TOTK cooking recipes can improve with two easy tricks

Just like in real life, cook in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Realm Link’s survival is vital – and luckily, there are a couple of tricks players can use to make sure he’s getting the most out of his food. After all, just throwing monster ingredients and parts into a random cooking pot won’t produce particularly helpful results; players must search and choose their components carefully, lest they find recipes that waste materials inside TOTK. However, even once they have mastered the art of cooking within Hyrule, they can take things a step further with two simple but effective tricks.

Just as in Breath of the Wild, when Link drops their favorite ingredients into a cooking pot, there is a small chance that the food will be infused with a special stat bonus. Each “emergency chef” is accompanied by a more impressive musical scene, as well as a highly motivated main character who jumps for joy. His enthusiasm is understandable, as with this rare event, that food will receive bonus hearts or a stronger and longer stat effect. Being stronger than their regular food counterparts, emergency chefs are invaluable – and two cooking tricks in TOTK it can help players to exploit them as often as they like.

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Yellow apples can make food better in TOTK

The simplest way to ensure emergency cooking Zelda: Tears of the Realm just add Apple Golden to the mix. Incorporating just one of the shiny, metallic fruits into Link’s next meal ensures that he gets extra hearts or a stronger stat effect, which is a real economic advantage, since the golden apples aren’t too hard to find. Each apple tree (of which there are many in Hyrule) has a small chance of spawning the rare variety of the fruit. Players must run into a Golden Apple or two while doing events, even if they aren’t actively looking for them.

Moons Blood ensures critical cooking in TOTK

An even more reliable way to achieve critical cooks TOTK, however, for cooking before and after a Blood Moon. Indeed, the strange red-tinged nights can be disturbing with the incessant music and haunting sights – but they can benefit Link if he finds himself near a cooking pot. Cooking 30 minutes in the game before and after a Blood Moon (from 11:30 PM to 12:30 AM) will consistently result in better food, with the only limitations being Link’s speed in gathering his ingredients. Not even skipping Blood Moons in Tears of the Kingdom it affects the viability of food.

At the end of the day, delicious snacks won’t save Princess Zelda or the kingdom of Hyrule, but they can certainly help. By laying down the basics, Link can cook dozens of helpful meals, each with special effects and buffs to aid him in battle. But by using Golden Apples and Blood Moons, players can take their cooking experience a step further, turning each group of ingredients into some of the most powerful recipes in Tears of the Kingdom.

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