Cooking is one of the four Life Skills in Grand Blue, and it turns raw ingredients into meals that restore HP and grant timed buffs for fishing, mining, farming, and combat. You gather ingredients out in the world, bring them to a cooking station, and each recipe unlocks on its own once you have physically held everything it needs.
Quick answer: Travel to Maple Village, enter the mansion kitchen, equip an ingredient, press E to add it to the pan, press F to start cooking, then collect the dish within 3 seconds so it does not burn.
Where to cook in Grand Blue (Maple Village mansion)
Maple Village is the only island where cooking is available right now. There are no cooking stations on Anchor Town or Clown Town. Head to Maple Village and make your way to the large mansion.
Go up the stairs and through the mansion doors, then head straight into the kitchen. Behind the Remy NPC you will find three cooking stations. As long as you have the ingredients, you can use all three at once to prepare several dishes at the same time.
How to cook food step by step
G at the station to open the Cookbook and see which recipes you have already discovered and what each one requires.E to add it. Repeat until the pan holds everything the recipe needs. Pressing E without an ingredient equipped pulls items back out of the pan.Start Cooking prompt appears. Press F to begin. The named dish shows on the prompt so you can confirm you are making the right recipe.
F again to claim the dish. You will know it worked when a “Cooking leveled up” or “Obtained 1x [dish]” message appears and the food lands in your Food tab.Note: If you leave a finished dish sitting for more than 3 seconds it burns. Eating burnt food deals 5 damage instead of healing you, so collect promptly.
Where ingredients come from
Every recipe unlocks automatically the moment you hold the items it calls for, so the fastest way to fill the Cookbook is to keep gathering as you explore. Ingredients come from a few repeatable activities.
| Ingredient type | How to get it |
|---|---|
| Apples, Oranges, other fruit | Farming and collecting from trees |
| Wheat, vegetables, Pepper, Potato, Cabbage, Tomato, Carrot, Lemon | Farming (Pepper also sold at the Garden Shop) |
| Any Fish, Tuna, Yang Koi, Yin Koi, Sardine | Fishing |
| Raw Chicken | Killing chickens |
| Eggs | Dropped by chickens in Maple Village |
All Grand Blue cooking recipes and effects
Rarer dishes give more EXP per cook, which matters for hitting the cooking milestones. Common recipes give 6 EXP, Uncommon give 13, the lone Rare gives 25, and the single Epic gives 26.
| Dish | Ingredients | Effect | Time | EXP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grilled Fish (Common) | 1x Any Fish | Restores 5% Max HP | 8s | 6 |
| Apple Juice (Common) | 3x Apple | Restores 60 HP | 10s | 6 |
| Orange Juice (Common) | 3x Orange | Restores 60 HP | — | 6 |
| Bread (Common) | 2x Wheat | Restores 75 HP | 20s | 6 |
| Apple Pot Pie (Common) | 3x Apple, 1x Wheat | Restores 100 HP; −3% damage taken for 5 min | 16s | 6 |
| Omelette (Uncommon) | 2x Egg | Restores 40 HP; +3% damage for 5 min | 8s | 13 |
| Pepper Steak (Uncommon) | 2x Pepper, 1x Any Tuna | Restores 50 HP; +5% damage for 5 min | 12s | 13 |
| Roast Chicken (Uncommon) | 1x Raw Chicken | Restores 60 HP; −3% damage dealt for 5 min | 12s | 13 |
| Vegetable Stew (Uncommon) | 3x Any Vegetable | Restores 50 HP; −5% damage dealt for 5 min | 14s | 13 |
| Garden Salad (Uncommon) | 1x Cabbage, 1x Carrot, 1x Tomato | Restores 30 HP; −3% damage taken for 5 min | 6s | 13 |
| Seafood Soup (Uncommon) | 2x Any Fish | Restores 40 HP; +1.5 HP/s regen for 3 min | 14s | 13 |
| Miner’s Hash (Uncommon) | 1x Egg, 1x Pepper, 2x Potato | Restores 40 HP; +10% Mining Fragment chance for 10 min | 12s | 13 |
| Gardener’s Tea (Uncommon) | 2x Any Fruit | Restores 20 HP; +5% Farming Bonus Crop chance for 10 min | 8s | 13 |
| Fisherman’s Platter (Rare) | 1x Lemon, 2x Any Fish | Restores 30 HP; +10 Fishing Luck for 10 min | 15s | 25 |
| Koi Delicacy (Epic) | 1x Yang Koi, 1x Yin Koi | Restores 75 HP; breathe underwater for 1 min | 18s | 26 |
Two more recipes are listed but not yet revealed, so the menu may grow with future updates.
