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Cooking

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
ingredients in the player's inventory or refrigerator are seen as usable items for a 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.

Contents

Buffs

Achievements

Collection

Recipes

Ingredients
Crops

Foraged Goods

Tree Fruit

Animal Products

Artisan Goods

Misc.

Fish

Crab Pot Items

General Store Items

Ingredient Dishes

Profitable Recipes

Notes

Bugs
 History

Bu�s

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. The only exceptions are
Triple Shot Espresso and Coffee, which stack their +1 Speed with any other food's buffs (including Speed).

Achievements

There are three Achievements associated with Cooking:

Cook (Cook 10 different recipes)

Sous Chef (Cook 25 different recipes)

Gourmet Chef (Cook every recipe)

Collection

Cheese Baked Parsnip Vegetable Complete Fried Strange

Fried Egg Omelet Salad
Cauliflower Fish Soup Medley Breakfast Calamari Bun

Lucky Fried Bean Glazed Carp Salmon

Pizza Hashbrowns Pancakes Fish Taco
Lunch Mushroom Hotpot Yams Surprise Dinner

Crispy Pepper Tom Kha Trout Chocolate Rhubarb

Bread Pink Cake Cookie Spaghetti
Bass Poppers Soup Soup Cake Pie

Eggplant Rice Ice Blueberry

Fried Eel Spicy Eel Sashimi Maki Roll Tortilla Red Plate
Parmesan Pudding Cream Tart

Autumn's Pumpkin Super Cranberry Farmer's Survival Dish o' Miner's Roots
Stuffing
Bounty Soup Meal Sauce Lunch Burger The Sea Treat Platter

Triple
Seafoam Algae Plum Artichoke Roasted Pumpkin Radish
Shot Pale Broth Stir Fry
Pudding Soup Pudding Dip Hazelnuts Pie Salad
Espresso

Fruit Blackberry Cranberry Fiddlehead Poppyseed Fish

Bruschetta Coleslaw Chowder Escargot
Salad Cobbler Candy Risotto Muffin Stew

Lobster Crab Shrimp

Maple Bar
Bisque Cakes Cocktail

Recipes
 Image Name Description Ingredients Restores Buff(s) Buff Duration

Ingredients

A minimum of 82 different types of items are needed to cook all 74 dishes in the game, including:

24 crop products

12 foraged goods

2 tree fruits

2 animal products

4 artisan goods

2 miscellaneous items (maple syrup, squid ink)

17 items obtained from fishing

8 crab pot items

5 items bought from Pierre's General Store

6 dishes used as ingredients

These tables assume you will use crafted dishes to make other crafted dishes. For example, you will use 1
Potato to make Hashbrowns, then use those Hashbrowns to make Complete Breakfast. You will then need 1
more Potato to make Hashbrowns for Dish o' The Sea. When you are finished, you will have earned the
Gourmet Chef achievement for cooking every dish, but you will not end up with any Hashbrowns because
you used them to make the other dishes.

Crops

Amount Growth
Image Name Season Notes Required for
needed Time

Parsnip Soup (1)
Parsnip 2 Spring 4 Days
Farmer's Lunch (1)

Harvest with Salmon Dinner (1)

Kale 2 Spring 6 Days
Scythe Stir Fry (1)

Has a 20% chance

Potato 2 Spring 6 Days to yield extra Hashbrowns (2x1)
potatoes

Blue Jazz 1 Spring 7 Days Lucky Lunch (1)

Grows on Trellis.
Continues to
Green Bean 2 Spring 10 Days Bean Hotpot (2)
produce every 3
days.

Can become a
Cauliflower 1 Spring 12 Days Cheese Cauliflower (1)
Giant Crop

Seeds available in
Rhubarb 1 Spring 13 Days Rhubarb Pie (1)
the Oasis

Available from Year Fiddlehead Risotto (1)

Garlic 2 Spring 4 Days
2 Escargot (1)
 Continues to
Pepper Poppers (1)
Hot Pepper 2 Summer 5 Days produce every 3
Spicy Eel (1)
days.

Red Plate (1)
Radish 2 Summer 6 Days
Radish Salad (1)

Poppy 1 Summer 7 Days Poppyseed Muffin (1)

Vegetable Medley (1)
Pizza (1)
Continues to Spaghetti (1)
Tomato 7 Summer 11 Days produce every 4 Eggplant Parmesan (1)
days. Bruschetta (1)
Fish Stew (1)
Shrimp Cocktail (1)

Can become a Pink Cake (1)

Melon 2 Summer 12 Days
Giant Crop Fruit Salad (1)

Produces multiple
blueberries each
Blueberry Tart (1)
Blueberry 2 Summer 13 Days harvest. Continues
Fruit Salad (1)
to produce every 4
days.

