Cooking

**Cooking** is an activity that involves combining various ingredients into meals using a cooking pot. Cooking is also used for crafting enchantments or other items required in some Quests.

## Unlocking

Although cooking is formally unlocked after  Mickey Mouse gifts the player a White Gas Stove as a part of the  *Foodception* quest, players can start cooking with the stove at Goofy's house as soon as  Peaceful Meadow is unlocked.

## Mechanics

Upon using a cooking station, players will enter the cooking interface. The available ingredients are shown on the left side of the screen. Players can drag ingredients from this panel and over the pot to drop them in. Ingredients placed in the pot will be shown along the bottom. If an ingredient is dropped it will return to the ingredients panel. When an ingredient is placed in the pot, it may still be removed by clicking the 'X' in the corner of its icon along the bottom.

Once all the desired ingredients are placed in the pot, the player can click the "Start Cooking" button to prepare the dish provided they have at least 1 Coal Ore available, consuming the Coal in the process. Dishes are rated anywhere from 1-star all the way up to 5-starts; this generally corresponds with the number of ingredients required to make the recipe (adding more ingredients to a specific recipe will not raise the rating).

### Recipes

Clicking the Recipes button will open an interface with all the recipes the player currently knows. This interface will show the meal, the required ingredients, the star rating, and will indicate any recipes relevant to any active quests. Clicking on a recipe will pin it to the upper left corner and show you how many of each ingredient that you have.

### Autofill

If you have a recipe active and the necessary ingredients to complete the recipe, pressing the Autofill button will automatically add the appropriate ingredients. This will not automatically cook the meal, and ingredients can still be removed when added in this manner.

### History

Clicking the History button will show up to the last 20 meals the player has made along with the ingredients used with various colored frames:

**Green Frames** indicate a Mandatory Ingredient -- an ingredient necessary to make the dish. These cannot be substituted.

**Yellow Frames** indicate a Versatile Ingredient -- an ingredient that fulfills a general requirement, such as Bass for **Any Fish**. There are certain instances where Versatile Ingredients cannot always be fulfilled by any ingredient in a given category. The most notable examples are Crudites and Grilled Vegetables, which both require Any Vegetable but can each only be fulfilled by a certain selection of Vegetables. This is further complicated by the fact that many vegetables create specific dishes when used on their own, such as a Tomato for Tomato Soup.

Additionally, there are recipes that require multiple Versatile Ingredients that will be overridden if provided with a Mandatory Ingredient that would complete another recipe. For example, a Grilled Veggie Platter is fulfilled with three Any Vegetables. However, using Lettuce as one of the three will instead produce a Hearty Salad, which requires two Any Vegetables and one Lettuce.

Versatile Ingredients with higher  Energy and  Starcoin values will increase those values in the dish they are used to create.

**Red Frames** indicate an Unnecessary Ingredient -- an ingredient that is not necessary to complete the recipe. While Unnecessary Ingredients aren't needed to fulfill a recipe, they will still contribute to the overall  Energy gain and  Starcoin value of the completed dish.

## Ingredients

Ingredients are consumable items that are used to cook meals. Ingredients can be obtained in various ways, including  Gardening,  Foraging, and  Fishing. Ingredients can be consumed and have their own energy values.

*Note: This is not the same as the Ingredients (collection).*

###  Vegetables

Vegetables are a category of Ingredients that are primarily obtained via  Gardening. They can also be bought from Goofy's Stalls. Exceptions include Seaweed and Mushrooms.

###  Fruit

Fruit are a category of Ingredients that are found by  Foraging trees and bushes. They can also be bought from Goofy's Stalls.

###  Grains

Grains are similar to Vegetables and can be grown and harvested or bought from Goofy’s Stalls.

  Wheat |  Gardening,  Peaceful Meadow Stall |  +19

###  Pantry Ingredients

Pantry Ingredients that can be bought from Chez Remy or otherwise acquired by  Gardening,  Fishing or  Foraging.

###  Fish

Fish can be found by  Fishing at various waterside locales. Only the following ingredients are considered Fish for the purposes of Cooking.

###  Seafood

Seafood can typically be acquired by  Fishing or otherwise by  Foraging or  Digging in  Dazzle Beach.

###  Spices & Herbs

Spices & Herbs are Ingredients that are obtained by  Foraging in various biomes and realms.

  Garlic |  Foraging |  +135
  Ginger |  Foraging |  +175
  Mint |  Foraging |  +155
  Oregano |  Foraging |  +95

###  Sweets

Sweets are a handful of Ingredients obtained from  Foraging and  Gardening.

  Cocoa Bean |  Foraging |  +450
  Vanilla |  Foraging |  +135

## Meals

*For more information and a full list of Meals, see the Meals article.*
Meals are food items that can be consumed to replenish energy. They are cooked using various ingredients and provide more energy than uncooked food. They can also be gifted to villagers or sold for Star Coins.

Unlike Ingredients, consuming Meals allows the player's energy to fill beyond capacity, resulting in a sparkling yellow meter that overlaps the energy bar. This Surplus Energy grants the Well Fed boost, providing a speed boost to the player until depleted.

The quality of a meal is indicated by a Star Rating, with 1-star being the lowest and 5-star being the highest. The amount of stars is typically represented byn the number of ingredients required for the meal. Adding ingredients beyond the base recipe will result in a dish restoring more energy or selling for more Star Coins, but will not increase the Star Rating. Star Ratings only seem to be relevant to the completion of duties.

## Cooking With Remy

When cooking at Chez Remy or in the Ratatouille Realm,  Remy will join the player at their cooking station and supervise their cooking. He will visibly react to any ingredient that is added to the pot. Following his reactions can help guide the player to make better meals.

### Reactions

* First Ingredient: When the player adds the first ingredient to the pot Remy will appear to sniff the air coming from the pot and waft it towards his face with two paws.
* Positive: When the player adds an ingredient to a the pot that completes a meal, Remy will react positively by raising his arms and waving them in the air.
* Neutral: When the player adds an ingredient to the pot that does not complete a meal, Remy will react by sniffing the air and looking around as if he is waiting in anticipation for the players next action. Remy will also show this reaction if you remove an ingredient from the pot that does not change the meal outcome.
* Negative: When the player removes an ingredient from the pot that changes the meal outcome Remy will briefly lower his head as if he is disappointed or sad.

## Cooking Locations

There are a variety of locations that will already have cooking stations that the player can use. The player can also craft or purchase appliances and place them in their house or throughout the village.

### Interior

* Chez Remy -  Remy will join the player.
* Goofy's House
* Kristoff's House
* Mickey's House
* Minnie's House
* Ratatouille Realm -  Remy will join the player.
* Remy's House

### Exterior

* Sunlit Plateau Campsite
* Forgotten Lands Campsite

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