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'''Cooking''' is a game mechanic that becomes available after upgrading the [[farmhouse]] for the first time. The house upgrade adds a kitchen, which includes a stove and a refrigerator. The stove is the cooking interface, while the refrigerator provides 36 slots of storage space, similar to a [[chest]]. The refrigerator is unique in that it is directly linked with the cooking interface, as if it were an extension of the player's inventory. Only [[Cooking#Ingredients|ingredients]] in the player's inventory or refrigerator are seen as usable items for a [[Cooking#Recipes|recipe]].
The player must learn each recipe before it is unlocked for cooking. Locked recipes are displayed as a black silhouette of the recipe icon, with a tooltip description that says "???." Unlocked recipe icons will appear greyed-out if any of the ingredients are missing, but the tooltip will provide information regarding the recipe. Any missing ingredients will be highlighted in red. If all the ingredients required for a recipe are present either in the player's inventory or the refrigerator (or a combination of the two) the recipe icon will become fully highlighted.
==Buffs==
Eating a food with [[buffs]] will wipe out any active buffs and replace them with the buffs from the newly eaten food. If the newly eaten food has no buffs, the existing buffs will remain in effect.
Duration of buffs for food lowers as the day progresses. For example, if Fish Stew is eaten early in the day its duration is 16+ minutes. If eaten at 10pm it only lasts 2-3 minutes.
==Achievements==
There are three [[Achievements]] associated with Cooking:
'''Note:''' [[Escargot]] and [[Fish Stew]] are in opposite places on the cooking screen accessed through the stove (shown below) than on the collections tab on the player menu (thumbnail shown at right).
{{Collections Cooking}}
==Recipes==
{{Recipes|Header}}
{{:Fried Egg|RecipeRow}}
{{:Omelet|RecipeRow}}
{{:Salad|RecipeRow}}
{{:Cheese Cauliflower|RecipeRow}}
{{:Baked Fish|RecipeRow}}
{{:Parsnip Soup|RecipeRow}}
{{:Vegetable Medley|RecipeRow}}
{{:Complete Breakfast|RecipeRow}}
{{:Fried Calamari|RecipeRow}}
{{:Strange Bun|RecipeRow}}
{{:Lucky Lunch|RecipeRow}}
{{:Fried Mushroom|RecipeRow}}
{{:Pizza|RecipeRow}}
{{:Bean Hotpot|RecipeRow}}
{{:Glazed Yams|RecipeRow}}
{{:Carp Surprise|RecipeRow}}
{{:Hashbrowns|RecipeRow}}
{{:Pancakes|RecipeRow}}
{{:Salmon Dinner|RecipeRow}}
{{:Fish Taco|RecipeRow}}
{{:Crispy Bass|RecipeRow}}
{{:Pepper Poppers|RecipeRow}}
{{:Bread|RecipeRow}}
{{:Tom Kha Soup|RecipeRow}}
{{:Trout Soup|RecipeRow}}
{{:Chocolate Cake|RecipeRow}}
{{:Pink Cake|RecipeRow}}
{{:Rhubarb Pie|RecipeRow}}
{{:Cookie|RecipeRow}}
{{:Spaghetti|RecipeRow}}
{{:Fried Eel|RecipeRow}}
{{:Spicy Eel|RecipeRow}}
{{:Sashimi|RecipeRow}}
{{:Maki Roll|RecipeRow}}
{{:Tortilla|RecipeRow}}
{{:Red Plate|RecipeRow}}
{{:Eggplant Parmesan|RecipeRow}}
{{:Rice Pudding|RecipeRow}}
{{:Ice Cream|RecipeRow}}
{{:Blueberry Tart|RecipeRow}}
{{:Autumn's Bounty|RecipeRow}}
{{:Pumpkin Soup|RecipeRow}}
{{:Super Meal|RecipeRow}}
{{:Cranberry Sauce|RecipeRow}}
{{:Stuffing|RecipeRow}}
{{:Farmer's Lunch|RecipeRow}}
{{:Survival Burger|RecipeRow}}
{{:Dish o' The Sea|RecipeRow}}
{{:Miner's Treat|RecipeRow}}
{{:Roots Platter|RecipeRow}}
{{:Algae Soup|RecipeRow}}
{{:Pale Broth|RecipeRow}}
{{:Plum Pudding|RecipeRow}}
{{:Artichoke Dip|RecipeRow}}
{{:Stir Fry|RecipeRow}}
{{:Roasted Hazelnuts|RecipeRow}}
{{:Pumpkin Pie|RecipeRow}}
{{:Radish Salad|RecipeRow}}
{{:Fruit Salad|RecipeRow}}
{{:Blackberry Cobbler|RecipeRow}}
{{:Cranberry Candy|RecipeRow}}
{{:Bruschetta|RecipeRow}}
{{:Coleslaw|RecipeRow}}
{{:Fiddlehead Risotto|RecipeRow}}
{{:Poppyseed Muffin|RecipeRow}}
{{:Chowder|RecipeRow}}
{{:Lobster Bisque|RecipeRow}}
{{:Escargot|RecipeRow}}
{{:Fish Stew|RecipeRow}}
{{:Maple Bar|RecipeRow}}
{{:Crab Cakes|RecipeRow}}
{{Recipes|footer}}
==Ingredients==
A minimum of 77 different items are needed to cook all 71 dishes in game, 6 of which are dishes used as ingredients.
These tables assume you will used the first crafted dish to make another crafted dish (''e.g.'', You will use 1 [[Potato]] to make [[Hashbrowns]], then use those Hashbrowns to make [[Complete Breakfast]]. You will need 1 more Potato to make Hashbrowns for [[Dish o' The Sea]]).
