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How to Cook Food Guide | What's the Point?
These new dishes look too good to eat! Learn where to get recipes and how to cook and use the brand new food items in Animal Crossing: New Horizons! Read on to learn more about how to cook food with the Stonework Kitchen, list of recipes, how to get recipes, and more!
| Crops & Vegetables Related Articles | |||
|---|---|---|---|
 List of Food Recipes |
 How to Cook Food |
 How to Get All Fruits |
 How to Grow Crops |
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What's the Point in Cooking?
Cooking is essentially just a different kind of craftng; instead of crafting furniture, clothes, or tools, now you can make food! Cooking can get you a total of 139 food items!
Use Food to Decorate
You can collect all 139 dishes to decorate around your island! Here's a tip: use the dishes to create a cafe or restaurant area for your island or home!
Eat Food to Gain Stamina
Just like eating fruits, you can eat food to do actions you wouldn't normally be able to do: like breaking rocks or pulling up trees
What Happens When You Eat Fruit?
How to Cook Food
| 1 | Collect Recipes. |
|---|---|
| 2 | Gather ingredients. |
| 3 | Use the Stonework Kitchen. |
| 4 | Enjoy! |
1. Collect Recipes
Recipes are available from a variety of sources: through Nook Miles redemption, through Nook's Cranny, or through villagers and messages in a bottle washed up ashore!
Collect them all to expand your knowledge of dishes that you can cook!
2. Gather ingredients
There are plants and vegetables that you can grow by yourself to cook DIY recipes and make tasteful meals in the comfort of your own kitchen.
In addition to pumpkins, there are five new farmable crops: wheat, tomatoes, potatoes, sugarcane, and carrots.
3. Use the Stonework Kitchen to Cook
To cook dishes, you will need the Stonework Kitchen. Press A to interact with the Stonework Kitchen and prep a dish!
The Stonework Kitchen will be available as part of the Be A Chef! DIY Recipes+ which you can avail at the Nook Stop.
What Should You Spend Nook Miles on First?
4. Enjoy Your Meal!
After prepping a dish, you can do whatever you want to do with it: you can put it on a table as decoration or you can eat the dish and gain points for Stamina.
What Happens When You Eat Fruit?
How to Get Recipes
Just like creating DIY furniture, it looks like you'll need to use recipes to make food.
Be A Chef! DIY Recipes+
You can redeem the Be A Chef! DIY Recipes+ pack which is available for 2,000 Nook Miles.
Basic Cooking Recipes
Nook's Cranny also sells a cookbook titled Basic Cooking Recipes that sells for 4,980 Bells.
Messages in a Bottle
Message bottles carrying Food DIY Recipes will also spawn on the beach. Collect the message bottles to get more recipes!
Tip: When viewing it in your pockets, you can even see the difference between a normal DIY recipe and a food DIY recipe!
How Often Does a Message in a Bottle Spawn?
Villagers Cooking Dishes
You can visit villagers in their homes and come across them cooking! Talk to them while they're cooking to obtain the food DIY Recipe!
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