My Time at Sandrock Cooking Guide (2024)

Last Update: December 10, 2022 12:13 PM /

By: Robert N Adams

ThisMy Time at SandrockCooking Guide will teach you how to unlock cooking and how to unlock more recipes -- and we have a list of recipes we've discovered, too.

How to Unlock Cooking inMy Time at Sandrock

You can unlock Cooking inMy Time at Sandrockby unlocking the Drying Rack and then the Apprentice Cooking Station.

Once you have the Apprentice Cooking Station unlocked, you'll be able to make recipes using the Cooking Pot and Steamer. You can upgrade to the Chef's Cooking Station (or build a new one altogether) and gain access to the Wok. The Advanced Cooking Station is the next upgrade after that, and is currently available for research with Director Qi, though there is difficulty getting some of the upgrade materials. The Advanced Cooking Station unlocks the Oven function.

How DoesMy Time at SandrockCooking Work?

My Time at SandrockCooking follows a fairly simple process if you already know the recipe. (Make sure to check out the recipes we've already unlocked below!)

Select the ingredients you want to cook.
Select the Cooking Tool.
Push the button and you'll learn the recipe!

Select the recipe from the list of unlocked recipes.
It will slowly cook once you leave the station.

However, this only applies if you already know the ingredients or have already unlocked a recipe. If you want to learn new recipes, you'll have to do some experimentation.

How to Unlock More Cooking Recipes

My Time at SandrockCooking recipes have to be unlocked through experimentation or through talking to people. On the experimentation side of things, you can access this screen by clicking the Test Tube on the top of the screen in the Apprentice Cooking Station (or any of its upgrades). Then, you follow this process:

Select at least one Main Ingredient.
Select one or more additional ingredients or herbs.
Select your Cooking Tool.
Hit the Confirm button.

If you managed to stumble upon a correct recipe, you'll immediately get that new recipe's result in your inventory and you can add it to your list. If not, you'll get Food Scraps and effectively waste the food.

Getting Food Scraps, however, may be a good sign. As best as we can tell, this looks like a sign that you may be close to a recipe you haven't yet unlocked. Try removing and replacing ingredients one by one until you unlock a new recipe.

There's one thing you should keep in mind, though -- experimenting with new recipes can go through a lot of food very quickly. It's a good idea to get into Farming as well as Fishing before you try to start taking Cooking seriously.

If you're not keen on wasting tons of food on experiments, you have an alternative -- you can befriend the people of Sandrock, particularly Owen and Mabel. As you get to know them better, they'll teach you recipes and save you the trouble of trying out tons of random combinations.

My Time at SandrockCooking Recipe List

Here are all of theMy Time at SandrockCooking Recipes we've found so far.

