Cooking

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“Fire makes everything better.”

–Willow

Cooking is the process of turning raw Food into cooked, or otherwise improved, food which, in general, adds a Health bonus and sometimes improves their Hunger or Sanity benefits as well. There are three types of cooking: Fire, Drying Rack, and Crock Pot.

Cooking food also reduces the spoilage of food. Fire and Crock Pot reduces spoilage by half (e.g. turning 20% fresh food back to 60% fresh), while Drying Rack completely removes spoilage.

On Fire

A Fire Pit.

Cooking with a Dwarf Star.

Cooking food on a Campfire, a Fire Pit or a Dwarf Star is the most basic cooking method. To cook food, simply click on it, bring it to a burning Campfire, Fire Pit, or Dwarf Star and click again when the prompt shows up. Once a food has been cooked, it will be replaced in the inventory with its cooked counterpart. For example, a Morsel becomes a Cooked Morsel, and a Carrot becomes a Roasted Carrot. Cooked Meats generally spoil slower, while cooked Fruits and Vegetables generally spoil faster. There is no difference between cooking on any of the fires.

In the Shipwrecked DLC, it is also possible to cook food on a Chiminea, a Buoyant Chiminea, an Obsidian Fire Pit, a Lava Pool or an erupting Krissure.

In the Hamlet DLC, it is also possible to cook food on Crumbling Brazier and Wall Brazier.

In Don't Starve Together, it's also possible to cook on the Scaled Furnace, Willow's Lighter, Extra-Adorable Lavae, and Magma Pools. Willow, Warly and Walter only take half as long (0.5 seconds) as other Characters (1 second) to cook food.

Some Fruits and Vegetables are generally better consumed cooked than used as ingredients in Crock Pot. Notable examples:

• Braised Eggplant [+20 +25 ] – provides 17 more health and 3.125 more hunger
• Sliced Pomegranate [+20 +12.5 ] – provides 12 more health
• Hot Pumpkin [+8 +37.5 ] – provides 5 more health

On the other hand, some Vegetables are best consumed raw:

• Corn [+3 +25 ] becomes Popcorn [+3 +12.5 ] when cooked.

Drying Rack

Some of the raw food items on the left of their cooked counterpart. Three types of jerky can be seen as well.

A Morsel attached to a Drying Rack.

Main article: Drying Rack

While not exactly cooking in the full sense of the word, using the Drying Rack to prepare Meats provides a longer-term food storage option to those without an Ice Box. When dried, Meats become Jerky and spoil at a much slower rate. Additionally, Jerky tends to give more of a Health and Sanity bonus than its raw or cooked counterparts.

In the Shipwrecked DLC, it is also possible to dry Seaweed, Jellyfish and Rainbow Jellyfish.

In the Hamlet DLC, it is also possible to dry Poison Dartfrog Legs and Flytrap Stalk.

The Foods which can be dried are listed below:

Meat	Dried	Time required
		2 days
( )		1 day
		1 day
		2 days
( ) ( )		1 day
( )		1 day
( )		0.25 days
( )		1 day
( )		0.25 days

Crock Pot

Main article: Crock Pot

Cooking foods using the Crock Pot can combine them into a more ample dish. The Crock Pot requires 4 accepted (some foods such as Seeds cannot be added) items to be combined to produce a dish. Some recipes require or allow for non-foods to be added (most recipes accept twigs as filler). Recipes sometimes produce a dish with a greater Hunger/Health/Sanity bonus than all the ingredients combined. Keep in mind Crock Pots don't always improve the nutritional value of what's put into them, look at Wet Goop or the Powdercake as examples. Some recipes are designed to specifically provide a large Sanity or Health boost but do not fill as much Hunger, or have some other purpose.

The cooking times for Crock Pot recipes vary. A few foods like Waffles are cooked in as little as 10 seconds, while recipes like Mandrake Soup take a full minute. Most recipes require a certain amount of food (such as Meats or Vegetables) as opposed to specific food items. In the Shipwrecked DLC, Warly brings an exclusive Portable Crock Pot, that can be used to cook four additional recipes. With 4 slots for ingredients, each must be filled with a piece of Food to start cooking. Most recipes take 10–20 seconds to cook (Exact times for each recipe are listed below). Completed Crock Pot dishes can be stacked to 40; none of them can be used in the Crock Pot again

Cooking basics

A cooking attempt's ingredients have to match a recipe. There are 58 recipes available for the Crock Pot, including those from Don't Starve Together & the DLCs. If an attempt fails to match any recipe at all, Wet Goop ends up as the product.

