Food and cooking are essential parts of Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, with some recipes having significantly more power than others. Food in both ingredient form and cooked form can help Link a great deal, as can elixirs, with each helping Link gain back health and stamina, sometimes providing other benefits like cold or heat resistance. Knowing what recipes are best is a vital survival skill with all of the different enemies Link encounters and the landscapes he explores.
Even though Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild was released five years ago, players are still spending their time exploring all that Hyrule has to offer and even still discovering new things. The depth of the game and amount of things to discover seems almost endless, and that includes all of the elixirs and the sometimes weird cooking combinations in BOTW. The game features 118 different food dishes that can be cooked and 12 basic elixirs with variations. Food recipes use only food ingredients, whereas elixirs require a combination of critters and monster/guardian parts.
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With so many ingredient combinations to make different recipes and elixirs, it is a benefit to know which will have the most benefit to Link on his travels through Hyrule. Given that Breath of the Wild does not have a mechanism for you to track each recipe easily, having a handy reference is imperative when exploring the wild. Note that the following recipes give the exact ingredients needed for the listed outcome; these recipes can be made with other ingredients for a product with less significant effects.
Elixirsare made from a combination of critters (e.g. frogs, insects, lizards) and monster parts, which Link can also
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