Cooking is a Crafting Method players can use to create Food and process ingredients at stoves.
Cooking can be done at stoves located in cities like Mondstadt and Liyue Harbor, at campfires found in the open world, in the Serenitea Pot with cooking furnishings, and with the one-use forged gadget Adepti Seeker's Stove. Campfires and stoves that are put out must be lit by Pyro in order to cook. Anemo, Cryo, Electro, Geo and Hydro effects, including rainy weather, (due to Swirl, Melt, Overloaded, Crystallize and Vaporize, respectively) can extinguish both campfires and stoves, preventing cooking.
Some characters have special passive Talents that give them a chance to double the output received when they are the character selected and perform a perfect cook. Characters also have a specific character linked special dish they have a 25/20/15% chance to obtain depending on the rarity of the food (1/2/3 star respectively) while cooking a specific dish when they are the character selected.
The Raiden Shogun is the only character that is unable to cook.
Manual Cooking
Manual cooking
When a player first learns a new dish, they must become proficient in making that dish by manually cooking it perfectly a certain amount of times before being able to auto cook it. Manually cooking requires the player to stop the cooking timer when the indicator is in the correct position.
Different Food Qualities
The location the indicator is stopped at affects the potency of the dish cooked:
- The orange section will result in a Delicious Dish that gives the maximum food effect, and increases proficiency.
- The yellow section will result in a Regular Dish that gives an average effect.
- The gray section will result in a Suspicious Dish that gives the lowest possible food effect.
You can exit out of this minigame to avoid using the ingredients if you do not wish to cook.
Note: There is a hidden Achievement for cooking 10 suspicious dishes.
Proficiency
Each food item has its own proficiency, once an item is cooked perfectly enough times the proficiency will max out and you will be able to auto cook. Auto bulk cooking cannot be cancelled and will always result in either the Delicious version of that item and also has the usual chance rolled individually multiple times for doubled output and special dishes if the correct character is used.
The max number of dishes that can be auto-cooked at the same time is 99 (to cook more, the auto-cook function will have to be used more than once).
Starting in Version 1.4, players can switch back to manual cooking even after the proficiency is maxed out. This allows players to access dialogue and achievements that require Suspicious and normal dishes even if players have only cooked perfectly and already maxed out dishes' proficiencies.
The max proficiency for each dish depends on the rarity of the dish being made:
| Dish Rarity | Max Proficiency |
|---|---|
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5 |
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10 |
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15 |
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20 |
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25 |
Special Dishes
A character able to cook a special dish
While cooking, the character selection screen may be opened to select a character that can make a special dish.
Characters' special dishes are of an even higher quality than Delicious dishes, giving even higher bonuses/stats when eaten, making them desirable.
Special dishes have a low chance of being made through both automatic and manual cooking. This chance also applies to Normal and even Suspicious variants of the recipe. Thus, it is possible to get Special Dishes even when failing manual cooking.
List of Special Dishes
There are 48 Special Dishes:
Character Bonuses
Certain characters have Talents that provides a bonus while performing cooking
Adventurer's Dish
1 Talent matches the category selection:
| Character | Name | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| When Perfect Cooking is achieved on Food with Adventure-related effects, there is a 12% chance to obtain double the product. | Utility Passive |
ATK Dish
1 Talent matches the category selection:
| Character | Name | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| When a Perfect Cooking is achieved on an ATK-boosting dish, Xiangling has a 12% chance to receive double the product. | Utility Passive |
DEF Dish
2 Talents match the category selection:
| Character | Name | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| When a Perfect Cooking is achieved on a DEF-boosting dish, Xinyan has a 12% chance to obtain double the product. | Utility Passive | ||
| When a Perfect Cooking is achieved on a DEF-boosting dish, Noelle has a 12% chance to obtain double the product. | Utility Passive |
Recovery Dish
3 Talents match the category selection:
| Character | Name | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| When a Perfect Cooking is achieved on a dish with restorative effects, Diona has a 12% chance to obtain double the product. | Utility Passive | ||
| When a Perfect Cooking is achieved on a dish with restorative effects, Jean has a 12% chance to obtain double the product. | Utility Passive | ||
| When a Perfect Cooking is achieved on a dish with restorative effects, Barbara has a 12% chance to obtain double the product. | Utility Passive |
Bonus Suspicious Dish
2 Talents match the category selection:
| Character | Name | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| When Ayato cooks a dish perfectly, he has a 18% chance to receive an additional "Suspicious" dish of the same type. | Utility Passive | ||
| When Hu Tao cooks a dish perfectly, she has a 18% chance to receive an additional "Suspicious" dish of the same type. | Utility Passive |
Achievements
9 Achievements match the category selection:
| Achievement | Category | Description | 
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|---|---|---|---|
| Survival Expert |  The Art of Adventure
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Grasp how 10 different dishes are made. | 5 |
| Survival Expert | The Art of Adventure
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Grasp how 20 different dishes are made. | 10 |
| Survival Expert | The Art of Adventure
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Grasp how 40 different dishes are made. | 20 |
| Star Chef | The Art of Adventure
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Master 10 Recipes. | 5 |
| Star Chef | The Art of Adventure
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Master 20 Recipes. | 10 |
| Star Chef | The Art of Adventure
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Master 40 Recipes. | 20 |
| "If you put your heart into it..." |  Wonders of the World
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Cook 1 suspicious-tasting dish. | 5 |
| "...Anyone can be a gourmet." | Wonders of the World
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Cook 10 suspicious-tasting dishes. | 5 |
| Glutton for Goulash | Wonders of the World
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Learn to make Goulash. | 5 |
Video Guides
Change History
- Manual cooking can now be selected even when auto cooking is unlocked.
- Cooking Special Dishes with character text changed.
- Old: May obtain special dishes
- New: May make a special dish
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- Cooking was released.
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