Overview
Cooking is a crafting system in Pokemon Pokopia unlocked in Rocky Ridges after freeing Chef Dente from a barrel. Chef Dente, a culinary Greedent, teaches the player how to cook and provides initial recipes. Cooked food has two primary functions: it fully restores PP and temporarily powers up a specific move, expanding its range and letting it break through tougher materials. Gifting food that matches a Pokemon's favorite flavor increases their comfort level, which contributes to raising the area's Environment Level.
Cooking becomes increasingly important in later areas like Sparkling Skylands, where stronger move variants are needed to break through harder blocks and clear larger areas. While the main story can technically be completed without cooking, it significantly speeds up progress and is essential for optimizing resource gathering.
Cooking Stations
Each recipe category requires a specific cooking station. Three of the four stations must be placed over a fire source (campfire or cooking stove) and lit by a Pokemon with the Burn specialty.
Station | Recipe Type | Move Powered Up | Fire Required? | How to Obtain |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Chopping Board | Salads | Leafage | No | Place and use immediately |
Bread Oven | Breads | Cut | Yes (Burn specialty) | Craft at Workbench |
Cooking Pot | Soups | Water Gun | Yes (campfire underneath) | Craft at Workbench |
Frying Pan | Hamburger Steaks | Rock Smash | Yes (campfire underneath) | Craft at Workbench |
How to Cook
Approach a cooking station and press A to open the cooking menu.
Add the base ingredient specific to that station (Leaf for salads, Wheat for bread, Fresh Water for soups, Bean for hamburger steaks).
Fill the remaining ingredient slots with additional ingredients.
Confirm to begin cooking. If you have cooked a recipe before, the outcome appears on the left side of the menu.
The recipe outcome depends on the combination of ingredients used. Having a Pokemon with a relevant specialty nearby (as a follower or standing close) can change the result, producing variant recipes with different flavors.
Salad Recipes (Chopping Board)
Base ingredient: Leaf. Eating salads powers up Leafage, expanding its range so you can grow grass and plants over a larger area.
Recipe | Ingredients | Flavor | Special Condition |
|---|---|---|---|
Simple Salad | 1 Leaf + 1 ingredient | Varies | None |
Seaweed Salad | 1 Leaf + 1 Seaweed | Bitter | None |
Crouton Salad | 1 Leaf + 1 Bread | Spicy | None |
Leppa Salad | 1 Leaf + 1 Leppa Berry | Sweet | None |
Shredded Salad | 1 Leaf + 1 ingredient | Sour | Chop-specialty Pokemon nearby |
Crushed Berry Salad | 1 Leaf + 1 Chesto Berry | Dry | Crush-specialty Pokemon nearby |
Bread Recipes (Bread Oven)
Base ingredient: Wheat + 2 additional ingredients. Eating bread powers up Cut, letting you chop trees and harvest logs more efficiently. The Bread Oven must be lit by a Burn-specialty Pokemon before use.
Recipe | Ingredients | Flavor | Special Condition |
|---|---|---|---|
Simple Bread | 1 Wheat + 2 ingredients | Varies | None |
Carrot Bread | 1 Wheat + 1 Carrot + 1 ingredient | Spicy | None |
Leppa Bread | 1 Wheat + 1 Leppa Berry + 1 ingredient | Sour | None |
Bread Bowl | 1 Wheat + 1 Soup + 1 ingredient | Spicy | Burn-specialty Pokemon nearby |
Soup Recipes (Cooking Pot)
Base ingredient: Fresh Water + 2 additional ingredients. Eating soup powers up Water Gun, increasing its spray area and water output. Fresh Water is one of the trickier ingredients to obtain; it can be purchased from the PC Shop at rebuilt Pokemon Centers.
Recipe | Ingredients | Flavor | Special Condition |
|---|---|---|---|
Simple Soup | 1 Fresh Water + 2 ingredients | Varies | None |
Seaweed Soup | 1 Fresh Water + 1 Seaweed + 1 ingredient | Bitter | None |
Healthy Soup | 1 Fresh Water + 1 Bean + 1 Leaf | Spicy | None |
Mushroom Soup | 1 Fresh Water + 1 Mushroom + 1 ingredient | Dry | None |
Hamburger Steak Recipes (Frying Pan)
Base ingredient: Bean + 3 additional ingredients. Eating hamburger steaks powers up Rock Smash, letting you punch through tougher terrain and break harder rocks. These are the most ingredient-intensive recipes.
