Sons of the Forest: How to Cook Food

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Sons of the Forest players must learn to hunt, build, and cook to survive. Their time on the island isn't easy due to the harsh environment and the mutant cannibals that live in the forest. Maintaining health must also be a priority to escape.

Health includes stamina, hunger, and thirst. Stamina can be restored by sleeping or drinking energy drinks, which also fulfills thirst. Hunger can only be refilled by eating berries, meat, manufactured food, or cannibals. If players eat cooked food, they can also restore some health if they don't have meds. So, here's how to cook food in Sons of the Forest.

How to Cook Food in Sons of the Forest

Players will need a Cooking Pot, water, and ingredients to cook meals. Cooking Pots can be picked up from abandoned campsites around the map. Players can keep one on that at a time, so if they want more, they must have a home base to store them.

Once players have a Cooking Pot, they will need to fill it up with water. Water can be collected from lakes and ponds. Players must equip the Cooking Pot and approach a body of water until the interact icon appears.

Once the Cooking Pot has water, players must build a fire to cook with it. Fires are made by breaking two sticks and lighting them using the Emergency Pack Lighter. Players can drop meat straight onto the fire to give it a quick sear, but if they use the Cooking Pot, it will have better effects.

Follow the below steps to cook:

Place the Cooking Pot on the fire
Click on the gear to pull up the recipe list
Choose a recipe and click the gear again to place the lid on it
Wait till the lid falls off the pot to collect the food

Players can only make meals with all the required ingredients, much like crafting from the inventory. Ingredients include raw meat, mushrooms, berries, body parts, and more.

Hunting is the only way to get raw meat. Players can use ranged weapons or traps to catch deer, moose, birds, rabbits, and squirrels. Mushrooms and berries can be foraged in the forest. Of course, cannibalism is also an option if players want to cut off limbs.

Cooking Recipe List

Meal	Ingredients
Boiled Meat	Raw Meat x2
Chicken Noodle Soup	Ramen Noodles Arm
Cream of Mushroom	Hydnum Repandum x3 Fly Aminata x3 King Oyster x3 Shiitake x3
Egg Nog	Turtle Eggs x5 Vodka Bottle
Greg	Arm x2 Head Leg x2
Kelvin Special	Fish x3 Oyster
Kitchen Sink	Fish x2 King Oyster x2 Raw Meat x2 Turtle Eggs x2 Ramen Noodles Oyster x2
Liquid Battery	Blueberries x10 Guarana Berries x10
Lumberjack Juice	Meds Chicory x5 Raw Meat x5 Fish x3
Protein Shake	Aloe Vera Guarana Berries x3 Raw Meat Meds Turtle Egg Fly Amanita