When a recipe is attempted (i.e. the pot starts cooking), the food groups the ingredients fit into are considered; almost all recipes require some amount of Food from certain food groups, but there are many recipes with specific Food requirements (like Froggle Bunwich).

Lots of ingredients fulfill recipe requirements more readily than others (e.g. 1 Drumstick has the same effect on a dish as 2 Morsels). More filling ingredients tend to have greater food values.

Each recipe has weight, called recipe priorities, so a result can be decided when a set of ingredients fits more than one valid recipe. These weights are.

When spoiled ingredients are used, the completed dish's spoil percentage becomes half the average spoil percentage of the ingredients (e.g. if 1 monster meat and 3 berries, all 90% spoiled (10% fresh), are placed in the Crock Pot, the resulting meatball will be 45% spoiled (55% fresh)). Non-spoilable ingredients are ignored when calculating average spoil percentage. In the vanilla game, a meal doesn't begin to spoil until a player removes it from the Crock Pot. Meals remain in the Crock Pot until either a player removes it, a Lureplant "eats" it, or the pot is destroyed.

Ingredients

Food groups

There are 9 recognised food groups when cooking with a Crock Pot:

1. Meats
2. Fishes
3. Eggs
4. Fruits
5. Vegetables
6. Sweeteners
7. Monster Foods
8. Dairy ()
9. Bugs ()
10. Decoration (DST)

Some Foods do not fall into any of these groups (e.g. Butterfly Wings); some fall into multiple (e.g. Fish); some might count as a meat, fruit, or vegetable when fed to a Pig but not when used in a Crock Pot.

An 11th food group, Fat, has gone unimplemented.

Valid ingredients

The following items can be used in a Crock Pot:

Any Meat (raw or cooked)

Any Monster Food (raw or cooked)

Any Fish or Seafood

Any Egg (raw or cooked)

Any Fruit (raw or cooked)

Any Vegetable (raw or cooked)

Any Sweetener

Certain inedible items (See Inedible)

Butterfly Wings

Mandrake

Any Dairy

Ice

Moleworm

Roasted Birchnut

Wobster

Any Bug

Foliage

Nettle

Kelp Fronds (raw, cooked or dried)

Lesser Glow Berry

Moon Moth Wings

Invalid ingredients

Although edible, the following items cannot be used in any recipes:

Dark Petals

Deerclops Eyeball

Foliage (excluding )

Garland

Glow Berry (excluding )

Guardian's Horn

Hatching Tallbird Egg

Koalefant Trunk (excluding )

Light Bulb

Mandrake (cooked – raw o.k.)

Petals

Rot

Rotten Egg

Seeds (raw or cooked)

Winter Koalefant Trunk (raw or cooked) (excluding )

Birchnut (applies only to raw; roasted can be used in crock pot)

Coconut (whole – halved or roasted o.k.)

Dead Swordfish

Dead Wobster (raw or cooked - alive o.k.)

Dragoon Heart

Eye of the Tiger Shark

Blooming Tuber (raw or cooked)

Bramble Bulb

Clippings

Flytrap Stalk

Lotus Flower (raw or cooked)

Magic Water

Nectar

Poison Dartfrog Legs (raw or cooked)

Seed Pod (raw or cooked)

Tuber (raw or cooked)

Lune Tree Blossom

The following recipes do not work with any cooked foods:

Melonsicle ()

Banana Pop ()

The following recipes do not work with specific cooked foods (i.e. Turkey Dinner requires raw Drumsticks but the other meat component can be cooked.):

Turkey Dinner

Mandrake Soup

Guacamole ()

Mussel Bouillabaise ()

Sweet Potato Souffle ()

Filler

An ingredient is "filler" if it can be added to a partially prepared recipe without changing the Crock Pot's output; most recipes call for less than four ingredients, so fillers are need to fill the pot.

