Cooking Guide

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In Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar you can cook recipes in your kitchen. These recipes can be eaten to restore your Stamina, and many even offer temporary buffs.

Cooked dishes also fit into many of the town’s festivals, including the Cook-Off & Bake-Off, the Juice Festival, the Pumpkin Festival, and Hearth Day.

This guide covers everything you need to know about cooking in the game, from kitchen utensils to learning recipes and understanding recipe buffs.

Table of Contents

Your Kitchen

Your Kitchen is located inside your home from the start of the game. It’s worth noting that cooking doesn’t consume Stamina or take up any in-game time.

Simply interact with the kitchen counter to begin.

Kitchen Equipment

Certain recipes require extra kitchen equipment, purchasable from Garon’s Construction.

There are three pieces of equipment available, and they can be used instantly after purchase.

Equipment	Price	Used for
Frying Pan	10,000 G	Stir-fries, eggs, sautéed dishes
Cooking Pot	30,000 G	Soups, stews, boiled dishes
Oven	50,000 G	Baked goods, roasts, gratin, bread

Tip: The Cooking Pot is the most versatile utensil, unlocking all Soup recipes and stews. Buy it as soon as you can afford it!

How Recipes Work

The game features a total of 266 recipes, but you start the game only knowing only a few.

There are two ways you can learn recipes:

Finding or obtaining recipes: Some recipes can be found in residents’ homes, or some recipes you’ll receive as rewards from requests, festivals, and title achievements.
Eating new dishes: You can learn any recipe by just eating the final dish, no matter how you acquire it. You can start by purchasing all the food at Café Madeleine.

Recipes in shop menus or in your bag show an icon beneath the dish name (as seen below). A blue checkmark means you’ve learned the recipe, while no checkmark means you haven’t learned it yet.

Where to Find Recipes

Tip: The table below is just a general list of the shops and methods you can use to acquire recipes, but you can visit our list of all recipes to look up how to learn any specific recipe in the game.

Location	Type	Notes
Café Madeleine	Café	Sells drinks and lighter dishes
Mini Madeleine’s	Café	Open-air café in the Bazaar grounds
Paradise Sundries	General Goods	Sells seasonings and basic ingredients
Clara’s Diner	Shop	Sells packed lunches and ready-made dishes
Nadine’s Bistro	Restaurant	Full menu of dishes, available year-round
Residents’ Gifts / Letters / Requests	Mail	Some dishes are sent to your mailbox as gifts or rewards for achieving titles and fulfilling requests
Bookshelves	Exploration	Some residents’ houses hide recipes in bookshelves
Festival Rewards	Event	Both Cooking Festivals award recipes for placing 1st

Recipe Screen HUD Guide

Label	Element	Description
a	Dish Name	The name of the dish
b	Required Equipment	Frying Pan, Cooking Pot, or Oven (checkmark = you own it)
c	Category	e.g., Soups, Salads, Main Dish
d	Trend Indicator	Shown if this dish is currently a Bazaar Trend
e	Required Ingredients	Mandatory ingredients and the quantities in your bag (checkmark = fulfilled)
f	Adapt Recipe	Optional ingredients for boosting quality; press F to see the applicable items
g	Freshness	Freshness level of the dish
h	Effect	The temporary buff you’ll gain by eating this dish
i	Stamina Recovery	How much Stamina is restored when eaten
j	Festival Use	Shows if the dish can be used in a specific festival
k	Sell Price	Estimated selling price using all lowest-quality materials

Tip: All cooked dishes will always result in a perfectly fresh dish right after they’re cooked, regardless of the freshness level of your ingredients.

Dish Categories

Recipes are divided into categories that you can sort through in the menu.

These categories are often relevant based on which dishes can be used to fulfill a specific request, or which dishes you can use in a festival, or for certain in-game achievement requirements.

Below is a list of all the recipe categories and what types of dishes they contain:

Category	Description
Salads	Cold dishes typically made with vegetables, oils, and dressings
Soups	Hot or cold soups; require the Cooking Pot and can be given on Hearth Day
Sides	Side dishes, fried foods, breads, and tofu-based dishes
Main Dishes	Hearty meals with high Stamina recovery; entry for the Cook-Off
Desserts	Cakes, pies, and sweets; entry for the Bake-Off and can be given on the Pumpkin Festival
Other Recipes	Teas, juices, and rice dishes; entry for the Juice Festival
Seasoning	Salt, pepper, and spices used to adapt recipes; sold at Paradise Sundries

Ingredient Groups

Some recipes list ingredients as groups rather than as specific items. This means you can use any ingredient within that group to fulfill that ingredient requirement.

