Boiled Crab

Boiled Crab is a simple Uncommon-tier meat dish cooked at the Cooking Fire. A single Crab Meat produces one serving of a 15-minute Maximum Health buff.

Summary

Recipe

How Food Buffs Work

Windrose allows up to two active food buffs at once, which must come from different dishes. Eating Boiled Crab while another uncommon-tier dish is active replaces one of the two slots. Pairing Boiled Crab with a different-stat dish (for example, a Vitality food alongside a Strength food) gives the full benefit of both slots.

Ingredient Sourcing

Boiled Crab is the cheapest cooked dish in the game, needing a single Crab Meat and no upgraded station. That makes it the natural first recipe to learn the moment you place a Cooking Fire.

How It Compares

Boiled Crab raises only maximum health, so it pairs well with a Strength dish in the second buff slot. The table below shows where it sits next to the other early crab and starter recipes.

Tips

• Slot it alongside a Strength dish such as Spicy Skewered Crab so both buff slots are working at once.

• Because it crafts instantly and weighs only 0.3, it is a cheap way to pad your effective health pool before a Foothills run.

• Once you can build a Cutting Table, graduate to Rare dishes for the longer 30-minute buffs; Boiled Crab stays useful as a quick top-up.

See Also

• Cooking - the crafting system this recipe belongs to

• Cooking Recipes - full recipe index

• Food - food category overview

Verified Recipe Data

Ingredients

Best Use

The first cooked recipe most players encounter. Crab Meat is abundant on starter beaches, so this is the baseline HP food before stat-boosting recipes unlock.

Flavor

"Five minutes ago, it was scuttling along the shore."

Game Data

Properties

Crafted By

Crafted at: Cooking Fire