Hey Gourmet Chef! I will guess that you want to cook every possible recipe in Stardew Valley. If so, you came to the right place. There is 71 different recipes in Stardew Valley. Quite a lot cooking if you ask me! But maybe it’s just the right amount, if you are thinking about getting a Gourmet Chef achievement. They don’t name you a chef for no reason!
There are many ways in which cooking in Stardew Valley is beneficial. Various dishes are needed as quest items, some dishes make great gifts to some of the NPCs, cooked meals can give you extra energy, improve your skills, or simply restore your health or energy when needed.
However, if you ended up here, you are probably after the Gourmet Chef achievement. To cook something you will need to know recipes of course. There are various ways of getting recipes, however this is not the place to discuss them. Say, you already have all the recipes in Stardew Valley.
I don’t like cooking in real life, so I prefer not to cook in Stardew Valley as well (matter of principle perhaps?). Despite all the benefits that it can bring, I only started wondering about that kitchen in my house when the quest item was a meal and after that when I decided it was high time I got that Gourmet Chef achievement. If you are at least a bit like me, you will enjoy this list of all the products that are required to cook every possible recipe in Stardew Valley.
Here’s what you will need and where to get those items (mind you, you will need to keep Fried Egg, 2 plates of Hashbrowns, Pancakes, 2 Tortillas, 3 loafs of Bread, and an Omelet for other recipes, the ingredients for these extra dishes are included in the list, though):
- Egg - 8, get some chickens, obviously
- Milk - 12, get a cow and a Milk Pail
- Cheese - 3, craft a Cheese Press and put Milk into it (1 Cheese requires 1 Milk)
- Mayonnaise - 2, craft a Mayonnaise Machine and put Egg into it (1 Mayonnaise requires 1 Egg)
- Void Mayonnaise - 1, you still need that Mayonnaise Machine, this time put 1 Void Egg inside
- Wheat Flour - 21, acquire Mill and put Wheat inside (1 Wheat Flour requires 1 Wheat), or you can just buy it at Pierre’s General Store (or JojaMart if you’re heartless)
- Vinegar - 4, buy at Pierre’s General Store
- Oil - 11, acquire an Oil Maker and put 1 Sunflower or 1 Corn into it, you can buy it at Pierre’s as well.
- Sugar - 16, acquire Mill and put Beet inside (1 Beet will result in 3 Sugar), you can also buy it at Pierre’s or JojaMart
- Rice - 2, buy it at Pierre’s General Store on at JojaMart
- Coconut - 1, forage in the Calico Dessert
- Maple Syrup - 1, craft a Tapper and put it on a Maple tree, then wait a few days
- Cave Carrot - 5, forage in the Mines
- Bream - 1, river fish, can be caught in any season
- Periwinkle - 2, freshwater fish, can be caught with a crab pot
- Carp - 4, lake fish, can be caught in any season
- Largemouth Bass - 1, mountain lake fish, can be caught in any season
- Shrimp - 1, ocean fish, can be caught with a crab pot in any season
- Green Algae - 5, fishing item, can be acquired in any place but the farm pond
- White Algae - 2, fishing item, can be acquired in any place but the farm pond
- Seaweed - 1, fishing item, can be acquired in any place but the farm pond
- Clam - 1, fishing item, can be acquired in the ocean using a crab pot, can also be foraged from the beach
- Lobster - 1, ocean fish, can be caught with a crab pot in any season
- Snail - 1, fishing item, can be caught in freshwater using a crab pot in any season
- Crayfish - 1, fish, can be caught in freshwater using a carb pot in any season
- Mussel - 1, fishing item, can be acquired in the ocean using a crab pot, can also be foraged from the beach
- Crab - 1, ocean fish, can be caught with a crab pot in any season
- Dandelion - 1, forage in spring
- Leek - 1, forage in spring
- Morel - 1, forage in spring
- Apricot - 1, you’ll find it on the Apricot Tree in spring
- Cauliflower - 1, cultivate in spring
- Parsnip - 2, cultivate in spring
- Blue Jazz - 1, cultivate in spring
- Green Bean - 2, cultivate in spring
- Potato - 2, cultivate in spring
- Garlic - 2, cultivate in spring
- Rhubarb - 1, cultivate in spring
- Kale - 2, cultivate in spring
- Sunfish - 1, river fish can be caught in spring or summer
- Eel - 2, ocean fish, can be caught on rainy days of spring or fall
- Fish - 2, any kind of fish will do (just leave the recipes that require any kind of fish to be the last ones that you cook - you don’t want the game taking the specific fish randomly, that you will later need for some other recipes)
- Fiddlehead Fern - 1, forage in summer
- Tomato - 6, cultivate in summer
- Blueberry - 2, cultivate in summer
- Radish - 2, cultivate in summer
- Corn - 2, cultivate in summer or fall
- Poppy - 1, cultivate in summer
- Melon - 2, cultivate in summer
- Hot Pepper - 2, cultivate in summer
- Red Cabbage - 3, cultivate in summer
- Rainbow Trout - 1, river and mountain lake fish, can be caught in sunny summer days
- Blackberry - 2, forage in fall
- Common Mushroom - 3, forage in fall or spring
- Hazelnut - 4, forage in fall
- Wild Plum - 2, forage in fall
- Apple - 1, you’ll find it on the Apple Tree in fall
- Amaranth - 1, cultivate in fall
- Artichoke - 2, cultivate in fall
- Beet - 1, cultivate in fall
- Yam - 2, cultivate in fall
- Cranberries - 4, cultivate in fall
- Bok Choy - 1, cultivate in fall
- Pumpkin - 3, cultivate in fall
- Eggplant - 2, cultivate in fall
- Salmon - 1, river fish, can be caught in fall
- Winter Root - 1, forage in winter
- Squid - 1, ocean fish, can be caught in winter
- Sea Cucumber - 1, ocean fish, can be caught in fall or winter
- Tuna - 1, ocean fish, can be caught in summer or winter
- Sardine - 2, ocean fish, can be caught in winter, spring or fall
Simply collect everything from the list, put all of it in your fridge (well, everything won’t fit in your fridge, but you can separate it into a few groups of items, remember that you can use items that you have in your bag for cooking as well) and start cooking right away.
If there are only a few specific dishes left that you haven’t cooked yet, you can find them in the another gamespedition entry alongside with the ingredients required for cooking.
Happy cooking, Gourmet Chef!
