Monster Hunter Wilds Cooking — Powerful Meals for Successful Hunts

In Monster Hunter Wilds, cooking isn't merely an additional activity—it's an essential skill for any successful hunter. Meals boost your health, stamina, and grant valuable buffs, significantly influencing your hunting outcomes. This guide will teach you cooking basics, ingredient combinations, and powerful meals to enhance your hunts.

How Cooking Works in Monster Hunter Wilds

Every meal in Monster Hunter Wilds consists of:

• Base Ingredient: Meat, Fish, or Vegetables

• Special Ingredient: Eggs, Mushrooms, Seafood

• Optional Topping: Herbs, Spices

This simple formula boosts your stats and provides unique temporary skills known as Food Skills.

Cooking at Camp

Cooking safely in camps is straightforward:

• Enter your tent and select the BBQ menu.

• Choose ingredients and grill carefully.

• Follow the cooking mini-game rhythm closely to achieve perfect results, granting significant stamina and health boosts.

Cooking with a Portable BBQ Grill

For cooking on-the-go:

• Find a safe spot away from monsters.

• Deploy your Portable BBQ Grill from the inventory.

• Prepare your meal using either suggested or custom combinations.

Special Feast Cooking

During certain quests, NPCs provide special feasts with superior buffs, benefiting your entire hunting party without requiring your ingredients.

Types of Meals

• Recommended Meals: Pre-set, balanced ingredient combos.

• Custom Meals: Fine-tune ingredients to match your hunt.

• Favorite Meals: Save up to 40 favorite meal combinations.

Best Meal Combinations

• Attack Meal: Meat + Airy Egg + Monster Chili – Maximizes attack power.

• Survival Meal: Fish + Turbid Shrimp + Eastern Honey – Enhances defense and evasion.

• Resistance Meal: Vegetables + Sharp Kunafa Cheese + Wild Herb – Greatly reduces elemental damage.

• Gathering Meal: Fish + Truffle du Conga – Boosts resources collected.

Ingredient Effects

Base Ingredients:

• Meat: Boosts attack and health.

• Fish: Increases stamina and defense.

• Vegetables: Improves elemental resistances.

Special Ingredients:

• Eggs, Mushrooms, Seafood: Provide specific combat or utility enhancements.

Toppings:

• Herbs, Spices, Honey: Minor helpful buffs like quicker healing and reduced ailment durations.

Comprehensive Ingredient List

Ingredient	Source & Location	Effect
Raw Meat	Provision Master, Windward Plains	Health, Stamina, Attack
Fish	Provision Master, Windward Plains	Health, Stamina, Defense
Veggies	Provision Master, Windward Plains	Health, Stamina, Elemental Resistances
Airy Egg	Trade at Suja Peaks	Random temporary attack boosts
Fluffy Egg	Trade at Suja Peaks	Temporary attack boosts
Delishroom	Trade at Wudwud Hideout	Significantly reduces stamina use
Droolshroom	Trade at Wudwud Hideout	Reduces stamina use
Kunafa Cheese	Trade at Kunafa Village	Reduces damage taken
Sharp Kunafa Cheese	Trade at Kunafa Village	Greatly reduces damage taken
Mud Shrimp	Oilwell Basin	Extends evade invulnerability slightly
Turbid Shrimp	Oilwell Basin	Extends evade invulnerability greatly
Sild Garlic	Keeper’s Vigil	Prevents fainting once
Specialty Sild Garlic	Ruins of Wyveria	Prevents fainting and heals after fatal damage
Eastern Honey	Honey nodes, Ruins of Wyveria	Boosts healing item effectiveness
Jeweled Mullet Roe	Wudwud Hideout	Attack boost when wet
Monster Chili	Kunafa Village, Oilwell Basin	Negates climate effects and boosts defense
Truffle Du Conga	Gastronome Tuna, Congalala, Iceshard Cliffs	Boosts gathered resources
Wild Herb	Herb nodes, Wudwud Hideout	Reduces ailment duration
Wild Seed Oil	Oilwell Basin	Boosts potency of status effects

Cooking FAQ

• Unlocking Cooking: Complete "Village of Whispering Winds" quest (Mission 1-2).

• Benefits: Meals enhance health, stamina, attack, defense, elemental resistances, and provide Food Skills.

Conclusion

Mastering cooking in Monster Hunter Wilds dramatically increases your hunt efficiency and survival. Follow this guide, experiment with ingredients, and dominate your hunts effortlessly!