Information about Cooking in Fire Emblem Three Hopes, including details on how Cooking works and what benefits you get from sharing meals with other characters.
To indulge in some cooking, talk to the Kitchen Master.
How to Unlock the Kitchen Master¶
During Chapter 4 you’ll be introduced to the [Base Camp], where numerous facilities and services will be at your disposal. One of them - operated by an NPC called the Kitchen Master - allows you to cook meals. You’d think this would be a job for a chef, but hey, maybe it’s relaxing for Shez to sometimes drop the mercenary gig and get her hands dirty making a meal for her friends?
(1 of 3) Select a meal, which requires different ingredients and bestows various effects,
How Cooking Works in Fire Emblem Three Hopes¶
Interact with the Kitchen Master and you’ll be able to choose the option “Cook a Meal”. What follows is a fairly straightforward process: you’ll get a list of meals you can cook to select from. Pick one, invite two pals, and boom, you’re eating like a king. Or with a king, as the case may be. Characters you share a meal with will gain Morale, Support Points and other benefits depending on the exact meal cooked (Shez will also gain Support Points).
Of course, things have to be more complicated than that. Nobody starves if you don’t eat, so you must be getting your meals somewhere. That being the case, all the cooking Shez does is purely elective, and as such, she has to provide her own ingredients. Different meals require different ingredients, and you can earn these ingredients by purchasing them from the Item Shopkeeper or by completing battles (you can replay battles via the Record Keeper starting in Chapter 5). Different meals also have different effects. The effects and required resources are listed on the right hand side of the screen when you’re browsing the list of available meals.
Complicating matters further is the fact that different characters have different tastes. After you select a meal you’ll get a list of characters you can invite to dine with you. Blue up arrows by the character’s name indicate they favor the meal, red down arrows indicate that the character doesn’t like the meal, and no arrows means the character is neutral in regards to the dish. The more a character likes a meal, the more Support Points they’ll gain from dining with you. Like many camp activities, there’s also an element of RNG involved - when cooking Shez will get one of three results, in order from worst to best: Nice, Great, Perfect. The better Shez performs, the more Support Points your dinner characters will get.
Finally, you will not have access to all available meals from the start of the game. To unlock more meals you’ll need to expand the [Recreation Quarter] facility. Specifically you’ll need to purchase the following upgrades:
- Buy Basic Cooking Utensils
- Buy Specialty Cooking Utensils
- Buy the Latest Cooking Utensils
(1 of 2) You can buy ingredients from the Item Shopkeeper,
You can buy ingredients from the Item Shopkeeper, (left), while new dishes can be unlocked by upgrading the Recreation Quarter facility. (right)
Cooking Effects in Fire Emblem Three Hopes¶
In addition to the aforementioned Morale and Support Points characters who dine together will receive, they’ll also gain various meal-based bonuses. Meal-based bonuses will last for the entire Chapter and will be granted to all characters who consumed said meal, and if characters consume more than one meal with different effects, those effects will stack. While not our first choice when it comes to spending Activity Points (we’d rather spend our time Volunteering to earn Renown), if you have any spare Activity Points to burn or plan to do some serious farming/grinding, the benefits gained from sharing meals may be worthwhile.
Below you’ll find a list of meals, their required resources, and their effects.
Meals Available with No Upgrades¶
| Meal | Resources | Effect |
|---|---|---|
| Small Fish Skewers | Airmid Goby | Slightly fills Awakening Gauge at start of battle. |
| Fried Crayfish | Caledonian Crayfish | Slightly fills Warrior Gauge at start of battle. |
| Grilled Herring | Albinean Herring, Turnip | Awakening Gauge fills slightly faster. |
| Saghert and Cream | Peach Currant, Noa Fruit | Warrior Gauge fills slightly faster. |
| Cabbage and Herring Stew | Albinean Herring, Cabbage | Weapon durability loss slightly reduced. |
Meals Available with Buy Basic Cooking Utensils¶
| Meal | Resources | Effect |
|---|---|---|
| Derdriu-Style Fried Pheasant | Poultry, Carrot | Slightly fills Awakening Gauge at start of battle. Slightly fills Warrior Gauge at start of battle. |
| Grilled Beast Meat | Wild Game, Noa Fruit | Slightly fills Awakening Gauge at start of battle. Awakening Gauge fills slightly faster. |
| Sweet and Salty Whitefish Saute | Teutates Loach, Tomato | Slightly fills Awakening Gauge at start of battle. Weapon durability loss slightly reduced. |
| Fish and Bean Soup | White Trout, Chickpeas | Slightly fills Warrior Gauge at start of battle. Awakening Gauge fills slightly faster. |
| Onion Gratin Soup | White Trout, Onion | Slightly fills Warrior Gauge at start of battle. Warrior Gauge fills slightly faster. |
| Super-Spicy Fish Meatballs | White Trout, Tomato | Awakening Gauge fills slightly faster. Warrior Gauge fills slightly faster. |
| Garreg Mach Meat Pie | Wild Game, Tomato | Awakening Gauge fills slightly faster. Weapon durability loss slightly reduced. |
| Pickled Rabbit Skewers | Wild Game, Carrot | Warrior Gauge fills slightly faster. Weapon durability loss slightly reduced. |
| Spicy Fish and Turnip Stew | Teutates Loach, Turnip | Slightly fills Awakening Gauge at start of battle. Warrior Gauge fills slightly faster. |
Meals Available with Buy Specialty Cooking Utensils¶
| Meal | Resources | Effect |
|---|---|---|
| Sauteed Jerky | Poultry, Chickpeas | Somewhat fills Warrior Gauge at start of battle. Awakening Gauge fills slightly faster. |
| Daphnel Stew | Poultry, Onion | Somewhat fills Warrior Gauge at start of battle. Warrior Gauge fills slightly faster. |
| Sauteed Pheasant and Eggs | Poultry, Cabbage | Weapon durability loss somewhat reduced. Slightly fills Warrior Gauge at start of battle. |
| Gautier Cheese Gratin | Poultry, Noa Fruit | Awakening Gauge fills somewhat faster. Warrior Gauge fills slightly faster. |
| Fruit and Herring Tart | Ablinean Herring, Noa Fruit | Awakening Gauge fills somewhat faster. Weapon durability loss slightly reduced. |
| Vegetable Pasta Salad | Cabbage, Onion, Carrot | Warrior Gauge fills somewhat faster. Weapon durability loss slightly reduced. |
| Vegetable Stir-Fry | Tomato, Chickpeas, Cabbage | Warrior Gauge fills somewhat faster. Slightly fills Awakening Gauge at start of battle. |
| Gronder Meat Skewers | Wild Game, Onion | Greatly fills Awakening Gauge at start of battle. |
Meals Available with Buy the Latest Cooking Utensils¶
| Meal | Resources | Effect |
|---|---|---|
| Fish Sandwich | Airmid Pike, Cabbage | Greatly fills Warrior Gauge at start of battle. |
| Bourgeois Pike | Airmid Pike, Carrot | Awakening Gauge fills much faster. |
| Sweet Bun Trio | Albinean Berries, Noa Fruit | Warrior Gauge fills much faster. |
| Country-Style Red Turnip Plate | Verona, Turnip | Weapon durability loss greatly reduced. |
| Pickled Seafood and Vegetables | Caledonian Gar, Turnip | Somewhat fills Warrior Gauge at start of battle. Warrior Gauge fills somewhat faster. |
| Cheesy Verona Stew | Teutates Loach, Verona | Warrior Gauge fills somewhat faster. Weapon durability loss somewhat reduced. |
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