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Dinkum Cooking Guide

Published: May 24, 2024 11:47 AM

Our Dinkum Cooking Guide will tell you how to unlock Cooking and also provide you with a list of all the Cooking recipes we've found!

This guide has been updated to include the changes made to food as part of the May 15, 2024 Breezy Autumn update.

How Dinkum Cooking Works

There are a few ways to cook in Dinkum:

Cooking Fruit or Meat on a Camp Fire or BBQ
Cooking at a Cooking Table
Putting items in a Billy Can
Putting items in a Keg

Additionally, the Grain Mill is used to make some other items needed for Cooking such as Flour and Sugar.

Food in Dinkum does not restore Health and Stamina directly. Instead, different foods can increase your regeneration of each — some even temporarily increase your maximum Health or Stamina.

For Stamina, food can increase your regeneration per second. For Health, it's based on 15 second "ticks". Ticks are represented by the circle next to your Health bar, with healing happening every time this fills (it only starts filling up when you take damage.)

You can eat up to three different food items at a time, with the Health and Stamina regen stacking. This includes eating the same Food multiple times.

For buffs, these come in three strengths. From lowest to highest: No stars, one star, and two stars.

Standing next to two BBQs.

Cooking Recipe List

Here are all of the Dinkum Cooking recipes we've found so far. Remember: cooked food is almost always better than raw food in terms of healing, energy restoration, and buffs!

Quicklinks: Camp Fire / BBQ Recipes | Cooking Table Recipes | Billy Can Recipes | Keg Recipes | Grain Mill Recipes

Campfire / BBQ

Items cooked at the Camp Fire or BBQ only require a single ingredient. The BBQ cooks items much faster, and you can cook faster still by placing a BBQ directly next to a Windmill.

Cooked Prawn
- Ingredients: 1 [Prawn]
- Duration: 8m
- Health: 1/t
- Stamina: 3/s
- Boosts: Fishing
Cooked Yabbie
- Ingredients: 1 [Yabbie]
- Duration: 8m
- Health: 1/t
- Stamina: 3/s
- Boosts: Fishing
Fried Egg
- Ingredients: 1 Egg
- Duration: 7m
- Health:
- Stamina: 1.5/s | +10 Max
Big Fried Egg
- Ingredients: 1 Big Chicken Egg
- Duration: 7m
- Health:
- Stamina: 2.5/s | +20 Max
Cooked Grub Meat
- Ingredients: 1 Raw Grub Meat
- Duration: 8m
- Health: 2/t
- Stamina: 1.6/s
- Boosts: Mining*
Cooked Giant Drumstick
- Ingredients: 1 Raw Giant Drumstick
- Duration: 12m
- Health: | +5 Max
- Stamina: 3/s | +10 Max
Cooked Prime Meat
- Ingredients: 1 Raw Prime Meat
- Duration: 15m
- Health: 2/t | +40 Max
- Stamina: 2/s | +10 Max
Cooked Flake
- Ingredients: 1 Flake
- Duration: 12m
- Health: 2/t | +20 Max
- Stamina: 3/s | +20 Max
Cooked Meat
- Ingredients: 1 Meat
- Duration: 10m
- Health: 2/t
- Stamina: 1.6/s
Cooked Croco Meat
- Ingredients: 1 Croco Meat
- Duration: 12m
- Health: 3/t | +10 Max
- Stamina: 1/s | +5 Max
Cooked Drumstick
- Ingredients: 1 Raw Drumstick
- Duration: 6m
- Health: 2/t
- Stamina: 2/s
Cooked Quandong
- Ingredients: 1 Quandong
- Duration: 4m
- Health: 2/t
- Stamina: 0.4/s
Cooked Cactus Fig
- Ingredients: 1 Cactus Figs
- Duration: 2m
- Health:
- Stamina: 1/s
Cooked Banana
- Ingredients: 1 Banana
- Duration: 4m
- Health:
- Stamina: 2/s
Cooked Apple
- Ingredients: 1 Apple
- Duration: 4m
- Health: 2/t
- Stamina:
Cooked Bush Lime
- Ingredients: 1 Bush Lime
- Duration: 4m
- Health: 1/t
- Stamina: 1.2/s
Cooked Mushroom
- Ingredients: 1 [Mushroom]
- Duration: 5m
- Health: 2/t
- Stamina: 5/s

Running towards a cooking table.

Cooking Table Recipes

These items can be made at the Cooking Table and generally provide more Health, more Energy, and better Buffs than Food made at the Camp Fire or BBQ.

