How to Get Every Food Recipe

While it doesn’t come with its own skill, an important aspect of Stardew Valley is learning every crafting and cooking recipe in the game, and then using these recipes once each. Doing so will help complete the Perfection Tracker, even if you haven’t reached Qi’s Walnut Room yet.

However, if you want to cook every recipe in Stardew Valley, you first have to learn every recipe. This is a challenge in itself, since these recipes aren’t all sitting around in the same places. Players will need to hunt around the game if they want to collect every food recipe.

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Updated by Usama Ali on Feb 27, 2025: Collecting every recipe and achieving culinary perfection in Stardew Valley is a tough job. Getting recipes is complicated enough – you have to watch the “Queen of Sauce” TV show, become good friends with villagers, level up your skills, and sometimes even buy them from shops. All of this takes a lot of time, from watching TV every week to giving gifts and chatting with villagers. Finding the ingredients is another challenge, since some are only around in certain seasons, others are hard to find, and some are hidden in dangerous places. Since Stardew Valley’s 1.6 update added a bunch of new content, we’ve updated this guide with new food recipes so that you can cook them and get closer to reaching 100% Perfection.

The Queen of Sauce

The most straightforward way of learning food recipes is to watch a weekly TV program called The Queen of Sauce. The program airs every Sunday, and you can watch it at any point during the day. Each new episode teaches a new food recipe for the first two years of the game, for a total of 32 recipes. Here they are in order:

*You can also find this recipe elsewhere.

After Year 2, The Queen of Sauce will start to repeat its programming in the same order that the episodes first aired. Also, aside from the first week, you can catch reruns of The Queen of Sauce every Wednesday. These reruns play any previously aired episode of the show, and they’re more likely than not to show recipes that players haven’t yet unlocked.

Something worth noting is that the farmer is allowed to know cooking recipes even before buying the first farmhouse upgrade that adds a kitchen. That means there’s no reason not to watch The Queen of Sauce every week.

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Friendship Levels

The more difficult way to earn new recipes is to befriend everyone in Pelican Town. Just about every character with a friendship rating knows a unique recipe or two, and the only way to learn them is to reach a specific heart level. In most cases, once you reach a certain heart rating with a character, they’ll send you the recipe in the mail the next day.

The one thing you don’t have to do is romance every romanceable character. Only Shane and Emily offer food recipes, and they both run out after reaching seven hearts.

Shops and Other Sources

Friendship ratings and The Queen of Sauce will get you most of the way to every food recipe, but there are a few more that you have to pick up from stores and skill increases. Some of them overlap with the TV show, but every shop has at least one recipe you need to buy from them to complete the set.

As you gain experience in a particular skill (Farming, Mining, Foraging, Fishing, or Combat) and reach certain level thresholds, you’ll unlock new food recipes. The more actively you engage in activities related to that skill, the faster you’ll level up, and the sooner you’ll gain access to these culinary creations. For example, the more crops you harvest, the quicker your Farming skill will increase. Similarly, picking up foraged items like berries, mushrooms, and roots that grow wild throughout the valley will level up your foraging skill.

Here are all the food recipes you can unlock when you hit a certain Skill level:

Note that some consumables, such as the Field Snack and the Life Elixir, don’t count as food recipes because you don’t need to use the kitchen to make them.

Players who learn every last food recipe and then craft them will get the Cook, Sous Chef, and Gourmet Chef achievements, and they’ll be that much closer to completing the Perfection Tracker.

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