BotW Spicy Food: Cold Resistance Recipes and Ingredients

What does Spicy food do in Breath of the Wild?

Spicy food warms Link up; the elixir’s description says it is very useful on snow-covered mountains. It has two levels and adds 2:30 per ingredient. It is what gets you through the Great Plateau’s Mount Hylia before you have warm clothes, and through Hebra and the desert at night later on.

The game says: “Grants low-level cold resistance.” The elixir’s description: “Grants a low-level warming effect, increasing your resistance to cold environments. Very useful when exploring snow-covered mountains.”

Which ingredients give Spicy?

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
Sizzlefin Trout	Fish / seafood	3	2:30	6
Sunshroom	Mushroom	2	2:30	4
Warm Darner	Critter	2	2:30	2
Warm Safflina	Plant	1	2:30	3
Spicy Pepper	Fruit	1	2:30	3
Summerwing Butterfly	Critter	1	2:30	2

Sizzlefin Trout is the only ingredient with strength 3. Sunshroom and Warm Darner have 2; Warm Safflina, Spicy Pepper and Summerwing Butterfly have 1. Warm Darner and Summerwing Butterfly are critters, so they only make the Spicy Elixir.

What is the easiest way to cook a Spicy 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
Spicy Pepper ×1	Sautéed Peppers	Lv1 · 2:30	1 heart
Sunshroom ×3	Mushroom Skewer	Lv2 · 7:30	3 hearts
Sizzlefin Trout ×2	Fish Skewer	Lv2 · 5:00	4 hearts
Spicy Pepper ×5	Sautéed Peppers	Lv1 · 12:30	5 hearts
Sunshroom ×1 + Spicy Pepper ×4	Fruit and Mushroom Mix	Lv2 · 12:30	5 hearts
Warm Darner ×3 + Bokoblin Horn ×1	Spicy Elixir	Lv2 · 8:40	—
Sunshroom ×3 + Shard of Dinraal’s Horn ×1	Mushroom Skewer	Lv2 · 30:00	6.75 hearts

Spicy Peppers are the most common Spicy ingredient, and a single one already gives Lv1 for 2:30, which is enough for a short cold stretch. For Lv2, mix four peppers with a Sunshroom for 12:30. Once you own cold-resistant armor, see the cold resistance guide for what the armor already covers.

Where do you find Spicy 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
Sizzlefin Trout	Eldin Canyon, Eldin Mountains	—
Sunshroom	Eldin Canyon, Gerudo Highlands	118; most near Gut Check Rock, Retsam Forest, Nima Plain
Warm Darner	Akkala Highlands, Hyrule Field	—
Warm Safflina	Gerudo Desert, Hyrule Ridge	78; most near Northern Icehouse, West Gerudo Ruins, Great Cliffs
Spicy Pepper	Gerudo Desert, Tabantha Frontier	489; most near Rito Stable, Warbler’s Nest, Satori Mountain
Summerwing Butterfly	Great Hyrule Forest, Eldin Mountains	—

Spicy Peppers grow around Rito Stable, Warbler’s Nest and Satori Mountain, and across the Wasteland tower region. Sunshrooms are most common in Eldin, with 24 at Gut Check Rock. Warm Safflina grows in the Gerudo region, much of it near the Northern Icehouse. The game’s description says Sizzlefin Trout prefer warm water; the compendium lists Eldin Canyon and the Eldin Mountains.

Which dishes ask for Spicy ingredients by name?

Most meals in Breath of the Wild take “any mushroom” or “any fruit”, so any of them carries Spicy when you use the ingredients above. The dishes below are the ones whose own recipe names one of those ingredients: the pepper dishes.

To see what your own pouch can make, open the recipe finder with Spicy 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
• Snowquill set: cold-resistant armor from Rito Village
• The other effects: Hearty, Energizing, Enduring, Hasty, Mighty, Tough, Chilly, Electro, Fireproof, Sneaky