Recipe | Ingredients | Flavor | Special Condition |
|---|---|---|---|
Simple Hamburger Steak | 1 Bean + 3 ingredients | Varies | None |
Tomato Hamburger Steak | 1 Bean + 1 Tomato + 2 ingredients | Sour | None |
Potato Hamburger Steak | 1 Bean + 1 Potato + 2 ingredients | Sweet | None |
Mushroom Hamburger Steak | 1 Bean + 1 Mushroom + 2 ingredients | Dry | None |
Ingredient Sources
Most cooking ingredients are obtained through farming, foraging, or purchasing.
Ingredient | Source |
|---|---|
Leaf | Pull from plants; use Cut on tall grass |
Wheat | Grow from seeds via farming; found wild in Rocky Ridges |
Fresh Water | Purchase from PC Shop at rebuilt Pokemon Centers |
Bean | Grow from seeds via farming; found wild in Withered Wasteland |
Leppa Berry | Harvest from Leppa Berry trees; found in all regions |
Seaweed | Gather from beaches and underwater areas |
Mushroom | Found in caves and shaded areas |
Carrot | Foraged in various areas |
Tomato | Grow from seeds; found wild in Bleak Beach |
Potato | Grow from seeds; found in Rocky Ridges |
Chesto Berry | Harvest from Chesto Berry trees |
Honey | Obtained from Pokemon with the Gather Honey specialty |
Bread | Cook at Bread Oven first, then use as ingredient |
Soup | Cook at Cooking Pot first, then use as ingredient |
Food Flavors and Pokemon Preferences
Every cooked food item has one of five flavors: Sweet, Sour, Spicy, Bitter, or Dry. Each Pokemon has a preferred flavor. Gifting food matching their preference increases their comfort level more than mismatched flavors. Higher comfort levels contribute to raising the area's Environment Level and unlock additional requests from that Pokemon.
Feeding Mosslax provides daily buffs based on the food's dominant flavor. Spicy food boosts Pokemon spawn rates; Dry food increases rare feather visibility; Sweet food improves artifact discovery.
Nearby Pokemon Effects
Having a Pokemon with a specific specialty nearby (following you or standing close to the cooking station) changes the recipe outcome. This is the only way to produce certain variant recipes:
Specialty | Effect on Cooking | Example Pokemon |
|---|---|---|
Chop | Produces Shredded variants (Sour flavor) | Scyther, Pinsir, Heracross |
Crush | Produces Crushed variants (Dry flavor) | Onix, Graveler, Pawmo |
Burn | Produces toasted/baked variants (Spicy flavor) | Charmander, Magmar, Torkoal |
Party (Chef Dente only) | Increases meal output from same ingredients | Chef Dente |
Chef Dente's Feast: Time to Party!
The "Time to Party!" Important Request in Rocky Ridges is a major story event that combines cooking, music, and social mechanics. After unlocking Chef Dente and DJ Rotom:
Clear an area of volcanic ash for Chef Dente's large cooking pot.
Provide DJ Rotom with a CD (found in the cleared area).
Recruit Ludicolo by building an Uplifting Duckweed habitat near a pond and using powered-up Leafage to clear weeds from water.
Bring a Large Lost Relic to Professor Tangrowth.
Craft Party Platters from Iron Ingots and fill each with a cooked meal (five meals total).
Gather bulk ingredients: 15 Beans, 15 Leppa Berries, 15 Wheat, 5 Honey.
Bring everything to Chef Dente's pot with one Party-specialty Pokemon and four additional Pokemon.
After a short wait, the feast triggers a celebration cutscene where Volcanion appears on top of the volcano.
Unlocking New Recipes
Pokedex milestones: New cooking recipes unlock every 10 Pokemon registered in the Pokedex.
Golden Pokeballs: Found in debris and glowing blocks across all regions; may contain recipe scrolls.
Dream Islands: Abandoned structures on Dream Islands contain unique recipes.
Pokemon requests: Completing requests from befriended Pokemon sometimes rewards new recipes.
Environment Level: Raising a zone's Environment Level unlocks new recipes in the PC Shop.
Daily Shop rotation: Some recipes appear as limited daily offerings in the Pokemon Center shop.