Items listed within brackets allow for multiple of that type of ingredient (i.e. Meat or Cooked Meat, Chicken Egg or Big Chicken Egg.)

Meat on a Stick
- Ingredients: 2 [Meat], 1 Mangrove Stick
- Duration: 15m
- Health: 3/t
- Stamina: 3/s
- Boosts: Defense
Croco Skewer
- Ingredients: 1 [Croco Meat], 1 Onion, 1 Mangrove Stick
- Duration: 15m
- Health: 3/t | +20 Max
- Stamina: 2/s | +10 Max
- Boosts: Attack
Dagwood Dog
- Ingredients: 1 Corn, 1 Meat, 1 Mangrove Stick
- Duration: 15m
- Health: 2/t
- Stamina: 2.5/s
Meat Pie
- Ingredients: 1 Flour, 1 Meat, 1 Raw Drumstick
- Duration: 20m
- Health: 2/t | +25 Max
- Stamina: 4/s | +5 Max
- Boosts: Attack
Pastie
- Ingredients: 1 Flour, 1 Cabbage, 1 Carrot, 1 Potato
- Duration: 25m
- Health: 2/t | +20 Max
- Stamina: 3/s | +20 Max
- Boosts: Mining**, Logging**
Sausage Roll
- Ingredients: 1 Flour, 1 Big Chicken Egg, 1 Meat, 1 Onion
- Duration: 20m
- Health: 1/t | +15 Max
- Stamina: 3.5/s | +10 Max
- Boosts: Attack*
Bread
- Ingredients: 3 Flour
- Duration: 15m
- Health: 3/t
- Stamina: 1/s
- Boosts: Defense
Fairy Bread
- Ingredients: 1 Bread, 2 Sugar
- Duration: 6m
- Health: 1/t
- Stamina: 8/s
- Boosts: Movement Speed
Jam Toast
- Ingredients: 1 Bread, 1 [Jam]
- Duration: 8m
- Health: 1/t
- Stamina: 2/s | +10 Max
- Boosts: Movement Speed
Toffee
- Ingredients: 2 Honey, 1 Sugar
- Duration: 8m
- Health:
- Stamina: 10/s
Damper
- Ingredients: 1 Flour, 1 Milk
- Duration: 15m
- Health: 2/t | +15 Max
- Stamina: 1/s
- Boosts: Mining*
Scones
- Ingredients: 1 Flour, 1 High Quality Milk, 1 Big Chicken Egg, 1 [Jam]
- Duration: 15m
- Health: 2/t | +20 Max
- Stamina: 5/s | +15 Max
- Boosts: Mining*
Quiche
- Ingredients: 1 Flour, 1 [Chicken Egg], 1 [Cheese]
- Duration: 17m
- Health: 2/t | +20 Max
- Stamina: 4/s | +30 Max
- Boosts: Mining*, Logging*
Lamington
- Ingredients: 1 Flour, 1 Sugar, 1 Coconut, 1 [Chicken Egg], 1 [Milk]
- Duration: 20m
- Health: 1/t | +15 Max
- Stamina: 6/s | +30 Max
- Boosts: Mining, Logging, Defense, Movement Speed**
Pavlova
- Ingredients: 4 Big Chicken Egg, 2 Sugar, 1 Fruit Salad
- Duration: 25m
- Health: 1/t | +15 Max
- Stamina: 8/s | +15 Max
- Boosts: Movement Speed**, EXP*
Burger
- Ingredients: 1 Damper, 1 Cooked Meat, 1 [Cheese]
- Duration: 35m
- Health: 3/t | +30 Max
- Stamina: 7/s | +20 Max
Lot Burger
- Ingredients: 1 Damper, 1 Cooked Meat, 1 High Quality Cheese, 1 Big Fried Egg, 1 Tomato, 1 Beetroot, 1 Pineapple
- Duration: 60m
- Health: 5/t | +50 Max
- Stamina: 14/s | +50 Max
- Boosts: Defense*, Diligent (Non-power tools and weapons do not lose durability)
Egg Fried Rice
- Ingredients: 1 Cooked Rice, 2 Chicken Egg/1 Big Chicken Egg
- Duration: 15m
- Health: 2/t
- Stamina: 2.2/s | +10 Max
Roe Nigiri
- Ingredients: 10 Fish Roe, 1 Cooked Rice, 2 Seaweed
- Duration: 30m
- Health: 4/t | +25 Max
- Stamina: 9/s | +10 Max
Mushroom Risotto
- Ingredients: 1 Cooked Rice, 1 High Quality Cheese, 1 Wattle Brew, 5 Field Mushroom
- Duration: 25m
- Health: 2/t | +25 Max
- Stamina: 5/s | +25 Max
- Boosts: Mining**, Logging**, Diligent (Non-power tools and weapons do not lose durability)
Fruit Salad
- Ingredients: 2 Bush Lime, 2 Apple, 2 Bananas, 2 Quandong
- Duration: 10m
- Health: 3/t
- Stamina: 3.6/s
- Boosts: Logging, Defense
Garden Salad
- Ingredients: 1 Cabbage, 1 Tomato, 1 Onion
- Duration: 15m
- Health: 4/t | +20 Max
- Stamina: 4/s | +20 Max
- Boosts: Mining**, Defense
Pumpkin Soup
- Ingredients: 1 [Milk], 1 Pumpkin
- Duration: 20m
- Health:
- Stamina: 6/s | +20 Max
Fish and Chips
- Ingredients: 1 Flake, 2 Potato, 1 Bush Lime
- Duration: 20m
- Health: 3/t | +10 Max
- Stamina: 3/s | +30 Max
- Boosts: Fishing**
Hearty Stew
- Ingredients: 1 Meat, 1 Potato, 1 Onion, 1 Carrot
- Duration: 20m
- Health: 3/t | +45 Max
- Stamina: 3.5/s | +10 Max
- Boosts: Attack, Defense*
Spag Bol
- Ingredients: 1 Flour, 1 Big Chicken Egg, 1 Tomato, 1 Cooked Meat
- Duration: 20m
- Health: 1/t | +30 Max
- Stamina: 3.5/s | +30 Max
- Boosts: Attack*, Defense
Cheesy Spag
- Ingredients: 1 Flour, 1 Big Chicken Egg, 1 High Quality Cheese
- Duration: 20m
- Health: 1/t | +30 Max
- Stamina: 3.5/s | +30 Max
- Boosts: Attack*, Defense
Parmy and Chips
- Ingredients: 1 Raw Giant Drumstick, 1 Tomato, 1 [Cheese], 1 Potato
- Duration: 20m
- Health: 3/t | +10 Max
- Stamina: 7/s | +30 Max
- Boosts: Attack*
Mushroom Soup
- Ingredients: 1 Field Mushroom, 1 Milk Cap, 1 Slippery Jack, 1 Yellow Morel
- Duration: 20m
- Health: 3/t | +35 Max
- Stamina: 3.5/s | +10 Max
- Boosts: Attack, Defense*
Prime Roast
- Ingredients: 1 Raw Prime Meat, 3 Potato, 2 Carrot, 1 Kale, 3 Green Bean, 1 Pumpkin
- Duration: 60m
- Health: 5/t | +50 Max
- Stamina: 4/s | +50 Max
- Boosts: Attack**, Defense**

