Valheim Food and Cooking Guide

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Our Valheim Food and Cooking Guide will tell you how Food works, how Cooking works, and the best Food and Cooking Recipes in the game!

How Valheim Food Works

Valheim Food is necessary for increasing your Health, Stamina, Eitr, and Health Regeneration. Unlike other survival crafting sims, Valheim doesn't have a hunger or thirst management system. Instead, food functions more as a means of health management. You can eat up to three pieces of food at a time, and depending on what you eat, your maximum health will increase and you will heal over time.

Without Food, you'll be limited to a paltry 25 Health, 50 Stamina, and 0 Eitr -- hardly enough for a Viking warrior on a rampage. That can be the difference between victory and defeat in mid-to-late game scenarios.

Every piece of Food has 7 key stats:

  • Weight - How heavy a piece of Food is. If you want to carry Food with you, you're going to have to manage its Weight.
  • Stack Size - How many pieces of the same Food can fit in one square of your Inventory or a Chest.
  • Health - How much the Food increases your maximum Health.
  • Stamina - How much the Food increases your maximum Stamina.
  • Eitr - How much the Food increases your maximum Eitr, Valheim's equivalent of Mana. Take note, characters have 0 Eitr by default, so you won't be able to use magic without at least one piece of Food that provides Eitr.
  • Duration - How long the Food lasts, in minutes. Food's beneficial effects gradually deteriorate throughout the Duration.
  • HP/Tick - How much Health regeneration the Food provides per "tick" of the game.

Food tends to be divided into four types based on which stat gets the biggest benefit, indicated by the color of the fork on the Food's icon in your Inventory:

  • White - Equal Health and Stamina gain.
  • Red - Higher Health gain.
  • Yellow - Higher Stamina gain.
  • Blue - Higher Eitr gain.

You can eat up to three pieces of food at a time, and depending on what you eat, your maximum health will increase and you will heal over time. Eventually, these bonuses go away -- even ones that affect your maximum health -- but these edible helpers can boost you for ten to twenty minutes at a time if you're lucky.

Where to Find Food in Valheim

There are two places to find Food in Valheim:

  • Growing in the wild
  • Taken from enemies or Animals as loot.

How to Clear Your Food Bar in Valheim

You can clear out your Food Bar by eating Bukeperries, a special Food item that drops from certain monsters such as Greydwarf Shamen in the Black Forest. Bukeperries will cause you to vomit, removing any stat bonuses you have and allowing you to eat different Food.

Alternatively, you can wait for the Food timers to run out naturally. You can replace an item on your Food Bar when the icon is flashing in the last few minutes of its duration.


Best Food in Valheim

There is no one "best Food" in Valheim; rather, you want to have the best Food for the situation. You also have to consider that some Food will be simply unattainable -- you can't use something made of ingredients from the Mistlands if you haven't visited there yet.

Regardless, here are the best Foods for four key stats:

  • The best Food for increasing Health is Misthare Supreme at +85 Health.
  • The best Food for increasing Stamina is Fish n' Bread at +90 Stamina.
  • The best Food for increasing Eitr is Seeker Aspic at +85 Eitr.
  • The best Foods for increasing HP/tick are Misthare Supreme, Honey Glazed Chicken, and Meat Platter, all of which provide +5 HP/tick.
A man looking over a cauldron making sausages
I gotta get what to make these!?

How Valheim Cooking Works

You can eat Food raw, but Valheim Cooking will always provide you with greater benefits in terms of stats. Cooked Food is always preferable to raw Food.

There are three kinds of Cooking in Valheim:

  • Grilling - Cooking Food at a Cooking Station over a fire. You have to wait a certain amount of time for each piece of Food to Cook.
  • Cauldron - Complex recipes have to be Cooked in the Cauldron. Strangely, Cooking in a Cauldron is often faster than Grilling.
  • Baking - Baked Foods often have to be Cooked in the Cauldron first and then baked in an Oven.
A warrior trying to make jam in a cauldron
Just look at those numbers. Totally worth smelting this tin.