Recipe Name	Ingredients	Tool Used	Buy For	Sell For	Effect
Alfalfa Baked Eggs	Alfalfa, Egg, Salt	Oven		14 Gols	Critical Damage +2%, Lasts for 30 Seconds
Alfalfa Salad	Alfalfa, Sea Salt, Chili	Wok		12 Gols	Health Points + 109
Beef Noodles	Beef, Flour, Soy Sauce	Cooking Pot		18 Gols	Defense +15, Lasts for 30 Seconds
Beef Tacos	Meat, Flour, Egg, Sand Leek	Oven		20 Gols	Critical Damage +4%, Lasts for 30 seconds
Bitter Beam Cake	Bitter Beans, Rice, Sugar	Steamer		11 Gols	Stamina +1 Every 2 seconds, Lasts 30 Seconds
Braised BBQ Ribs	Rib Meat, Soy Sauce, Sugar, Five Spice Powder	Cooking Pot		44 Gols	Min Damage +50, Max Damage +50, Lasts for 30 Seconds
Braised Meat	Meat, Potato, Sugar, Sand Leek	Cooking Pot		19 Gols	Min Damage +4%, Max Damage +4%, Lasts for 30 Seconds
Bread	Flour, Egg, Sugar	Oven		10 Gols	Critical Rate +2%, lasts for 30 seconds
Cheese Sandwich	Flour, Yakmel Milk, Egg, Tomato	Oven		18 Gols	Critical Rate +3%, Lasts for 30 seconds
Chestnut Pork	Meat, Chestnut, Soy Sauce	Cooking Pot		23 Gols	Min Damage +20, Max Damage +20, Lasts for 30 Seconds
Chilly Sandrice Noodles	Sandrice, Flour, Soy Sauce, Chili	Cooking Pot		15 Gols	Defense +14, Lasts for 30 Seconds
Churros	Flour, Sugar	Wok		5 Gols	Health Points +22
Cilantro Meatloaf	Meat, Cilantro, Flour, Five Spice Powder	Wok		37 Gols	Stamina +26
Cilantro Omelette	Cilantro, Egg, Salt	Wok		19 Gols	Health Points +159
Egg Custard	Egg, Sea Salt	Steamer		5 Gols	Health Points +3 Every 2 seconds, Lasts for 30 seconds
Fine Beef Noodles	Meat, Flour, Soy Sauce, Cilantro	Cooking Pot		32 Gols	Defense +33, Lasts for 30 Seconds
Fine Hot and Sour Fish	Sandacuda, Vinegar, Chili			53 Gols
Fine Sandfishsticks	Sandacuda, Flour, Sea Salt	Wok		50 Gols	Health Points +10%
Fish Porridge	Sand Carp, Sand Leek, Soy Sauce, Rice			34 Gols
Hashbrown	Potato, Flour, Egg, Sand Leek	Oven		17 Gols	Critical Damage +3%, Lasts for 30 seconds
Highwind Fried Rice	Rice, Potato, Egg, Soy Sauce	Wok		18 Gols	Health Points +3%
Honey Barbecued Pork	Meat, Honey, Five Spice Powder, Soy Sauce			34 Gols	Critical Damage +6%, Lasts for 30 seconds
Macaroni	Tomato, Flour, Egg			13 Gols	Defense +9, Lasts for 30 Seconds
Mapo Tofu	Soybean, Seesai Pepper, Spicy Bean Paste (Complete Fragrant Memories mission)			26 Gols	N/A
Marinated Steak	Rib Meat, Sea Salt, Five Spice Powder, Seesai Pepper			46 Gols	Critical Damage +8%, Lasts for 30 seconds
Master Chef Omelette	Egg, Salt			6 Gols	Health Points +29
Meat Bun	Meat, Flour, Sand Leek			18 Gols	Stamina +1 Every 2 Seconds, Lasts for 30 Seconds
Meat Stuffed Mushroom	Desert Mushroom, Meat, Soy Sauce			26 Gols	Health +26 Every 2 Seconds, Lasts for 30 Seconds
Melon and Beef	Meat, Sugar, Cantaloupe, Salt			19 Gols	Health Points +3%
Melon Mousse	Cantaloupe, Flour, Egg			20 Gols
Milk Steamed Egg	Egg, Milk	Steamer		8 Gols	Health Points +5 Every 2 Seconds for 30 Seconds
Mush	Sandrice, Salt			6 Gols	N/A
Mushroom Soup	Desert Mushroom, Sea Salt, Sand Leek	Cooking Pot		16 Gols	Defense +16, Lasts for 30 seconds
Onion Cake	Flour, Sand Leek, Sea Salt	Wok		9 Gols	Stamina +8
Omelet	Egg, Yakmel Milk, Flour	Wok		11 Gols	Health Points +70
Pizza	Flour, Yakmel Milk, Meat, Egg	Adv Cooking Station		19 Gols	Critical Rate +3%, Lasts for 30 seconds
Rice Omelet	Egg, Rice, Soy Sauce	Wok		11 Gols	Health Points +97
Roasted Sweet Potato	Sweet Potato			5 Gols	Critical Rate +1%, Lasts for 30 seconds
Sand Tea Beef	Meat, Tea Leaves, Cilantro, Five Spice Powder			48 Gols
Sand Tea Noodles	Flour, Sand Leek, Soy Sauce	Cooking Pot		13 Gols	Min Damage +3%, Max Damage +3%. Lasts for 30 Seconds
Sandberry Sponge Cake	Sandberry, Rice	Steamer		7 Gols	Health Points +5 Every 2 Seconds, Lasts for 30 Seconds
Sandberry Zongzi	Sandberry, Rice, Sugar	Steamer		11 Gols	Stamina +1 Every 2 Seconds, Lasts for 30 Seconds
Sandrice Cake	Sandrice, Sugar	Steamer		7 Gols	Stamina +1 Every 2 Seconds, Lasts for 30 Seconds
Sandrice Sushi	Sandrice, Meat, Vinegar	Steamer		14 Gols	Health Points +13 Every 2 seconds, Last for 30 seconds
Spicy and Sour Potato	Potato, Vinegar, Chili	Wok		9 Gols	Health Points +75
Spicy Bean Paste	Meat, Potato, Chili			17 Gols	Defense +13, Lasts for 30 seconds
Steamed Meat Pie with Salty Eggs	Meat, Rice, Soy Sauce	Steamer		19 Gols	Stamina +1 Every 2 seconds, Lasts for 30 seconds
Steamed Sandfish	Sand Carp, Salt, Sand Leek	Steamer		26 Gols	Stamina +2 Every 2 Seconds, Lasts for 30 Seconds
Steamed Sweet Potato	Sweet Potato	Steamer		4 Gols	Health Points +2 Every 2 Seconds, Lasts for 30 Seconds
Sweet and Sour Pork	Meat, Flour, Sugar	Wok		16 Gols	Stamina +11
Sweet and Sour Pork Ribs	Rib Meat, Sugar, Vinegar	Wok		29 Gols	Stamina +5%
Sweet Potato Bake	Sweet Potato, Flour			7 Gols	Stamina +5
Sweet Potato Pie	Sweet Potato, Flour, Egg	Adv Cooking Station		11 Gols	Critical Damage +2%, Lasts for 30 seconds
Sweet Potato With Meat	Meat, Sweet Potato, Soy Sauce			20 Gols	Health Points +17, Every 2 seconds, Lasts for 30 seconds
Sugar Fried Chestnut	Chestnut, Sugar	Wok		10 Gols	Stamina +7
Tea Egg	Egg, Tea Leaves, Salt			19 Gols	Min Damage +16, Max Damage +16, Lasts for 30 Seconds
Tea Porridge	Tea Leaves, Rice	Cooking Pot		17 Gols	Defense +3%, Lasts for 30 seconds
Tomato and Egg Soup	Tomato, Egg, Sand Leek	Cooking Pot		16 Gols	Min Damage +12, Max Damage +12, Lasts for 30 seconds
Tomato Beef Brisket	Tomato, Meat, Sea Salt			18 Gols	Min Damage +3%, Max Damage +3%, Lasts for 30 Seconds
Tomato Fish	Tomato, Sand Carp, Sand Leek, Egg			34 Gols
Tomato Scrambled Egg	Tomato, Egg, Salt	Wok		12 Gols
Veggie Stir-Fry	Desert Mushroom, Soy Sauce, Cilantro, Alfalfa	Wok		41 Gols	Stamina +8%

That's it for ourMy Time at SandrockCooking Guide. While you're here, why not take a look at some of our other guides?

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