Cooking recipes

**Cooking** is a multi-step process in *Staxel* that allows the player to make dishes that they can consume, gift to villagers, or sell to merchants for Petals. It is always more profitable to cook grown crops to sell than to sell the raw produce.

Cooking is a process that involves three core parts: recipes, ingredients, and preparation. Every player starts with a few core recipes. To learn more recipes, talk with the villagers to complete tasks, participate in events, or buy recipes from a shop. Once a recipe note is held in hand, left-clicking will memorize the new recipe.

Next, collect the ingredients; ingredients may be grown, bought or found. The player can open the menu and select the frying pan icon to access known recipes. There are several categories of recipes: Starters, Main Courses, and Desserts. Select the type of food, then select the desired recipe from the list. The ingredients list will show what and how much of each ingredient is needed. At this time, a fridge doesn't store extra food (without modding), so a Book Shelf can be used as a pantry to store the ingredients to your favorite recipes. Don't worry, the Milk doesn't expire sitting out on the shelf.

To cook the ingredients, one must follow the steps listed in the recipe's **Process List**. Recipes often require the use of more than one station. Like crafting stations for building supplies, each cooking station processes ingredients by interacting with the station on its left side, while finished products come out on the right side.

* Baking Station: unbaked things go in, baked things come out!
* Boiling Station: used for boiling food and liquids.
* Chopping Station: used for chopping, slicing, and dicing ingredients.
* Combining Station: a processing station for combining ingredients.
* Frying Station: this station is for frying anything the recipe calls for.
* Mixing Station: used for mixing ingredients

## Status effects

*Main article: Status effects*
**“***We've added a range of status effects that will affect gameplay in different ways. Some sleep (and caffeine) related effects will have you keeping an eye out while burning the midnight oil, and others such as jumpy and swift will have you hoping(sic) about the island like a pogo stick! You can always remove these buffs by sleeping or drinking Milk, but personally, we like the thrill of harvesting crops with the unlucky debuff, it’s a rollercoaster!***”**
— *Staxel* launch day update announcement
Consuming certain food items will give the player a **status effect**, sometimes colloquially called a **buff** (if the effect is positive) or **debuff** (if the effect is negative), that augments or hinders their abilities that day. A status effect lasts all day until the player either sleeps or drinks Milk, and a small icon representing the effect is displayed on the screen while the effect is active. Multiple status effects can be active at the same time, and some foods may give more than one effect.

Food-related status effects

## Ingredients used in cooking

### Crops

* Apple
* Banana
* Beet
* Blackberries
* Blueberries
* Cabbage
* Carrot
* Cherry
* Corn
* Cucumber
* Dragon Fruit
* Kiwi
* Lemon
* Lettuce
* Lime
* Mango
* Oat
* Onion
* Orange
* Peach
* Potato
* Pumpkin
* Raspberries
* Strawberries
* Sugar Cane
* Tomato
* Turnip

### Foraged Items

* Brown Mushroom
* Red and White Mushroom
* Seaweed
* White Mushroom

### Animal products

* Bacon
* Egg
* Milk

### Fish

* Octopus
* Salmon
* Shrimp

### From the general store

* Bread
* Butter\*
* Cheese\*
* Egg
* Jar of Water
* Plain Flour
* Rice
* Salt
* Yeast
* Yogurt\*

### From the patisserie

* Baking Powder
* Butter\*
* Chocolate Bar
* Cream\*
* White Sugar\*
* Plain Cookies

*\*Item can be crafted*

## Crops that cannot be cooked

Certain crops do not have any associated cooking recipes (despite the game's database stating that some of those crops can be boiled or cut), so the following crops function purely as items that can be sold to shops or the Shipping Station for profit or gifted to villagers:

* Cat Turnip
* Cocoa Bean
* Coconut
* Coffee Bean
* Eggplant
* Goldenberry
* Pear
* Sunflower
* Sweet Potato
* Tangerine
* Watermelon

# Recipes

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## 1.5 recipes

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The following recipes were extracted from the game files, version 1.5.43.

## Main Courses

 Salt x1
 Potato x1
 Combine Chopped Potato, Cheese and Salt.
 Bake Unbaked Potato with Cheese.
 Mushroom Risotto |  Brown Mushroom x1
 Butter x1
 Jar of Water x1
 Red & White Mushroom x1
 Rice x1
 Salt x1
 White Mushroom x1
 Fry Mushrooms and Butter.
 Fry Assorted Fried Mushroom, Boiled Rice and Salt.
 Pet Food (x5) |  Bacon x1
 Milk x1
 Oat x1
 Plain Flour x1
 Salt x1
 Octopus x1
 Fry Batter and Octopus.

## Quest

 Red and White Mushroom x1
 Starjelly x1
 White Mushroom x1

## References

1. ↑ https://steamcommunity.com/games/405710/announcements/detail/3751970741569441092
2. ↑ https://discordapp.com/channels/137697987374612480/404613909958623233/626847463780909096