Cooking (Quest)

Cooking in Pokémon Quest

Cooking (Japanese: 料理 Cooking) is a feature in Pokémon Quest that enables the player to attract the wild Pokémon of Tumblecube Island to the base camp, where they can be befriended. To do so, the player puts a number of ingredients into a cooking pot, waits until their dish has finished cooking, then uses the food to lure in Pokémon.

Evolved Pokémon are not attracted by Cooking. Cooking usually attracts one Pokémon, but there is a 4.3% chance of attracting two Pokémon, and a 0.5% chance of three Pokémon.

If the player has purchased the Pikachu Surfboard decoration from the Poké Mart, the chance of attracting multiple Pokémon when cooking is increased by 1.5 times. The same is true of the Lapras Pool decoration, but that instead doubles the chances. However, note that the Lapras Pool is exclusively available as DLC.

Cooking requires an empty cooking pot, as in a pot not already being used for cooking. The player has one cooking pot by default, so they can cook one dish at a time. Expedition packs can be purchased as additional downloadable content to obtain extra cooking pots, and with them cook more than one dish simultaneously. The Expedition Pack, Great Expedition Pack, and Ultra Expedition Pack each contain one more cooking pot, which means the maximum number of cooking pots is four.

Ingredients

There are ten ingredients that can be used for cooking. These ingredients are obtained by defeating wild Pokémon, then either completing the expedition or spending PM Tickets to collect the items despite a failed expedition. Rarer ingredients can be more easily obtained by completing stages with greater difficulty. The rarest ingredient, the Mystical Shell, can only be obtained from Pokémon while on expeditions in Happenstance Island. The maximum capacity of each ingredient is 999.

The chance that ingredients of a specific color are dropped depends on which area the expedition is taking place in. Various decorations can be bought at the Poké Mart to increase the size of ingredient drops, though all of them except the Gengar Balloon only affect ingredients of a specific color.

	Description	Type	Color
Tiny Mushroom	Soft and small ingredients.	Mushroom	Red
Big Root	Soft and precious ingredients.	Plant	Red
Bluk Berry	Soft and small ingredients.	Sweet	Blue
Icy Rock	Hard and precious ingredients.	Mineral	Blue
Apricorn	Hard and small ingredients.	Plant	Yellow
Honey	Soft and precious ingredients.	Sweet	Yellow
Fossil	Hard and small ingredients.	Mineral	Gray
Balm Mushroom	Soft and precious ingredients.	Mushroom	Gray
Rainbow Matter	Very precious ingredients that can substitute for any other ingredients.	None	None
Mystical Shell	Special ingredients.	Mystical	None

Cooking

To enter the Cooking menu, the player taps on one of their empty cooking pots in the base camp to enter the Cooking menu. The menu depicts the pot as having five "slots". In order to put an ingredient in a "slot", the player has to spend a number of ingredients that varies by the cooking pot. This can be done manuaally. However, the player can use the Auto-Set button to the left of their ingredients list to have the game pick random ingredients for each "slot" if they like. The results can be freely changed before confirming, if the player likes. The player cannot Start Cooking until all five "slots" are filled with an ingredient.

When the player completes the areas Backforth Brook, Pincushion Plain, and Chamber of Legends, they complete Main Quests that allow them to use better pots. Better pots require more ingredients to be spent per "slot" but attract higher level Pokémon. The pot used can be cycled through via the button in the lower right corner. (One can attempt to switch to a pot they do not already have, but the game will remind the player that they do not own the pot and default back to the standard Cooking Pot.) Switching pots empties out any occupied "slot"s. The pot selected will be what is displayed in the base camp as the dish cooks.

Any ingredients that the player does not have enough copies of to add to the ingredient a "slot" have their icons grayed out.

	Number of ingredients used per "slot"	Unlock requirement
Cooking Pot	3	Available from start of game
Bronze Cooking Pot	10	Main Quest: Clear Backforth Brook
Silver Cooking Pot	15	Main Quest: Clear Pincushion Plain
Gold Cooking Pot	20	Main Quest: Clear Chamber of Legends

Cooking recipes

Cooking creates a dish, that will attract Pokémon after the dish is complete. Using more precious ingredients in Cooking increases the quality of the resultant dish. Small ingredients provide one point, precious ingredients provide two points, very previous ingredients provide three points, and special ingredients provide two points to the overall quality of the dish. Higher quality recipes attract rarer Pokémon and Pokémon of higher level.

Points	Quality
5	Standard dish
6-7	Good
8-9	Very Good
10 or greater	Special

Cooking a dish requires that the player go on a certain number of expeditions, after which the cooking process is complete. Note that the expeditions are allowed to be failed, the game only cares that they were started (and that battery charge was spent to do so). The number of expeditions required for a dish to finish cooking depends on quality of the dish and the cooking pot used. Higher quality dishes take longer to cook. This information is displayed above the pot in the base camp, in a black box that fills with yellow as expeditions conclude. It also displays the number of expeditions that need to be started in order to finish cooking and the number of expeditions the player went on after starting Cooking, essentially serving as a progress tracker.

