Cooking (Quest)

Cooking (Japanese: 料理 Cooking) is a feature in Pokémon Quest that enables the to attract the wild Pokémon of Tumblecube Island to the , where they can be befriended. To do so, the player puts a number of ingredients into a cooking pot, waits until their dish has finished cooking, then uses the food to lure in Pokémon.
Evolved Pokémon are not attracted by Cooking. Cooking usually attracts one Pokémon, but there is a 4.3% chance of attracting two Pokémon, and a 0.5% chance of three Pokémon. 
If the player has purchased the Pikachu Surfboard decoration from the Poké Mart, the chance of attracting multiple Pokémon when cooking is increased by 1.5 times. The same is true of the Lapras Pool decoration, but that instead doubles the chances. However, note that the Lapras Pool is exclusively available as DLC.
Cooking requires an empty cooking pot, as in a pot not already being used for cooking. The player has one cooking pot by default, so they can cook one dish at a time. Expedition packs can be purchased as additional downloadable content to obtain extra cooking pots, and with them cook more than one dish simultaneously. The Expedition Pack, Great Expedition Pack, and Ultra Expedition Pack each contain one more cooking pot, which means the maximum number of cooking pots is four.
==Ingredients==
There are ten ingredients that can be used for cooking. These ingredients are obtained by defeating wild Pokémon, then either completing the expedition or spending PM Tickets to collect the items despite a failed expedition. Rarer ingredients can be more easily obtained by completing stages with greater difficulty. The rarest ingredient, the Mystical Shell, can only be obtained from Pokémon while on expeditions in Happenstance Island. The maximum capacity of each ingredient is 999.
The chance that ingredients of a specific color are dropped depends on which area the expedition is taking place in. Various decorations can be bought at the Poké Mart to increase the size of ingredient drops, though all of them except the Gengar Balloon only affect ingredients of a specific color.
Ingredient	Ingredient 	Description 	Type 	Color
 	Tiny Mushroom 	Soft and small ingredients. 	Mushroom	Red
 	Big Root 	Soft and precious ingredients. 	Plant 	Red
 	Bluk Berry 	Soft and small ingredients. 	Sweet 	Blue
 	Icy Rock 	Hard and precious ingredients. 	Mineral 	Blue
 	Apricorn 	Hard and small ingredients. 	Plant 	Yellow
 	Honey 	Soft and precious ingredients. 	Sweet 	Yellow
 	Fossil 	Hard and small ingredients. 	Mineral 	Gray
 	Balm Mushroom 	Soft and precious ingredients. 	Mushroom	Gray
 	Rainbow Matter	Very precious ingredients that can substitute for any other ingredients.	None 	None
 	Mystical Shell	Special ingredients. 	Mystical	None
==Cooking==
To enter the Cooking menu, the player taps on one of their empty cooking pots in the base camp to enter the Cooking menu. The menu depicts the pot as having five "slots". In order to put an ingredient in a "slot", the player has to spend a number of ingredients that varies by the cooking pot. This can be done manually, or the player can use the Auto-Set button to the left of their ingredients list to have the game pick random ingredients for each "slot". The ingredients can be freely changed before confirming. The player cannot Start Cooking until all five "slots" are filled with an ingredient.
When the player completes the areas Backforth Brook, Pincushion Plain, and Chamber of Legends, they complete Main Quests that allow them to use better pots. Better pots require more ingredients to be spent per "slot" but attract higher level Pokémon. The pot used can be cycled through via the button in the lower right corner. (One can attempt to switch to a pot they do not already have, but the game will remind the player that they do not own the pot and default back to the standard Cooking Pot.) Switching pots empties out any occupied "slot"s. The pot selected will be what is displayed in the base camp as the dish cooks.
Any ingredients that the player does not have enough copies of to add to the ingredient a "slot" have their icons grayed out. 
Pot	Pot 	Number of ingredients used per "slot"	Unlock requirement
 	Cooking Pot 	3 	Available from start of game
 	Bronze Cooking Pot	10 	Main Quest: Clear Backforth Brook
 	Silver Cooking Pot	15 	Main Quest: Clear Pincushion Plain
 	Gold Cooking Pot 	20 	Main Quest: Clear Chamber of Legends
==Cooking recipes==
Cooking creates a dish, that will attract Pokémon after the dish is complete. Using more precious ingredients in Cooking increases the quality of the resultant dish. Small ingredients provide one point, precious ingredients provide two points, very precious ingredients provide three points, and special ingredients provide two points to the overall quality of the dish. Higher quality recipes attract rarer Pokémon and Pokémon of higher level. 
Points 	Quality
5 	Standard dish
6-7 	Good
8-9 	Very Good
10 or greater	Special
Cooking a dish requires that the player go on a certain number of expeditions, after which the cooking process is complete. Note that the expeditions are allowed to be failed, the game only cares that they were started (and that battery charge was spent to do so). The number of expeditions required for a dish to finish cooking depends on quality of the dish and the cooking pot used. Higher quality dishes take longer to cook. This information is displayed above the pot in the base camp, in a black box that fills with yellow as expeditions conclude. It also displays the number of expeditions that need to be started in order to finish cooking and the number of expeditions the player went on after starting Cooking, essentially serving as a progress tracker.
The Expeditions menu additionally serves to remind the players of the progress of their cooking pots. An unused pot will be represented by an outline icon in the lower right corner of the screen, while an in-use cooking pot is represented by a filled in icon with steam clouds, which has the color of the type of pot used. Finally, a cooking pot with a finished dish inside will have a pink notification icon overlapping with the pot icon.