Billy Can Recipes

Billy Cans in Dinkum are primarily used to turn plants (and certain other ingredients) into Food that grants useful buffs.

Crab Soup
- Ingredients: 1 [Crab]
- Duration: 10m
- Health:
- Stamina:
- Boosts: Diligent (Non-power tools and weapons do not lose durability)
Wattle Tea
- Ingredients: 10 Yellow Wattle Flower
- Duration: 8m
- Health:
- Stamina: 3.5/s
- Boosts: Mining, Logging
Cooked Rice
- Ingredients: 1 Rice
- Duration: 10m
- Health: 2/t
- Stamina: 1.6/s
Bottle Brush Tea
- Ingredients: 10 Bottle Brush
- Duration: 8m
- Health: 2/t
- Stamina:
- Boosts: Fast Health Tick Speed

Indoors, looking at two kegs.

Keg Recipes

Kegs can be used to further refine certain foods into even better versions.

Wattle Brew
- Ingredients: 1 Wattle Tea
- Duration: 16m
- Health:
- Stamina: 3.5/s | +25 Max
- Boosts: Mining*, Logging*
Bottle Brush Brew
- Ingredients: 1 Bottle Brush Tea
- Duration: 16m
- Health: 2/t | +25 Max
- Stamina:
- Boosts: Fast Health Tick Speed*

Using a grain mill.

Grain Mill Recipes

The Grain Mill can be used to convert Crops into other items used for Cooking such as Flour and Sugar.

Flour - Requires 4 Wheat
Sugar - Requires 1 Sugar Cane

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