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To cook, you will need a stove, a learned recipe, and ingredients. This page will help you understand how long it takes to pay back the investment that you make into each of these things.

Ingredients[]

The first key to understanding cooking ingredients is to understand item values. When you harvest a single crop, animal, or tree, you usually receive more than one item. For example, if you plant a plot in Raspberry seeds, those seeds will grow into a bush with about 10 Raspberries. In the shop, you can see that the entire Raspberry bush of 10 Raspberries will sell for 30 coins. That means each single Raspberry sells for 3 coins. This is the item value. For individual item values, see the tables on the crop, animal, and tree pages. For the value of all of the ingredients needed for each recipe, see the table on the recipe page. All recipes will cook items that are worth more coins than the value of their ingredients.

Learned Recipes[]

For some dishes, you will need to pay coins to learn the recipe. The following table gives the learnable recipes, its required stove level, the time to cook, the value of the ingredients needed, the sell price of the cooked dish, the price to learn the recipe, the profit gained by cooking that recipe, and the number of times and amount of time that you will need to cook it to earn the number of coins paid to unlock it. The amount of time that you need to cook it does not factor in the Tiki God of Cooking. If you have more than one stove capable of cooking a particular recipe, you can spread the cooking across those stoves to pay off your recipe faster.

Recipe Level Time Ingredient Value Sell Price Unlock Price Cooking Profit Time to Payoff
Cornmeal 1 5 min 45 c 60 c 250 c 15 c 17 times / 1h25m
Pineapple Glazed Fish 1 10 min 68 c 95 c 50 c 27 c 2 times / 0h20m
Chocolate 1 5 min 4 c 24 c 100 c 20 c 5 times / 0h25m
Flour 1 4 min 160 c 164 c 400 c 4 c 100 times / 6h40m
Sugar 1 3 min 24 c 28 c 300 c 4 c 75 times / 3h45m
Fish and Chips 1 6 min 24 c 56 c 600 c 32 c 19 times / 1h54m
Cheese 2 5 min 10 c 25 c 300 c 15 c 20 times / 1h40m
Chocolate Bunny 2 3 min 48 c 60 c 200 c 12 c 17 times / 0h51m
Poi 2 5 min 36 c 42 c 350 c 6 c 59 times / 4h55m
Lili Punch 2 7 min 39 c 48 c 250 c 9 c 28 times / 3h16m
Passion Juice 2 7 min 72 c 112 c 435 c 40 c 11 times / 1h17m
Apricot Jam 2 5 min 50 c 58 c 450 c 8 c 57 times / 4h45m
Lemonade 2 5 min 109 c 115 c 600 c 6 c 100 times / 8h20m
Pink Lemonade 2 5 min 214 c 220 c 0 c 6 c 134 times / 11h10m
Pasta 2 6 min 174 c 180 c 300 c 6 c 50 times / 5h00m
Durian Puree Cheesecake 2 8 min 80 c 88 c 200 c 8 c 25 times / 3h20m
Cherimoya Ice Cream 2 4 min 106 c 162 c 700 c 56 c 13 times / 0h52m
Carrot Cake 3 5 min 48 c 122 c 850 c 74 c 12 times / 1h00m
Fruit Salad 3 5 min 229 c 284 c 620 c 55 c 12 times / 1h00m
Ceviche 3 10 min 100 c 177 c 1000 c 77 c 13 times / 2h10m
Cornbread 3 7 min 490 c 580 c 980 c 90 c 11 times / 1h17m
Halohalo 3 7 min 96 c 166 c 505 c 70 c 8 times / 0h56m
Stir Fry 3 7 min 203 c 244 c 715 c 41 c 18 times / 2h06m
Veggie Soup 3 10 min 160 c 184 c 520 c 24 c 22 times / 3h40m
Fig Cookies 3 6 min 378 c 395 c 650 c 17 c 39 times /3h/54m
Gumbo 3 8 min 338 c 360 c 1200 c 22 c
Mackerel Pasta Salad 3 9 min 192 c 260 c 400 c 68 c 6 times / 0h54m
Cherry Cheesecake 3 8 min 128 c 185 c 300 c 57 c 6 times / 0h42m
Truffled Egg Toast 3 6 min 87 c 162 c 3500 c 75 c 47 times / 4h42m
Banana Bread 4 5 min 147 c 215 c 1570 c 68 c 24 times / 2h00m
Grilled Eggplant 4 10 min 443 c 547 c 1650 c 104 c 16 times / 2h40m
Hot Crossed Buns 4 7 min 78 c 163 c 500 c 85 c 6 times / 0h42m
Kimchi 4 7 min 80 c 125 c 1750 c 45 c 39 times / 4h33m
Pizza 4 7 min 269 c 506 c 1550 c 111 c 14 times / 1h38m
Pineapple Yamburger 4 10 min 82 c 175 c 3000 c 93 c 33 times/ 5h30m
Yellowfin Sashimi 4 10 min 28 c 138 c 3000 c 110 c 28 times/ 4h40m
Radish Curry 4 10 min 222 c 350 c 5000 c 128 c 40 times/ 6h40m
Crazy Candy Kabob 4 6 min 130 c 144 c 550 c 14 c 40 times/4h
Blueberry Pancakes 4 15 min 469 c 550 c 1100 c 81 c 14 times /3h30m
Iced Cherry Cheesecake 4 8 min 140 c 210 c 500 c 70 c 8 times / 1h04m

Stoves[]

There are five total stove levels, each one cooking progressively more valuable recipes. A level one stove can only cook level one recipes, while a level three stove can cook recipes between level one and three. This table lists the stoves, their levels, their cost, the recipe that will let you pay off the stove fastest, and the time to pay off.

The time listed includes the time necessary to pay for learning recipes. For example, the Potbelly Stove is paid off fastest when cooking Carrot Cake. Carrot Cake will pay for its own recipe after 12 times, then must be made another 203 times to pay off the stove. The total of 215 times is listed.

If an available recipe that requires neighbors to unlock will pay off the stove fastest, it is listed in parenthesis. Baked Beans is listed in square brackets because some players find Mackerels difficult to catch.

Stove Level Cost Recipe Time to Payoff
Iron Pot 1 200 Pineapple Glazed Fish [Baked Beans] (Small Omelette) 10 / 1h40m [15 / 1h45m] (10 / 0h30m)
Red BBQ 2 3500 Passion Juice (Cup of Coffee) 99 / 11h33m (100 / 5h00m)
Grey BBQ 2 3500 Passion Juice (Cup of Coffee) 99 / 11h33m (100 / 5h00m)
Cooking Pit 3 10000 Carrot Cake (Chili) 147 / 12h15m (244 / 12h12m)
Potbelly Stove 3 15000 Carrot Cake 215 / 17h55m
Tiki Cauldron 4 25000 ** See below ** ** See below **

Drum Barrel BBQ

4 25000 ** See below ** ** See below **

Level 4 recipes are more complicated than the level 1-3 recipes. If the Tiki Cauldron or Drum Barrel BBQ is your first stove, Carrot Cake or Macaroons will pay off the cost of the stove the fastest. However, if you have already cooked a lot of cheese and/or cornmeal with a lower level stove, then Pizza or Chips and Salsa will be more profitable. Macaroons pay for the Tiki Cauldron or Drum Barrel BBQ after 216 batches, which is 18 hours of continuous cooking.

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