Continues to
Corn 2 Summer/Fall 14 Days produce every 4 Tortilla (2x1)
days.

Fish Taco (1)
Red Available from Year
3 Summer 9 Days Red Plate (1)
Cabbage 2
Coleslaw (1)

Bok Choy 1 Fall 4 Days Super Meal (1)

Continues to
Eggplant Parmesan (1)
Eggplant 2 Fall 5 Days produce every 5
Survival Burger (1)
days.

Harvested with
Amaranth 1 Fall 7 Days Salmon Dinner (1)
Scythe

Produces 2
Super Meal (1)
Cranberries at
Cranberry Sauce (1)
Cranberries 4 Fall 7 Days harvest. Continues
Stuffing (1)
to produce every 5
Cranberry Candy (1)
days.

Glazed Yams (1)
Yam 2 Fall 10 Days
Autumn's Bounty (1)

Autumn's Bounty (1)
Can become a
Pumpkin 3 Fall 13 Days Pumpkin Soup (1)
Giant Crop
Pumpkin Pie (1)

Seeds available at
Beet 1 Fall 6 Days Vegetable Medley (1)
the Oasis
 Available from Year Super Meal (1)
Artichoke 2 Fall 8 Days
2 Artichoke Dip (1)

Foraged Goods

Amount
Image Name Season Location Required for
needed

Throughout Stardew
Blackberry 2 Fall Blackberry Cobbler (2)
Valley

Survival Burger (1)
All Miner's Treat (2)
Cave Carrot 5 The Mines
Seasons Roots Platter (1)
Stir Fry (1)

Fried Mushroom (1)
Common Throughout Stardew
3 Spring/Fall Tom Kha Soup (1)
Mushroom Valley
Stir Fry (1)

Throughout Stardew
Dandelion 1 Spring Salad (1)
Valley

All
Coconut 1 The Desert Tom Kha Soup (1)
Seasons

Fiddlehead
1 Summer Secret Woods Fiddlehead Risotto (1)
Fern

Throughout Stardew Stuffing (1)

Hazelnut 4 Fall
Valley Roasted Hazelnuts (3)

Wild Throughout Stardew

1 Spring Shrimp Cocktail (1)
Horseradish Valley

Throughout Stardew
Leek 1 Spring Salad (1)
Valley

The Cave, Secret

Morel 1 Spring Fried Mushroom (1)
Woods

Throughout Stardew
Wild Plum 2 Fall Plum Pudding (2)
Valley

Throughout Stardew
Winter Root 1 Winter Roots Platter (1)
Valley, The Mines

Tree Fruit

Image Name Amount needed Source Season Required for

Apple 1 Apple Tree Fall Cranberry Candy (1)

Apricot 1 Apricot Tree Spring Fruit Salad (1)

Animal Products

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 eggs.

Image Name Amount needed Source Notes Required for

Fried Egg (1)
Omelet (1)
Pancakes (1)
Chocolate Cake (1)
Egg 8
Pink Cake (1)
Chickens
Cookie (1)
Blueberry Tart (1)
Crab Cakes (1)

Omelet (1)
Parsnip Soup (1)
Complete Breakfast (1)
Rice Pudding (1)
Ice Cream (1)
Milk 11 Obtain with Milk Pail Pumpkin Soup (1)

Cows Miner's Treat (1)

Artichoke Dip (1)
Pumpkin Pie (1)
Chowder (1)
Lobster Bisque (1)

Artisan Goods

Note you may instead purchase Coffee from The Saloon for 300g each instead of creating it.

Amount Producing
Image Name Source Input Item Required for
needed Time

Cheese Cauliflower (1)
Cheese
Cheese 3 Milk (1) 3.3 hours Pizza (1)
Press
Pepper Poppers (1)

Mayonnaise Fish Taco (1)

Mayonnaise 2 Egg (1) 3 hours
Machine Coleslaw (1)

Void Mayonnaise
1 Void Egg (1) 3 hours Strange Bun (1)
Mayonnaise Machine

Coffee 3 Keg Coffee Bean (5) 2 hours Triple Shot Espresso (3)

Misc.

