Valheim Every cooking station, every recipe

Valheim food is not decoration. Your three food slots are the health bar, the stamina bar, and — from Mistlands onward — the eitr bar. Cook the wrong plate and Bonemass becomes a two-hour fight. Cook the right ladder and every boss is a parry plus a mace swing. This page is the complete cooking reference: stations, recipes, upgrades, and why the Smoker in the Deep North matters.

For ranked combos and what to eat in each biome, use the food tier list. For farms and comfort, use the building guide. This page is the craft bench and the cauldron.

Cooking stations overview

Valheim has six cooking facilities, each unlocking a tier of recipes:

Station	Biome	What it adds
Cooking Station	Meadows	Basic roasted meats and fish
Iron Cooking Station	Swamp (Forge)	Better meats, serpent, lox
Cauldron	Black Forest (Forge)	Soups, stews, sausages, jam
Food Preparation Table	Swamp (Workbench)	Breads, pies, feasts
Stone Oven	Mountain (Artisan Table)	Baked goods from Preparation Table
Smoker	Deep North (Workbench)	Deep North smoked foods

All stations that cook food need to sit over a fire. The cauldron sits over a hearth, not a campfire. Cauldron add-ons (spice rack, butcher’s table, pots and pans, mortar, rolling pins, smoker) attach to the cauldron itself and also need a nearby workbench with the right biome materials.

Valheim 1.0 cooking and food guide

Cooking Station — Meadows basics

The Cooking Station is the first kitchen. Drop it over any campfire. It handles raw meats:

• Cooked Meat — raw meat, 20 min, +35 HP / +12 stamina
• Grilled Neck Tail — neck tail, 20 min, +25 HP / +8 stamina
• Cooked Deer Meat — deer meat, 20 min, +35 HP / +12 stamina
• Cooked Boar Meat — boar meat, 20 min, +30 HP / +10 stamina
• Cooked Wolf Meat — wolf meat, 20 min, +45 HP / +15 stamina
• Cooked Chicken Meat — chicken meat, 20 min, +60 HP / +20 stamina
• Cooked Hare Meat — hare meat, 20 min, +60 HP / +20 stamina
• Cooked Fish — raw fish, 20 min, +45 HP / +15 stamina
• Cooked Serpent Meat — serpent meat, 25 min, +70 HP / +23 stamina
• Cooked Lox Meat — lox meat, 20 min, +50 HP / +16 stamina
• Cooked Seeker Meat — seeker meat, 20 min, +60 HP / +20 stamina
• Cooked Bonemaw Meat — bonemaw meat, 25 min, +90 HP / +30 stamina
• Cooked Asksvin Tail — asksvin tail, 20 min, +70 HP / +24 stamina
• Cooked Volture Meat — volture meat, 20 min, +70 HP / +24 stamina

Honey, berries, carrots, onions, mushrooms, cloudberries, and magecaps can be eaten raw. They are not cooking recipes — they are inventory food you hold for emergencies.

Iron Cooking Station — Swamp upgrade

The Iron Cooking Station unlocks at a Forge. It handles the same basic list but produces slightly better results for some meats. Build it with iron and chain. Most players skip it as a separate station and use the cauldron for the real cooking work.

Cauldron — the real kitchen

The cauldron is where the food ladder starts. It sits over a hearth (not a campfire) and upgrades in stages. Each upgrade adds new recipes. Upgrade order matters if you are short on resources: do spice rack first, butcher’s table second, pots and pans third.

Cauldron upgrades

Upgrade	Materials	Biome required
Spice Rack	Dandelion x3, Carrot x2, Mushroom x5, Thistle x3, Turnip x3	Swamp (Workbench)
Butcher’s Table	Ancient Bark x2, Corewood x4, Finewood x4, Silver x2	Mountain (Workbench)
Pots and Pans	Iron x5, Copper x5, Black Metal x5, Finewood x10	Plains (Workbench)
Mortar and Pestle	Black Marble x8, Finewood x6, Corewood x4	Mistlands (Workbench)
Rolling Pins and Cutting Boards	Ashwood x8, Finewood x6, Flametal x4	Ashlands (Workbench)
Smoker	Bloodgold x5, Timberwood x6	Deep North (Workbench)

