what's going on everyone Austin John plays here and today I want to talk about early
game food and how to optimize your cooking in Legend of Zelda tears of the Kingdom [Music]
have you played breath of the wild there's a high likelihood the very first thing you did was go to
the farad region to the Hardy durian Farm well I want to let you know first thing there's no
Hardy durians like I haven't found any other than from amiibo in this game just none whatsoever I
don't know if they're extinct or if they're in one specific place that I don't know but as of
right now as of time release while the game is in its infancy you're not going to be able to
go to that farron Hardy durian Farm there's a there's a mighty banana farm that one's a nice
easy one but as far as durian's no luck there when it comes to early game there's a simple
concept I want to talk about which is going to be What's called the one hit rule basically ever
since breath of the wild they made it so no enemy can one shot you meaning that as long
as you're at full health you will never get ko'd from an enemy attack you can be one shot
from fall damage even if you have three or four hearts or whatever you are completely safe from
being one hit by enemies now here's my concept if you are gonna get hit with an attack that
does eight hearts and you have eight hearts you're gonna be brought down to a quarter heart if you're
hit with an attack that does eight hearts and you have three hearts you're brought down to a
quarter heart at which time it now costs more resources for you to then recover your health
ever since breath of the wild the exact thing that I've been doing has been working very well here in
tears of the Kingdom so I would highly recommend this specific method for cooking food one when you
do your shrines focus on stamina get a full second stamina wheel and then after I get a full second
stamina wheel I usually go one for one stamina piece hard stamina piece hard although in my first
playthrough I just did five hearts and three rings of stamina and then I went forward and when it
comes to cooking there's a general rule of thumb until you're like in like the mid game and you're
ready to start making specific recipes you're mostly just going to be focusing on efficient
recovery and a small amount of Buffs so this isn't like a full cooking guide this is just early game
cooking so look at this palm fruit right here it recovers one heart if I'm in a situation that I
brought down to a quarter heart I need to eat two of these that are cooked in order to fully recover
so because of that all I want to do is take two cook them and boom simmered fruit four hearts
that is full recovery now if I had eight hearts right now I would need to consume four cooked
Palm fruits in order to fully recover because of that that's why I'm choosing to do this specific
method now typically what I do is I like to hoard all of my items and then whenever I know that
there's gonna be a Blood Moon and you know because starting around 7 PM you'll start to hear sounds
and then as soon as you can see the moon rise which is typically around 9pm you're going to
see the actual blood moon whenever you see the blood moon in the sky and it's like 11 o'clock
you want to fast travel to any stable that you can as long as it's not raining if it's raining fast
travel to another one that's why it's important that you unlock a few of them at the beginning
of the game which they're all around central Hyrule you're fine next you want to focus on
the time if you don't know it's available on the map screen as you can see right there at
the bottom right 11 25. from here I like to grab just one palm fruit and then soon as it hits 11 30
I cook it and I got a critical cook from the time of exactly 11 30 to 11 55 PM during a Blood Moon
you're guaranteed a critical cook which is normally a 10 chance to happen so using only
one palm fruit I now got a better dish typically what I do is I just wait until the blood moon and
then I start cooking up food my first priority is stamina recovery and heart recovery so if you have
things like stamina shrooms that says that it's cooked to release stamina restoration properties
I just want to cook one of these at a time and that's going to recover a fifth of a stamina wheel
and Full Hearts cook One More by the way they made spam cooking like this so much faster but you saw
that my critical cook instead of giving me extra Hearts like it did on this one it gave me extra
stamina now that is three-fifths of a stamina wheel and that's fantastic when it comes to
hearty food such as hearty radishes and big hearty radishes always always always only cook one at a
time that's a fantastic food for late game so you may even want to hold off at this current point
in time because if I could eat one palm fruit and those are readily available to fully recover why
am I going to be cooking hearty radishes at the beginning of the game honestly early game I would
say the most helpful thing for temporary Hearts is when you're affected by Gloom at that point yeah
the the temporary Hearts can be helpful because if you're brought down to one heart and then you get
six temporary Hearts you now have seven Hearts regardless of your current Gloom status the bad
news is as soon as you go to a light root you lose those temporary Hearts because they become
regular Hearts apples recover one heart so I'm just gonna cook two of them at the same time
five Hearts heck I could just cook one at a time one apple gave me four Hearts if you need Hearts
go to Satori Mountain there's an apple orchard there you get like 50 or more plus there is golden
apples which I'll be honest with you I don't actually know what golden apples are for if
they're a special thing at some point in the game but as for right now I don't need to cook a golden
apple during a Blood Moon because that's going to be way too many hearts anytime that you want
to see the various things that you got you could just come to one of your cook dishes and check
the recipe this simmered fruit I'm gonna check the history of it you see that I cooked one apple or
two apples one palm fruit or two palm fruit and that's how many hearts it's supposed to give me
but because I'm critical cooking I'm getting a lot more when it comes to food like Mighty
porgies and armored porgies and the armored carp and mighty carp that are going to give
you attack Buffs at the beginning of the game you probably only want to cook one at a time during a