Amount
Image Name Source Producing Time Required for
needed

Maple
1 Tapped Maple Tree 7-8 days Maple Bar (1)
Syrup

Squid Kid drop, Fish Pond Varies depending

Squid
1 containing Squid or on Fish Pond Seafoam Pudding (1)
Ink
Midnight Squid population
Fish

Amount
Image Name Location Time Season Weather Difficulty Required for
needed

6am –
Tuna 1 Ocean Summer/Winter Any 70 Fish Taco
7pm

6am – Spring/Fall
Sardine 2 Ocean Any 30 Dish o' The Sea
7pm /Winter

6pm –
Bream 1 River All Seasons Any 35 Baked Fish
2am

Largemouth Mountain 6am –

1 All Seasons Any 50 Crispy Bass
Bass Lake 7pm

River,
Rainbow 6am –
1 Mountain Summer Sun 45 Trout Soup
Trout 7pm
Lake

6am –
Salmon 1 River Fall Any 50 Salmon Dinner
7pm

Flounder 1 Ocean 6am-8pm Spring/Summer Any 50 Seafoam Pudding

Mountain
Midnight Lake,
1 10pm-2am Fall/Winter Any 55 Seafoam Pudding
Carp Forest
Pond

Mountain
Lake,
Forest
Pond,
Carp 4 Sewers, Anytime All Seasons Any 15 Carp Surprise
Secret
Woods,
Mutant
Bug Lair

6am – Sun
Sunfish 1 River Spring/Summer 30 Baked Fish
7pm Wind

4pm – Fried Eel (1)

Eel 2 Ocean Spring/Fall Rain 70
2am Spicy Eel

6pm –
Squid 1 Ocean Winter Any 75 Fried Calamari
2am

Sea 6am –
1 Ocean Fall/Winter Any 40 Lucky Lunch
Cucumber 7pm

Sashimi (1)
Fish (Any) 2 Anywhere Anytime All Seasons Any N/A
Maki Roll

Seaweed 1 Ocean Anytime All Seasons Any 0 Maki Roll

Anywhere
Green except Trout Soup
5 Anytime All Seasons Any 0
Algae the Farm Algae Soup
Pond
 Mines,
Sewers,
Mutant
White Algae 2 Anytime All Seasons Any 0 Pale Broth
Bug Lair,
Witch's
Swamp

Crab Pot Items

Note that Clams and Mussels can be foraged from The Beach during any season. Crabs may be dropped by
Rock Crabs or Lava Crabs in The Mines.

Image Name Amount needed Location Required for

Lobster 1 Ocean Lobster Bisque (1)

Clam 1 Ocean Chowder (1)

Crayfish 1 Freshwater Fish Stew (1)

Crab 1 Ocean Crab Cakes (1)

Mussel 1 Ocean Fish Stew (1)

Tom Kha Soup (1)

Shrimp 2 Ocean
Shrimp Cocktail (1)

Snail 1 Freshwater Escargot (1)

Strange Bun (1)
Periwinkle 2 Freshwater
Fish Stew (1)

General Store Items

Purchased from Pierre at Pierre's General Store.

Amount Price per

Image Name Notes Required for
needed unit/Total

Blackberry Cobbler (1)
Blueberry Tart (1)
Chocolate Cake (1)
Cookie (1)
Cranberry Candy (1)
Cranberry Sauce (1)
100g/1600g
Can also be Glazed Yams (1)
Sugar 16 (or if grown produced with Ice Cream (1)
10g/60g) Beets in a Mill.
Maple Bar (1)
Miner's Treat (1)
Pink Cake (1)
Plum Pudding (1)
Poppyseed Muffin (1)
Pumpkin Pie (1)
 Rhubarb Pie (1)
Rice Pudding (1)

Baked Fish (1)
Blackberry Cobbler (1)
Blueberry Tart (1)
Bread (3x1)
Cookie (1)
Crab Cakes (1)
Fried Calamari (1)
Chocolate Cake (1)
100g/2100g
Can also be Crispy Bass (1)
Wheat
21 (or if grown produced with Maple Bar (1)
Flour
5g/105g) Wheat in a Mill. Pancakes (1)
Pink Cake (1)
Pizza (1)
Plum Pudding (1)
Poppyseed Muffin (1)
Pumpkin Pie (1)
Rhubarb Pie (1)
Spaghetti (1)
Strange Bun (1)

200g/400g Can also be

produced with Maki Roll (1)
Rice 2 (or if grown
Unmilled Rice in a Rice Pudding (1)
100g/200g)
Mill.

Bruschetta (1)
Crab Cakes (1)
Crispy Bass (1)
Fiddlehead Risotto (1)
Can be obtained
Fried Calamari (1)
Oil 11 200g/2200g with Oil Maker
Fried Eel (1)
instead.
Fried Mushroom (1)
Hashbrowns (2x1)
Radish Salad (1)
Stir Fry (1)

Coleslaw (1)
Parsnip Soup (1)
Vinegar 4 200g/800g
Radish Salad (1)
Salad (1)

Ingredient Dishes

The ingredients for these are already included in the previous lists. These are used as ingredients in other
dishes.

