Cooking

In Zelda BOTW, you can prepare a variety of meals that will give you hearts and/or special bonuses. To do that, you need to gather ingredients that go together to make a delicious meal. There are a lot of ingredients, and those are divided into four main categories:

• Regular food: these have no effect but give you hearts.
• Status food: in addition to giving you hearts, they also add a bonus effect.
• Critters and insects: only used in elixirs, otherwise they will ruin your recipe.
• Monster parts: only used in elixirs or special recipes, otherwise they will ruin your recipe.

These ingredient types allow you to cook multiple meals:

• Basic: these have no effect but give you hearts.
• Status food: in addition to giving you hearts, they also add a bonus effect.
• Elixirs: they don't restore health but give a great buff.

Basically, you want to combine edible ingredients together to cook good meals, and critters with monster parts to create elixirs.

Effects

As mentioned above, certain ingredients have a special effect. They are recognizable by a prefix before their name:

Prefix	Effect
Chilly	Heat Resistance
Electro	Electricity Resistance
Enduring	Extra Stamina
Energizing	Replenish Stamina
Fireproof	Prevents you from catching fire
Hasty	Increase movement speed
Hearty	Extra Hearts
Mighty	Increase attack power
Sneaky	Increase stealth
Spicy	Cold resistance
Tough	Increase defense

Adding any status food to the cooking pot will result in the meal granting that effect. Be careful though, because effects don't stack. If you put together two ingredients with different effects, they will cancel each other out.

Depending on the quality of the ingredient, a buff will have a level up to 3, increasing its effects.

Food type

Every single ingredient is considered part of a type. It can also be part of a sub-type, or even a sub-sub-type. Here are the types of the ingredients:

• Fruit
• Apple
• Melon
• Pepper
• Voltfruit
• Wildberry
• Seafood
• Crab
• Fish
• Porgy
• Salmon
• Snail
• Meat
• Regular
• Venison
• Poultry
• Prime
• Venison
• Poultry
• Gourmet
• Venison
• Poultry
• Vegetable
• Carrot
• Radish
• Pumpkin
• Herb
• Mushroom
• Miscellaneous
• Butter
• Egg
• Honey
• Milk
• Nut
• Rice
• Salt
• Spice
• Sugar
• Wheat
• Wood
• Critter
• Fairy
• Monster
• Extract

More information can be found on the type page.

Combining logic

Depending on its type, an ingredient will allow you to cook a given recipe. In fact, every recipe in the game has its type requirements. That is to say, a meal needs ingredients of a certain type to be cooked. For example:

• Steamed Meat requires 1 herb and 1 meat.
• Fruit and Mushroom Mix requires 1 fruit and 1 mushroom.

Though some recipes require a specific subtype, such as:

• Meat-Stuffed Pumpkin requires 1 pumpkin and 1 meat. Any vegetable other than a pumpkin will give a Steamed Meat instead.
• Salmon Meuniere requires 1 salmon, 1 wheat and 1 butter. Any seafood other than salmon will give a Seafood Meuniere instead (or a Porgy Meuniere if we replace the salmon by the porgy).
• Poultry Curry requires 1 regular poultry, 1 spice and 1 rice. Any other regular meat (venison) / meat (prime/gourmet) will give something else.

Hearts

Every ingredient adds its own amount of hearts into the recipe. The resulting dish adds every heart given by the ingredients, with a maximum of 30 hearts (that equates to a full recovery).

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