When working towards Perfection in Stardew Valley, one of the core requirements is to cook every food item and recipe in the game. However, it’s not necessarily easy to understand how to cook in Stardew Valley and how to go about making every one of the available Stardew Valley recipes in the game. Following this thought, today’s guide covers everything you need to know about recipes in Stardew Valley to help.
Do I Need to Cook All Stardew Valley Recipes to Achieve Perfection?
Before we go any further, we first need to consider the importance of cooking in Stardew Valley. Indeed, cooking in Stardew Valley may not always seem like the top priority when it comes to your to-do list for the day; however, if you’re striving to achieve Perfection, it’s a must. The reason behind this is simple: one of the core requirements for Perfection in Stardew Valley is that you must have cooked each of the food recipes in the game. WIth a total of 81 recipes to unlock and cook, that’s no small undertaking.
How Can I Unlock Food Recipes in Stardew Valley?
There are numerous ways to unlock food recipes in Stardew Valley, and understanding these can allow you to unlock the different recipes more easily in turn. Of course, you’ll start out with the recipe for an omelette as a starter recipe at the beginning of the game; however, the other recipes are available in the following ways:
- Watching the Queen of Sauce TV cannel
- Purchasing recipes from the Stardrop Saloon, the Island Trader, the Ginger Island Resort, and the Dwarf Shop
- By unlocking hearts with villagers in the game
- By leveling up your farming, foraging, mining, combat, and fishing skills
It’s worth noting that many recipes will naturally be unlocked on your path to Perfection anyway, since Perfection requires you to have made friends (maximum hearts) with each villager and leveled up all of your skills to Level 10. However, you will still need to purchase the additional recipes from shops or learn them from the Queen of Sauce TV channel.
What are the Hardest Recipes to Unlock in Stardew Valley when Cooking?
Thus far, we’ve looked briefly at how to unlock the many different recipes in Stardew Valley; however, while many of these are quite easy to stumble across, such as three-heart event items and Queen of Sauce recipes, others will be a lot harder to unlock. For example, the following recipes may require a greater level of time and energy:
- Survival Burger (Foraging Level 8)
- Seafoam Pudding (Fishing Level 9)
- Squid Ink Ravioli (Combat Level 9)
- Lobster Bisque (Willy - 9+ Hearts, although this can also be unlocked with the Queen of Sauce)
- Vegetable Medley (Caroline, 7+ Hearts)
- Strange Bun (Shane, 7+ Hearts)
- Bean Hotpot (Clint, 7+ Hearts)
- Fish Taco (Linus, 7+ Hearts)
These are just a few examples of the hardest recipes to unlock in Stardew Valley. However, as we already mentioned, these may well be unlocked during your quest for Perfection regardless.
One thing that doesn’t have to be difficult, though, is making sure your Stardew Valley server stays stable for long enough to allow you to complete all of these recipes. Indeed, with a premium ScalaCube Stardew server, you can count on a 24/7 lag-free gaming experience.
Frequently Asked Questions
In total, there ate 81 cooked food recipes in Stardew Valley and 149 crafted recipes. As such, in total, there are 230 recipes in the game in total that you will need to craft if you are trying to achieve Perfection.
Luckily, many ingredients are doubled up between recipes in Stardew Valley. As such, you’ll only need a total of 88 unique item types to complete all recipes in the game, of which several can be purchased from stores directly.
Cooking in Stardew Valley is absolutely worth doing, since many of the recipes provide valuable buffs such as increases to your attack, energy, magnetism, luck, and so on. However, even boostless recipes can potentially still be useful as a healing item, especially during busy days or when in the mines.
The most complex cooked recipes in Stardew Valley call for four unique ingredients. These include crab cakes, fish stew, Pumpkin pie, stir fry, blueberry tart, pink cake, fish tacos, and the complete breakfast. Several other recipes may call for a smaller number of different ingredients but multiple of each; for example, a moss soup requires a staggering twenty individual pieces of moss to craft.
Final Thoughts
Learning how to cook in Stardew Valley is important for a number of different reasons, and just one such example is that this allows you to achieve Perfection. Of course, if you were to purchase Perfection Waivers from Fizz, you could potentially skip out on the cooking requirement; however, since cooked food recipes in Stardew Valley are worth 10% of the total Perfection goal, you’d need ten Perfection waivers - at five million g - to bypass this. As such, it’s largely not worth the expense, and cooking the different food recipes in the game may be much more affordable.