🍳 Cooking Guide

Before you can cook, you need access to a kitchen. There are three routes. The Inn (usable by everyone): The Inn has a kitchen at the rear left of the ground floor, behind the bar. It counts as a Beginner Kitchen (1-2 star dishes, cooking levels 0-19). After you complete the Story Quest "Upgrade The Inn", the Inn's kitchen functions the same as an Adept Kitchen, letting you cook every dish in the game there. Your own kitchen (Carpenter): Kitchens can be purchased from the Carpenter (Ryis' shop on the Eastern Road) for 1,000-3,000 Tesserae; the level 1 kitchen costs 1,000t. Personal kitchens come in three purchasable tiers, each unlocking higher-star recipes and higher cooking levels. Champion's Kitchen (craftable, endgame): Of all kitchens, only the Champion's Kitchen can be created by the player, via Woodcrafting. It makes 1-5 star dishes, needs Woodcrafting level 60, takes 50 minutes to craft from 10x Peat, 2x Copper Ingot, 2x Silver Ingot, 2x Iron Ingot and 2x Gold Ingot, and its blueprint is the prize from the Cooking Challenge "Beet Soup Challenge" (matching Champion's Kitchen Counter pieces, crafted from 1x Essence Drop + 10x Hard Wood at Woodcrafting level 40).

💡 Don't wait for your own kitchen: the Inn kitchen is usable from early game and, after the "Upgrade The Inn" story quest, can cook everything — a home kitchen is a convenience, not a requirement.

Every cooked dish has a star rating (1-5) and a mastery requirement made of two numbers: the kitchen level and the cooking skill level needed to cook it. For example, Berry Bowl is a 3-star recipe that needs a level 2 kitchen and cooking level 20. In the cooking menu, a lock icon over a recipe means you have not learned it yet. Ingredients are pulled automatically from your inventory and your storage chests, so you can keep bulk crops in chests instead of carrying them. Some recipes (e.g., Coconut Milk: 1 Coconut, restores 18/18, 10-minute cook time) cook in minutes rather than hours; others consume real in-game time — from 10 minutes for a Hard Boiled Egg up to 1 hour for many 5-star dishes. Eating a dish restores its Recoup value to both Health and Stamina (the HP and Stamina figures are equal for every dish in the wiki tables). On top of the base restore, a dish can carry an Infusion added during cooking by skill perks, which applies a status buff when eaten — see the Infusions section.

• Star rating (1-5): higher-star dishes restore far more — in the sample table below, 1-star dishes restore 10-30 HP/Stamina while 5-star dishes restore 144-238.
• Mastery = kitchen level + cooking skill level; the wiki lists both for every dish.
• Cook time ranges from 10m (Coconut Milk) to 1h (many top dishes) and is shown before you cook; some dishes therefore cost part of your day.
• Ingredients pull from both inventory and chests — no need to carry everything to the stove.
• Eating takes time; the Snacktime perk (Tier 4) halves it.
• Cooking skill XP comes from cooking dishes at any kitchen — cook anything to raise the skill, which in turn unlocks higher-tier recipes.

💡 Read the mastery column before grinding: a recipe you can't cook yet is usually blocked by cooking level, not by the kitchen — cook cheap snacks to level the skill first.

The wiki organizes cookable recipes into broad categories: Pantry basics (subcategories like Dairy and Jam — Butter, Bread and other cooked ingredients), Dishes grouped by cooking method (Fried, Grilled, Handcrafted, Sauteed, Simmered, Steamed), Desserts (again split by method — e.g., Frozen Desserts such as Ice Cream Sundae), Drinks, Snacks (Berry Bowl, Trail Mix, Dried Squid...), plus a list of Food Without Recipes (Coffee, Beer, Big Cookie...) that can only be bought or found, never cooked. Recipes themselves arrive through many separate systems. Every acquisition channel confirmed on the wiki or in media guides:

💡 Check Darcy's Stall every Saturday and the Inn after its upgrade — vendor recipes like Mocha (300t) unlock cheap daily stamina food long before you find treasure-box recipes.

The wiki's full recipe list spans well over a hundred entries across all categories. This table picks 15 representative dishes from 1-star starters to 5-star endgame feasts so you can see how requirements, restores and sell values scale. All rows are from the wiki Cooking recipe tables. Format for the mastery column: kitchen level / cooking level.

💡 Note how mastery scales: every recipe from Lobster Roll upward needs a level 3 kitchen and cooking level 38-40, while everything up to Berry Bowl is doable on a level 1-2 kitchen with cooking level 20 or less.