When filler is called for, most valid ingredients (see above) will usually work; though some recipes explicitly prohibit a couple ingredients or food groups. For example: Dragonpie cannot have any Meat ingredients in it.

While a lot of recipes prohibit their use; one dish, Kabobs, actually requires Twigs. Using them when possible is efficient, as Twigs are usually easier to get than Food.

Monster Food

If two or more Monster Foods are used in the pot, the crock pot produces Monster Lasagna unless Twigs are added (which makes Wet Goop), or higher priority food is available; thus, only one Monster Food should be attempted as filler for a dish, except Surf 'n' Turf. Though it follows the twig rule, it's useful to note that Bacon and Eggs can be made with two Monster Meat, one tallbird egg, and one stick.

The following is Monster Food:

Monster Meat (Raw or Cooked)

Monster Jerky

Durian (Raw or Cooked)

Dead Jellyfish (Raw or Cooked) ()

Dried Jellyfish ()

Dead Rainbow Jellyfish (Raw or Cooked) ()

Food values

See also: Food

These "food values" measure how plentifully an ingredient can fulfill a recipe's need for certain food groups. Combined ingredients' food values (in addition to recipe priority) are what determine an attempt's final dish; for example: Honey Ham requires a meat value greater than or equal to 2.0, so in addition to Honey, its ingredients can be 3 Jerky; 2 Jerky & 1 filler; or 1 Jerky & 2 Drumsticks, but 1 Jerky, 1 Drumstick, & 1 filler won't cut it.

The overall set of food values for an attempted dish is the sum of its individual ingredient values. In attempting a dish like , the component values are:

• +1 meat, +1 monster
• +1 meat
• +1 meat
• +0.5 fruit

When added up, the final dish's set of values will be 3.0 meat, 1.0 monster, and 0.5 fruit. resulting in Meaty Stew.

Some ingredients value for two food groups; for example: raw Tropical Fish provides 1.0 fish unit & 0.5 meat units (though Cooked Fish Morsel provides 0.5 fish units & no meat units).

Meat value

Different Meat ingredients have different meat values.

Foods with meat value of 0.5

( )

Foods with meat value of 1.0

Fish/Seafood values

Fish & seafood come in three levels of fishiness: half, full, and double.

Foods with fish value of 0.5

Foods with fish value of 1.0

Food with fish value of 2.0

Fruit value

Fruit ingredients come in half-size & full-size.

Foods with fruit value of 0.5

Foods with fruit value of 1.0

Durian counts both as monster food and fruit.

Vegetable value

Vegetable ingredients come in half-size & full-size.

Foods with vegetable value of 0.5

Foods with vegetable value of 1.0

Egg value

Egg ingredients come in small & enormous.

Foods with egg value of 1.0

Foods with egg value of 4.0

Sweetener value

Sweeteners are Honeys & Royal Jelly.

Foods with sweetener value of 1.0

Food with sweetener value of 3.0

Dairy Product value

Dairy includes Butter & Electric Milk.

Foods with dairy value of 1.0

Bug value

Bugs are unique to the Don't Starve: Hamlet DLC.

Foods with bug value of 1.0

Decoration value (DST)

Decorations are a unique food category in Don't Starve Together, containing foods that are wild cards and typically only used in one recipe.

Foods with decoration value of 1.0: Forget-Me-Lots

Foods with decoration value of 2.0: Collected Dust

Priority

Priority ratings decides the result of a particular cooking session based on the ingredients used; the highest rated recipe will always be chosen. If there are several valid recipes with the same priority, a random one of those specific recipes will be chosen. Some recipes have priority of 0 or below, which means they will never be chosen over recipes of positive priority. One such recipe is Wet Goop, which is in fact always a valid result, but it's never chosen over anything else because it has -2 priority.

As a simple example, cooking with 4 Meat pieces, both the Meatballs recipe (priority -1) and the Meaty Stew recipe (priority 0) are valid, but the completed dish will always be Meaty Stew, because of greater priority.

If there is more than one recipe with highest priority the game will pick at random. Here is a final example; a dish that uses as ingredients fulfills four different recipes: Fishsticks (10), Fish Tacos (10), Kabobs (5), and Froggle Bunwich (1); two dishes tie, so the result will be Fishsticks 50% of the time, and the other 50% Fish Tacos.

