How to Cook in Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Like making elixirs, all you need to cook delicious meals in Breath of the Wild are ingredients and a cooking pot with a fire burning under it. You’ll usually find the latter in a stable or a town, but you can also find them at campsites and enemy outposts all over Hyrule. Once you’ve found a cooking pot, open your inventory and navigate to the Materials tab (it looks like an apple). Select each ingredient you want to cook with, and then press X to put them into Link’s arms. Link can hold up to five items at a time. Once he has everything, leave the menu. Finally, approach the cooking pot and press A to toss them in. An animation will play, and the food you’ve prepared will automatically go into your inventory.
Food Effects in Breath of the Wild
Depending on which ingredients you use, your meals might give you extra, temporary benefits beyond just replenishing Link’s health. Here are the different effects food can have. To add these effects to your meals, add one of the corresponding ingredients to the base components. You’ll scavenge most ingredients, like fruit, on your travels through Hyrule, but some, like butter and seasonings, are only available from merchants. To roast, expose the ingredient to high heat. You can use a campfire, a wildfire, or even a Fire Arrow. Roasted foods give you 150% of the health boost versus just eating the ingredients raw. To make frozen food, expose any meat or seafood to extremely low temperatures, usually by placing them in the snow or shooting them with an Ice Arrow. Frozen items both restore health and give you temporary cold resistance. Finally, you can place a Bird Egg into a hot spring to make a Hard-Boiled Egg, which will give you extra hearts when you eat it.
