TotK Electro Recipes: Ingredients, Electro Elixir and More
Electro food and the Electro Elixir in Tears of the Kingdom: every ingredient that carries Shock Resistance, how strong each is and the dishes using them.
What does Electro do?
Electro food gives resistance to electricity. The elixir’s description names the use: enemies with electrical attacks.
Which ingredients give Electro?
Six ingredients carry it, one of each kind: Voltfin Trout is the strongest in the cooking data (3), then Electric Darner and Zapshroom (2), and Thunderwing Butterfly, Voltfruit and Electric Safflina (1). Unlike Chilly and Spicy, the game describes three levels.
- Effect
- Shock Resistance
- Dish name prefix
- Electro
- Elixir
- Electro Elixir
- Levels
- Lv1–Lv3
The game says“Grants low-level electricity resistance.”
The elixir's description“Grants a low-level resistance to electricity. Useful against enemies with electrical attacks.”
Ingredients with this effect
| Ingredient | Type | Strength¹ | Sells for | Where it's placed² |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Voltfin Trout | fish or seafood | 3 | 6 | — |
| Zapshroom | mushroom | 2 | 4 | Gerudo 80 · Lanayru 11 · Hyrule Field 9 |
| Electric Darner | critter | 2 | 2 | — |
| Voltfruit | fruit | 1 | 4 | Gerudo 484 |
| Electric Safflina | plant or vegetable | 1 | 3 | Gerudo 72 · sky islands 5 · Hyrule Field 4 |
| Thunderwing Butterfly | critter | 1 | 2 | — |
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.
Electro 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
- 152 Roasted Voltfruit
- 171 Toasty Zapshroom
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 level 3 Electro?
Of the four weather and element resistances (heat, cold, shock, fire), Electro is the only one with three levels, and its bars are low: the game’s cooking parameters put level 2 at 4 points and level 3 at 6. Only Warding reaches level 3 with fewer.
| Pot | Points | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Zapshroom ×3 | 6 | 3 |
| Voltfin Trout ×2 | 6 | 3 |
| Electric Darner ×3 + one monster part (elixir) | 6 | 3 |
| Voltfruit ×4 | 4 | 2 |
| Voltfruit ×4 + Zapshroom ×1 | 6 | 3 |
| Voltfruit ×5 | 5 | 2 |
Voltfruit, the ingredient you will have most of, cannot reach level 3 on its own: five of them are 5 points. Four Voltfruit already make level 2, so the fifth one adds nothing but time — put a Zapshroom in that slot instead. Three Zapshrooms alone are the cheapest level 3. Each Electro ingredient adds 2 minutes 30 seconds.
Where do you find Electro ingredients?
The plants are almost all in the Gerudo desert, close to where the Lightning Temple needs them. Counts are fixed placements in the game’s world data; area names follow the Skyview Tower areas.
| Ingredient | Where most are placed |
|---|---|
| Voltfruit | 488, every one in Gerudo; 450 around Gerudo Canyon |
| Zapshroom | 119; Gerudo Canyon (74), with 8 on sky islands in the far south, above Faron |
| Electric Safflina | 85; Gerudo Canyon (69) |
| Thunderwing Butterfly | 29; Popla Foothills (16) |
| Electric Darner | 19 fixed spots; 8 on that same group of southern sky islands |
| Voltfin Trout | 5 fixed spots, all around Rospro Pass in Hebra |
The Rubber set is the armor alternative: shock resistance on every piece.
Related
- Recipe finder — tick what is in your pouch, or pick Electro 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
- Chilly, Spicy, Tough — related effects
FAQ
Which ingredients give Electro?
How many levels does Electro have?
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