Cooking with better pots attracts Pokémon with higher level and IVs. Better cooking pots also provide greater bonuses to the Pokémon's stats.
Pot 	Level 	Max possible IV	Stat bonus	Expeditions to cook	Expeditions to cook	Expeditions to cook	Expeditions to cook
Pot 	Level 	Max possible IV	Stat bonus	Standard 	Good 	Very good 	Special
Cooking pot 	1-15 	10 	0 	2 	4 	5 	6
Bronze Cooking Pot	16-30 	50 	50 	2 	4 	5 	6
Silver Cooking Pot	31-70 	100 	100 	3 	5 	6 	7
Gold Cooking Pot 	71-100	100 	300 	4 	6 	7 	8
Having Mystical Shell as one of the ingredients increases the number of expeditions required for a dish to complete cooking by one.
Different kinds of dishes are created depending on the exact ingredients used in the five "slots" of the pot (order does not matter). The result is determined by the recipe that the ingredients followed. Each dish has a different pool of Pokémon it can attract, with the pool being thematically linked to the food. Each time the player completes a new kind of dish, the recipe for it is added to the Cooking menu, which makes it easier to reproduce by following the requirements. (This is also why the game suggests using Auto-Set to find new dishes on occasion.)
===List of recipes===
Some recipes require ingredients that may overlap with another recipe. The game selects which dish to make by finding the first recipe to have its requirements fulfilled starting with #2. If no recipe is found, the result will always be #1 Mulligan Stew à la Cube.
While there are eighteen different dishes, equal to the number of types, six of them attract Pokémon based on qualities that are not type. This means that , , , , , and all do not have an associated dish.
No.	Image	Name 	Ingredients Description 	Ingredients Needed 	Pokémon
1 	 	Mulligan Stew à la Cube 	Whatever ingredients you like 	5 random ingredients 	Favorite food of some Pokémon on Tumblecube Island
2 	 	Red Stew à la Cube 	A whole lot of red 	4 red ingredients 	Favorite food of reddish Pokémon
3 	 	Blue Soda à la Cube 	A whole lot of blue 	4 blue ingredients 	Favorite food of bluish Pokémon
4 	 	Yellow Curry à la Cube 	A whole lot of yellow 	4 yellow ingredients 	Favorite food of yellowish Pokémon
5 	 	Gray Porridge à la Cube 	A whole lot of gray 	4 gray ingredients 	Favorite food of grayish Pokémon
6 	 	Mouth-Watering Dip à la Cube 	A whole lot of soft things and a lot of blue 	4 soft ingredients3 blue ingredients 	Favorite food of Water-type Pokémon
7 	 	Plain Crepe à la Cube 	A lot of sweet things and a few gray 	3 sweet ingredients2 gray ingredients 	Favorite food of Normal-type Pokémon
8 	 	Sludge Soup à la Cube 	A whole lot of mushrooms and a lot of soft things	4 mushroom ingredients3 soft ingredients 	Favorite food of Poison-type Pokémon
9 	 	Mud Pie à la Cube 	A few minerals and a lot of soft things 	2 mineral ingredients3 soft ingredients 	Favorite food of Ground-type Pokémon
10 	 	Veggie Smoothie à la Cube 	A whole lot of plants and a few soft things 	4 plant ingredients2 soft ingredients 	Favorite food of Grass-type Pokémon
11 	 	Honey Nectar à la Cube 	A whole lot of sweet things and a lot of yellow 	4 sweet ingredients3 yellow ingredients 	Favorite food of Bug-type Pokémon
12 	 	Brain Food à la Cube 	A lot of sweet things and a few hard things 	3 sweet ingredients2 hard ingredients 	Favorite food of Psychic-type Pokémon
13 	 	Stone Soup à la Cube 	A whole lot of hard things and a few minerals 	4 hard ingredients2 mineral ingredients 	Favorite food of Rock-type Pokémon
14 	 	Light-as-Air Casserole à la Cube	A lot of minerals and a few plants 	3 mineral ingredients2 plant ingredients 	Favorite food of Flying-type Pokémon
15 	 	Hot Pot à la Cube 	A lot of mushrooms and a little red 	3 mushroom ingredients2 red ingredient 	Favorite food of Fire-type Pokémon
16 	 	Watt a Risotto à la Cube 	A whole lot of soft things and a lot of yellow 	4 soft ingredients3 yellow ingredients 	Favorite food of Electric-type Pokémon
17 	 	Get Swole Syrup à la Cube 	A lot of sweet things and a few mushrooms 	3 sweet ingredients2 mushroom ingredients	Favorite food of Fighting-type Pokémon
18 	 	Ambrosia of Legends à la Cube 	A whole lot of mystical things 	4 mystical ingredients 	Favorite food of Extremely Rare Pokémon
 	 	 	 	 	
==Attracting Pokémon==
The Pokémon that are attracted by Cooking are interacted with from the menu. Notably, in order for a Cooking Pot to be emptied and able to be used again, all Pokémon attracted by a dish from that Cooking Pot must be befriended. This can cause friction if the player is at the maximum number of buddies, in which case the player cannot use Cooking with that Cooking Pot until they either purchase a Pokémon Box Expansion or train with their existing Pokémon.
==In other languages==
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zh:宝可梦探险寻宝/料理