Genshin Impact Cooking Guide: How to Cook + Recipes

В Genshin impact Cooking is one of the most important crafts. It is shared with alchemy, and therefore food has a much larger number of functions - it restores a percentage of health, resurrects, and increases many characteristics.

Using food with different properties will increase the survivability and strength of the squad, which will make the exploration of the world more productive, and the boss fight easier.

How to cook food in Genshin Impact

Cooking in Genshin Impact looks like a mini-game, winning which allows you to create the perfect dish and increase your skill in cooking that recipe. Winning is easy stop the arrow on the indicator in a small orange zone: the dish becomes perfect, and the player receives +1 to mastery. Cooking is divided into two types - manual and fast, it is also automatic.

Initially, only manual cooking is available to the player for each recipe, and the whole process is as follows:

1. Approach the stove or fire with the pot and interact with it to open the cooking menu;
2. Choose the desired recipe from the studied. If there are not enough ingredients for a dish, it will be at the very bottom of the list and marked in gray;
3. Choose the option "cook" and the desired method;
4. Follow the movement of the arrow to the right and wait for it to be in the orange zone. As soon as she reaches it, press "stop";
5. Repeat until you reach the required number of perfect attempts to open the quick cooker.

What does fast cooking mean?

This is an automatic cooking of the highest quality. The number of units is set by the player himself. You can make up to 99 pieces at a time, it will take only 1 second. This is very convenient if the dish is of high rarity and it is more difficult to cook it manually, or if you need a large amount of food at once.

What happens if you do not have time to click "Stop" near the orange area on the culinary scale

There are 3 qualities of dishes in total, and they correspond to divisions on the culinary scale. If the arrow is not stopped at all, it will go to the end of the scale and the food corresponding to the color of the zone will be created automatically, in almost all cases this zone is gray. More about cooking scale zones:

• Orange - guarantees the preparation of a perfect dish with the highest possible characteristics for it and a delicious description. Only these count toward Cooking Mastery, giving +1 to its level.
• Light yellow is a normal result with medium stats.
• Gray is a “strange” dish with minimal characteristics and a very sad description. Its quality is very low, and even the description says that it is tasteless, ugly and the wrong degree of readiness.

Where to cook food in Genshin Impact

There are a lot of places for cooking, and they are located all over the world.

Bonfires with pots - the most common option. They can be found in abandoned and active camps, near world bosses, near random houses far from settlements, in the settlements themselves. Often the fires are extinguished, but they are easy to light with the help of Pyro. They are also susceptible to the weather and die out when it rains.

Stoves with a closed fire - A more reliable option compared to bonfires, but they are located mainly near restaurants or food and ingredient merchants in large cities - Mondstadt, Li Yue, Inazuma.

oven in The teapot of serenity - if you collect enough monastery gifts and buy a blueprint from Fluffy, you can install this device in your own home and have access to it at any time. The creation will require only 12 pieces of iron, the space occupied is one cell.

Adept Seeker Furnace - upon reaching level 5 reputation in Li Yue you can get a drawing of this tool, made using forging. It requires 1 Flame Oil, 2 Crystal Cores, and 2 Iron Shards to craft. Such a furnace is a consumable item and is set for 300 seconds (it goes into a rollback for the same time), after the time expires it disappears. She appears initially lit. You can install the device in any convenient place, but you can not use it during the battle.

Types of food in Genshin Impact

All food in the game is divided into 4 types. The condition for this separation is the effect acquired after use.

• Defender - these dishes resurrect the character or restore his health,
• brave - increase attack power, critical hit chance, physical damage dealt,
• Sage - increase defense, shield strength, healing efficiency,
• Prospector - reduce the consumption of endurance when flying a glider, climbing, sprinting; restore a certain number of stamina units; this also includes Dragonspine's unique dish, Tomato Stew, which reduces the rate of accumulation of Frostbite.

Cooking Mastery in Genshin Impact

Like most items in the game, recipes have their own rarity. The higher the number of stars, the more difficult it is to complete - more rare ingredients in significant quantities, a smaller orange zone on the cooking track, and the number of successful attempts to open a quick cook increases.

Dishes with one star

This food is the easiest to prepare - it has 5 skill levels.

Dishes with two stars

More difficult to cook, to open fast cooking - 10 skill levels.

Dishes with three stars

Most of the most effective restorative foods have this rarity. Mastery - 15 levels.

Four Star Dishes

Four stars have the most useful dishes to increase attacking and defensive performance. Mastery - 20 levels.

Five Star Meals

So far, only one dish with 5 stars is available in the game. It has 25 skill levels and improves two characteristics - attack power and crit chance.

Where to get recipes for dishes in Genshin Impact

There are many ways to get recipes, and they are all surprisingly simple.

• Known from the start - some simple recipes with 1 star are immediately available to the player, such as Teyvat scrambled eggs or Vegetable soup;

• Buying from merchants - the owners of restaurants, cafes or inns sell a significant number of recipes, and you can find them in large cities and some small settlements - for example, in the village of Tsingtse or on Rito Island. Usually there are several merchants, you just have to look;

• World exploration - A couple of recipes can be found in chests in the open world. For example, the Mushroom Pizza recipe can be found in one of the chests in the Hilichurl camp in the Storm Terror Lair, and Adept's Temptation can be found in a luxurious chest on the floating island above Qingyun Peak. To get to it, you need to solve the riddle with the statues on the tops of the peaks;
• Reputation level – in all regions, for the level of reputation, you can get a couple of food recipes with very good characteristics;

• World Quests - Some cooking-related NPCs may ask the player for help, and share a recipe as a reward for their work. In Inazuma you can find a group of wanderers omnivorous gourmets, which appear on different islands as a separate task. For the implementation of each of them, you can get new knowledge in cooking;
• Events - Participation in events can also give you limited recipes, and the food cooked according to them has better effects. For example, for participation in moon hunting at the end of update 2.1, you could get a rice pudding recipe that restores up to 100 stamina - this is the best dish with this effect.

