Tears of the Kingdom Spicy Recipes: Ingredients, Spicy Elixir and More
Spicy food and the Spicy Elixir in Tears of the Kingdom: every ingredient that carries Cold Resistance, how strong each is and the dishes using them.
What does Spicy do?
Spicy food keeps the cold off. The elixir’s description names the place: snow-covered mountains.
Which ingredients give Spicy?
Six ingredients carry it, one of each kind, mirroring Chilly: Sizzlefin Trout is the strongest in the cooking data (3), then Warm Darner and Sunshroom (2), and Summerwing Butterfly, Spicy Pepper and Warm Safflina (1). The game describes two levels.
- Effect
- Cold Resistance
- Dish name prefix
- Spicy
- Elixir
- Spicy Elixir
- Levels
- Lv1–Lv2
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.”
Ingredients with this effect
| Ingredient | Type | Strength¹ | Sells for | Where it's placed² |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sizzlefin Trout | fish or seafood | 3 | 6 | — |
| Sunshroom | mushroom | 2 | 4 | Eldin 149 · Gerudo 141 · Hyrule Field 23 |
| Warm Darner | critter | 2 | 2 | Akkala 35 · Hyrule Field 22 · Faron 5 |
| Spicy Pepper | fruit | 1 | 3 | Hyrule Field 411 · Gerudo 168 · Tabantha 77 |
| Warm Safflina | plant or vegetable | 1 | 3 | Gerudo 58 · Eldin 55 · Hyrule Field 3 |
| Summerwing Butterfly | critter | 1 | 2 | Faron 20 · Hyrule Field 14 |
¹ The number the game's cooking data gives each ingredient for this effect: higher is stronger, and a pot adds them up. How the total turns into a level or a duration is not published, so we don't convert it.
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.
Spicy 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
- 14 Sautéed Peppers
- 37 Pepper Steak
- 38 Pepper Seafood
- 149 Charred Pepper
- 169 Toasty Sunshroom
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.
Related
- Recipe finder — tick what is in your pouch, or pick Spicy 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, Critical Success and the Horse God
- Chilly, Electro, Hearty — related effects
FAQ
Which ingredients give Spicy?
What is the strongest Spicy ingredient?
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