Cooking

**Cooking** is an action that can be performed by using the "**Cook or Combine**" action in the House, Basement, or Fireplace.

## Cooking & Combining

Players may create a wide variety of foods and some inedible items for their pets. All official recipes require certain ingredients; combining the correct items will create one or more items that result from that recipe. Some recipes have variations where different ingredients may be used, which may sometimes result in slightly different yields.

All official recipes names can be viewed (if the player has discovered the recipe) from the Cooking "Alien" or Cooking Buddy interface.

Certain "**Cook or Combine**" actions do not have an official recipe because they function on a general type of item instead of specific ingredients. These types include:

* Items that apply tool bonuses to tools
* Items that apply spices to foods

The Cooking 101 book holds a dynamic count of all existing **Cooking** recipes. At this time, Cooking 101 states that there are 543 recipes to discover. However, we have only managed to document 530 of them on the wiki (listed with the recipe names found in the Cooking Buddy). 13 recipes are still currently unknown; they are mostly very old recipes that have not yet been found.

## Edibles, Ingredients, & Miscellaneous Recipes

Many recipes in this section produce foods that can be fed to pets or common **Cooking** ingredients. A few such as "Cool Fierierstone" don't fit in other major categories and are included in this section as well.

## Combining Spices

Some items can be combined with foods to apply spices. Spices will add food-related effects when applied.

There is a random chance that spiced items (when used as ingredients) will propagate their spices to the combined result. Even inedible items (with the exception of those that apply spices) can receive spices through indirect propagation. This is the only way of transferring spices such as Spice: Cosmic, Spice: Tropical, and Spice: Rancid, which cannot be applied directly.

Items that have received a spice cannot be rid of that spice, and no new spices may be added to them.

## Fertilizer Recipes

Different-sized Bags of Fertilizer can be obtained from the Composter. These bags can be combined to switch between sizes.

 Large Bag of Fertilizer
 Two Bags of Fertilizer
* Small Bag of Fertilizer
 Two Small Bags of Fertilizer

## Depaint Recipes

Paint Stripper can be combined with dyed items like the "Gold" Idol to downgrade the items into their unpainted forms.

* Paint Stripper
 Depaint Painted Boomerang
* Paint Stripper
 Depaint Painted Dumbbell
* Painted Dumbbell
 Depaint Painted Fishing Rod
* Painted Fishing Rod
 Depaint Small, Yellow Plastic Bucket
* Small, Yellow Plastic Bucket
 Depaint Upside-down, Yellow Plastic Bucket
* Upside-down, Yellow Plastic Bucket

## Melt Recipes

Certain items can be melted into recoverable ingredients with the help of Liquid-hot Magma. Blackonite, Dark Matter, Fierierstone, Glass, Gold Bar, Iron Bar, Moon Pearl, and Silver Bar can be recovered from melting. All items that can be melted are listed in Melt.

## Combining Tool Bonuses

Some items can be combined with tools to apply a tool bonus. Bonuses may add more stats or have special effects such as granting additional XP or awarding additional items for certain actions. Check the individual bonus pages for their full effects.

**Note:** combine bonuses do not appear as recipes in the Cooking Buddy; e.g. there is no official recipe for combining a Useless Fizz with an Antipode, because the tool bonus can be applied to any tool. However, "**Cook or Combine**" actions that generate the bonus-providing items, such as creating Useless Fizz with Baking Soda and Vinegar, will still show up as recipes in the Cooking Buddy.