Avowed: Complete Cooking Guide

Cooking is an activity that's easy to miss in Avowed, but provides great dividends if you invest into it. You can pick up all sorts of fruits, vegetables, and other forms of raw produce, as well as complete dishes by exploring the world. Cooking's main purpose here is to restore Health and Essence (Mana), the two main resources of combat. However, you don't need to solely rely on scavenged food, as cooking can give you everything you need.

In this guide, we'll go over how to cook in Avowed, what you can cook, and why you should.

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How to start cooking in Avowed

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When you are camping in Avowed, you can find a cooking stand that Kai will almost always stand next to. This is not just a prop item. You can interact with it anytime you're camping, and this takes you directly to the cooking menu.

There's no method of cooking outside the camp in Avowed that we're aware of.

What do you need to cook food?

Cooking requires raw ingredients that you can either forage from around the world, or buy from various reagent vendors. The very first vendor of this type is Lynna (who also sells you the Intimidating Feline Codpiece Treasure Map), who can be found in the market booths next to the Claviger's Landing piers. There are numerous other food item vendors like this, e.g. a fisherman in The Catch.

Generally, all food items will be categorized under one of the following types:

• Prepared Food (not used in further cooking)
• Cooked/Raw Fish
• Cooked/Raw Meat
• Produce - Fruit
• Produce - Graine & Fillers
• Produce - Vegetable
• Alcohol
• Mushroom
• Animal Products (i.e. Milk, Egg, and so on)
• Spoiled Food

Food items, whether raw or prepared, are weightless in Avowed. All sorts of food are therefore worth collecting and hoarding in your inventory, including spoiled food, which is used in making alcoholic beverages.

Some food items require some specific ingredients, while other complex cooking recipes will let you select different items under a broad category. There's no quality tiers between these ingredients; a stew made with apples is the same as that made with cabbages.

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All cooking recipes in Avowed

There's no prerequisite to cooking in Avowed, other than the necessity of the indicated ingredients in each recipe. The exception is a few super-recipes that require upgrades in the the Survivalist perk (Ranger ability tree).

Note that food does not regenerate health as fast as potions during combat.

All Pure Health Regeneration Food in Avowed

Item	Recipe	Effects	Perk
Bleathorn Cheese Wedge x 6	Bleathorn Cheese Wheel	10 Health (x6)	None
Bleathorn Cheese Wheel	Raw Bleathorn Milk	70 Health	None
Cooked Alabasker	Raw Alabasker	20 Health	None
Cooked Crested Turbot	Raw Crested Turbot	70 Health	None
Cooked Lashwing x4	Raw Lashwing	70 Health x4	None
Cooked Rabbit Bits	Raw Rabbit Bits	40 Health	None
Cured Bovigrand Loin	Raw Bovigrand Loin	150 Health	None
Cured Rusksnout Loin	Raw Rusksnout Loin	150 Health	None
Mari Crudia x8	Vegetable, 2x Raw/Cooked Fish	30 Health (x8)	None
Salted Trout	Raw Trout	70 Health	None
Taar Loaf x5	Florian Rice	15 Health (x5)	None
Basted Beast x2	3x Cooked Meat, Health Potion	750 Health (x2)	Survivalist II

All Pure Essence Regeneration Food in Avowed

Item	Recipe	Effects	Perk
All's-Leaf-Tea	Mushroom, Fruit, Vegetable	150 Essence, +20% Max Essence	None
Arrack	Fruit, Vegetable	100 Essence	None
Pepper x5	Bunch of Peppers	5 Essence	None
Enutanik Pickles x3	Vegetable, Vegetable/Fruit, Rotten Food	500 Essence (x3)	Survivalist II

All Hybrid (Health + Essence) Regeneration Food in Avowed

Item	Recipe	Effects	Perk
Mariner's Porridge	Cooked Fish/Raw Animal Product, Vegtable/Grain	70 Health, 70 Essence	None
Spiced Beetle Sausage	Beelte Jerky, Cooked/Raw Meat, Cooked/Raw Meat/Vegetable/Fruit/Rotten Fruit	50 Health, 50 Essence	None
Spiced Rusksnout Sausage	Cured Rusksnout Roast/Loin, Cooked/Raw Meat, Cooked/Raw Meat/Vegetable/Fruit/Rotten Fruit	50 Health, 50 Essence	None
Stew	Cooked Meat, Vegetable, Cooked Meat/Cooked Fish/Animal Product	70 Health, 70 Essence	None
Fondue x2	Animal Product, Alcoholic Drink, Cooked Meat or Produce	200 Health, 200 Essence (x2)	Survivalist II
Pargrunen Pemican x2	Cooked Meat, Fruit	250 Health, 250 Essence (x2)	Survivalist II
Savory Skewer x3	Cooked Meat, Fruit	100 Health, 100 Essence (x3)	Survivalist II

