A creative gamer playing The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom came up with a clever way to cook food using a dragon as a heat source. Tears of the Kingdom expanded on the open-world formula established with its predecessor The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild by giving players the freedom to approach any given situation, be it combat or a puzzle, however they chose.
Tears of the Kingdom is a game filled with a variety of gameplay mechanics and systems, making it as close to an immersive sim, like Prey or the Dishonored games, as the series has ever been before. These systems are often presented to the player without a deep explanation of the myriad ways they can be manipulated. For instance, it's like when a Tears of the Kingdom player discovered that a Zonai canon can be used as a shoulder-mounted gun when fused to a weapon.
A Tears of the Kingdom player who posted footage of their clever cooking method in the game’s subreddit used the game’s simple and elegant logic systems to cook a bunch of Raw Meat to perfection using the small space between the scorching hot horns of Dinraal. Dinraal is one of the ever-present dragons that can be seen flying high in the skies of Hyrule. Dinraal’s flight path covers the Akkala and, most importantly, the Eldin regions of the map. Eldin is home to the Gorons, the mountain-dwelling people who are as comfortable living around lava as the fishy Zora are living around water.
Reddit user SquatCorgiLegs provided a 29-second video clip of Link riding atop Dinraal’s head, specifically standing in the small space between the majestic dragon’s orangey-red horns. The glow emanating off Dinraal’s horns isn’t just there for effect. Each of the Tears of the Kingdom’s four dragons represents a different element. That glow means the horns are giving off heat so intense that it cooked the five pieces of Raw Meat SquatCorgiLegs dropped between them.
If a player is hoping to make a pizza by dropping cheese, wheat, and tomatoes onto Dinraal’s head, they’ll only succeed in cooking the individual ingredients by setting them on fire. But if a player finds that Link needs a quick health boost with a simple meal, they won’t find a more unique cooking surface in all of Hyrule than a dragon’s head.
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is available on Nintendo Switch.
