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Cooking Guide
April 27, 2026 at 04:43 PM
Cleaned punctuation and AI-style phrasing (2026-04-27)
Cooking is a core gameplay system in Pokemon Pokopia that allows players to prepare meals from gathered ingredients. Eating cooked food fully restores PP and powers up a specific Ditto transformation move, upgrading its range, power, or unlocking additional effects. There are four food types (Salad, Soup, Bread, and Hamburger Steak), each with six recipe variants, for a total of 24 recipes. This guide covers everything from unlocking cooking to mastering every recipe.
Cooking is unlocked during the Rocky Ridges storyline when you rescue Chef Dente, a special Greedent trapped inside a barrel. Use the Cut ability on the chains binding him, and he will join your island. Once freed, Chef Dente teaches you how to cook and gives you your first Chopping Board.
Before you can cook, you need to unlock the individual cooking stations. Each station is associated with a specific food type, and some stations require additional setup like a heat source or a Pokemon with the Burn specialty.
Each food type requires a specific cooking station. Some stations also require a heat source (a powered stove or campfire) to function.
Station | Food Type | Move Powered Up | Heat Source Required? | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Chopping Board | Salad | No | First station unlocked; given by Chef Dente | |
Cooking Pot | Soup | Yes (stove or campfire) | Place on a powered stove or next to a campfire | |
Bread Oven | Bread | Requires Burn-specialty Pokemon | Always needs a Burn Pokemon to operate | |
Frying Pan | Hamburger Steak | Yes (stove or campfire) | Last station unlocked |
Place a Storage Box next to any cooking station so you can pull ingredients directly from storage without carrying everything in your inventory.
Approach a cooking station and interact with it.
Select your base ingredient (Leaf for salads, Fresh Water for soups, Wheat for bread, Bean for steaks).
Add additional ingredients. Slots marked "Any" accept any food item, including berries, vegetables, or even other cooked dishes.
If the recipe requires a Pokemon specialty (such as Chop or Crush), that Pokemon must be nearby or following you.
Confirm and watch the cooking animation. The meal is added to your inventory.
Eat the meal to fully restore PP and temporarily power up the associated Ditto move.
Food power-ups are temporary. A yellow meter appears on screen and depletes as you use the powered-up move. Once the meter runs out, the move returns to its base strength.
Salads power up Leafage, increasing the grass-pulling range and enabling the ability to create duckweed on water surfaces and pull moss from rocks. Salads are prepared on a Chopping Board with no heat source required.
Recipe | Ingredients | Specialty Required | Flavor |
|---|---|---|---|
Leaf x1, Any x1 | None | None | |
Leaf x1, Leppa Berry x1 | None | Sweet | |
None | Bitter | ||
Leaf x1, Any x1 | Chop | Sour | |
Leaf x1, Chesto Berry x1 | Crush | Dry | |
Leaf x1, Simple Bread x1 | None | Spicy |
Soups power up Water Gun, extending the spray range so it covers more tiles per use. Soups require a Cooking Pot placed on a powered stove or campfire.
Recipe | Ingredients | Specialty Required | Flavor |
|---|---|---|---|
Fresh Water x1, Any x2 | None | None | |
Fresh Water x1, Seaweed x1, Any x1 | None | Bitter | |
Fresh Water x1, Cave Mushrooms x1, Any x1 | None | Dry | |
Fresh Water x1, Any x2 | Generate | Spicy | |
Fresh Water x1, Bean x1, Leaf x1 | None | Spicy | |
Fresh Water x1, Aspear Berry x1, Any Hamburger Steak x1 | None | Sour |
Bread powers up Cut, allowing distance cutting and the ability to slice through metal grating. The Bread Oven always requires a Pokemon with the Burn specialty (such as Charmander, Charmeleon, Charizard, Torchic, or Combusken) to operate. Some bread recipes require an additional specialty on top of the Burn requirement.
Recipe | Ingredients | Additional Specialty | Flavor |
|---|---|---|---|
Wheat x1, Any x2 | None (Burn only) | None | |
Wheat x1, Leppa Berry x1, Any x1 | None (Burn only) | Sour | |
Wheat x1, Fresh Carrot x1, Any x1 | None (Burn only) | Spicy | |
Wheat x1, Simple Bread x1, Any x1 | Recycle | Bitter | |
Wheat x1, Pecha Berry x1, Any x1 | Water | Sweet | |
Wheat x1, Any Soup x1, Any x1 | Burn | Spicy |
The Bread Bowl is one of the most versatile recipes. It upgrades Cut to ranged and metal-cutting, and it is also the item needed to teach Gyarados the Waterfall move.
Hamburger steaks power up Rock Smash (and Rollout as well), enabling punching through harder materials including granite, stone, steel, crystal, and ore blocks. This upgrade is essential for mining Iron Ore, Copper Ore, Gold Ore, and Pokemetal. All hamburger steak recipes use Bean as the base ingredient.