Cooking materials: Oil
Cooking can also produce crafting materials rather than food. Oil is an Uncommon material made from 1x Sardine. It is a flask of oil rendered from sardines that burns easily and is used for crafting, which gives fish a second use beyond meals.
Cooking skill tree
Leveling cooking earns skill points you spend across four branches. Each branch has five stacking ranks plus a capstone skill. Steady Hand widens the Perfect Window timing, Thrifty Cook saves ingredients, Rich Flavor strengthens buffs, and Hot Stove speeds up cooking.
Steady Hand (timing)
| Skill | Points | Effect |
|---|---|---|
| Steady Hand I–III, IV–V | 1–5 | Perfect Window stays open 10% longer each |
| Slow Simmer | 3 | Food burns 15% later (30% at rank 2) |
| Chef’s Instinct | 5 | 25% chance a good pull comes out Perfect |
Thrifty Cook (ingredients)
| Skill | Points | Effect |
|---|---|---|
| Thrifty Cook I–III, IV–V | 1–5 | +4% chance to get one ingredient back each |
| Waste Not | 3 | 50% chance (100% at rank 2) to rescue one ingredient from your burnt pile |
| Second Helping | 5 | 25% chance a collect cooks a second copy |
Rich Flavor (buff strength)
| Skill | Points | Effect |
|---|---|---|
| Rich Flavor I–III, IV–V | 1–5 | Food effects 5% stronger each |
| Hearty Meals | 3 | Buffs last 15% longer (30% at rank 2) |
| Gourmet Touch | 5 | Perfect dishes gain another 50% potency |
Hot Stove (speed)
| Skill | Points | Effect |
|---|---|---|
| Hot Stove I–III, IV–V | 1–5 | Dishes cook 5% faster each |
| Rolling Boil | 3 | Next dish after a Perfect one cooks 25% faster (50% at rank 2) |
| Flash Sear | 5 | 20% chance a dish is ready almost instantly |
Rebirth cooking skills
Rebirthing the cooking skill unlocks a separate set of upgrades bought with Rebirth Tokens. Every skill costs 1 token except Share the Feast, which costs 3.
| Skill | Cost | Effect |
|---|---|---|
| Seasoned Chef | 1 Token | +20% cooking EXP per rank |
| New Menu | 1 Token | Respec the cooking tree without a Stat Reset |
| Salvage | 1 Token | Each ingredient in a burnt dish has a 50% chance to return, mutations intact |
| Flame Whisperer’s Return | 1 Token | 50% chance a burnt dish comes out fully cooked |
| Batch Cooking | 1 Token | Cook recipes in bulk; each rank adds one more set |
| Portable Chef | 1 Token | Place a temporary cooking station anywhere for 5 minutes |
| Share the Feast | 3 Tokens | Party members within 60 studs and no food buff get 100% of your effect |
Cooking milestones and rewards
Your cooking level rises as you earn EXP from dishes, and each milestone pays out Gold and Celestial Coins. Reaching level 100 also grants the Gourmet King title.
| Milestone | Level | Reward |
|---|---|---|
| Novice Cook | 10 | 500 Gold, 100 Celestial Coins |
| Adept Cook | 25 | 1,500 Gold, 250 Celestial Coins |
| Expert Cook | 50 | 4,000 Gold, 500 Celestial Coins |
| Master Cook | 75 | 8,000 Gold, 1,000 Celestial Coins |
| Grandmaster Cook | 100 | 15,000 Gold, 2,500 Celestial Coins, Gourmet King title |
For everyday play, keep a stock of quick heals like Apple Pot Pie for its 100 HP, and swap to targeted buffs before an activity, such as Pepper Steak for +5% damage, Fisherman’s Platter for +10 Fishing Luck, Miner’s Hash for the mining bonus, or Koi Delicacy when you need to breathe underwater. Gathering fish, crops, eggs, and meat as you travel keeps those recipes unlocked and ready whenever you return to the Maple Village kitchen.
