Introduction

Cooking is an important life skill in Black Desert. It is used to create food which provide various buffs when consumed.

Check our Recipes list for Cooking

High Cooking skill can be quite profitable and is a great way to make money whilst AFK. All you really need to start, is a Cooking Utensil and a house to put it in. A basic Cooking Utensil can be bought from a food merchant for 1,000 silver, crafted using a Tool Workshop or bought from the Central Market.

After you have acquired a cooking utensil and placed it in your house, you can interact with it by pressing the R button to open the cooking window. Here you can select ingredients to cook or select a food/drink from the recipe list of dishes. The recipe list will not tell you the ingredients for items you have not prepared before.

When you prepare some dishes, you have a chance of earning a higher item grade.








There are 5 item grades (lowest to highest):

• White
• Green
• Blue
• Yellow
• Orange

All dishes in our Cooking recipes list are the lowest craft-able grade for that item. The highest grade you can cook with all basic dishes is yellow grade, and specials have a chance to be orange grade.

Cooking Utensils

Ideally you want to use Advanced Cooking Utensils for the cooking time reduction and because of it’s high durability but this is really one of the biggest bottlenecks when it comes to cooking. You may have a hard time buying this utensil off the marketplace and should make them yourself. The other alternative is to use the Intermediate Cooking Utensil which has less durability but does not give the cooking time reduction.

The base Cooking Utensil and the Balenos Traditonal Cooking Utensils can be bought from a cooking vendor for the prices listed below.

Item Name	Durability	Effect	Cost to buy	Workshop	Workshop Recipe
Cooking Utensil	100		1,000	Level 1 Tool Workshop	Rough Stone x15 Melted Iron Shard x10 Black Stone Powder x2
Balenos Traditional Cooking Utensil	500	Cooking time +5 sec	50,000	Level 1 Tool Workshop	Rough Stone x8 Melted Iron Shard x10 Black Stone Powder x10
Intermediate Cooking Utensil	500			Level 2 Tool Workshop	Rough Stone x25 Log x10 Melted Iron Shard x15 Black Stone Powder x7
Serendia Traditional Cooking Utensil	1250	Cooking time +6 sec		Level 2 Tool Workshop	Rough Stone x15 Log x20 Melted Iron Shard x15 Black Stone Powder x15
Advanced Cooking Utensil	900	Cooking time -1 sec		Level 3 Tool Workshop	Polished Stone x20 Usable Scantling x5 Melted Iron Shard x20 Black Stone Powder x14
Calpheon Traditional Cooking Utensil	2000	Cooking time +7 sec		Level 3 Tool Workshop	Polished Stone x15 Maple Plywood x8 Melted Iron Shard x30 Black Stone Powder x30

Cooking Gear

When cooking you really want to achieve the fastest possible cooking time. This is done using a combination of various buffs.

Ideally, to get 1 second cooking time, you would want to use: Pearl store costume (-2s), Advanced Cooking Utensil (-1s), +3 Silver Embroidered Cook’s Clothes (-4s), Sharp Alchemy Stone of Life (-1.4s) and Seafood Cron Mea (-0.6s). If you don’t have the pearl store costume you can use the Verdure Cron Elixir instead for -1 second and a +4 Silver Embroidered Cook’s Clothes.

Cooking Mastery clothes are not used for cooking because in most cases you need the Silver Embriodered Clothes to reach a 1 second cooking time. However, Mastery clothing is still used to hand in imperial cooking boxes for the extra bonuses.

	Item Name	Cooking time	How to obtain
	Teff Bread	-0.3 sec	Cooking (Beginner Lv.6) Recipe for one: Teff Flour x5, Mineral Water x3, Leavening Agent x2, Salt x2
	Teff Sandwich	-0.5 sec	Cooking (Professional Lv.1) Recipe for one: Teff Bread x1, Freekeh Snake Stew x1, Grilled Scorpion x1, Red Sauce x3
	Seafood Cron Meal	-0.6 sec	Processing window (L) > Simple Cooking Recipe for one: Balenos Meal x3, Calpheon Meal x3, Margoria Seafood Meal x1, Ancient Cron Spice x1
	Alchemy Stone of Life	-0.5 to -2 sec depending on alchemy stone	Alchemy (Skilled 5) Recipe for one: Shining Powder x8, Blood of the Sinner x5, Powder of Time x6, Pure Powdered Reagent x9, Clear Liquid Reagent x9
	Life Spirit Stone	-1.1 sec	Dropped from monsters in Kamaslyvia region
	Verdure Draught	-1 sec	Processing window (L) > Simple Cooking Worker’s Elixir x3, Elixir of Swiftness x3, Elixir of Time x3, Tears of the Falling Moon x1
	Silver Embroidered Cook’s Clothes (up to +5 enhancement)	-1 to -7 sec depending on enhancement	Costume Mill (Level 1) Cotton Fabric x9, Powder of Earth x10, Black Stone Powder x15
	Canape Costume Set	-2 sec	Pearl Store (F3) > Apparel > Costume (2,900 pearls)

How to start cooking

To batch produce a recipe, you simply go to your Cooking Utensil in your house and press “R” to use it. Right-click your ingredients and make sure you enter ingredients for 1 result. (Entering more will consume all of your ingredients and only give you 1 result.