Recipe | Ingredients | Specialty Required | Flavor |
|---|---|---|---|
Bean x1, Any x3 | None | None | |
Bean x1, Cave Mushrooms x1, Any x2 | None | Dry | |
Bean x1, Tomato x1, Any x2 | None | Sour | |
Bean x1, Potato x1, Any x2 | None | Sweet | |
Bean x1, Rawst Berry x1, Lum Berry x1, Any x1 | None | Bitter | |
Bean x1, Any Salad x1, Potato x1, Any x1 | None | None |
The Potato Hamburger Steak and the lively Hamburger Steak provide a stronger Rock Smash boost than the other variants, noted in-game as "powers up Rock Smash a lot." The lively Hamburger Steak requires a pre-made Salad as an ingredient, so craft the salad first.
Every dish and many raw ingredients carry one of five flavors: Sweet, Spicy, Dry, Bitter, or Sour. Some basic recipes have no flavor profile. Gifting food that matches a Pokemon's preferred flavor raises their Comfort Level significantly. Each Pokemon's favorite flavor is listed in their Pokedex entry.
Flavor | Salad | Soup | Bread | Hamburger Steak |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Sweet | - | |||
Spicy | - | |||
Dry | - | |||
Bitter | ||||
Sour | ||||
None | Simple / lively Hamburger Steak |
Ingredient | Flavor | Source |
|---|---|---|
None | Tall grass patches in Withered Wasteland; Cut on grass and vines | |
None | Vending machines; natural water sources | |
Dry | Farmed in Rocky Ridges and Sparkling Skylands | |
Sweet | Farmed in Rocky Ridges and Sparkling Skylands | |
Tomato | Sour | Farmed in Sparkling Skylands |
Potato | Bitter | Farmed in Rocky Ridges or Sparkling Skylands |
Fresh Carrot | Spicy | Found in Rocky Ridges; sometimes from random sprouts |
Bitter | Shorelines at Bleak Beach | |
Dry | Inside caves, primarily in Rocky Ridges | |
None | Sparkling flower beds; Combee (Litter specialty) | |
Leppa Berry | None | Headbutt berry trees (all areas) |
Chesto Berry | Dry | Headbutt berry trees (various areas) |
Pecha Berry | Sweet | Headbutt berry trees (various areas) |
Rawst Berry | Bitter | Headbutt berry trees (various areas) |
Aspear Berry | Sour | Headbutt berry trees (various areas) |
Lum Berry | None | Headbutt berry trees (rarer find) |
Several drinks and special food items cannot be cooked but serve unique purposes. Beverages are purchased from vending machines found across the islands.
Item | Flavor | Effect |
|---|---|---|
Soda Pop | Dry | Creates seawater when spit out by a Pokemon |
Moomoo Milk Coffee | Sweet | Creates muddy water when spit out |
Roserade Tea | Bitter | Creates a hot spring when spit out |
Chili Sauce | Spicy | Creates lava when spit out |
Bruised Berry | None | Restores a small amount of PP; given by Chef Dente |
Common Candy | Sweet | Restores some PP when eaten |
Rare Candy | Sweet | Restores a lot of PP when eaten |
After waking Mosslax during the Brighten Things Up quest at Bleak Beach, you can offer food to Mosslax once per day at the Gourmet's Offering altar. The dominant flavor of the food determines the buff granted. Cooked food provides stronger effects than raw ingredients. Buffs last until 5:00 AM the next day.
Flavor Offered | Buff Effect |
|---|---|
Sweet | Boosts Ancient Artifact discovery rates |
Spicy | Increases Pokemon spawn rates in habitats |
Dry | Rainbow Feathers and Silver Feathers spawn more frequently |
Bitter | Increases rare item drop rates |
Sour | Improves shop inventory quality |
None (Neutral) | Raises friendship rate with all Pokemon |
The Dry flavor buff is particularly valuable for players hunting Legendary Pokemon, since Rainbow Feathers and Silver Feathers are needed to craft the Clear Bell and Tidal Bell for summoning Ho-Oh and Lugia.
During the Time to Party! quest in Rocky Ridges, Chef Dente leads a special group cooking session using a Party Cooking Pot. The party curry recipe requires:
The Party Cooking Pot must be placed down in Rocky Ridges before the curry can be prepared. Chef Dente's Party specialty doubles the yield when he cooks alongside you.
Cook with Chef Dente nearby for a chance to double the amount of food produced. His Party specialty increases cooking yields.
Feed Pokemon their favorite flavor food to significantly increase their Comfort Level. Check the Pokedex to see each Pokemon's preferred flavor.
"Any" ingredient slots can be filled with any food item, including berries, vegetables, or even other cooked dishes.
Always carry hamburger steaks when heading to mining areas. The Rock Smash upgrade is essential for breaking ore blocks.
The Flavorful Soup requires a pre-made Hamburger Steak, and the lively Hamburger Steak requires a pre-made Salad. Craft the base item first before cooking these advanced recipes.
Stock up on Beans early. They grow in Rocky Ridges and Sparkling Skylands and are the base for all Hamburger Steak recipes.
Place Storage Boxes next to every cooking station to avoid inventory juggling.
Offer Dry-flavor food to Mosslax when farming for Rainbow and Silver Feathers needed for the Legendary bells.
The Bread Bowl upgrades Cut to ranged and metal-cutting, and it is also needed to teach Gyarados the Waterfall move. It is one of the most important recipes in the game.
Raw ingredients and berries can be eaten directly to restore some PP, but cooking them into meals provides a full PP restore along with a move power-up. Always cook when possible.