Blood Moon that's gonna give me attack up for 50 seconds so my critical cook was for the hearts not
for the attack up power which sometimes that one little heart is actually pretty good this time the
critical cook gave me extended duration for five and a half minutes now if you saw my early tips
video I talked about how you at the beginning of the game you get the Barbarian armor which gives
you attack up level one you can stack attack up level one and attack up level one food for attack
up level two or you could do attack up level 2 food and outfit level one for a total of attack
up three you can never surpass level three between food and armor this is also a great time if you
want to cook your elixirs so if I take a frog and I'm just gonna grab a bokoblin horn nice simple
stuff boom speed up level two for two and a half minutes that time the critical cook increased the
potency which gave me speed up level 2 instead of speed up level one I know that because if I
go to the recipe it's supposed to give me level one for two and a half minutes so again just
gonna cook one Porgy one Carp at a time raw meat just cook one raw meat at a time and if you go
to caves where the horror Blends are you're gonna be getting a whole bunch of raw meat just sitting
out there you could go hunting if you want and every single time I'm cooking one of these meat
skewers is a full recovery that means I could be brought down to a quarter of a heart I eat one of
these steaks that's now cooked and I'm good one of two things is gonna happen during this Blood Moon
critical cook one you're gonna see these Flames that starts at 11 50 P.M that happens you you may
already be at your maximum amount of food but if you're not you can actually delay a Blood Moon all
you need to do is fast travel to any shrine at 11 50 PM I recommend 11 50. you can squeeze 11.55 and
then soon as you spawn in you want to hold down and run and run directly into the shrine don't
worry about fixing the camera or anything else just hold down and run get in the shrine as soon
as possible the whole point is that from 11 59 to 12 a.m you want to be inside of the shrine and if
you check the map screen it's now 12 a.m We are now safe to leave the shrine and go back to the
stable we were just at because now we not only skipped the blood moon but we delayed it until
the next day so if you're on a stint that you just want to cook and fill up your inventory nice and
easy at the beginning of the game do this method and then to expedite this even further as you see
there's you know no blood moon or anything if I go look at the moon it's not even a full moon right
now that's weird so I guess Blood Moons don't rely on full moons anymore I don't have a fire
weapon on me there's a torch here I'm just gonna drop a flint down strike it with a metal weapon
and I'm just gonna go ahead and sleep until night time which is gonna Pub me at 9pm keep
in mind that if you chose like morning you're gonna sleep and you're also going to see the
blood moon cut scene so now that it's 9 p.m that's North if I look to the right that is
East the moon should be rising from the east or during this time period that you have nothing
to do and you're just waiting for the moon to spawn if you have any amiibos not even Zelda
amiibos just any amiibos here's Alex I'm scanning Alex and you get some stuff dropped from the sky
including a zap shroom that I've never gotten before and a raw meat that raw meat is a full
recovery including the enormous detective Pikachu amiibo yeah that's that's an amiibo
it's weird and it's not a lot of materials but it's some this game makes it so that you can't
have too many things on screen at once so because of that you can probably scan three
non-zelda amiibos here's gold Mario and you're not going to worry about things despawning
here's uh I forgot the owl's name from Animal Crossing I know I'm shameful right now
so generally for the non-zelda amiibos you could scan three at a time and boom there's our blood
moon I still have time I'm gonna go ahead and scan my Awakening link which he's gonna be dropping
these chests which are going to have sometimes apples sometimes arrows I say chest I'm at
crates and then this chest what are we gonna get a soldiers broadsword here's my Ganondorf NFC card
he's gonna drop me some raw meat oh wolf link is actually fantastic for raw meat granted if
you don't have a large amiibo collection bro look at that look at all the look at all the
meals right there if you don't have a large amiibo collection you're more than welcome
to just go around hunt down Foliage for food if you see birds and boars shoot arrows at
them you're good to go do some hunting 11 25 I'm just gonna go ahead and hold my raw meat
I like to cook apples and raw meat the most because I know that those are never going to
be used for upgrading specific pieces of armor or any quests in the Overworld really the only things
you can do with apples and raw meat is you can give apples to horses to increase their infection
level if they're not maxed out or instead of you know just hitting L and dogs you could give
raw meat or apples to and after you give them four they're gonna show you where treasure is
located which has done it every stable and then there's also I found so far one side quest that
involves that it's a pretty fun side quest just just a heads up if you're next to a stable but
not at a stable and you see a dog make sure you give him food he might show you something great
there we go you can't carry any more meals that's what we wanted to see so if I go to
my cook dishes and I sort by effect I have one hearty food a whole bunch of stamina recovery
Foods a few attack UPS a defense up and then just meet just cooked meat skewers all of it
is five Hearts recovery that's the reason that I get my second stamina wheel and then I get my
fifth heart and then I get my third entire stamina wheel after my stamina wheel is completely done
it's usually only then that I start doing more hearts and by the time you reach that point in
the game that you have cleared what is it 40 shrines for your stamina wheel you probably
have a good backlog of food and you can actually start cooking better dishes but keep in mind if I
have 10 Hearts all I need to do is cook two meats and I'm good there you go there is some helpful
advice tips and hints for early game cooking for your recovery on Legend of Zelda tears of the
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