Cauldron recipes by level

Level 1 (base cauldron):

• Queen’s Jam x4 — raspberries x8, blueberries x6, 20 min, +14 HP / +40 stamina
• Carrot Soup — mushroom, carrot x3, 25 min, +15 HP / +45 stamina
• Deer Stew — cooked deer meat, blueberries, carrot, 25 min, +45 HP / +15 stamina
• Minced Meat Sauce — boar meat, neck tail, carrot, 25 min, +40 HP / +13 stamina
• Sausages x4 — entrails x4, boar meat, thistle, 25 min, +55 HP / +18 stamina
• Boar Jerky x2 — boar meat, honey, 30 min, +23 HP / +23 stamina

Level 2:

• Black Soup — bloodbag, honey, turnip, 20 min, +50 HP / +17 stamina
• Onion Soup — onion x3, 20 min, +20 HP / +60 stamina
• Muckshake — ooze, raspberries x2, blueberries x2, 20 min, +16 HP / +50 stamina
• Turnip Stew — boar meat, turnip x3, 25 min, +18 HP / +55 stamina
• Serpent Stew — mushroom, cooked serpent meat, honey x2, 30 min, +80 HP / +26 stamina

Level 3:

• Wolf Skewer — wolf meat, mushroom x2, onion, 25 min, +65 HP / +21 stamina
• Wolf Jerky x2 — wolf meat, honey, 30 min, +33 HP / +33 stamina
• Eyescream — greydwarf eye x3, freeze gland, 25 min, +21 HP / +65 stamina

Level 4:

• Fish Wraps x2 — cooked fish x2, barley flour x4, 25 min, +70 HP / +23 stamina
• Blood Pudding — thistle x2, bloodbag x2, barley flour x4, 30 min, +25 HP / +75 stamina

Level 5:

• Cooked Egg — egg, 20 min, +35 HP / +12 stamina
• Mushroom Omelette — egg x3, jotun puffs x3, 25 min, +28 HP / +85 stamina
• Salad x3 — jotun puffs x3, onion x3, cloudberries x3, 25 min, +26 HP / +80 stamina
• Seeker Aspic x2 — seeker meat x2, magecap x2, royal jelly x2, 30 min, +28 HP / +14 stamina / +85 eitr
• Yggdrasil Porridge — sap x4, barley x3, royal jelly x2, 25 min, +27 HP / +13 stamina / +80 eitr
• Fiery Svinstew — asksvin tail, vineberry cluster x2, smoke puff, 25 min, +95 HP / +32 stamina
• Sizzling Berry Broth — sap x3, fiddlehead x2, vineberry cluster x2, 25 min, +28 HP / +14 stamina / +85 eitr
• Sparkling Shroomshake — sap x4, vineberry cluster x2, smoke puff x2, magecap x2, 25 min, +30 HP / +15 stamina / +90 eitr
• Spicy Marmalade — vineberry cluster x3, honey, fiddlehead, 25 min, +30 HP / +90 stamina

Level 6:

• Marinated Greens — sap x3, magecap x2, fiddlehead x2, smoke puffs x2, 30 min, +32 HP / +16 stamina / +95 eitr
• Mashed Meat — asksvin tail, volture meat, fiddlehead, 25 min, +100 HP / +34 stamina
• Scorching Medley x3 — jotun puffs x3, onion x3, fiddlehead x3, 25 min, +32 HP / +95 stamina

Food Preparation Table and Stone Oven

The Food Preparation Table is a separate station (swamp-tier workbench) that assembles complex recipes, which then bake in the Stone Oven. This is where bread, pies, and feasts come from.