All Food items that Grants Unique Buffs in Avowed

Item	Recipe	Effects	Perk
Pargrun Ale x2	Grain/Filler, Vegetable, Rotten Food	+20% Max Health	None
Beetle Pie	Beetle Jerky/Spiced Beetle Sausage, Grain/Filler, Vegetable	+2 Might, +10% Damage	None
Darkest Rauatian Chocolate Cookie	2x Grain/Filler, Honey/Fruit	+1 Perception, +1 Dexterity, +10% Movement Speed	None
Fine Aedyran Mead	Honey, Rotten Food	+2 Perception, +10% Max Essence	None
Florian Rice Wine	Floriance Rice, Rotten Food	+20% Max Stamina	None
Fruitful Wine	3x Fruit, Rotten Food	+2 Constitution, +5% Damage Reduction	None
Grog x2	Alcoholic Drink, Fruit	Explained below	None
Ivory Spinner and Sporeling Fire Pot x3	Spider Leg, Dank Spores/Wild Mushroom Cap, Krakenhorn, Hunt's Hair, Vegetable/Grain	Twice as fast Health and Essence regeneration from food	None
Murkbrew	3x Mushroom	+2 Intellect, +10% Max Essence	None
Paradisian Trout Pie	Salted/Raw Trout, Vegetable, Grain/Filler	+1 Intellect, +1 Resolve, +10% Max Essence	None
Saucco	Springberries, Vegetable, Rotten Food	+1 Might, +1 Constitution	None
Tani Cream x2	Palm Stone, Raw Bleathorn Milk	+2 Dexterity, +5% Max Stamina	None
Wild Mushroom Stew	Wild Mushroom Cap, 2x Mushroom OR Mushroom + Vegetable	+2 Resolve, +5% Max Stamina	None
Aperitif x3	3x Alcoholic Drink	Greatly increases regeneration rate for 5 seconds	Survivalist III
Charming Libation x2	2x Alcoholic Drink, Essence Potion	+6 to all Attributes while in conversations	Survivalist III
Mulled Musketeer	Alcoholic Drink, Mushroom, Fruit	+40% Action and Reload Speed	Survivalist III
Strangebrew x3	2x Monster Part, Health Potion, Rotten Food	Revives downed companions, Resets Second Wind	Survivalist III
The Black Broth	Raw/Cooked Meat, Raw/Cooked Fish, Monster Part, Essence Potion	+5% Critical Chance, +50% Critical Damage, +10% Attack Speed, +25% Stun	Survivalist III
Wizard's Mind Bomb	Mushroom, Essence Potion, Rotten Food	Grimoire Spells have 25% decreased Essence cost and 25% shortened Cooldown	Survivalist III

The two food items that need to be highlighted further are curants to dispel various effects. Grog is the most potent one in this regard. It cures all Accumulations (Elemental, Poison, Bleed), and also restores health based on how much of the Accumulation was remaining. Additionally, Grog grants +70% Resistance towards all Accumulations temporarily.

Springberries can also cure Poison and Bleed Accumulation, but do not have the other bonus effects of Grog.

Note that this is not an exhaustive compendium of all consumables. There is, for example, consumables like Fresh Water (grants 25% movement speed) that grant you meaningful buffs but cannot be cooked.

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What's the best healing food to cook in the early game of Avowed?

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If you don't want to chug potions, there's no easy way to regenerate health in the first few hours of Avowed, other than fast-traveling to a camp. You are mostly stuck to the food you've picked up along the way. However, you can indeed do some cooking to get cheap regeneration.

The most cost-effective is Cooked Lashwing, as each Lashwing can give you four portions, worth 70 health each. You can get a bunch of Lashwing from fish racks in Dawnshore, as well as from the fisherman merchant at The Catch.

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