If you want to make food in Grand Blue, Cooking is one of the life skills you can work on. You can prepare different meals that restore HP and, in some cases, give you useful buffs for activities like mining, farming, fishing, or combat.
To start Cooking, you need to head to Maple Village and enter the mansion. You’ll find a kitchen inside with a Cooking Station. Once you interact with it, you can either add your ingredients manually or use the Cookbook to select a recipe you have already unlocked.
In this guide, I’ll go through the available Cooking recipes, their ingredients, buffs, Cooking times, and EXP rewards. I’ll also explain the Cooking skill trees, level milestones, and Rebirth skills so you can decide where to spend your points.
Grand Blue Cooking Guide – Recipes, Skill Tree & Rebirth
Cooking is available at the kitchen inside the mansion in Maple Village.
Once you reach the kitchen, look for the Cooking Station and interact with it. You can place ingredients into the station yourself, or press G to open the Cookbook.
The Cookbook shows the recipes you have unlocked. Recipes are unlocked automatically as you gather the ingredients required to make them, so you don’t need to manually unlock each recipe beforehand.
Cooking is useful beyond simply restoring HP. Several meals provide temporary bonuses that can help with other life skills or combat.
Grand Blue Cooking Recipes
Here are the currently listed Cooking recipes and what you need to make each one.
| Food | Rarity | Ingredients | Buff / Effect | Cooking Time | EXP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Miner’s Hash | Uncommon | 1 Egg, 1 Pepper, 2 Potato | Restores 40 HP and gives +10% Mining Fragment Chance for 10 minutes | 12 sec | 13 |
| Grilled Fish | Common | 1 Any Fish | Restores 5% Max HP | 8 sec | 6 |
| Gardener’s Tea | Uncommon | 2 Any Fruit | Restores 20 HP and gives +5% Farming Bonus Crop Chance for 10 minutes | 8 sec | 13 |
| Garden Salad | Uncommon | 1 Cabbage, 1 Carrot, 1 Tomato | Restores 30 HP and reduces Damage Taken by 3% for 5 minutes | 6 sec | 13 |
| Pepper Steak | Uncommon | 2 Pepper, 1 Any Tuna | Restores 50 HP and gives +5% Damage Dealt for 5 minutes | 12 sec | 13 |
| Koi Delicacy | Epic | 1 Yang Koi, 1 Yin Koi | Restores 75 HP and lets you breathe underwater for 1 minute | 18 sec | 26 |
| Fisherman’s Platter | Rare | 1 Lemon, 2 Any Fish | Restores 30 HP and gives +10 Fishing Luck for 10 minutes | 15 sec | 25 |
| Seafood Soup | Uncommon | 2 Any Fish | Restores 40 HP and gives +1.5 HP/s Regen for 3 minutes | 14 sec | 13 |
| Roast Chicken | Uncommon | 1 Raw Chicken | Restores 60 HP and gives -3% Damage Dealt for 5 minutes | 12 sec | 13 |
| Omelette | Uncommon | 2 Egg | Restores 40 HP and gives +3% Damage Dealt for 5 minutes | 8 sec | 13 |
| Bread | Common | 2 Wheat | Restores 75 HP | 20 sec | 6 |
| Vegetable Stew | Uncommon | 3 Any Vegetable | Restores 50 HP and gives -5% Damage Dealt for 5 minutes | 14 sec | 13 |
| Apple Pot Pie | Common | 3 Apple, 1 Wheat | Restores 100 HP and gives -3% Damage Dealt for 5 minutes | 16 sec | 6 |
| Apple Juice | Common | 3 Apple | Restores 60 HP | 10 sec | 6 |
There are also two additional recipes currently listed as TBA, so their ingredients, effects, Cooking times, and EXP rewards have not been revealed yet.
Cooking Materials
Cooking isn’t only about making meals. You can also produce materials from certain ingredients.
Oil
Oil is an Uncommon Cooking material made with 1 Sardine.
The resulting item is described as a flask of oil rendered from sardines. It burns easily and can be used for crafting.
Cooking Skill Tree
The Cooking skill tree gives you several ways to improve your efficiency. You can focus on making the Perfect Window easier to hit, saving ingredients, improving food effects, or speeding up your cooking.
There are four main branches:
- Steady Hand
- Thrifty Cook
- Rich Flavor
- Hot Stove
Each branch contains five normal ranks and a final special skill.
Steady Hand
Steady Hand is focused on making the cooking timing easier to manage.
| Skill | Cost | Effect |
|---|---|---|
| Steady Hand I | 1 | The Perfect Window stays open 10% longer |
| Steady Hand II | 2 | The Perfect Window stays open 10% longer |
| Steady Hand III | 3 | The Perfect Window stays open 10% longer |
| Slow Simmer | 3 | Your food burns 15% later, giving you more time after the Perfect Window closes. Rank 2 increases this to 30% |
| Steady Hand IV | 4 | The Perfect Window stays open 10% longer |
| Steady Hand V | 5 | The Perfect Window stays open 10% longer |
| Chef’s Instinct | 5 | Gives a 25% chance for a merely-good pull to come out Perfect anyway |
If you struggle with the timing mechanic, this is one of the more straightforward branches to invest in. The extra Perfect Window time gives you more room to make a successful pull.
