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Overview

Cooking in Pokemon Pokopia lets you prepare food that restores PP and powers up your Ditto transformation moves. The cooking system revolves around four pieces of equipment, each dedicated to a specific food category. Cooking is unlocked during the Rocky Ridges storyline and becomes an essential part of progression, as powered-up moves are required to access new materials and areas.

Unlocking Cooking

Cooking becomes available after rescuing Chef Dente during the Rocky Ridges storyline. To reach this point:

Bread Oven item from Pokemon Pokopia used for baking Bread recipes

Reach the Great Trainer Rank in your Pokedex to unlock the Rocky Ridges gate.
Enter Rocky Ridges through the green gate in the northwest of Withered Wasteland.
Follow the main questline until you encounter a mysterious Pokemon stuck in a barrel.
Free Chef Dente from the barrel to trigger the cooking tutorial.

During and after the tutorial, you learn meal preparation and gain access to cooking equipment. Chef Dente's additional requests unlock further cooking tools.

Equipment

There are four cooking tools, each producing a different food category:

Equipment	Food Type	How to Unlock	Fire Required
Chopping Board	Salads	Available from the start of the cooking tutorial	No
Bread Oven	Bread	Unlocked through Chef Dente's requests; requires a Burn-type Pokemon to light initially	Yes (built-in)
Cooking Pot	Soups	Unlocked during the Rocky Ridges storyline	Yes (place over lit fire or Cooking Stove)
Frying Pan	Hamburger Steaks	Gained during the Chef Dente questline	Yes (place over lit fire or Cooking Stove)

The Cooking Pot and Frying Pan must be placed over a lit fire or a Cooking Stove to function. You need a Pokemon with the Burn specialty (such as Torkoal) to light fires initially.

Recipe Categories

Each piece of equipment produces recipes in its own category. Recipes consist of a base ingredient plus additional items. Some advanced recipes also require a Pokemon with a specific specialty to be present.

Salads (Chopping Board)

Salads use Leaves as their base ingredient and power up the Leafage move. After eating a salad, Leafage grows more tiles of tall grass per use and can also produce moss and duckweed on appropriate surfaces.

Recipe	Ingredients	Specialty Required	Flavor
Simple Salad	Leaf x 2	None	Neutral
Leppa Salad	Leaf + Leppa Berry	None	Sweet
Seaweed Salad	Leaf + Seaweed	None	Bitter
Shredded Salad	Leaf x 2	Chop (e.g., Scyther)	Sour
Crushed-Berry Salad	Leaf + Chesto Berry	Crush (e.g., Graveler)	Dry
Crouton Salad	Leaf + Bread	None	Spicy

Bread (Bread Oven)

Bread uses Wheat as its base ingredient and powers up the Cut move. After eating bread, Cut gains a larger area of effect and a charge attack for cutting harder materials, including metal.

Recipe	Ingredients	Specialty Required	Flavor
Simple Bread	Wheat x 3	None	Neutral
Leppa Bread	Wheat x 2 + Leppa Berry	None	Sour
Carrot Bread	Wheat x 2 + Carrot	None	Spicy
Recycled Bread	Wheat x 2 + Bread	Recycle	Bitter
Fluffy Bread	Wheat x 2 + Pecha Berry	Water (e.g., Squirtle)	Sweet
Bread Bowl	Wheat x 2 + Soup	Burn	Spicy

Soups (Cooking Pot)

Soups use Fresh Water (Bottles of Water) as their base ingredient and power up the Water Gun move. After eating soup, Water Gun sprays a wider area of tiles per use.