Speaking of progress trackers, the Expeditions menu additionally serves to remind the players of the progress of their cooking pots. A unused pot will be represented by a outline icon in the lower right corner of the screen, while a in use cooking pot is represented by a filled in icon with some steam hopping out, which has the color of the type of pot used. Finally, a cooking pot with a finished dish inside will have a pink notificiation icon overlapping with the pot icon.

Cooking with better pots attract Pokémon with higher level and IVs. Better cooking pots also provide greater bonuses to the Pokémon's stats.

Pot	Level	Max possible IV	Stat bonus	Expeditions to cook
Pot	Level	Max possible IV	Stat bonus	Standard	Good	Very good	Special
Cooking pot	1-15	10	0	2	4	5	6
Bronze Cooking Pot	16-30	50	50	2	4	5	6
Silver Cooking Pot	31-70	100	100	3	5	6	7
Gold Cooking Pot	71-100	100	300	4	6	7	8

Having Mystical Shell as one of the ingredients increases the number of expeditons required for a dish to cooking by one.

Different kinds of dishes are created depending on the exact ingredients used in the five "slots" of the pot. Note that order does not matter. The result is determined by the recipe that the ingredients followed. Each dish has a different pool of Pokémon it can attract, with the pool being thematically linked to the food. Each time the player completes a new kind of dish, the recipe for it is added to the Cooking menu, which makes it easier to reproduce by following the requirements. (This is also why the game suggests using Auto-Set to find new dishes on occasion.)

List of recipes

Some recipes require ingredients that may overlap with another recipe. The game selects which dish to make by finding the first recipe to have its requirements fulfilled starting with #2. If no recipe is found, the result will always be #1 Mulligan Stew à la Cube.

While there are eighteen different dishes, equal to the number of types, six of them attract Pokémon based on qualities that are not type. This means that Dark, Steel, Fairy, Ghost, Dragon, and Ice all do not have an associated dish.

No.	Name	Ingredients Description	Ingredients Needed	Pokémon
1	Mulligan Stew à la Cube	Whatever ingredients you like	5 random ingredients	Favorite food of some Pokémon on Tumblecube Island
2	Red Stew à la Cube	A whole lot of red	4 red ingredients	Favorite food of reddish Pokémon
3	Blue Soda à la Cube	A whole lot of blue	4 blue ingredients	Favorite food of bluish Pokémon
4	Yellow Curry à la Cube	A whole lot of yellow	4 yellow ingredients	Favorite food of yellowish Pokémon
5	Gray Porridge à la Cube	A whole lot of gray	4 gray ingredients	Favorite food of grayish Pokémon
6	Mouth-Watering Dip à la Cube	A whole lot of soft things and a lot of blue	4 soft ingredients 3 blue ingredients	Favorite food of Water-type Pokémon
7	Plain Crepe à la Cube	A lot of sweet things and a few gray	3 sweet ingredients 2 gray ingredients	Favorite food of Normal-type Pokémon
8	Sludge Soup à la Cube	A whole lot of mushrooms and a lot of soft things	4 mushroom ingredients 3 soft ingredients	Favorite food of Poison-type Pokémon
9	Mud Pie à la Cube	A few minerals and a lot of soft things	2 mineral ingredients 3 soft ingredients	Favorite food of Ground-type Pokémon
10	Veggie Smoothie à la Cube	A whole lot of plants and a few soft things	4 plant ingredients 2 soft ingredients	Favorite food of Grass-type Pokémon
11	Honey Nectar à la Cube	A whole lot of sweet things and a lot of yellow	4 sweet ingredients 3 yellow ingredients	Favorite food of Bug-type Pokémon
12	Brain Food à la Cube	A lot of sweet things and a few hard things	3 sweet ingredients 2 hard ingredients	Favorite food of Psychic-type Pokémon
13	Stone Soup à la Cube	A whole lot of hard things and a few minerals	4 hard ingredients 2 mineral ingredients	Favorite food of Rock-type Pokémon
14	Light-as-Air Casserole à la Cube	A lot of minerals and a few plants	3 mineral ingredients 2 plant ingredients	Favorite food of Flying-type Pokémon
15	Hot Pot à la Cube	A lot of mushrooms and a little red	3 mushroom ingredients 2 red ingredient	Favorite food of Fire-type Pokémon
16	Watt a Risotto à la Cube	A whole lot of soft things and a lot of yellow	4 soft ingredients 3 yellow ingredients	Favorite food of Electric-type Pokémon
17	Get Swole Syrup à la Cube	A lot of sweet things and a few mushrooms	3 sweet ingredients 2 mushroom ingredients	Favorite food of Fighting-type Pokémon
18	Ambrosia of Legends à la Cube	A whole lot of mystical things	4 mystical ingredients	Favorite food of Extremely Rare Pokémon

Attracting Pokémon

Main article: Base camp (Quest)

The Pokémon that are attracted by Cooking are interacted with from the Base camp menu. Notably, in order for a Cooking Pot to be emptied and able to be used again, all Pokémon attracted by a dish from that Cooking Pot must be befriended. This can cause friction if the player is at the maximum number of buddies, in which case the player cannot use Cooking with that Cooking Pot until they either purchase a Pokémon Box Expansion or train with their existing Pokémon.