Thrifty Cook
Thrifty Cook focuses on saving ingredients and getting more value from each cooking attempt.
| Skill | Cost | Effect |
|---|---|---|
| Thrifty Cook I | 1 | +4% chance a finished dish returns one ingredient |
| Thrifty Cook II | 2 | +4% chance a finished dish returns one ingredient |
| Thrifty Cook III | 3 | +4% chance a finished dish returns one ingredient |
| Waste Not | 3 | 50% chance that scraping your own burnt pile rescues one ingredient. Rank 2 increases this to 100% |
| Thrifty Cook IV | 4 | +4% chance a finished dish returns one ingredient |
| Thrifty Cook V | 5 | +4% chance a finished dish returns one ingredient |
| Second Helping | 5 | 25% chance a collect cooks a second copy of the dish |
This branch is especially useful if you’re trying to stretch your ingredients further. The final skill, Second Helping, can also give you an extra copy of a dish when you collect it.
Rich Flavor
Rich Flavor improves the effects of the food you cook.
| Skill | Cost | Effect |
|---|---|---|
| Rich Flavor I | 1 | Dishes you cook have 5% stronger food effects |
| Rich Flavor II | 2 | Dishes you cook have 5% stronger food effects |
| Rich Flavor III | 3 | Dishes you cook have 5% stronger food effects |
| Hearty Meals | 3 | Meal buffs from your dishes last 15% longer. Rank 2 increases this to 30% |
| Rich Flavor IV | 4 | Dishes you cook have 5% stronger food effects |
| Rich Flavor V | 5 | Dishes you cook have 5% stronger food effects |
| Gourmet Touch | 5 | Perfect dishes you cook gain another 50% potency |
If you’re already relying on Cooking buffs regularly, Rich Flavor can be a good direction because it improves the value you get from your meals rather than simply making them faster.
Hot Stove
Hot Stove is the speed-focused Cooking branch. Its skills reduce the time needed to cook dishes.
| Skill | Cost | Effect |
|---|---|---|
| Hot Stove I | 1 | Dishes reach cooked 5% sooner |
| Hot Stove II | 2 | Dishes reach cooked 5% sooner |
| Hot Stove III | 3 | Dishes reach cooked 5% sooner |
| Rolling Boil | 3 | A Perfect dish makes your next dish cook 25% faster. Rank 2 increases this to 50% |
| Hot Stove IV | 4 | Dishes reach cooked 5% sooner |
| Hot Stove V | 5 | Dishes reach cooked 5% sooner |
| Flash Sear | 5 | Gives a 20% chance for a dish you start to be ready almost instantly, with the golden window immediately behind it |
This branch makes more sense if you plan to cook frequently and want to reduce the time spent waiting for dishes.
Cooking Level Milestones
As you level up Cooking, you can earn rewards at several milestones.
| Milestone | Requirement | Reward |
|---|---|---|
| Novice Cook | Reach Cooking Level 10 | 500 Gold + 100 Celestial Coins |
| Adept Cook | Reach Cooking Level 25 | 1,500 Gold + 250 Celestial Coins |
| Expert Cook | Reach Cooking Level 50 | 4,000 Gold + 500 Celestial Coins |
| Master Cook | Reach Cooking Level 75 | 8,000 Gold + 1,000 Celestial Coins |
| Grandmaster Cook | Reach Cooking Level 100 | 15,000 Gold + 2,500 Celestial Coins + “Gourmet King” title |
The biggest milestone is Grandmaster Cook, which requires Cooking Level 100 and rewards you with the Gourmet King title alongside Gold and Celestial Coins.
Cooking Rebirth Skills
Rebirth gives you another way to improve your Cooking setup. These skills cost Rebirth Tokens, and they provide effects that aren’t part of the normal Cooking skill tree.
| Rebirth Skill | Cost | Effect |
|---|---|---|
| Seasoned Chef | 1 Rebirth Token | Gain +20% Cooking EXP per rank |
| New Menu | 1 Rebirth Token | Respec your Cooking tree without spending a Stat Reset |
| Salvage | 1 Rebirth Token | Every ingredient in a burnt dish has a 50% chance to be refunded, with mutations intact |
| Flame Whisperer’s Return | 1 Rebirth Token | 50% chance a burnt dish is pulled off the fire at the last possible second and becomes fully cooked |
| Share the Feast | 3 Rebirth Tokens | When you eat, nearby party members within 60 studs who have no food buff receive 100% of yours |
| Batch Cooking | 1 Rebirth Token | Lets you cook a recipe in bulk; each rank allows one additional full set of ingredients to be loaded at once |
| Portable Chef | 1 Rebirth Token | Places a temporary Cooking Station wherever you stand. It lasts 5 minutes and has a 60-second repack cooldown |
Which Cooking Skills Should You Pick?
Your choice depends on how you want to use Cooking.
If you often miss the timing window, Steady Hand is the easiest branch to understand because it gives you more room to hit Perfect.
If ingredients are difficult to collect, Thrifty Cook can help you get more value from the materials you already have. The chance to recover ingredients and eventually produce an extra dish can be useful when you’re cooking repeatedly.
For stronger food buffs, Rich Flavor is the better choice. This becomes more interesting when you’re using meals for their temporary bonuses rather than only eating them for HP.
If you want to cook as quickly as possible, go for Hot Stove. Its bonuses reduce Cooking time, while the later skills can create opportunities to cook dishes much faster.
For Rebirth Tokens, Seasoned Chef, Batch Cooking, and Portable Chef are particularly focused on improving the overall Cooking process, while Salvage and Flame Whisperer’s Return give you some protection against failed or burnt dishes.
Cooking is a useful life skill in Grand Blue because the food you make can do more than restore HP. Some dishes provide bonuses for Mining, Farming, Fishing, combat, regeneration, and even underwater exploration.
I recommend checking the ingredients you already have before deciding which recipes to focus on. Once you know which meals fit your playstyle, you can build your Cooking skill tree around making those dishes faster, stronger, or more efficient.
As more recipes and Cooking content are added, the two currently unrevealed recipes may also expand the options available to cooks.