How do you use a cooking pot raft?

Sick of eating fruit picked right off your latest lost island excursion? Raft offers two ways to “cook” — using a cooking pot or chopping everything up with a juicer. Both can give your character buffs for faster swimming, faster running speed, or even escape death when the buff is active. There are lots of recipes to cook with, but there are only a handful of recipes that are actually useful. That’s what we’re going to talk about here.

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How To Cook Recipes | Cooking Pot & Juicer
The Best Recipes | Buff Recipes List
How to unlock the Juicer and Cooking Pot
Raft juice and food recipes list
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How do you unlock the cooking pot Raft?
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In the latest version of Raft, there’s almost no reason to cook your ingredients. You’re better off cooking your meat and ignoring all these fancy combinations. You’re basically squeezing no efficiency out of your ingredients by combing them — you’re better off eating them raw or giving them a grill. Beyond that, the only reason to cook in Raft is for those buffs. And we’re going to list all the recipes that give you a big buff.

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How To Cook Recipes | Cooking Pot & Juicer

There are two methods to cook recipes in Raft — with the Cooking Pot or the Juicer. The Cooking Pot produces dishes, and the Juicer produces juice. You can find recipes as randomized loot on islands, or you can purchase them from trading posts. Recipes are NOT REQUIRED — you’ll be able to combine ingredients in a Cooking Pot or Juicer even if you don’t own the specific recipe.

Cooking Pot: Requires x6 Planks, x6 Plastic, x2 Mental Ingots, x4 Vine Goo, x1 Bolt
Juicer: Requires x6 Planks, x6 Plastic, x1 Bolt, x4 Vine Goo, x1 Circuit Board

Use a Clay Bowl to collect a finished recipe from the Cooking Pot. The Juicer is more advanced and requires a Battery to power each use.

The Best Recipes | Buff Recipes List

Only certain recipes provide bonus effects when consumed. Recipes can be crafted in the corresponding station without finding an in-game recipe. As long as you know what ingredients go into the station, you’ll be able to craft.

Salmon Salad: +Underwater Breathing
- Requires: Cooking Pot – x1 Pineapple, x1 Mango, x1 Silver Algae, x1 Raw Salmon

Hearty Stew: +Survive Death Once
- Requires: Cooking Pot – x1 Raw Meat, x1 Raw Potatoe, x1 Silver Algae, x1 Cave Mushroom

Catfish Deluxe: +Running Speed
- Requires: Cooking Pot – x1 Raw Beat, x1 Raw Potatoe, x1 Raw Catfish, x1 Cave Mushroom

Spicy Pineberry: +Swimming Speed
- Requires: Juicer – x2 Strawberry, x1 Pineapple, x1 Chili

Redbeet Shot: +Extra Hearts
- Requires: x2 Raw Beet, x1 Coconut, x1 Turmeric

And that’s seriously it. Those are all the recipes that are worth knowing. If you cook all five and consume them at the same time, you’ll earn the “Powered Up!” Steam Achievement.

In Raft, you’ll want to cook special recipes to really fill up your hunger bar. While eating normal cooked potatoes and fish will fill you up, recipes will allow you to expand your bars beyond its limits. Our Raft recipe guide lists out each recipe for both juice and the cookpot.

How to unlock the Juicer and Cooking Pot

Neither of the cooking items require blueprints, but you need to research the items that make them up at the Research Table:

Juicer: Plank, Plastic, Bolt, Vine Goo, Circuit Board
Cooking Pot: Plank, Plastic, Metal Ingot, Vine Goo, Bolt

Once you make these, you’ll need to power them. The Juicer uses batteries and the Cooking Pot needs planks added below the pot.

Once you have a setup for cooking, you can make the recipes below by laying out the ingredients on the structures. You will need a Clay Bowl or a Glass Cup to collect the food from a Cooking Pot and Juicer, respectively.

You do not need the recipes in order to make the food, as long as you put in the right ingredients. As long as you know what to cook with, you do not need to keep recipes, but they can be hung on walls and the backboards included with the pots. Putting in the wrong ingredients will give you Leftovers, a food (or drink) that satiates you much less, so it might be worth hanging up your collected recipes as a reference. (Or you can use this guide. We will not stop you.)