Recipes for the Crock Pot

The following is a list of Crock Pot recipes. There are also recipes exclusive to the Portable Crock Pot not listed here.

A calculator to show what dishes can be made from given ingredients can be found here.

Under Ingredients, icons with a numeric value (like 1.0) represent any ingredient from that food group. Icons without values are specific ingredients. Required ingredients are the minimum food items to make a dish, and attempting to fill a dish with restricted ingredients would lead to a different dish.

Visual Reminder
Vegetables	Meats	Fruits	Fishes	Eggs
Sweeteners	Monster Foods	Dairy ()	Bugs ()	Inedible

Icon	Dish	DLC							Recipe
									Ingredients	Notes
	Amberosia		N/A	N/A	N/A	Never	40s	100
	Asparagus Soup		18.75	5	20	15d	10s	10	+ ×0.5
									+ ×1.5	No
	Bacon and Eggs		75	5	20	20d	40s	10	>1.0 + >1.0	No
	Banana Pop		12.5	33	20	3d	10s	20	+ + ×1.0	No
									+ + ×1.0
	Banana Shake		25	33	8	15d	10s	1	×2	No
	Barnacle Linguine		75	20	10	6d	40s	30	×2 + ×2.0
	Barnacle Nigiri		37.5	5	40	10d	10s	30	+ +
	Barnacle Pita		37.5	5	20	15d	40s	25	+ ×0.5
	Beefalo Treats		N/A	N/A	N/A	10d	40s	-4	+ +
	Beefy Greens		75	5	40	6d	40s	25	+ ×3.0
	Bisque		18.75	5	60	10d	20s	30	×3 +
	Breakfast Skillet		37.5	5	20	20d	20s	1	×1.0 ×1.0	no
	Bunny Stew		37.5	5	20	10d	10s	1	>0 + ×2	No Max ×0.75
	Butter Muffin		37.5	5	20	15d	40s	1	+ ×0.5	No ——— Can replace with
	California Roll		37.5	10	20	10d	10s	20	×2 + ×1.0
									×2 + ×1.0
	Caviar		12.5	33	3	10d	40s	20	+ ×1.0	or
	Ceviche		25	5	20	10d	10s	20	+ ×2.0
										No
	Coffee		9.375	-5	3	10d	10s	30	x3.0	Only
	Collected Dust		N/A	N/A	N/A	Never			+ x2 +
	Creamy Potato Purée		37.5	33	20	15d	20s	20	+ +	No
	Dragonpie		75	5	40	15d	40s	1		No
	Fancy Spiralled Tubers		37.5	15	3	10d	15s	10	+ ×1.0	No ——— Max ×2.0
	Feijoada		75	15	20	8d	70s	30	×3 + ×0.5
	Figatoni		56.25	15	30	6d	40s	30	+ ×2.0	No
	Figgy Frogwich		18.75	10	8	15d	20s	1	+
	Figkabab		25	15	20	15d	20s	30	+ ×1.0 +
	Fig-Stuffed Trunk		56.25	0	60	10d	40s	40	+
	Fish Tacos		37.5	5	20	6d	10s	10	+ ×0.5
	Fishsticks		37.5	5	40	10d	40s	10	>0 + ×1.0	Fillers cannot be
	Fist Full of Jam		37.5	5	3	15d	10s	0	×0.5	No
	Flower Salad		12.5	5	40	6d	10s	10	+ ×1.5	No
	Froggle Bunwich		37.5	5	20	15d	40s	1	+ ×0.5
	Frozen Banana Daiquiri		18.75	15	30	15d	20s	1	×1 +	No
	Fruit Medley		25	5	20	6d	10s	0	×3.0	No
	Guacamole		37.5	0	20	10d	10s	10	+	No ——— or
	Gummy Cake		150	-5	-3	20d	40s	1	+ ×1.0	No
	Hard Shell Tacos		37.5	5	20	15d	20s	1	+ + ×0.5