Next click “Batch Production”.

Click “Yes” then enter the amount you wish to make. You can click “Maximum quantity” or press “F” to cook as many as possible. Then click “OK” and you will automatically make as many as you have ingredients or energy for.

Imperial Cooking Boxes








Imperial Cooking boxes must be crafted by opening your processing window (L) then selecting Imperial Cuisine. The amount of boxes you can hand in each day depends on your current Contribution Points and is shared for both alchemy and cooking.

To calculate how many you can hand in, divide your total contribution points by 2. So if you have 300 contibution points, you can hand in up to 150 boxes per day.

Imperial Cooking boxes weigh 50 LT each and you cannot sell the boxes if you are overweight. The amount of silver listed in the rewards is a base silver reward and will increase depending on your cooking mastery level, which is why you should wear cooking mastery clothing when handing in these boxes and popping a Seafood Cron Meal or Savory Steak to boost your mastery if needed. More information about mastery is listed further in the guide.

Your daily turn-in limit resets with your servers daily reset. (You need to swap channels or log out/in to refresh daily turn-in limit.) The NPCs current limit resets every three hours. You can view the next reset on our website in the navigation bar and also set an alarm to be notified when the daily, or NPC limit resets

I highly recommend taking a look at this Google Sheet or using Velia Inn which shows you the best boxes to make for profit. Prices are based on the EU market but you can make a copy of the sheet and change it to NA on the “Ello” tab.

You choose ONE item to pack into a box. For example, if you are making the Apprentice Cooking Box you only need Teff Bread x390 OR High-Quality Carrot Juice x360. You don’t need all the items listed those are just alternatives you can use!!! You can also use the procs of the items. For example, you can use Spongy Teff Bread, which is the proc of Teff Bread and you only need 1/3 of the amount listed. So you can use Spongy Teff Bread x130 instead of Teff Bread x390

After crafting your cooking box, you can hand them in at an Imperial Cooking NPC at one of the locations show below (click tabs for each location):

Witch’s Delicacy (Cooking Byproduct)

Witch’s Delicacy can randomly drop whilst cooking. According to players it has a drop rate of around 2%, meaning you are likely to get one for every 50 dishes you cook.

Once you’ve collected 10 of them, you can exchange them at Nadia Rowen in Olvia for one of the following:

Witch’s Delicacy x10	Beer x500
	Milk x120
	Contribution EXP 900 and Cooking EXP 30

I highly recommend choosing either Milk or Contribution EXP. Milk is difficult to obtain since it has to be gathered by hand and is a bottleneck for cooking, whilst the Contribution EXP you earn from cooking is one of the easiest ways to boost your CP.

Cooking Mastery

For a full look into life skill masteries I recommend taking a look at our guide which explains how to get all the gear and how many points each piece gives.

Higher Cooking Mastery has the following benefits:

• You will receive more profit for Imperial Cooking Boxes (up to 114.9%).
• The chance to obtain the maximum amount of food per cooking will increase up to 61.1% (e.g. if you get 1 to 4 results when cooking a certain food, the chance to get 4 will increase
• The chance to obtain higher grade food will increase up to 19.3% max.
• You will have a chance of Mass Cooking occuring. This means you will be able to cook in larger batches. (e.g. you will use x10 materials at once and get x10 food at once, but the durability of your Cooking Utensil will only decrease by 1). The chance of this occuring can increase up to 100% depending on your total Cooking Mastery points.

However, mastery gear is not typically used when cooking because it is hard to obtain 1 second cooking time without wearing a Silver Embroidered Cook’s Clothes. The mastery gear is still used though for handing in cooking boxes.

Emergancy food quests have also been added which will pop up at random times whilst you are cooking. Emergancy food quests require you to cook x1 of the food you are already cooking and then turn it in to an NPC. As a reward, you will receive a large amount of cooking ingredients.

For example: [Emergency] Food for Calpheon Slum will require one random food among three types of food. The rewards are either 1000 Eggs or 1000 Milk.

Food recipes to increase Cooking Mastery:

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