TotK Chilly Recipes: Ingredients, Chilly Elixir and More
Chilly food and the Chilly Elixir in Tears of the Kingdom: every ingredient that carries Heat Resistance, how strong each is and the dishes using them.
What does Chilly do?
Chilly food protects you from heat, not from fire. The elixir’s description calls it crucial for long journeys through the desert; for burning heat, see Fireproof.
Which ingredients give Chilly?
Six ingredients carry it, one of each kind: Chillfin Trout is the strongest in the cooking data (3), then Cold Darner and Chillshroom (2), and Winterwing Butterfly, Hydromelon and Cool Safflina (1). The game describes only two levels.
- Effect
- Heat Resistance
- Dish name prefix
- Chilly
- Elixir
- Chilly Elixir
- Levels
- Lv1–Lv2
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.”
Ingredients with this effect
| Ingredient | Type | Strength¹ | Sells for | Where it's placed² |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chillfin Trout | fish or seafood | 3 | 6 | — |
| Chillshroom | mushroom | 2 | 4 | Hebra 220 · Gerudo 79 · Tabantha 63 |
| Cold Darner | critter | 2 | 2 | Hyrule Field 26 · Tabantha 22 · Lanayru 10 |
| Hydromelon | fruit | 1 | 4 | Gerudo 403 |
| Cool Safflina | plant or vegetable | 1 | 3 | Hebra 116 · sky islands 67 · Tabantha 61 |
| Winterwing Butterfly | critter | 1 | 2 | Hyrule Field 40 · Tabantha 7 · Hebra 7 |
¹ The number the game's cooking data gives each ingredient for this effect: higher is stronger, and a pot adds them up. Levels follow set thresholds on the total; the “easiest way” section below lists the combinations that reach them.
² How many times the game's world data places the ingredient at a fixed spot, and the three areas with the most (a region is the one of the nearest shrine). Ingredients from animals, monsters, ore deposits, shops or random spawns are not counted, and those listed can also turn up elsewhere.
Chilly Elixir: Cook one or more of the critters above with one or more monster parts.
Dishes that ask for one of these ingredients by name
- 59 Creamy Heart Soup
- 126 Fruitcake
- 134 Noble Pursuit
- 153 Roasted Hydromelon
- 170 Toasty Chillshroom
Any other dish whose recipe takes an ingredient of the same type ("any mushroom", "any fish") also carries the effect when you use one of these.
What is the easiest way to get full-strength Chilly?
Chilly tops out at level 2, and the game’s cooking parameters put level 2 at 6 points. Past 6 you only buy time — each Chilly ingredient adds 2 minutes 30 seconds — so the cheapest full-strength pots are small:
| Pot | Points | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Chillshroom ×3 | 6 | 2 |
| Chillfin Trout ×2 | 6 | 2 |
| Cold Darner ×3 + one monster part (elixir) | 6 | 2 |
| Hydromelon ×5 | 5 | 1 |
The last row is the trap. Hydromelons are the Chilly ingredient you pick up by the armful in the desert, yet five of them stop one point short and a sixth will not fit in the pot. Swap one melon for a Chillshroom (four melons plus one Chillshroom = 6 points) and the dish reaches level 2. Keep Spicy ingredients out of the same pot: two different effects cancel and the dish comes out with neither.
Where do you find Chilly ingredients?
Most Chilly ingredients grow where it is cold — far from the desert where you need them. Placement counts are from the game’s world data; area names are the Skyview Tower areas, cave names are on the caves page.
| Ingredient | Where most are placed |
|---|---|
| Chillshroom | 468 spots; Rospro Pass (137) and Pikida Stonegrove (134) in Hebra, plus 38 on the sky islands above Hebra |
| Cool Safflina | 307; Rospro Pass and Pikida Stonegrove again, and the sky islands over Tabantha and Hebra |
| Hydromelon | 414, every one in Gerudo, 386 of them around Gerudo Canyon |
| Cold Darner | 58; half (28) around Lindor’s Brow |
| Chillfin Trout | 40 fixed spots, 11 inside Hebra South Summit Cave and 5 in West Lake Totori Cave |
So stock Chillshrooms in Hebra before heading south; Hydromelons alone never make level 2. Armor is the other answer: the Desert Voe set gives heat resistance without food.
Related
- Recipe finder — tick what is in your pouch, or pick Chilly and see every dish that can carry it
- All recipes — the whole recipe book in the game’s order
- Best recipes — the 15 effects side by side, incredible success and the Horse God
- Spicy, Fireproof, Electro — related effects
Video walkthrough
FAQ
Which ingredients give Chilly?
Is Chilly the same as Fireproof?
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