Advanced Cooking Guide: Adding Buffs and Bonuses to Dishes

Using certain ingredients grants buffs and bonuses in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. Read on for a list of all the status effects and bonuses and how to apply buffs when cooking food.

All Status Effects and Bonuses

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Restoration	Traversal	Depths
Hearty Enduring Energizing	Hasty Sneaky Sticky Rapid	Sunny Warding Bright
Combat	Temp Control	Elemental
Mighty Tough	Spicy Chilly Electro Fireproof	Biting Scorching Stormy

Hearty (Extra Hearts)

The Hearty Status Effect not only fully restores all of your health, but it also grants extra health temporarily, which are colored yellow. The extra hearts can only be used once when receiving damage, but they come in handy when going up against tougher enemies and boss fights.

List of Hearty Ingredients

List of Items
Big Hearty Truffle	Hearty Truffle	Big Hearty Radish	Hearty Radish
Hearty Salmon	Hearty Bass	Hearty Lizard
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Enduring (Extra Stamina)

The Enduring Status Effect restores all of your stamina wheel and grants extra stamina that can be used temporarily. The temporary stamina is also colored yellow, and do not replenish after exhausting them.

List of Enduring Ingredients

List of Items
Endura Shroom	Endura Carrot	Tireless Frog
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Energizing (Stamina Boost)

Energizing buffs boost your stamina and restore a portion of the Stamina Wheel when used. This is especially useful when you're in a tight spot when you run out of stamina, such as gliding to a Sky Island, or running away from Gloom Hands.

List of Energizing Ingredients

List of Items
Stamella Shroom	Stambulb	Courser Bee Honey	Staminoka Bass
Bright-Eyed Crab	Energetic Rhino Beetle	Restless Cricket
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Hasty (Speed Up)

The Hasty buff boosts your movement speed and makes Link run, swim, and climb faster. This status effect can be utilized mostly in exploration, but can also be exploited in combat and other situations.

List of Hasty Ingredients

List of Items
Fleet-Lotus Seeds	Rushroom	Swift Carrot	Swift Violet
Hot-Footed Frog	Hightail Lizard
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Sneaky (Stealth Up)

Use the Sneaky status effect to increase your stealth and minimize the volume of Link's footsteps. This allows you to sneak past enemies you want to avoid, creep up behind them for sneak attacks, or even catch horses, critters, and fairies by surprise!

How to Perform a Sneakstrike

List of Sneaky Ingredients

List of Items
Silent Shroom	Silent Princess	Blue Nightshade	Stealthfin Trout
Sneaky River Snail	Sunset Firefly
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Sticky (Slip Resistance)

Don't you just hate it when it starts raining when you're almost at the top of a mountain you've been trying to climb and slip back down to the bottom? Slip no more with the Sticky status effect that grants you slip resistance and lets you climb wet and frozen surfaces more effectively.

List of Sticky Ingredients

List of Items
Sticky Frog	Sticky Lizard
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Rapid (Swim Speed Up)

The Rapid buff specifically increases Link's swim speed and lets you swim through deep water faster. Use this when you're exploring near bodies of water around Hyrule!

List of Rapid Ingredients

List of Items
Splash Fruit
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Sunny (Gloom Cure)

With the new Gloom status condition that can deplete Link's maximum health, you will need a Sunny dish in order to restore hearts damaged by Gloom first before you can heal. Be sure to pack enough when going down into the Depths!

New Gloom Status Condition: How to Cure

List of Sunny Ingredients

List of Items
Sun Pumpkin	Sundelion
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Warding (Gloom Resistance)

Another useful effect when exploring the Depths or going up against enemies corrupted with Gloom is the Warding buff that adds spare hearts that will be inflicted by Gloom first before your actual health, giving you extra protection .

List of Warding Ingredients

List of Items
Dark Clump
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Bright (Glow)

If dark locations such as the Depths or unlit Caves give you anxiety like the rest of us, prepare some food or elixirs with the Bright status effect to shed some light on your immediate surroundings.

List of Bright Ingredients

List of Items
Brightcap	Glowing Cave Fish	Deep Firefly
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Mighty (Attack Up)

Are you the type of player that charges towards enemies head on or want to finish a fight right away? The Mighty status effect can increase your attack power and boost your damage against enemies. Especially use this when going up against tougher monsters.

