My Time at Sandrock Cooking Guide

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This My Time at Sandrock Cooking Guide will teach you how to unlock cooking and how to unlock more recipes -- and we have a list of recipes we've discovered, too.

How to Unlock Cooking in My Time at Sandrock

You can unlock Cooking in My Time at Sandrock by unlocking the Drying Rack and then the Apprentice Cooking Station.

Once you have the Apprentice Cooking Station unlocked, you'll be able to make recipes using the Cooking Pot and Steamer. You can upgrade to the Chef's Cooking Station (or build a new one altogether) and gain access to the Wok. The Advanced Cooking Station is the next upgrade after that, but it isn't yet implemented in the game as far as we can tell.

How Does My Time at Sandrock Cooking Work?

My Time at Sandrock Cooking follows a fairly simple process if you already know the recipe. (Make sure to check out the recipes we've already unlocked below!)

Select the ingredients you want to cook.
Select the Cooking Tool.
Push the button and you'll learn the recipe!

or

Select the recipe from the list of unlocked recipes.
It will slowly cook once you leave the station.

However, this only applies if you already know the ingredients or have already unlocked a recipe. If you want to learn new recipes, you'll have to do some experimentation.

How to Unlock More Cooking Recipes

My Time at Sandrock Cooking recipes have to be unlocked through experimentation or through talking to people. On the experimentation side of things, you can access this screen by clicking the Test Tube on the top of the screen in the Apprentice Cooking Station (or any of its upgrades). Then, you follow this process:

Select at least one Main Ingredient.
Select one or more additional ingredients or herbs.
Select your Cooking Tool.
Hit the Confirm button.

If you managed to stumble upon a correct recipe, you'll immediately get that new recipe's result in your inventory and you can add it to your list. If not, you'll get Food Scraps and effectively waste the food.

Getting Food Scraps, however, may be a good sign. As best as we can tell, this looks like a sign that you may be close to a recipe you haven't yet unlocked. Try removing and replacing ingredients one by one until you unlock a new recipe.

There's one thing you should keep in mind, though -- experimenting with new recipes can go through a lot of food very quickly. It's a good idea to get into Farming before you try to start taking Cooking seriously.

If you're not keen on wasting tons of food on experiments, you have an alternative -- you can befriend the people of Sandrock. As you get to know them better, they'll teach you recipes and save you the trouble of trying out tons of random combinations.