Valheim Cooking Recipe List

Food Weight Stack
Size
Health Stamina Eitr Duration HP/Tick Cooked At Ingredients
Black Soup 1 10 50 17 0 20m 3hp/tick Cauldron lvl 2 x1 Bloodbag, x1 Honey, x1 Turnip
Blood Pudding  1 10 25 75 0 30m 2hp/tick Cauldron lvl 4 x2 Thistle, x2 Bloodbags, x4 Barley Flour 
Blueberries 0.1 50 8 25 0 10m 1hp/tick N/A N/A
Boar Jerky x2 0.5 20 23 23 0 30m 2hp/tick Cauldron lvl 1 x1 Boar Meat, x1 Honey
Bread 0.5 20 23 70 0 25m 2hp/tick Stone Oven x1 Bread Dough 
Bukeberries 0.1 50 0 0 0 15s 0 N/A N/A
Carrot 0.3 50 10 32 0 10m 1hp/tick N/A N/A
Carrot Soup  1 10 15 45 0 25m 2hp/tick Cauldron lvl 1 x1 Mushroom, x3 Carrots
Cloudberries 0.1 50 13 40 0 15m 1hp/tick N/A N/A
Cooked Boar Meat 1 20 30 10 0 20m 2hp/tick Cooking Station  x1 Boar Meat
Cooked Deer Meat 1 20 35 12 0 20m 2hp/tick Cooking Station 1 Deer Meat
Cooked Egg 1 20 35 12 0 20m 2hp/tick Cauldron lvl 1 x1 Egg
Cooked Fish  0.5 20 45 15 0 20m 2hp/tick Cooking Station  x1 Raw Fish
Cooked Lox Meat 1 20 50 16 0 20m 4hp/tick Iron Cooking Station x1 Lox Meat
Cooked Wolf Meat  1 20 25 15 0 20m 3hp/tick Cooking Station  x1 Wolf Meat 
Deer Stew  1 10 45 15 0 25m 3hp/tick Cauldron lvl 1 x1 Cooked Deer Meat, x1 Blueberry, x1 Carrot 
Eyescream 0.5 10 21 65 0 25m 1hp/tick Cauldron lvl 3 x3 Greydwarf eyes, x1 Freeze Gland
Fish n' Bread 6 10 30 90 0 30m 3hp/tick Stone Oven lvl 5 x1 Anglerfish, x2 Bread Dough
Fish Wraps  1 10 70 23 0 25m 4hp/tick Cauldron lvl 4 x2 Cooked Fish, x4 Barley Flour
Grilled Neck Tail 0.5 20 25 8 0 20m 2hp/tick Cooking Station  x1 Neck Tail
Honey 0.2 50 8 35 0 15m 1hp/tick N/A N/A
Honey Glazed Chicken  1 10 80 26 0 30m  5hp/tick Stone Oven lvl 5 x1 Chicken Meat, x3 Honey, x2 Jotun Puffs
Lox Pie  1 10 75 24 0 30m  4hp/tick Stone Oven lvl 4 x2 Cloudberries, x1 Lox Meat, x4 Barley Flour
Meat Platter 1 10 80 26 0 30m  5hp/tick Stone Oven Lvl 5 x1 Seeker Meat, x1 Lox Meat, x1 Hare Maet
Minced Meat Sauce 1 10 40 13 0 25m 3hp/tick Cauldron lvl 1 x1 Boar Meat, x1 Neck Tail, x1 Carrot 
Misthare Supreme 1 10 85 25 0 25m 5hp/tick Stone Oven Lvl 5 x1 Hare Meat, x3 Jotun Puffs, x2 Carrots 
Muckshake 1 10 16 50 0 20m 1hp/tick Cauldron lvl 2 x1 Ooze, x2 Raspberries, x2 Blueberries 
Mushroom 0.1 50 15 15 0 15m 1hp/tick N/A N/A
Mushroom Omelette  1 10 28 85 0 25m 3hp/tick Cauldron lvl 5 x3 Eggs, x3 Jotun Puffs
Onion  0.3 50 13 40 0 15m 1hp/tick N/A N/A
Onion Soup  1 10 20 60 0 20m 1hp/tick Cauldron lvl 2 x3 Onion
Queens Jam x4 1 10 14 40 0 20m 2hp/tick Cauldron lvl 1 x8 Raspberries, x6 Blueberries
Raspberry 0.1 50 7 20 0 10m 1hp/tick N/A N/A
Salad x3 1 10 26 80 0 25m 3hp/tick Unknown x3 Jotun Puffs, x3 Onion, x3 Cloudberries
Sausages x4  0.5 20 55 18 0 25m 3hp/tick Cauldron lvl 2 x4 Entrails, x1 Boar Meat, x1 Thistle
Seeker Aspic 1 10 28 14 85 30m 3hp/tick Cauldron Lv 5 2 Seeker Meat, 2 Magecap, 2 Royal Jelly
Serpent Stew 1 10 80 26 0 30m  4hp/tick Cauldron lvl 2 x1 Mushroom, x1 Cooked Serpent Meat, x2 Honey
Stuffed Shroom 1 10 25 12 75 25m 3hp/tick Stone Oven lvl 5 x3 Magecap, x1 Bloodclot, x2 Turnip
Turnip Stew  1 10 18 55 0 25m 2hp/tick Cauldron lvl 2 x1 Boar Meat, x3 Turnip
Wolf Jerky x2 0.5 20 33 33 0 30m  3hp/tick Cauldron lvl 3 x1 Wolf Meat, x1 Honey 
Wolf Skewer 0.5 20 65 21 0 25m 3hp/tick Cauldron lvl 3 x1 Wolf Meat, x2 Mushroom, x1 Onion 
Yellow Mushroom 0.1 50 10 30 0 10m 1hp/tick N/A N/A
Yggdrasil Porridge 1 10 27 13 80 25m 3hp/tick Cauldron Lv 5 x4 Sap, x3 Barley, x2 Royal Jelly 

And that's the end of our Valheim Food and Cooking Guide. If you need more help, please consult our other guides, and watch out for trolls.

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Release Date
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