Preparation Table recipes (bake in Stone Oven)

• Bread x2 — barley flour x10, 25 min, +23 HP / +70 stamina
• Lox Meat Pie — cloudberries x2, cooked lox meat x2, barley flour x4, 30 min, +75 HP / +24 stamina
• Fish ‘n’ Bread — anglerfish, bread dough x2, 30 min, +30 HP / +90 stamina
• Honey Glazed Chicken — chicken meat, honey x3, jotun puffs x2, 30 min, +80 HP / +26 stamina
• Meat Platter — seeker meat, lox meat, hare meat, 30 min, +80 HP / +26 stamina
• Misthare Supreme — hare meat, jotun puffs x3, carrot x2, 25 min, +85 HP / +28 stamina
• Stuffed Mushroom — magecap x3, blood clot, turnip x2, 25 min, +25 HP / +12 stamina / +75 eitr
• Piquant Pie — vineberry cluster x2, asksvin tail x2, barley flour x4, 30 min, +105 HP / +35 stamina
• Roasted Crust Pie — vineberry cluster x2, volture egg, barley flour x4, 30 min, +34 HP / +100 stamina

Feasts (Food Preparation Table only, serve from Serving Tray)

Feasts serve ten portions from a single item. They need a Serving Tray (140 coins from the Bog Witch). Place the feast on the tray, share with the group:

• Whole Roasted Meadow Boar — cooked deer meat x2, cooked boar meat x5, dandelion x4, woodland herb blend, 50 min, +35 HP / +35 stamina
• Black Forest Buffet Platter — deer stew x3, thistle x5, queen’s jam x4, woodland herb blend, 50 min, +35 HP / +35 stamina
• Swamp Dweller’s Delight — sausages x8, bloodbag x4, turnip stew x2, woodland herb blend, 50 min, +35 HP / +35 stamina
• Sailor’s Bounty — cooked fish x5, thistle x4, cooked serpent meat x2, seafarer’s herbs, 50 min, +45 HP / +45 stamina
• Hearty Mountain Logger’s Stew — wolf skewer x2, onion soup x3, carrot x4, mountain peak pepper powder, 50 min, +45 HP / +45 stamina
• Plains Pie Picnic — bread x3, lox meat pie x2, cloudberries x5, grasslands herbalist harvest, 50 min, +55 HP / +55 stamina
• Mushrooms Galore à la Mistlands — misthare supreme, cooked seeker meat x3, yggdrasil porridge, herbs of the hidden hills, 50 min, +65 HP / +65 stamina / +33 eitr
• Ashlands Gourmet Bowl — cooked asksvin tail x3, vineberry cluster x5, scorching medley x2, fiery spice powder, 50 min, +75 HP / +75 stamina / +38 eitr

Deep North Smoker

The Smoker is the final cauldron upgrade (Deep North workbench). It processes Deep North ingredients into smoked foods:

• Smoked moose meat
• Smoked seal blubber
• Other Deep North smoked ingredients

The Smoker turns moose and seal materials into shelf-stable food with good duration. This is critical for long Deep North expeditions where a campfire is hard to keep lit in a blizzard. Keep a stock of smoked foods in your Deep North base chest.

Station placement rules

• Cooking Station, Iron Cooking Station, and Cauldron all need to sit over a fire.
• The cauldron specifically needs a hearth (the stone fireplace), not a regular campfire.
• Cauldron add-ons need a nearby workbench with the correct biome level.
• The Food Preparation Table and Stone Oven do not need fire underneath.
• Smoker needs to be adjacent to the cauldron and a Deep North workbench.

What to cook first in each biome

Meadows: Cooked meat and grilled neck tail until you have deer. Berries and honey are the backup slots.

Black Forest: Queen’s jam (raspberries plus blueberries) at the cauldron. Carrot soup once you find carrot seeds.

Swamp: Sausages are the first real upgrade. Turnip stew when turnip farms exist. Black soup before Bonemass.

Mountain: Onion soup / wolf skewer. Eyescream for stamina-heavy wolf hunts.

Plains: Lox meat pie, blood pudding, bread. Barley and flax farms turn the plains into a bakery.

Mistlands: Seeker aspic, yggdrasil porridge, misthare supreme — the first real eitr plates. Mages need one eitr slot always.

Ashlands: Fiery svinstew, scorching medley, spicy marmalade. Fire resist mead is not food, but it is the tax you pay before eating.

Deep North: Smoked moose, smoked seal blubber, lingonberries. The Smoker is the key infrastructure for the final biome.

For specific ranked combos, see the food tier list. For farms, see the building guide. For why three slots matter more than one perfect plate, see the food guide.