	Honey Ham		75	5	30	15d	40s	2	+ >1.5	No ——— Max ×1.0
	Honey Nuggets		37.5	5	20	15d	40s	2	+ >0	No ——— Max ×1.5
	Ice Cream		25	50	0	3d	10s	10	+ ×1.0 + ×1.0	No
	Iced Tea		12.5	33	3	6d	10s	30	+ + + ×1.0
	Jellybeans		0	5	122 in 2 min	Never	50s	12		No
	Jelly-O Pop		12.5	0	20	3d	10s	20	+ + ×1.0
	Jelly Salad		37.5	50	0	6d	40s	50	×2 + ×2.0
	Kabobs		37.5	5	3	15d	40s	5	>0 + ×1.0	No ——— Max ×1.0
	Mandrake Soup		150	5	100	6d	60s	10
	Meatballs		62.5	5	3	10d	15s	-1	>0	No
	Meated Nettles		37.5	5	20	8d	20s	1	x2.0 + ×1.0	No
	Meaty Stew		150	5	12	10d	15s	0	×3.0	No
	Melonsicle		12.5	20	3	3d	10s	10	+ + ×1.0	No
	Milkmade Hat		187.5 in 4 min	-5.3 in 4 min	0	Never	40s	55	+ +
	Monster Lasagna		37.5	-20	-20	6d	10s	10	×2.0	No
	Mushy Cake		25	10	0	15d	20s	30	+ + +
	Mussel Bouillabaise		37.5	15	20	10d	40s	30	x 2 + x 2	No
	Leafy Meatloaf		37.5	5	8	20d	40s	25	×2
	Nettle Rolls		25	5	20	6d	10s	0	+ +
	Pierogi		37.5	5	40	20d	20s	5	×1.0 + >0 + >0	No
	Plain Omelette		50	5	3	20d	20s	1	×3.0
	Powdercake		0	0	-3	18750d	10s	10	(or ) + + ×1.0
	Pumpkin Cookie		37.5	15	0	10d	40s	10	+ ×2.0
	Ratatouille		25	5	3	15d	20s	0	×0.5	No
	Salsa Fresca		25	33	3	15d	10s	20	+	No
	Seafood Gumbo		37.5	20	40	10d	20s	10	>2.0
	Seafood Gumbo		37.5	20	40	10d	20s	10	×1 >1.0
	Shark Fin Soup		12.5	-10	40	10d	10s	20
	Snake Bone Soup		25	10	40	10d	20s	20	+ + ×2.0
	Soothing Tea		0	15 + 30 over 1 min	3	3d	20s	1	+ +	No
	Spicy Chili		37.5	0	20	10d	10s	10	×1.5 + ×1.5
	Spicy Vegetable Stinger		25	33	3	15d	10s	15	( or )+ + ×1.5	See equivalent recipe
	Steamed Ham Sandwich		37.5	15	40	6d	40s	5	+ + ×1.0	No ——— or
	Steamed Twigs		N/A	N/A	N/A	10d	10s	-5	x3	No
	Stuffed Eggplant		37.5	5	3	15d	40s	1	+ ×0.5
	Stuffed Fish Heads		75	0	20	3d	40s	25	+ ×1.0
	Stuffed Pepper Poppers		25	-5	30	15d	40s	20	+ ×0.5	No ——— Max ×1.5
	Surf 'n' Turf		37.5	33	60	10d	20s	30	×2.5 + ×1.5	No
	Taffy		25	15	-3	15d	40s	10	×3.0	No
	Tall Scotch Eggs		150	5	60	15d	40s	10	×1.0 ×1.0
	Tea		12.5	33	3	1d ()	10s	25	+ + ×1.0	No
	Trail Mix		12.5	5	30	15d	10s	10	+ ( or ) + ×0.5	No
	Tropical Bouillabaisse		37.5	15	20	10d	40s	35	+ + + ×1.0
	Turkey Dinner		75	5	20	6d	60s	10	x 2 >0 + ( or )×0.5	When using don't add Vegetable
	Unagi		18.75	5	20	10d	10s	20	+ ( or )
	Veggie Burger		37.5	33	30	6d	40s	25	+ + ×1.0
	Vegetable Stinger		25	33	3	15d	10s	15	( or ) + + ×1.5	No
	Waffles		37.5	5	60	6d	10s	10	+ + ×1.0
	Wet Goop		0	0	0	6d	5s	-2		Results when nothing else works
	Wobster Bisque		25	10	60	10d	10s	30	+
	Wobster Dinner		37.5	50	60	15d	20s	25	+	No