Image Name Amount needed Ingredients Required for

Fried Egg 1 Egg (1) Complete Breakfast (1)

 Potato (1) Complete Breakfast (1)
Hashbrowns 2
Oil (1) Dish o' The Sea (1)

Wheat Flour (1)
Pancakes 1 Complete Breakfast (1)
Egg (1)

Fish Taco (1)
Tortilla 2 Corn (1)
Lucky Lunch (1)

Bruschetta (1)
Bread 3 Wheat Flour (1) Stuffing (1)
Survival Burger (1)

Egg (1)
Omelet 1 Farmer's Lunch (1)
Milk (1)

Pro�table Recipes

See Also: 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 "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:

Algae Soup Sashimi, when cooked with

any fish worth less than 75g:
Bean Hotpot
Anchovy
Blackberry Cobbler (either without Bear's Knowledge or using
Bream
Wheat Flour and/or Sugar from the Mill)
Carp
Bread (if made with Wheat Flour from the Mill)
Chub★
Carp Surprise (though Sashimi is more profitable)
Cockle★
Chocolate Cake (if using Wheat Flour and Sugar from the Mill)
Ghostfish
Eggplant Parmesan
Herring
Fiddlehead Risotto (if made with homemade Oil)
Mussel
Fruit Salad
Oyster
Lucky Lunch
Perch★
Pale Broth
Periwinkle
Poppyseed Muffin (if using Wheat Flour and Sugar from the
Mill) Rainbow Trout☆

Red Plate Red Snapper★

Rhubarb Pie (if using Wheat Flour and Sugar from the Mill) Sardine

Roots Platter Shad☆

Spicy Eel Shrimp☆

Stir Fry (if made with homemade Oil) Smallmouth Bass★

Survival Burger (if using Bread made with Wheat Flour from the Snail☆
Mill)
Sunfish
Tom Kha Soup ☆Not profitable with the Fisher or
 Trout Soup Angler professions
★Not profitable with the 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 (+ 40g), Pale
Broth (+ 100g), Roots Platter with regular quality winter root (+ 5g), 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

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This section is marked as a stub for the following reason:

Need to update for Mini-Fridge behavior.

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.

Bugs

Mobile only: If you eat a food that gives you a buff and press the ‘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

Sometime between v1.11 and v1.3, a bug was removed that caused the duration of buffs to decrease as
the day progressed.

1.3: Artichoke Dip, Pumpkin Pie, Chowder, and Lobster Bisque now accept Large Milk in place of regular
milk.

1.4: Added Shrimp Cocktail, Seafoam Pudding, Triple Shot Espresso. Fixed bugged Bean Hotpot buff.
Standardized cooking tab with stove interface across all languages.

Recipes

Algae Soup • Artichoke Dip • Autumn's Bounty • Baked Fish • Bean Hotpot • Blackberry Cobbler
• Blueberry Tart • Bread • Bruschetta • Carp Surprise • Cheese Cauliflower • Chocolate Cake •
Chowder • Coleslaw • Complete Breakfast • Cookie • Crab Cakes • Cranberry Candy • Cranberry
Sauce • Crispy Bass • Dish o' The Sea • Eggplant Parmesan • Escargot • Farmer's Lunch •
Fiddlehead Risotto • Fish Stew • Fish Taco • Fried Calamari • Fried Eel • Fried Egg • Fried
Mushroom • Fruit Salad • Glazed Yams • Hashbrowns • Ice Cream • Lobster Bisque • Lucky
Cooking
Lunch • Maki Roll • Maple Bar • Miner's Treat • Omelet • Pale Broth • Pancakes • Parsnip Soup •
Pepper Poppers • Pink Cake • Pizza • Plum Pudding • Poppyseed Muffin • Pumpkin Pie •
Pumpkin Soup • Radish Salad • Red Plate • Rhubarb Pie • Rice Pudding • Roasted Hazelnuts •
Roots Platter • Salad • Salmon Dinner • Sashimi • Seafoam Pudding • Shrimp Cocktail •
Spaghetti • Spicy Eel • Stir Fry • Strange Bun • Stuffing • Super Meal • Survival Burger • Tom
Kha Soup • Tortilla • Triple Shot Espresso • Trout Soup • Vegetable Medley

Crafting Field Snack • Life Elixir • Oil of Garlic

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