This page offers a guide on how to cook food on a cooking pot, including how to make elixirs.

View Full-size

Ganon can wait, we’re making mushroom skewers!

How to Cook at a Cooking Pot¶

To begin, you’ll need to find a cooking pot. They’re found all over the world, but the easiest places to find them would be at a stable. Bear in mind that the cooking pots are outside over a campfire, and they won’t work if it’s raining!

So once you’ve found a campfire, you’ll want to head into your inventory and find some food! When you select an item, you’ll hold it in your arms and you can hold up to five items. You’ll want to choose anything foody - herbs, mushrooms, fruit, meat or salt can be used to make a variety of recipes. Different foods have different properties, with some restoring more health and others offering special buffs - head over to our guide on Materials for a run down of all food types and their respective properties.

View Full-size

1

2

(1 of 2) First, choose your ingredients

View Full-size

View Full-size

First, choose your ingredients (left), then cook them up to make a tasty meal! (right)

The quality of ingredients you choose also have an impact on the food you make. If you use prime or gourmet meat then you’ll make food that restores more hearts in compared to normal meat recipes. The same goes for using different fruits or mushrooms - Apples and Hylian Shrooms are a low level ingredient, but Heart Durian and Hearty Truffles offer huge amounts of HP restoration!

Once you’ve chosen up to 5 food items, exit your inventory and you’ll find Link is holding all of the items you’ve picked. Head over to the cooking pot and wait for the option to press to cook. You then get to watch a short cut scene and listen to some groovy music whilst Link cooks up a treat. However, the music will also indicate if you are cooking Dubious Food, which is when you use bad ingredients. If you try to cook a nice meal with monster parts you’ll make some gross food. It still heals you a little depending on the other ingredients you’ve used but Link won’t thank you for it! Just stick to things you’d want to eat in real life and the meals you make will be a-ok!

How to Make Elixirs¶

Making elixirs is surprisingly simple, all you need to do is combine monster parts with insects, frogs or lizards!

View Full-size

Use bugs, frogs or lizards with monster parts to make elixirs!

You can do as little as one insect and one monster part or you can add more of each to strengthen the properties. Elixirs will offer you buffs based on the items you placed in them - for example, if you use Ice Keese Wings in your elixir, it will offer cold resistance.

Elixirs can be super useful for sneaking, increasing your toughness or for surviving harsh conditions in the cold mountains and the blazing heat of Death Mountain.

Cooking on a Campfire¶

If you’re out in the wild and only have an open campfire and no pot, you can still cook your food! You can’t make fun recipes, but you can drop food onto the flames to cook them. You can make toasty mushrooms, baked apples and cook your meats. They don’t offer much extra health restoration but it’s better than eating raw foods!

View Full-size

Use open fires to make toasty mushrooms!