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How To Cook In My Time At Sandrock
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Every Recipe And How To Prepare It
Like most slice-of-life in a small town games, My Time at Sandrock features a cooking mechanic that allows you to make meals for your builder that help them in battle and in building. There’s nothing to replenish your depleted stamina after a long day quite like a nice meal, after all.
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In order to create new recipes in My Time at Sandrock, you’ll need to choose your ingredients and prepare them with care in order to fill out your recipe book. You’ll also receive a handful of recipes from your friends around Sandrock to help you get started with cooking.
How To Cook In My Time At Sandrock
How To Unlock Cooking
In My Time at Sandrock, cooking is a bit different from other games of its ilk. Instead of building and upgrading a kitchen, you'll need to research progressively better cooking equipment and build it for your Workshop.
Be sure to buy meals from the Blue Moon Saloon before you can cook, though - cooked food is great for your builder's stats and stamina!
Like all the other machines in My Time at Sandrock, cooking equipment will need to be upgraded with blueprints from the Research Center. It's also important to know that you don't start with any cookware unlocked - you'll need to start from the ground up.
When it comes to cooking in My Time at Sandrock, there are four cooking stations you'll need to prototype and craft. They can be found under the Product Creating Machine tab.
- The Drying Rack is your first level of cooking gear, where you'll be able to make dried foods like fish and jerky.
- The Apprentice Cooking Station is your first real piece of cooking equipment, allowing you to experiment with a Cooking Pot or Steamer.
- Your Chef's Cooking Station is a more advanced version of the Apprentice machine and allows the use of a Wok in cooking.
- Finally, the Advanced Cooking Station renders your builder capable of using the Oven.
Since your workstations are limited in what they can make until you improve them, you can't make every dish until you've fully upgraded the Cooking Stations.
How To Create New Recipes
While you'll receive a handful of recipes as you play the game and befriend the locals, for the most part, My Time at Sandrock's cooking mechanic relies on you experimenting with different ingredients and cooking methods.
As stated above, better Cooking Stations unlock new cookware, and these increasingly involved methods of cooking allow you to create new recipes from scratch.
Your builder is limited by the tools at their disposal, meaning you'll need to upgrade your cooking equipment to continue making new meals.
On the second tab at your cooking station, the one that looks like a beaker, you'll find yourself able to choose cooking methods, ingredients, and herbs to blend together into dozens of unique dishes.
Here, you'll be able to carefully select ingredients that seem like they'd work together in pursuit of new homemade recipes that your builder has made up themselves.
Choose some herbs and spices to add in on the second page of your ingredients list, and then choose one of four different cooking methods for your builder to use in preparing this meal. Once you've got everything in order, confirm your decision.
Any time you're successful in creating a new recipe, you'll not only receive a portion of the meal itself, but the recipe is logged and can now be accessed from the recipe menu to be quickly re-prepared later.
If you're unsuccessful in creating a new recipe, you'll get a pile of Food Scraps instead.
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Get New Recipes From Friends Or Treasure Chests
Trade Recipes With Owen And Mabel
There are two characters in My Time at Sandrock who are able to help your builder learn to cook - Owen, who owns the Blue Moon Saloon, and Mabel over at the Wandering Y Yakmel Ranch.
Both of these characters have a dialogue option you won't see when befriending the others - "Talk Recipes," with an icon of a chef's hat and spatula.
If the character isn't busy, they're usually willing to chat about food. The majority of the time, they'll offer to teach you a recipe in exchange for a few Gols.
If they are busy when you talk, try again in a couple of hours when they're free.
There are odd occasions, though, where these characters may instead ask you to teach them recipes. Not only will they give you a few Gols for the trouble, but you'll earn some relationship points with them, too.
They both give more recipes as you get closer to them, so work on your friendships to earn new recipes.