You can tell if a recipe can use an ingredient group based on whether the “Items Needed” listing shows more than one item icon in an ingredient box. When this happens you can hover that ingredient in the recipe screen and press “F” to view the Material List, where you can see all valid items for each ingredient group slot.

Tip: Most recipes that have a regular Egg or regular Milk as an ingredient will usually be able to accept the premium versions (Egg + or Milk +) in their ingredient group.

Adapting Recipes

One of the best ways to improve a dish’s quality level is by “Adapting the Recipe”. You can do this by adding any acceptable extra ingredient(s) into the “?” slots.

This is especially useful for fulfilling resident requests and preparing high-quality entries for the Cooking Festivals.

To see any recipe’s acceptable “Adapt Recipe” items, you can press F to view a recipe’s Material List, then move over to one of the “?” slots.

Filling more adapted ingredient slots, especially with higher-quality items, will increase the final dish’s overall quality.

Food Effects

Most recipes in the game grant a temporary effect that activates when eaten. The duration of the buff depends on the dish’s quality:

Dish Quality	Effect Duration
★0.5	Base duration
★5	2x base duration
★7	3x base duration

Note that food buffs don’t stack with different recipes, but they can stack with Kagetsu’s Divination.

All Food Buffs & Effects

Note: We have a separate page that lists all buffs and their related recipes if you want to see exactly which recipes will give you each of these buffs.

Buff	Effect	Lv. 1	Lv. 2	Lv. 3	Lv. 4
Max Stamina Up	Increases your maximum Stamina	+200 max	+400 max	+600 max	+1,000 max
Stamina Saver	Reduces Stamina consumption when performing actions	−2 per action	−5 per action	−10 per action	−20 per action
Run Speed Up	Increases movement speed	1.1x speed	1.2x speed	1.4x speed	1.6x speed
Watering Rare Crop %	Increases the chance of crops mutating into rare crops when watered	+1% chance	+3% chance	+6% chance	+10% chance
Petting Happiness Up	Increases an animal’s happiness when petted	+2 happiness	+5 happiness	+10 happiness	+20 happiness
Petting Rare Item %	Increases the chance of plus byproducts the next day after petting animals	+5% chance	+15% chance	+30% chance	+50% chance
Rod Durability Up	Increases the maximum durability of the fishing rod	+500 durability	+1,000 durability	+2,000 durability	+4,000 durability
Happy Energy Gain	Increases the amount of Happy Energy gained	1.2x gain	1.5x gain	2x gain	3x gain
Chat Friendship Boost	Increases FP gained when talking to residents	+50 FP/chat	+100 FP/chat	+200 FP/chat	+400 FP/chat
Pet Training Up	Increases Training Points gained when training pets	+5 training	+15 training	+30 training	+50 training
Jump Distance Up	Extends jump distance (does not affect glider)	—	—	—	—
Double Forage	Doubles items obtained from foraging	—	—	—	—

Note: Jump Distance Up and Double Forage have no levels so their effects do not scale.

Notable Food Buffs

The dishes below provide the strongest or rarest effects in the game. So these recipes are worth learning as soon as you can.

Dish	Recipe Effect	Where to Get Recipe
Macaroni Salad	Stamina Saver Lv. 4	Nadine’s Bistro
Caprese Salad	Watering Rare Crop % Lv. 4	Avant-Garde Crops request from Erik
Asparagus Soup	Rod Durability Up Lv. 4	Clara’s Diner
Corn Soup	Run Speed Up Lv. 4	Mini Madeleine’s
Morel Cream Stew	Max Stamina Up Lv. 4	Nadine’s Bistro
Watermelon Tea	Chat Friendship Boost Lv. 4	Mini Madeleine’s
Trifle	Petting Happiness Up Lv. 4	The Gift of Gratitude request from Samir
Whole Chocolate Cake	Petting Rare Item % Lv. 4	Win the Bake-Off
Specialty Juice	Pet Training Up Lv. 4	Win the Juice Festival
Happy Fruit Platter	Happy Energy Gain Lv. 4	The Happy Shoppe
Rüeblitorte	Jump Distance Up	It’s Gotta Be PERFECT! request from Sylvia
Khachapuri	Double Forage	A Homemade Meal request from Samir

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