How to Cook Meals in Monster Hunter Wilds

While hunting and upgrading gear are the main themes of Monster Hunter Wilds, cooking is an underrated aspect that can provide much-needed buffs for the next expedition. Here is how to cook meals in Monster Hunter Wilds.

How to Cook in Monster Hunter Wilds

Monster Hunter Wilds players have two places where they can cook meals: at the player’s Base Camp tent or the BBQ Grill essential item. There is no difference to using either option, but the BBQ Grill item is portable and can be used out in the wild to quickly cook something up mid-fight.

In either choice, choose the Grill a Meal option. You can then pick between Recommended Meal or Custom Meal, but choosing the latter will allow you to pick what ingredients get put into the meal.

Creating a full meal can require a Ration, Additional Ingredients, and Finishing Touches, though only the Ration is needed to create a basic meal. The other two options give additional bonuses besides giving more health and stamina. All bonuses and the duration of the meal will be listed as you add more ingredients.

Best Meals to Make in Monster Hunter Wilds

Players can combine any ingredients in all three categories to make a meal, but some ingredients give specific bonuses that can alter the momentum of a fight. Here are what the base Rations offer and some of the other ingredients to look for.

Rations

• Fish: +50 Health, +150 Stamina, and +4 Defense.
• Meat: +50 Health, +150 Stamina, and +2 Attack
• Veggies: +50 Health, +150 Stamina, +2 Defense, and +3 Elemental Resistance

Additional Ingredients

• Droolshroom/Delishroom: Reduces stamina depletion
• Fluffy Egg/Airy Egg: Repeatedly activates a temporary attack boost at random intervals
• Kunafa Cheese/Sharp Kunafa Cheese: Often decreases damage taken
• Sild Garlic/Speciality Sild Garlic: Prevents fainting one time when damage exceeds remaining health

Finishing Touches

• Eastern Honey: Increases the amount of health recovered when healing
• Monster Chili: Negates effects of hot or cold climates and increases defense in those areas
• Truffle Du Conga: Sometimes increases the number of resources per gather of bone, ore, and other gatherable items.
• Wild Herb: Lessens effects of ailments

For more on Monster Hunter Wilds, check out how to craft and upgrade weapons to make those monster fights much easier.