Every Recipe From Owen And Mabel In My Time At Sandrock
Recipe Name | Relationship Required |
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Owen's Recipes | |
Braised Meat | Acquaintance |
Fine Hot and Sour Fish | |
Fish Porridge | |
Steamed Sandfish | |
Steamed Sweet Potato | |
Spicy and Sour Potato | |
Tomato Beef Brisket | |
Tomato Fish | |
Highwind Fried Rice | Associate |
| |
Mabel's Recipes | |
Bread | Acquaintance |
Egg Custard | |
Macaroni | |
Sandberry Zongzi | |
Sandrice Cake | |
Sweet Potato Bake | |
Sweet Potato Pie | |
Beef Noodles | Associate |
Cheese Sandwich | |
Chilly Sandrice Noodles | |
Hashbrown | |
Meat Bun | |
Meat Stuffed Mushroom | |
Omelet | |
Pizza | |
Sandrice Sushi |
You can receive Acquaintance-level recipes once these characters have progressed to Associate as well - you just can't receive Associate recipes before reaching that level.
Find Recipes Buried Around Sandrock
Finally, there are an odd few recipes that are hidden within treasure chests in the furthest reaches of Sandrock.
These are usually tricky to find chests that may be buried in sand or placed high up above the ground.
Grab the Knowledge Point reward that unveils the location of Treasure Chests on your map to make them easier to find.
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Every Recipe And How To Prepare It
In the tables below, we've detailed all recipes in My Time at Sandrock, including the Cooking Station at which you'll be able to use the equipment needed to make the recipe, as well as the necessary ingredients for the dish.
* Any recipe marked with an asterisk is one you'll receive from Owen or Mabel.
All Drying Rack Recipes In My Time At Sandrock
Recipe Name | Ingredients |
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Jerky | 1 Meat |
Dried Sandberry | 2 Sandberries |
Salted Fish | 1 Sand Carp 1 Sea Salt |
Dried Sandacuda | 1 Sandacuda 1 Soy Sauce |
All Cooking Pot Recipes In My Time At Sandrock
Recipe Name | Ingredients |
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Beef Noodles * | 1 Meat 1 Flour 1 Soy Sauce |
Braised BBQ Ribs | 1 Five Spice Powder 1 Rib Meat 1 Soy Sauce 1 Sugar |
Braised Meat * | 1 Meat 1 Potato 1 Sand Leek 1 Sugar |
Chestnut Fish Heads | 1 Bullhead 1 Chestnut 1 Chili 1 Garlic |
Chestnut Pork | 1 Chestnut 1 Meat 1 Soy Sauce |
Chilly Sandrice Noodles * | 1 Chili 1 Flour 1 Rice 1 Soy Sauce |
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Curry Beef | 1 Curry Powder 1 Meat 1 Potato |
Drool For Joy Noodles | 1 Alfalfa 1 Flour 1 Meat 1 Rib Meat 1 Seesai Pepper Blend |
Farmer's Stew | 1 Desert Mushroom 1 Flour 1 Meat 1 Potato 1 Sea Salt |
Fine Beef Noodles | 1 CIlantro 1 Flour 1 Meat 1 Soy Sauce |
Fine Braised Meat | 1 Cistanche 1 Five Spice Powder 1 Meat 1 Sugar |
Fine Fish Porridge | 1 Crucian Carp 1 Rice 1 Sand Leek 1 Soy Sauce |
