BotW Chilly Food: Heat Resistance Recipes and Ingredients

What does Chilly food do in Breath of the Wild?

Chilly food cools Link down; the elixir’s description calls it crucial for long journeys through the desert. It has two levels and adds 2:30 per ingredient, so even a small pot lasts a while. It does not protect against the fire of Death Mountain: that is Fireproof.

The game says: “Grants low-level heat resistance.” The elixir’s description: “Grants a low-level cooling effect, raising your body’s resistance to heat. Crucial for long journeys through the desert.”

Which ingredients give Chilly?

Six ingredients carry it. The strengths of the matching ingredients in one pot add up, and a total of 6 or more makes Lv2, and Lv2 is the ceiling; anything below 6 is Lv1. Duration adds up per piece: each effect ingredient adds 2:30, up to the 30:00 cap.

Ingredient	Type	Strength	Time each	Sells for
Chillfin Trout	Fish / seafood	3	2:30	6
Chillshroom	Mushroom	2	2:30	4
Cold Darner	Critter	2	2:30	2
Hydromelon	Fruit	1	2:30	4
Cool Safflina	Plant	1	2:30	3
Winterwing Butterfly	Critter	1	2:30	2

Chillfin Trout is the only ingredient with strength 3. Chillshroom and Cold Darner have 2; Winterwing Butterfly, Hydromelon and Cool Safflina have 1. Cold Darner and Winterwing Butterfly are critters, so they only make the Chilly Elixir.

What is the easiest way to cook a Chilly dish?

Every row below was run through the cooking simulator built on the game’s data. “Lv” is the effect level and the time is how long it lasts.

What goes in the pot	Result	Effect	Restores
Chillshroom ×1	Mushroom Skewer	Lv1 · 2:30	1 heart
Chillshroom ×3	Mushroom Skewer	Lv2 · 7:30	3 hearts
Chillfin Trout ×2	Fish Skewer	Lv2 · 5:00	4 hearts
Hydromelon ×5	Simmered Fruit	Lv1 · 12:30	5 hearts
Chillshroom ×1 + Hydromelon ×4	Fruit and Mushroom Mix	Lv2 · 12:30	5 hearts
Cold Darner ×3 + Bokoblin Horn ×1	Chilly Elixir	Lv2 · 8:40	—
Chillshroom ×3 + Shard of Dinraal’s Horn ×1	Mushroom Skewer	Lv2 · 30:00	6.75 hearts

The Hydromelon is the ingredient you find in the desert itself, but on its own it cannot reach Lv2. Four Hydromelons with one Chillshroom give Lv2 and 12:30, longer than three Chillshrooms. If you already have the Gerudo or Desert Voe armor, the food only needs to cover what the armor does not.

Where do you find Chilly ingredients?

The compendium column is what the Hyrule Compendium shows for each entry. The last column counts where the map data places plants, mushrooms and fruit; fish and critters mostly appear from area spawns, so they have no count.

Ingredient	Compendium: common locations	Fixed placements in the map data
Chillfin Trout	Tabantha Frontier, Hebra Mountains	—
Chillshroom	Hebra Mountains, Mount Lanayru	287; most near Naydra Snowfield, S. Tabantha Snowfield, Spring of Wisdom
Cold Darner	Tabantha Frontier, Hyrule Ridge	—
Hydromelon	Gerudo Desert, Faron Grasslands	187; most near Gerudo Town, East Barrens, Sand-Seal Rally
Cool Safflina	Hebra Mountains, Gerudo Highlands	305; most near Mount Granajh, Daval Peak, Pikida Stonegrove
Winterwing Butterfly	Hyrule Ridge, Tabantha Frontier	—

Almost every placed Hydromelon is in the Gerudo Desert, 35 of them around Gerudo Town. Chillshrooms grow in snow: the Naydra Snowfield on Mount Lanayru and the South Tabantha Snowfield have the most. Cool Safflina is most common on the Hebra and Gerudo peaks. The game’s description says Chillfin Trout prefer cold water; the compendium lists Tabantha Frontier and Hebra Mountains.

Which dishes ask for Chilly ingredients by name?

Most meals in Breath of the Wild take “any mushroom” or “any fruit”, so any of them carries Chilly when you use the ingredients above. The dishes below are the ones whose own recipe names one of those ingredients: only Creamy Heart Soup and Fruitcake, through the Hydromelon.

To see what your own pouch can make, open the recipe finder with Chilly picked.

What should you read next?

• Recipe finder: tick what is in your pouch and see what you can cook
• All recipes: every meal and elixir with its recipe
• Best recipes: which effect to cook for, and the rupee recipes
• Desert Voe set: heat-resistant armor from Gerudo Town
• The other effects: Hearty, Energizing, Enduring, Hasty, Mighty, Tough, Spicy, Electro, Fireproof, Sneaky