Frying Pan item from Pokemon Pokopia used for making Hamburger Steak recipes

Recipe	Ingredients	Specialty Required	Flavor
Simple Soup	Bottle of Water x 3	None	Neutral
Mushroom Soup	Bottle of Water + Mushroom x 2	None	Dry
Seaweed Soup	Bottle of Water + Seaweed x 2	None	Bitter
Electrifying Soup	Bottle of Water x 3	Generate (e.g., Pikachu, Magnemite)	Spicy
Healthy Soup	Bottle of Water + Bean + Leaf	None	Spicy
Flavorful Soup	Bottle of Water + Aspear Berry + Hamburger Steak	None	Sour

Hamburger Steaks (Frying Pan)

Hamburger Steaks use Beans as their base ingredient and power up Rock Smash and Rollout. After eating a hamburger steak, Rock Smash can break harder surfaces including iron ore, gold ore, and Pokemetal fragments.

Recipe	Ingredients	Specialty Required	Flavor
Simple Hamburger Steak	Bean x 4	None	Neutral
Tomato Hamburger Steak	Bean x 3 + Tomato	None	Sour
Mushroom Hamburger Steak	Bean x 3 + Mushroom	None	Dry
Potato Hamburger Steak	Bean x 3 + Potato	None	Sweet
Bitter Hamburger Steak	Bean x 2 + Rawst Berry + Lum Berry	None	Bitter
Vibrant Hamburger Steak	Bean x 2 + Salad + Potato	None	Spicy

Move Power-Ups

Each food category powers up a specific Ditto move. Eating food also fully restores the PP of all your moves.

Food Type	Move Powered Up	Effect
Salad	Leafage	Grows more tiles of tall grass per use; can produce moss and duckweed
Bread	Cut	Larger area of effect; can cut harder materials like metal
Soup	Water Gun	Sprays a wider area of tiles per use
Hamburger Steak	Rock Smash / Rollout	Breaks harder ores (iron, gold, Pokemetal); faster block destruction

Flavors and Comfort

Every recipe produces food with one of five flavors: Sweet, Sour, Bitter, Spicy, or Dry. Flavors are important because they affect Pokemon Comfort Levels. Each Pokemon has a favorite flavor listed in their Pokedex entry. Feeding a Pokemon food that matches its preferred flavor increases its comfort more than a mismatched flavor.

Flavor	Example Recipes
Sweet	Leppa Salad, Fluffy Bread, Potato Hamburger Steak
Sour	Shredded Salad, Leppa Bread, Tomato Hamburger Steak, Flavorful Soup
Bitter	Seaweed Salad, Recycled Bread, Seaweed Soup, Bitter Hamburger Steak
Spicy	Crouton Salad, Carrot Bread, Bread Bowl, Electrifying Soup, Healthy Soup, Vibrant Hamburger Steak
Dry	Crushed-Berry Salad, Mushroom Soup, Mushroom Hamburger Steak

Specialty Requirements

Six recipes require a Pokemon with a specific specialty to be present during cooking:

Specialty	Recipe	Pokemon Examples
Chop	Shredded Salad	Scyther
Crush	Crushed-Berry Salad	Graveler
Water	Fluffy Bread	Squirtle, Lapras
Recycle	Recycled Bread	Various Recycle-specialty Pokemon
Generate	Electrifying Soup	Pikachu, Magnemite
Burn	Bread Bowl	Torkoal, Charmander, and other Burn-specialty Pokemon

Tips

Always cook before going on a gathering run. Powered-up moves make material collection significantly faster.
Start growing Beans as soon as you unlock Rototiller. Hamburger Steaks are critical for accessing iron and gold ore with Rock Smash.
The Bread Bowl recipe requires both the Burn specialty and a pre-cooked Soup. Make Soup first, then combine it with Wheat at the Bread Oven with a Burn-specialty Pokemon present.
Check each Pokemon's favorite flavor in the Pokedex before cooking food for them. Matching flavors gives the best Comfort Level boost.
The Chopping Board is the only cooking tool that does not require fire. You can make salads anywhere without needing a flame or Cooking Stove.
Advanced recipes with specialty requirements produce stronger move buffs than basic versions. Prioritize befriending Chop, Crush, Generate, and Burn-specialty Pokemon to unlock the full recipe list.

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