Special dishes in Genshin Impact

Each of the playable characters, with the exception of Shogun Raiden, has its own dish. Their difference is an increased effect, the absence of a division into strange / ordinary / tasty, and also the likelihood of their preparation.

List of special dishes

Character	Original	Special
Ember	meat steak	Champion Scout Steak!
Keia	Chicken skewers with mushrooms	Fruit Kebabs
Lisa	Pasta with tomato sauce	Magic pasta in tomato sauce
Noelle	Pancakes for tea	Weightless pancake
Jean	mushroom pizza	Invigorating pizza
Diluc	"Rise the Mountain"	"Once Upon a Time in Mondstadt"
Venti	Solyanka Archon	Anemo solyanka
Barbara	creamy stew	spicy stew
Bennett	Teyvat scrambled eggs	Teyvat crispy scrambled eggs
Fischl	Meat platter	Blessed Symphony
Kli	Fisherman's sandwich	fish sandwich
Raizor	Mondstadt pancakes	Potato pancakes "Wolf paws"
Sucrose	prefabricated casserole	Nutrient variety
Mona	nutritious salad	Supreme Wisdom (Life)
Dione	Fish skewers	Definitely not a snack!
Xiangling	Black perch	Branded boiled fish
Keqing	Fried tiger fish	Rescue fish
Beidou	Wok fried meat	Fried slices of meat
Ningguang	Flatbread "Mora"	Cake "Yin Yang"
Chongyun	Noodles "Gifts of the Mountains"	Cold noodles "Gifts of the mountains"
Xingqiu	Crystal Baozi	Deli bags
Qi qi	Naletaika	A dish without a future
Tartaglia	Seafood soup	extreme fishing
Zhongli	Pork soup with bamboo	Stewed pork soup with bamboo
Xinyan	Steamed spicy chicken	Rocker Chicken!
Albedo	Sunfish	"Forest dream"
Ganyu	prosperity	"Peace and Prosperity"
Xiao	almond tofu	"Sweet Dreams"
Hu Tao	Vegetarian mussels	"Ghost March"
Rosary	Chicken in honey sauce	judgment supper
Yanfei	crab tofu	“My Way”
Eola	moon cake	surf cake
Kazuha	Dried fish on charcoal	All-weather beauty
Ayaka	Mochi with sakura	"Snow on the mountain"
Sayu	Onigiri	Technique to get rid of stupidity
Eimia	tricolor dango	Summer holiday fish
Eloy	mint jelly	Hearty jelly
Sarah	egg roll	Eternal Faith
Kokomi	egg sushi	Surprise strategy
volumes	Miso soup	"Heat"

Interestingly: when the character has birthday, a system message arrives in the mail containing one portion of his special dish.

Hero Culinary Skills

Some characters have a particularly good relationship with cooking: they have ive talents that allow them to cook more efficiently. The bottom line is that with a certain chance you can cook an additional dish. This is especially useful when the dish contains a large amount of expensive ingredients. All talents work only with ideal variants.

• 12% chance for healing and resurrecting food - Barbara, Dione, Genie;
• 12% chance for dishes with a protection effect - Noelle, Xinyan;
• 12% chance for food with an attack effect - Xiangling;
• 18% chance to cook another "strange" dish of the same type - Hu Tao.

If you are not interested in cooking a special meal, then you should use the existing character from the list to increase the number of dishes without spending extra ingredients.

Collection of ingredients for cooking

Resources for cooking can be obtained in various ways. Even for a day of exploring the world, you can get a significant amount of food.

• Hunting. There are many creatures to hunt in Teyvat - wild boars (including those frozen in Dragonspine), foxes, birds, crabs on the coast, fish in the reservoirs. From them you can get raw, whole-frozen, poultry and crab meat, pieces of fish. You can also explore bird nests for eggs;
  
• Collection mushrooms, plants and fruits in the open world;
  
• Cultivation on fields in the Teapot of Serenity, for example, some useful and rare crops like fireweed grass and sky-high pepper;
  
• Opening boxes and barrels. Many camps have illuminated research spots that can drop 1-3 random vegetables or meat. Also, with some chance, products fall out when wooden boxes are destroyed, even in dungeons;
  
• Buying from merchants. All food vendors sell not only ready-made meals or recipes, but also the ingredients for them, including preparations. Stocks of simple and common products are updated daily, rarer ones - every 3 days, and preparations like ham, cheese or sour cream - once a week on Mondays;
  
• Preparation of ingredients - a mini version of cooking. They take time to create, depending on the rarity.
  

Cooking related achievements in Genshin Impact

Of course, in cooking there are achievements and a name card. You can find them in sections "Survival Expert" и "Wonders of the World".

• "Survival Expert" – study of 10/20/40 recipes;
• "Star Chief" – achieve mastery of cooking 10/20/40 dishes;
• "Hundreds of thousands of pestilence for a piece!" - cook tomato stew for the first time;
• “If you take it with all your heart…” – to prepare a “strange” dish for the first time;
• "... everyone can become a gourmet" - make 10 "strange" dishes. Hu Tao's ive talent will not allow you to get this achievement, you need to cook it manually.