Fine Hot and Sour Fish * | 1 Chili 1 Sandacuda 1 Vinegar |
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Fine Tomato Fish | 1 Crucian Carp 1 Egg 1 Sand Leek 1 Tomato |
Fish Porridge * | 1 Rice 1 Sand Carp 1 Sand Leek 1 Soy Sauce |
Macaroni * | 1 Egg 1 Flour 1 Tomato |
Mapo Tofu | 1 Seesai Pepper 1 Soy Sauce 1 Spicy Bean Paste |
Meaty Cactus Stew | 1 Cactus Leaf 1 Garlic 1 Meat 1 Soy Sauce |
Mushroom Soup | 1 Desert Mushroom 1 Sand Leek 1 Sea Salt |
Pepper Fish | 1 Lungfish 1 Chili 1 Seesai Pepper 1 Soy Sauce |
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Sand Tea Beef | 1 Cilantro 1 Meat 1 Five Spice Powder 1 Tea Leaves |
Sand Tea Noodles | 1 Flour 1 Sand Tea 1 Soy Sauce |
Sandberry Egg Soup | 1 Egg 1 Sandberry 1 Sand Leek |
Spicy Bean Paste | 1 Chili 1 Meat 1 Potato |
Stewed Eagle Cistanche | 1 Chestnut 1 Cistanche 1 Meat 1 Sea Salt |
Tea Egg | 1 Egg 1 Tea Leaves 1 Sea Salt |
Tea Porridge | 1 Rice 1 Tea Leaves |
Tomato Beef Brisket * | 1 Meat 1 Tomato 1 Sea Salt |
Tomato Fish | 1 Egg 1 Sand Carp 1 Sand Leek 1 Tomato |
Tomato Soup | 1 Garlic 1 Sea Salt 1 Tomato |
Tomato and Egg Soup | 1 Egg 1 Sand Leek 1 Tomato |
All Steamer Recipes In My Time At Sandrock
Recipe Name | Ingredients |
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Bitter Bean Cake | 1 Bitter Beans 1 Rice 1 Sugar |
Chopped Pepper Fish Head | 1 Bullhead 1 Chili 1 Flour 1 Garlic |
Egg Custard * | 1 Egg 1 Sea Salt |
Fine Mushroom Forest Cake | 1 Cistanche 1 Desert Mushroom 1 Egg |
Fine Sandberry Zongzi | 1 Ant Honey 1 Meat 1 Sandberry 1 Sandrice |
Fine Steamed Fish | 1 Crucian Carp 1 Sand Leek 1 Sea Salt |
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Honey Avocado | 1 Ant Honey 1 Avocado |
Honey Sambo | 1 Ant Honey 1 Cactus Leaf 1 Cantaloupe 1 Sandberry |
Meat Bun * | 1 Flour 1 Meat 1 Sandberry |
Meat Stuffed Mushroom * | 1 Desert Mushroom 1 Meat 1 Soy Sauce |
Milk Steamed Egg | 1 Egg 1 Yakmel Milk |
Mushroom Forest Cake | 1 Desert Mushroom 1 Egg 1 Sugar |
Omelet * | 1 Egg 1 Flour 1 Yakmel Milk |
| |
Rib Gumbo | 1 Avocado 1 Rib Meat 1 Rice |
Sandberry Sponge Cake | 1 Rice 1 Sandberry |
Sandberry Zongzi * | 1 Sandberry 1 Sugar 1 Rice |
Sandrice Sushi * | 1 Meat 1 Rice 1 Vinegar |
Steamed Meat Pie with Salty Eggs | 1 Meat 1 Rice 1 Soy Sauce |
Steamed Sandfish * | 1 Sand Carp 1 Sand Leek 1 Sea Salt |
Steamed Sweet Potato * | 1 Sweet Potato |
Sweet Potato with Meat | 1 Meat 1 Soy Sauce 1 Sweet Potato |
Wild Olive Zongzi | 1 Ant Honey 1 Rice 1 Sand Date |
All Wok Recipes In My Time At Sandrock
Recipe Name | Ingredients |
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Alfalfa Salad | 1 Alfalfa 1 Chili 1 Sea Salt |
Churros | 1 Flour 1 Sugar |
Cilantro Meatloaf | 1 Cilantro 1 Five Spice Powder 1 Flour 1 Meat |
Cilantro Omelet | 1 Cilantro 1 Egg 1 Sea Salt |
Cold Cactus | 1 Cactus Leaf 1 Garlic 1 Soy Sauce |
