- For oven recipes, see Baking.
Cooking In Skyrim.
Cooking is an activity that can be performed in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, but is not a skill. Cooking can be accomplished through the use of cooking pots and spits found in locations throughout the province. Food from cooking can restore magicka, health, or stamina and grant temporary effects determined by the recipe. The recipes require items such as raw meats, vegetables, and alchemical ingredients (especially salt piles). Characters start the game knowing every possible cooking recipe.
Cooking is a basic method of living off the land. Most of the food the Dragonborn can cook typically restores five to ten points of Health or Stamina. This is less than the healing from a minor potion. As alchemical skills improve, some cooked food may have less real value than the ingredients put into it.
However, those with low alchemy skill may benefit more from cooking than producing their own healing potions. Very long duration effects (12 minutes) can be produced as well, which can extend the time before one tires from power attacks or running and generally reduce the need to enter a menu to heal with other items. Due to the abundance of free food that can be obtained, making use of cooking can save a significant amount of money over time as well.
Cooking locations[]
- Alvor and Sigrid's House, Riverwood
- Any built homestead HF
- Any house bought with a kitchen upgrade
- Any Imperial or Stormcloak camp – Each is only available to neutrals or members of the corresponding faction
- Autumnwatch Tower – In the tower on the right as it is approached from the dragonstone
- The Bannered Mare, Whiterun
- Calixto's House of Curiosities, Windhelm
- Corpselight Farm, Falkreath
- Dragonsreach, Whiterun
- The Drunken Huntsman, Whiterun
- Embershard Mine, between Helgen and Riverwood – Cooking here can complete the Hard Worker achievement along with mining and wood chopping
- Faendal's House, Riverwood
- Fletcher, Solitude
- Fort Dawnguard, Dayspring Canyon DG
- Fort Greymoor, Whiterun Hold
- Hod and Gerdur's House, Riverwood
- Lost Knife Hideout, Lost Knife Cave
- Sadri's Used Wares, Windhelm
- Severin Manor, Raven Rock DR
- Silus Vesuius's House, Dawnstar
- Solitude Stables, Haafingar
- The White Phial, Windhelm
- Ysolda's House, Whiterun
Recipes[]
| Finished Product | Effect | Ingredients | 
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| Apple Cabbage Stew | Restores 10 Health and 15 Stamina Points. | Salt Pile, Red Apple, Cabbage | 0.5 | 8 |
| Beef Stew | Increases maximum Stamina by 25 for 720 seconds and restores 2 Stamina per second for 720 seconds. | Raw Beef, Carrot, Salt Pile, Garlic | 0.5 | 8 |
| Cabbage Potato Soup | Restores 10 Health and 10 Stamina Points. | Potato, Salt Pile, Leek, Cabbage | 0.5 | 5 |
| Cabbage Soup | Restores 10 Health and 8 Stamina Points. | Salt Pile, Cabbage | 0.5 | 5 |
| Clam Chowder HF | Restores 10 Health and 10 Stamina Points. | Clam Meat, Potato, Jug of Milk, Butter | 0.5 | 5 |
| Cooked Beef | Restores 10 Health Points. | Salt Pile, Raw Beef | 0.5 | 5 |
| Elsweyr Fondue | Increases Magicka regeneration by 25% and increases maximum Magicka by 100 for 720 seconds. | Eidar Cheese Wheel, Moon Sugar, Ale | 0.5 | 5 |
| Grilled Chicken Breast | Restores 5 Health Points. | Chicken Breast, Salt Pile | 0.2 | 4 |
| Horker Loaf | Restores 10 Health Points. | Salt Pile, Horker Meat | 1 | 4 |
| Horker Stew | Restores 15 Health and 15 Stamina Points. Restores 1 Health per second for 720 seconds. | Lavender, Tomato, Garlic, Horker Meat | 0.5 | 8 |
| Horker and Ash Yam Stew DR | Restores 16 Health and 12 Stamina Points. | Ash Yam, Garlic, Horker Meat | 0.5 | 9 |
| Horse Haunch | Restores 10 Health Points. | Salt Pile, Horse Meat | 2 | 4 |
| Leg of Goat Roast | Restores 10 Health Points. | Salt Pile, Leg of Goat | 1 | 4 |
| Mammoth Steak | Restores 10 Health Points. | Salt Pile, Mammoth Snout | 2 | 8 |
| Pheasant Roast | Restores 5 Health Points. | Salt Pile, Pheasant Breast | 0.2 | 4 |
| Potato Soup HF | Restores 10 Health and 10 Stamina Points. | Potato, Salt Pile | 0.5 | 5 |
| Rabbit Haunch | Restores 5 Health Points. | Salt Pile, Raw Rabbit Leg | 0.1 | 3 |
| Salmon Steak | Restores 5 Health Points. | Salt Pile, Salmon Meat | 0.1 | 4 |
| Steamed Mudcrab Legs HF | Restores 12 Health Points. | Mudcrab Legs, Butter | 0.1 | 4 |
| Tomato Soup | Restores 10 Health and 10 Stamina Points. | Tomato, Salt Pile, Garlic, Leek | 0.5 | 5 |
| Vegetable Soup | Restores 1 Health per second and 1 Stamina per second for 720 seconds. | Cabbage, Potato, Leek, Tomato | 0.5 | 5 |
| Venison Chop | Restores 5 Health Points. | Salt Pile, Venison | 2 | 5 |
| Venison Stew | Restores 15 Stamina Points. Restores 1 Health per second and 1 Stamina per second for 720 seconds. | Venison, Salt Pile, Potato, Leek | 0.5 | 8 |
Ingredients used for cooking[]
Achievements[]
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Hard Worker Chop wood, mine ore, and cook food |
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| Points | 10 
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| Trophy |  |