===Crops===
{| class="wikitable sortable" id="roundedborder"
!Image
!Name
!Amount needed
!Season
!Growth Time
!Notes
!Required for
|-
|[[File:Parsnip.png|center]]
|[[Parsnip]]
|2
|[[Spring]]
|4 Days
|
|{{name|Parsnip Soup|1}}{{name|Farmer's Lunch|1}}
|-
|[[File:Kale.png|center]]
|[[Kale]]
|2
|[[Spring]]
|6 Days
|Harvest with [[Scythe]]
|{{name|Salmon Dinner|1}}{{name|Stir Fry|1}}
|-
|[[File:Potato.png|center]]
|[[Potato]]
|2
|[[Spring]]
|6 Days
|Has a 20% chance to yield extra potatoes
|{{name|Hashbrowns|2x1}}
|-
|[[File:Blue Jazz.png|center]]
|[[Blue Jazz]]
|1
|[[Spring]]
|7 Days
|
|{{name|Lucky Lunch|1}}
|-
|[[File:Green Bean.png|center]]
|[[Green Bean]]
|2
|[[Spring]]
|10 Days
|Grows on Trellis. Continues to produce every 3 days.
'''Note:''' All recipes requiring milk will accept either [[Milk]] or [[Large Milk]]. Neither [[Goat Milk]] nor [[Large Goat Milk]] can be used in any recipe.
For egg recipes, all chicken and duck eggs are allowed, including [[Void Egg|void eggs]].
Note that [[Clam]]s and [[Mussel]]s can be foraged from [[The Beach]] during any season. [[Crab]]s may be dropped by [[Rock Crab]]s or [[Lava Crab]]s in [[The Mines]].
{| class="wikitable sortable" id="roundedborder"
!Image
!Name
!Amount needed
!Location
!Required for
|-
|[[File:Lobster.png|center]]
|[[Lobster]]
|1
|Ocean
|{{name|Lobster Bisque|1}}
|-
|[[File:Clam.png|center]]
|[[Clam]]
|1
|Ocean
|{{name|Chowder|1}}
|-
|[[File:Crayfish.png|center]]
|[[Crayfish]]
|1
|Freshwater
|{{name|Fish Stew|1}}
|-
|[[File:Crab.png|center]]
|[[Crab]]
|1
|Ocean
|{{name|Crab Cakes|1}}
|-
|[[File:Mussel.png|center]]
|[[Mussel]]
|1
|Ocean
|{{name|Fish Stew|1}}
|-
|[[File:Shrimp.png|center]]
|[[Shrimp]]
|1
|Ocean
|{{name|Tom Kha Soup|1}}
|-
|[[File:Snail.png|center]]
|[[Snail]]
|1
|Freshwater
|{{name|Escargot|1}}
|-
|[[File:Periwinkle.png|center]]
|[[Periwinkle]]
|2
|Freshwater
|{{name|Strange Bun|1}}{{name|Fish Stew|1}}
|}
===General Store Items===
Purchased from [[Pierre]] at [[Pierre's General Store]].
{| class="wikitable sortable" id="roundedborder"
!Image
!Name
!Amount needed
!Price per unit/Total
!Notes
!Required for
|-
|[[File:Sugar.png|center]]
|[[Sugar]]
|16
|100g/1600g
(or if grown 10g/60g)
|Can also be produced with [[Beet|Beets]] in a [[Mill]].
:''See Also: [[Fish#When_to_turn_your_fish_into_Sashimi|When to turn your fish into sashimi]]''
While most recipes will sell for less than the cost or profit from their ingredients, there are a few that will always result in profit when using the lowest quality ingredients.
''Note: It may be more profitable to save [[Fish]] for [[Quests#Help Wanted Quests|"Help Wanted" quests]], which generally pay triple the fish's base value, than to turn them into [[Sashimi]].''
The following recipes will result in profit when using the lowest-quality ingredients:
<sup>☆</sup>''Not profitable with the [[Fishing#Fishing Skill|Fisher or Angler professions]]''
<br /><sup>★</sup>''Not profitable with the [[Fishing#Fishing Skill|Angler Profession]]''
|}
However, if profit is your goal, then you are ''always'' better off processing ingredients, i.e. in a [[Preserves Jar]], [[Keg]], [[Mayonnaise Machine]], or [[Cheese Press]].
The only noteworthy exceptions are [[Algae Soup]] (+{{price|40}}), [[Pale Broth]] (+{{price|100}}), [[Roots Platter]] with regular quality winter root (+{{price|5}}), and also [[Sashimi]] for low tier fish, since cooking is the only way to process algae, cave carrots, winter root and fish. Aside from these four recipes cooking for profit only becomes attractive if your ingredient production greatly exceeds your processing capacity.
==Notes==
* Preparing a recipe that requires an unspecific item (''e.g.'', [[Maki Roll]], requiring any fish) can use up an ingredient that is specifically required for another recipe (''e.g.'', [[Trout Soup]], requiring [[Rainbow Trout]]). This can sometimes be prevented simply by cooking the Trout Soup before the Maki Roll. However, every recipe searches for ingredients first in the player's inventory, in order, last slot to first, and then in the refrigerator, last slot to first. Place your generic fish items in the last slots of your inventory and your specific items in places searched later. Then the recipes you cook will use those items instead of any alternatives.
==Exploit==
* Mobile only: If you eat a food that gives you a buff and press the ‘[[Mobile Saves|Swap to previous save]]’ button it will carry the buffs to the previous save. You can use this to eat difficult to craft/find food without losing it.
==History==
{{history|1.3|[[Artichoke Dip]], [[Pumpkin Pie]], [[Chowder]], and [[Lobster Bisque]] now accept [[Large Milk]] in place of regular milk.}}