We recommend eating regular grilled fish and drinking clean water to restore hunger and thirst respectively. However, you’ll want to use specially cooked food and drink to expand your hunger and thirst bars beyond its limit. With these food and drink, the bars will temporarily get bigger (and give some other bonuses).

Below, you can see all the recipes, where to find them, and what bonuses they may give when eaten.

Raft juice and food recipes list

RecipeTypeIngredientsAdditional effectsLocationRecipeTypeIngredientsAdditional effectsLocationBBQCooking Pot1 Raw Meat, 1 Raw Mackeral, 1 Raw Drumstick, 1 Cave MushroomBonus hungerRandom crates and boxesCatfish DeluxeCooking Pot1 Raw Potato or Raw Beet, 1 Raw Catfish, 1 Cave Mushroom, 1 ChiliBonus hunger, increased running speedTrading Post (1 Trash Cube, 1 Trade Coin)Coconut ChickenCooking Pot2 Raw Drumstick, 1 Coconut, 1 Cave MushroomBonus hungerRandom crates and boxesHead BrothCooking Pot1 Raw Potato or Raw Beet, 2 Poison-Puffer Head, 1 Bucket of MilkBonus hungerRandom crates and boxesHearty StewCooking Pot1 Raw Potato, 1 Cave Mushroom, 1 Raw Meat, 1 JuniperBonus hunger, death evasion onceTrading Post (1 Trash Cube, 1 Trade Coin)Mushroom OmeletteCooking Pot1 Raw Potato, 2 Eggs, 1 Cave MushroomBonus hungerRandom crates and boxesSalmon SaladCooking Pot2 Pineapple or Mango, 1 Raw Salmon, 1 Silver AlgaeBonus hunger, increased lung capacityTrading Post (1 Trash Cube, 1 Trade Coin)Shark DinnerCooking Pot2 Raw Sharkmeat, 1 Cave Mushroom, 1 Silver AlgaeBonus hungerRandom crates and boxesSimple Fish StewCooking Pot2 Raw Potato or Raw Beet, 2 Raw Herring or Raw PomfretBonus hungerRandom crates and boxesSteak JamCooking Pot1 Raw Potato or Raw Beet, 1 Raw Meat, 2 Red BerriesBonus hungerRandom crates and boxesSushiCooking Pot2 Raw Mackerel or Tilapia, 1 Egg, 1 Silver AlgaeBonus hungerRandom crates and boxesVegetable SoupCooking Pot4 Raw Potato or Raw BeetBonus hungerRandom crates and boxesCoconut BeatJuicer3 Coconuts, 1 Raw BeetBonus thirstRandom crates and boxesMangonanaJuicer1 Mango, 2 Bananas, 1 Bucket of MilkBonus thirstRandom crates and boxesRed MelonJuicer1 Red Berry, 1 Strawberry, 1 Watermelon, 1 CoconutBonus thirstRandom crates and boxesRedbeet ShotJuicer2 Raw Beets, 1 Coconut, 1 TumericBonus thirst, extra HPTrading Post (1 Trash Cube, 1 Trade Coin)Silver SmoothieJuicer1 Banana, 1 Mango, 1 Bucket of Milk, 1 Silver AlgaeBonus thirstRandom crates and boxesSimple SmoothieJuicer1 Mango, 1 Pineapple, 2 CoconutsBonus thirstRandom crates and boxesSpicy PineberryJuicer1 Pineapple, 2 Strawberries, 1 ChiliBonus thirst, increased swimming speedTrading Post (1 Trash Cube, 1 Trade Coin)Strawberry ColadaJuicer1 Pineapple, 1 Strawberry, 2 CoconutsBonus thirstRandom crates and boxes

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How do you unlock the cooking pot Raft?

How to Unlock the Cooking Pot in Raft. You can unlock the Cooking Pot by Researching a Plank, a bit of Plastic, a Metal Ingot, a Bolt, and a Vine Goo.

How do you get recipes in Raft creative mode?

You can find recipes in chests on islands, underwater, and on abandoned rafts while some have to be bought at the Trading Post. The recipe uses the required items' icons and a multiplier.

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