Tears of the Kingdom Recipes to Sell: Best Meals and Elixirs for Rupees

Cooking adds value: a real dish sells for 1.2 to 1.8 times what its ingredients would on their own. This page gives the game’s price formula, checks it against prices that guides and players have reported, and lists the meals and elixirs that earn the most, with where to get their ingredients.

How is the sell price of cooked food worked out?

Add up the sell prices of everything in the pot, multiply by the rate for that many ingredients, and round down.

The rates come from the game’s cooking data, as read out by the KingFooZQ cooking simulator (MIT). Only the ingredients count: the reported prices below include dishes with and without an effect, and all match. Two details matter: the game does the maths in 32-bit numbers, which is why five Raw Gourmet Meat (35 × 5 × 1.8) come out at 315 and not 314, and a five-ingredient pot earns the most per ingredient, so cook in fives.

Does the formula match real prices?

Every price we could find reported matches it exactly.

Which meals sell for the most?

Five of one ingredient, every combination that sells for 100 rupees or more. Which dish each pot becomes comes from the cooking simulator, which matches pots against the game’s recipe table.

Which elixirs sell for the most?

Monster parts are where the money is. Lynel Guts and Gleeok Guts sell for 200 rupees each, the most of any monster part you can cook, and an elixir needs only one critter to go with them. The table gives each elixir with its best-selling critter and four Lynel Guts; four Gleeok Guts sell exactly the same.

Lynel Guts drop from Blue-Maned Lynels (20%), White-Maned Lynels (60%) and Silver Lynels (always), never from a red one; Gleeok Guts from King Gleeoks (always) and from Frost, Flame and Thunder Gleeoks (10%) — see the Lynel and Gleeok pages for where they are. The Fireproof Elixir of three Fireproof Lizards and two Molduga Guts (423) is the cheaper version most guides list; Molduga Guts come from the four Moldugas.

How do you farm meat for Meat Skewers?

Game8’s route uses a Honeyvore Bear ridden by a Bokoblin near Sikukuu Shrine, southeast of the Thyphlo Ruins Skyview Tower.

1. Finish Koltin’s side adventure The Hunt for Bubbul Gems! (he is near Pico Pond) to get the Bokoblin Mask, and wear it: the rider will approach without attacking. Turn off any Sage’s Vows so your companions don’t attack either.
2. Save when you see the rider, then shoot only the bear.
3. Pick the meat up quickly — the Bokoblin may eat it — then save and reload. The bear respawns, so repeat steps 2 and 3.

Later in the story the red Bokoblin is replaced by a Silver Bokoblin (Game8).

A Honeyvore Bear drops two or three items: Raw Prime Meat (60% each), Raw Gourmet Meat (30%) or Courser Bee Honey (10%), by the game’s drop table as read by zeldamods’ radar. Five Raw Prime Meat still make a 135-rupee skewer.

Where do you sell cooked food?

Any merchant buys it — Beedle at the stables, and the shops in towns and settlements (Game8).

Related

• Recipe finder — what you can cook with what you have
• All recipes — the recipe book in the game’s order
• Best recipes — the 15 effects and Critical Success
• Horse God recipes — the other thing worth cooking vegetables for