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Monster Hunter Wilds

Best Meals and Food Effects

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Best Meals MH Wilds

This is a list of the best meals you can cook and their benefits in Monster Hunter Wilds. Read on to see a list of the best meals combinations, their effects, and when to use each meal.

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Cooking Guide Best Meals

Best Meals and Cooking Combinations

Offense Focused Meal

Ration Additional Ingredient Finishing Touches
meatMeat Airy EggAiry Egg Monster ChiliMonster Chili

This is a simple meal catered to increasing your damage output. Airy Egg will occasionally give you damage boosts from Caprice Meal while Meat gives you a direct damage boost.

Defensive and Evasive Meal

Ration Additional Ingredient Finishing Touches
FishFish Turbid ShrimpTurbid Shrimp Eastern HoneyEastern Honey

Elemental Resistant Build

Ration Additional Ingredient Finishing Touches
vegetablesVegetable Sharp Kunafa CheeseSharp Kunafa Cheese Wild HerbWild Herb

This is a defensive setup that doesn't focus on straight up damage reduction. Vegetables increases your resistances which makes it great against monsters with strong elemental attacks.

Sharp Kunafa Cheese can decrease damage occasionally which makes it great for lucky damage blocks and lastly, Immunizer Meal grants a chance to not take status ailment damage. You can mix these ingredients with other meals as well if you find some of these effects more valuable than the existing ingredients for your chosen meal (eg, taking Wild Herb as a finishing touch against status heavy monsters).

Exploration Meal

Ration Additional Ingredient Finishing Touches
FishFish Any Truffle Du CongaTruffle Du Conga

A simple exploration meal setup. This is a great ideal meal for simply farming materials in the wild. You can take any additional ingredient to complete the meal as the bonus we only need are from the Truffle Du Conga's Gatherer Meal bonus.

How to Unlock Cooking

Unlocked After Mission 1-2

Monster Hunter Wilds - Portable BBQ Grill

Cooking can be unlocked once you complete the Village of Whispering Winds quest which is Mission 1-2. After rescuing the Support Team, you'll be able to get the portable bbq which will allow you to cook at your camp as well as during hunts.

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