List of Mighty Ingredients

List of Items
Mighty Bananas	Razorshroom	Mighty Thistle	Mighty Carp
Mighty Porgy	Razorclaw Crab	Bladed Rhino Beetle
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Tough (Defense Up)

Are you more of the strategic type of player and value defense more than offense? Prepare some Tough food to increase your defense above your armor rating.

List of All Armor and Locations

List of Tough Ingredients

List of Items
Ironshroom	Fortified Pumpkin	Armoranth	Armored Carp
Armored Porgy	Ironshell Crab	Rugged Rhino Beetle
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Spicy (Cold Resistance)

The Spicy status effect can be used to warm you up and grant cold resistance. Be sure to take some with you when exploring the colder regions of Hyrule such as Tabantha Frontier and Hebra.

List of Spicy Ingredients

List of Items
Spicy Pepper	Sunshroom	Warm Safflina	Sizzlefin Trout
Summerwing Butterfly	Warm Darner
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Chilly (Heat Resistance)

Use the Chilly buff when you need heat resistance and stay cool under the heat. You will need this in hot regions, especially in Gerudo Desert.

List of Chilly Ingredients

List of Items
Hydromelon	Chillshroom	Cool Safflina	Chillfin Trout
Winterwing Butterfly	Cold Darner
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Electro (Shock Resistance)

Lightning Storms can be a real pain, especially when visiting areas where it always rains like the Faron Region. Take some food with the Electro buff to increase your shock resistance.

List of Electro Ingredients

List of Items
Voltfruit	Zapshroom	Electric Safflina	Voltfin Trout
Thunderwing Butterfly	Electric Darner
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Fireproof (Flame Guard)

The Fireproof effect boosts resistance to fire and increases your flame guard. You will need this in areas with fire and lava, particularly in the Eldin Region.

List of Fireproof Ingredients

List of Items
Smotherwing Butterfly	Fireproof Lizard
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Biting (Cold Weather Attack)

A cool new addition to the status effects in the game include the Biting buff that increases your attack power in cold temperatures. Use this to your advantage during combat in colder regions.

List of Biting Ingredients

List of Items
Ice Fruit
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Scorching (Hot Weather Attack)

Alternatively, you can use the Scorching status effect to boost your attacks in hot areas. This includes being under the desert sun or deep within the flaming caves in Eldin.

List of Scorching Ingredients

List of Items
Fire Fruit
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Stormy (Stormy Weather Attack)

Lastly, the Stormy status effect increases your attack power during lightning storms. Take advantage of this when engaging in combat during a storm, which happens more often that not

List of Stormy Ingredients

List of Items
Shock Fruit
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How to Apply Status Effects to Food

Use Ingredients That Provide Buffs

You can add status effects and bonuses to your cooked dishes and elixirs by using ingredients that give buffs. In a recipe, substitute ingredients with different alternate types to get the effect that you need.

For example, when cooking Mushroom Skewers, using Hylian Shrooms alone will give you a dish with no effect. Throw in a Stamella Shroom and you get an Energizing Mushroom Skewer that restores stamina.

List of All Recipes and Best Food

Increase Buff Level with Multiple Ingredients

You can increase the level of potency of the dishes that you cook by combining two ingredients that provide the same buff.

However, do not combine two different ingredients that provide two different buffs because they will just cancel each other out, leaving you with a dish with no buffs.

Combine Ingredients with Critters for Stronger Elixirs

Critters and Monster Parts are the main ingredients to make elixirs, and cannot be made without one or the other. However, you can increase an elixir's buff level by combining a critter and other non-critter ingredients with the same effect.

For example, the required ingredients for a Sneaky Elixir are at least one Sunset Firefly and any Monster Part. Throw in a Sneaky ingredient, like a Silent Princess or a Silent Shroom, and the elixir will grant a higher level of the Sneaky buff.

List of Elixirs and Recipes

Add More Monster Parts for Longer Effect Durations

If you want the status effects to last longer for your elixirs, add in more Monster Parts to increase its effect duration. The rarer a Monster Part is, the longer the duration.

The longest duration a buff can have is 30 minutes, which can be obtained by adding a Dragon's Horn to your recipe. We highly recommend mastering Dragon Part farming to take full advantage of buff extensions.

List of All Monster Parts

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Related Guides

Cooking Guide and List of Recipes

Cooking Guides and Recipe Lists

Cooking Guides
Basic Cooking Guide: Different Cooking Methods		Advanced Cooking Guide: Adding Buffs to Dishes
Recipe Lists
Cooked Recipes	Roasted Recipes	Frozen Recipes	Elixir Recipes