Delicious Avocado | 1 Avocado 1 Chili 1 Seesai Pepper |
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Delicious Mushroom | 1 Desert Mushroom 1 Garlic 1 Sea Salt |
Fine Delicious Avocado | 1 Avocado 1 Five Spice Powder 1 Garlic 1 Yakmel Milk |
Fine Di Sanxian | 1 Alfalfa 1 Cistanche 1 Desert Mushroom 1 Soy Sauce |
Find Sandfishsticks | 1 Flour 1 Sandacuda 1 Sea Salt |
Fine Steamed Sandfish | 1 Crucian Carp 1 Sand Leek 1 Sea Salt |
Fine Sweet and Sour Sandfish | 1 Ant Honey 1 Desert Mudfish 1 Vinegar |
Fried Alfalfa | 1 Alfalfa 1 Garlic 1 Sea Salt |
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Fried Meat with Chili | 1 Chili 1 Garlic 1 Meat |
Fruit Salad | 1 Cactus Leaf 1 Cantaloupe 1 Sandberry |
Highwind Fried Rice * | 1 Egg 1 Potato 1 Rice 1 Soy Sauce |
Master Chef Omelet | 1 Egg 1 Sea Salt |
Melon and Beef | 1 Cantaloupe 1 Meat 1 Sea Salt 1 Sugar |
Milk Chestnut | 1 Chestnut 1 Sugar 1 Yakmel Milk |
Onion Cake | 1 Flour 1 Sand Leek 1 Sea Salt |
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Rice Omelet | 1 Egg 1 Rice 1 Soy Sauce |
Roasted Rutabaga | 1 Alfalfa 1 Rutabaga 1 Sand Leek 1 Sea Salt |
Spicy and Sour Potato | 1 Chili 1 Potato 1 Vinegar |
Steak Surprise | 1 Avocado 1 Chili 1 Rib Meat 1 Seesai Pepper |
Sugar Fried Chestnut | 1 Chestnut 1 Sugar |
Sweet Potato Bake * | 1 Flour 1 Sweet Potato |
Sweet and Sour Pork | 1 Flour 1 Meat 1 Sugar |
Sweet and Sour Pork Ribs | 1 Rib Meat 1 Sugar 1 Vinegar |
Sweet and Sour Sandfish | 1 Lungfish 1 Sugar 1 Vinegar |
Tomato Scrambled Egg | 1 Egg 1 Sea Salt 1 Tomato |
Veggie Stir Fry | 1 Alfalfa 1 Cilantro 1 Desert Mushroom 1 Soy Sauce |
All Oven Recipes In My Time At Sandrock
Recipe Name | Ingredients |
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Alfalfa Baked Eggs | 1 Alfalfa 1 Egg 1 Sea Salt |
Beef Tacos | 1 Egg 1 Flour 1 Meat 1 Sand Leek |
Bread * | 1 Egg 1 Flour 1 Sugar |
Cheese Sandwich * | 1 Egg 1 Flour 1 Tomato 1 Yakmel Milk |
Fine Sandfish with Secret Sauce | 1 Chili 1 Crucian Carp 1 Garlic 1 Soy Sauce |
Five Spice Steak | 1 Five Spice Powder 1 Potato 1 Rib Meat 1 Sea Salt |
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Hashbrown * | 1 Egg 1 Flour 1 Potato 1 Sand Leek |
Honey Barbecue Pork | 1 Ant Honey 1 Five Spice Powder 1 Meat 1 Soy Sauce |
Lasagna | 1 Flour 1 Meat 1 Tomato 1 Yakmel Milk |
Marinated Steak | 1 Rib Meat 1 Sea Salt 1 Seesai Pepper 1 Five Spice Powder |
Melon Mousse | 1 Cantaloupe 1 Egg 1 Flour |
Pizza * | 1 Egg 1 Flour 1 Meat 1 Yakmel Milk |
Roasted Sweet Potato | 1 Sweet Potato |
Sandfish with Secret Sauce | 1 Chili 1 Garlic 1 Sand Carp 1 Sugar |
Sweet Potato Pie * | 1 Egg 1 Flour 1 Sweet Potato |
Experiment with different meals to receive unique effects and stat boosts from your cooking in My Time at Sandrock!
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