Cooking in animal crossing is much easier than cooking in real life! Bonus: you don’t have to do the dishes! And it becomes more and more fun as it goes on with exciting experimentation with new dishes.
In this blog post, we’ll guide you on “how to cook in animal crossing” using basic recipes in New Horizons.
How to Cook in Animal Crossing New Horizons
In addition to using food for decoration on your island, you can gain strength by eating food. By eating food, you can easily do chores like smashing rocks and pulling up trees.
So let’s get started.
Before you read on further regarding how to cook in Animal Crossing, make sure that you have already set up a stonework kitchen that needs 30 stone, 15 clay, and 10 iron nuggets.
1. Fetch Recipes
If you already have a kitchen but don’t know how to cook a meal, it’s worthless. Therefore you need to find and fetch recipes before you get yourself into cooking. There are more than a few ways to get recipes, including:
- Talking with villagers who cook and craft in their homes.
- Shooting down balloons using a slingshot.
- Collecting beach message bottle with a DIY recipe.
- Interacting with some special characters like Celeste or completing some tasks for them.
- Redeeming the nooks mile through the nook stop.
- Diving and catching new fish and other sea creatures to get fired up for new recipes.
But the best and fastest way to do this is to arrive at the nook’s cranny and fetch the “Basic Cooking Recipes” item. This will cost you around 4,980 bells with eight recipes to get you started.
2. Look For Ingredients
Regardless of whether you’re expanding your recipe list or bracing yourself for a giant feast, you’ll need a great deal of ingredients to start with. You can easily grow many plants and vegetables yourself to try out new recipes in your kitchen.
With a new 2.0 update, you will be able to grow new vegetables and crops such as wheat, tomatoes, potatoes, sugarcane, and carrots. However, before getting started, ensure that your farm is well-tended to grow enough vegetables.
Before all of that, you have to visit Leif on Harv’s Island and spend 100,000 bells so he will launch his new shop with seeds of carrot, sugarcane, potatoes, tomatoes, and wheat.
Almost every recipe requires the use of flour, made from wheat. So it is best if you gather up a good deal of wheat. Wheat aside, if you plant tomatoes, potatoes, and carrots, ensure that you water them frequently to get maximum harvest.
You can also use fishing and gathering to acquire ingredients other than fruits and vegetables. There are many recipes available that use fish, mushrooms, and clams. So don’t forget to look for these items as well.
3. Cook With a Recipe
Now that you have a stonework kitchen, recipes, and a lot of ingredients at hand, let’s get started with cooking. Walk to your kitchen or oven and begin your interaction with it. Once you do, a cooking menu pop-up will appear similar to the one when you were crafting your stonework kitchen.
Now select your preferred recipe while confirming that you have the required ingredients and go with the flow! Once your meal is cooked, you’ll have a few options on what to do with it. You can keep it in your inventory, gift it to your villagers or other players in the game, showcase it as a decoration piece, or just eat it.
Everything aside, eating the meal would be the best decision for you as a player. As you have it, your energy level will be boosted, and performing tasks will become effortless.
Discover New Meals and Recipes
While there are many recipes handy, experimenting and discovering new dishes can be exciting. If you are fed up with the old recipes, you can mix up different ingredients and see what your oven will come up with.
FAQs
How can you start cooking in Animal Crossing?
Cooking in Animal Crossing starts with the crafting of stonework or another type of kitchen. Following this, you need both recipes and ingredients to cook meals.
How do I get a kitchen in Animal Crossing?
You can choose to build a kitchen from a few options including a stonework kitchen, clay furnace, kitchen island, and system kitchen. Except for the stonework kitchen, all remaining three require you to spend a great deal of bells. So if you are on a tight budget, just get a stonework kitchen crafted with the available materials on the island.
Summary
Our guide to “How to cook in Animal Crossing” has surely answered all your queries. Cooking in animal crossing is as easy as it sounds, but you need to ensure that you have the required items to get started.