The Cooking skill caps at level 60 (raised from 45 in patch v0.14.0). Perk tiers unlock at skill level thresholds — Tier 1 at Lv1, Tier 2 at Lv15, Tier 3 at Lv30, Tier 4 at Lv45, Tier 5 at Lv60 — and each perk is bought individually with Essence. The complete perk list from the wiki's Skills page:

💡 Cheapest early buys: Time To Eat I (10 Essence) and Waste Not Want Not (15) pay for themselves immediately; save the 155-Essence Tier 4 perks until you regularly cook 4-5 star dishes, since Magical Meals needs them.

Base dishes only restore Health and Stamina — lasting buffs come from Infusions, which are added to a dish at cooking time by skill perks, never by the recipe itself. When you eat an infused dish you get the base restore plus the buff, and some perks then amplify the infused effect (Caffeine Crimes doubles Speedy). The two gift-tag infusions change how the dish is received by NPCs instead of what it does when eaten.

• An infused dish keeps its normal Recoup values and simply carries the extra buff.
• Mana and Fairy infusions only occur on 4-star and above dishes.
• Infusions are random procs while cooking — cook in batches to fish for the one you want.
• Likable/Lovable infusions interact with gifting: the dish is treated as a Universal Like/Love regardless of the recipient's normal preferences.

💡 For deep Mines runs, fish for Restorative-Infused dishes: regen keeps topping you up between fights instead of one flat restore.

Cooking serves three economies at once — stamina for your day, hearts for your relationships, and Tesserae for your wallet. Priorities differ by game stage:

• Early stamina: 1-star recipes are nearly free — Sliced Turnip (1 Turnip) and Hard Boiled Egg (1 egg) cost a single ingredient and 10 minutes each.
• Cook at the Inn before buying a kitchen; after "Upgrade The Inn" it covers every recipe, so a home kitchen is pure convenience.
• Level cooking early by cooking anything, even snacks — most mid-game recipes gate on cooking level 14-20, not on the kitchen.
• For mining trips, Restorative Cooking (20 Essence) turns part of your food into HP/Stamina regen.
• For gifting, Likable Cooking (T2) makes any dish a Universal Like and Lovable Cooking (T4) occasionally a Universal Love — cook in bulk and gift the infused ones; Award Winning / A Way to the Heart then boost the heart points those dishes earn.
• For profit, 5-star dishes sell for hundreds of Tesserae — in the sample table Beet Soup sells at 710t and Seafood Snow Pea Noodles at 620t; always compare dish sell value against the recipe's buy price (Tea with Lemon: recipe 300t, dish sells 320t).
• Take Taste Maker (T1) before long Mines runs — cooking recipes drop from Mines treasure chests.
• Time To Eat I-III stack to cut 30 minutes off every recipe, and Snacktime halves eating time — together they erase most of cooking's time cost.
• Endgame: craft the Champion's Kitchen at Woodcrafting level 60 — the only player-craftable kitchen, blueprint from the Beet Soup Cooking Challenge.
• Cross-skill shortcut: while the farming skill Living Off The Land is enabled, harvesting Corn has a chance to drop a ready-made Seafood Boil.

💡 Best value in this sample: Beet Soup — five vegetables plus Milk, 1-hour cook, 230/230 restore and a 710t sell price. Buy the recipe once at the upgraded Inn for 800t and the third dish is already pure profit.

Fields of Mistria receives regular patches, and cooking is a frequent target: across Early Access many existing food items had their recipes made obtainable, and the skill system was extended. Key entries from the wiki's History section that affect this page:

• v0.14.0: skill cap raised from 45 to 60; Tier 4-5 perks added (Cooking gained Fairy Cooking); recipes became obtainable for Apple Honey Curry, Crystal Berry Pie, Harvest Plate, Spring Galette and Veggie Sub Sandwich; Spell Fruit Parfait added.
• v0.15.3: recipes became obtainable for Seafood Boil, Herb Butter Pasta, Fish Tacos, Coconut Cream Pie, Gazpacho, Spell Fruit Parfait, Pizza, Spicy Corn and Cucumber Sandwich.
• v0.11.6: recipes became obtainable for Quiche, Vegetable Quiche, Pan-fried Bream, Rosemary Garlic Noodles, Chocolate Cake, Pomegranate Juice, Iced Coffee and Jasmine Tea.
• The wiki tracks the live released version, so recipe lists, perk costs and restore values above can shift with patches — the wiki.gg Cooking page is the authoritative, continuously updated source.