday from a book in someone's house to take the Hard Pumpkin, Wheat (of some kind), Goat Butter and Milk to make some kind of pumpkin soup.

When I started playing this game, I cracked out a notebook to start taking notes to help remember things and collect recipes. However, I soon found out that the map system is well done to record most of the notations I'd want to make and with stamps it helps me keep track of other things I haven't yet solved.

The only thing left unrecorded is cooking but I stopped seeing the necessity of marking down recipes although elixirs are another matter. But with cooking, it just seems that as long as I'm putting together edible foods, it'll turn out alright. The only difference is what effect I want out of it. Want some cold resistance? Mix in a spicy pepper or two. Want more stamina? Mix in some Stamella shrooms with meat or an apple or just make a Stamella Mushroom Kebob. More stealth? Mix in some stealth shrooms or snails. More hearts? Then just cook with heart only ingredients like meat and fruit. I suppose there are probably some super recipes that might be found that one may just want to keep as a shortlist. Right now, though, it just seems that if you study your ingredients then you should have an idea of what you'll get from cooking. I've even noticed getting the same meal from different ingredients because the end effects are the same.

Elixirs, though, remain a bit of mystery to me of what the balance needs to be there. I've made a couple bad dishes from them and right now am just sticking with 2 - 3 ingredient mixtures. Since they are potions, they seem to follow different rules from the cooking rules which are more closer to real life ingredients.

Also, I want to send a shout-out to whoever came up with the cooking jingle in this game. I've had to hear a bit but it hasn't gotten old yet and really captures the joy of cooking.

[ShyGuy]

Add radishes to get those sweet yellow hearts.

Here's an easy one that gives decent hearts, since apples are everywhere
Simmered Fruit
5 apples, 5 hearts

[Nile Boogie Returns]

Thank you for this.


Will add my recipes when I find my notebook (I love how old school it is to write this down)

[Mop it up]

Tip: Use food to top out your hearts to completely full. When completely full, no attack will kill you in one hit.

Another tip: Selling food is a decent moneymaker. For example, it's easy to find Blue Nightshade flowers in places like the woods near Kakariko, but they're worth only 4 rupees each. But if you cook 5 of them into a dish, that dish is now worth 60 rupees, effectively tripling the profit!

This game is quite a cakewalk once you fill up your inventory with meals. I would run out of weapons long before I'd run out of hearts.

[Wanderlei]

This probably only small criticism I can have of this wonderful game, there should like in game recipe list. Even just type that keeps track of ones you have discovered.

[KeyBilly]

There is now an unofficial Android app with a recipe book function, although it is very new and I think the developer is still tinkering.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.github.skulltah.bookoflinks

[nickmitch]

I'm not sure if the recipes have consistent results.  I remember trying the exact same recipe twice and one gave me mid-level boost, whereas the other gave me a low-level one.  Going to see if I still have them and double check the recipes used.


Edit: figured out what it was.


Ironshroom + Ironshroom + Armoranth + Armored Carp = Tough Steamed Fish (4 Hearts, High Def boost 3:20)
Ironshroom + Armoranth + Armoranth + Armored Carp = Tough Steamed Fish (3 Hearts, Mid Def boost 3:20)
I knew it was two of something, but it wasn't two of the same thing.

[Khushrenada]

I came across a couple recipes that may have been of interest to other users because they seemed to have some good value but now I'm suddenly doubting the ingredients used and could be wrong. However, one dish which I just made up on my own gave nine and half minutes cold resistance which I think is pretty good as well as recovered at least a couple hearts if not 3 or 4. I took a  Raw Bird Thigh, added some Salt Rock to it, along with a Hylian Herb for extra flavor and a spicy pepper for some heat. The only thing I'm wondering is if there was another ingredient I'm forgetting. If there was, I'm pretty sure it would have been a Hylian Shroom for extra toppings/flavor. Maybe I'll try doing some more cooking again tonight to double check that. Like I was saying in my early post, if you just think of how you might cook a dish in real life, it can serve you well in this game.

The other dish I came across was from a village where a resident needed a couple ingredients from me to finish making it and then gave me some of the finished dish. I studied the ingredients over and now I'm doubting what one of them was. The dish is a Seafood Paella and it takes 5 ingredients. 4 of them are Goat Butter, Hylian Rice, Mighty Porgy and Blue Seasnail. The fifth ingredient might be Rock Salt but now I'm suddenly have some doubt in my mind that maybe it was a mushroom or some kind or an herb. The end result is a recipe that will restore 14 hearts so it might be useful for late game progress.

[Shaymin]

2x Hearty Durian + 2x Big Hearty Radish = full health + 19 temporary hearts

[Mop it up]

I noticed that sometimes, the effect of a dish comes out much stronger than normal. The cooking jingle also changes slightly at the end when this happens. I have no idea if something causes this, or if it's just a random chance.

2x Hearty Durian + 2x Big Hearty Radish = full health + 19 temporary hearts

To me, this feels like a waste. Cooking just one of these offers full recovery, so four full recovery dishes gives me more mileage. Though, if someone chooses only stamina upgrades, it may be useful.

[Khushrenada]

I find as the game goes on, cooking becomes less and less of a thing I need aside from recouping my hearts. But with the equipment and armor I have to counter act a lot of adverse effects and more spirit orbs acquired for more stamina and health, the only thing is to cook stuff to replenish my health. And if I cook a single radish, truffle or blue seasnail, I can get a recipe that completely restores health and adds an extra heart or two. No combinations needed. I can see why Nintendo didn't bother with the cookbook.

[Mop it up]

Aside from the attack and defense dishes, I find that it's tougher to upgrade the specialised gear, so I still find it worthwhile to have various buffs from food so I can put on the higher defense equipment for when fighting.

I think having a cookbook would be more of a "100%" sort of thing, to make all the dishes. People like acheesements!