How to Cook Food in Genshin Impact

Last Updated: July 6, 2021

In Genshin Impact, while you can purchase food from shops in Mondstadt and Liyue, the selection usually is very limited. In order to get more delicious items, you need to cook these food items. To learn a recipe, buy one from a shop, and to cook food, start by locating a stove, pot, or campfire. Food regenerates your stamina, revives your characters, restores HP, and provides defense against attacks.

Part 1

Part 1 of 4:
Learning Recipes

1
Acquire a recipe from Mondstadt or Liyue. You can stop at Good Hunter in Mondstadt and Wanmin Restaurant in Liyue to obtain food items, including recipes.
2
Open your inventory. On PC, you can do this by pressing the "B" key. On mobile and PS4, select the inventory button either on the top of the screen or from the Paimon menu.
3
Go to the last page. This page should have some miscellaneous items, including recipes.
4
Select the recipe and choose "Use". You will then learn the recipe for that food item.

Part 2

Part 2 of 4:
Opening the Menu

1
Locate a pot or stove. There is one in Mondstadt and Liyue by Good Hunter and Wanmin Restaurant for your convenience. They can also be found near some boss mobs and in Hilichurl camps and in villages across Teyvat.
2
Light a fire first. Use your Pyro character to start a fire. For example, with Amber, charge the arrow, point the bow at the campfire, and release. This will allow you to cook.
3
Press F on PC or the square button on PS4 or tap the "Cook" button to start cooking. This will open a menu showing all the items that you can make.

Part 3

Part 3 of 4:
Cooking Dishes

1
Select the item to cook. If you have recipes, they will also show up again here so you can learn them.
- Foods are divided into several categories: restore, revive, defense, attack, and stamina. Restore adds HP to a specific character, revive heals a downed character, defense adds protection from attacks, attack increases damage dealt to enemies, and stamina allows you to replenish the stamina bar.
2
Click on Cook. This will take you to the cooking screen.
3
Check the supporting character. Certain characters can give bonuses when cooking. For example, when perfectly cooking dishes with healing effects with Barbara, there is a 12% chance of getting double the product.
4
Click on Cook. This will start cooking. Watch the arrow.
5
Stop when finished. If you get the item in the yellow zone, you will get Perfect. If you get the item in the white zone, you will get Complete.
- If you get "Perfect", your proficiency will increase. After you can proficiently cook a dish (by cooking a dish perfectly a certain number of times), the cooking interface will be replaced by a slider.

Part 4

Part 4 of 4:
Processing Ingredients

1
Select the second tab on the top screen. This will open the processing screen.
2
Choose the item to cook. Note that from this screen you can only forge ingredients needed for cooking.
3
Enter the quantity. Drag the slider until you get the number of items you want.
4
Click on Cook. This will start cooking.
- Unlike when cooking food, when processing ingredients, you will have to check back later to collect the foods you want.