From Forest to Feast: Discover the Secrets to Cook Food with Sons of the Forest

Sons of the Forest is a horror survival game like walking on a knife-edge. This game gives you the thrill of exploring an isolated island but with a twist. This isolated island has tough environmental conditions along with mutant monsters and cannibals. So, you better keep your laser focus on your surroundings and stay stronger to stay alive longer. To stay stronger, you need to take care of your health and eat food. This Sons of the Forest How to Cook Food guide will help you understand why cooking food is crucial and its overall benefits.

Sons of the Forest: Cooking

To survive this bizarre island, you need to stay stronger. In your constant struggle to survive, you have to constantly keep stocking the food items from nature. Berries, fruits, processed cans, and very edible items that can be piled up should be on your food collectibles list. Although, players can eat raw in-game cooking is another activity to perform.

Don’t see cooking as merely an activity. It has various benefits apart from just cooking a meal. A player’s health relies on three factors: stamina, hunger, and thirst. For stamina, you need to find and drink energy drinks. This will also quench your thirst. For hunger, you have to eat edible items like fruits, berries, meat, eggs, and other foods. If you’re short on medicines, then you can cook food to boost your health condition. Let’s see how to cook food.

How to Cook Food in Sons of the Forest

Cooking food will be the simulation of the real-life experience. Here you should have the fire, cooking pot, and ingredients to cook the meal. Let’s start with step by step process to cook food. But first, fire needs to begin.

How to Start a Fire

• Click your inventory and select some Sticks.
• Left-click the Sticks to break them into half
• Place them on the ground and select the Emergency Pack Lighter.
• Press E to ignite the fire.
• Keep holding E and place some fried leaves on it

The fire is lit and burning now. You can directly place the piece of Meat on the fire for a quick sear. But cooking in a pot will be a better experience. So, next is the Cooking Pot. You can find a Cooking Pot at the isolated campsites. You can have one pot at a time. To have more, you should have a home base to collect them.

After you get the Cooking Pot, you will need Water to be filled in the pot. You can find after at lakes, ponds, and other water bodies around the island. Equip the Cooking Pot and then interact with nearby water bodies to fill the water in it. Let’s get to cooking now.

How to Cook Food/Meat

With the cooking pot filled with water, you’re all set to begin the cooking now. Here are the steps you need to follow to start cooking.

• Place your Cooking Pot on Fire.
• Check your gear for the recipes
• Select the desired recipe and place the lid back on the pot.
• Once the meal is ready, the lid will pop off from the pot.

You can prepare the meals from the available ingredients. If you don’t have any, then you need to search and collect them to begin cooking. Players can also hunt animals, birds, rabbits, and squirrels for meat. In case you want to cannibalism vibe, you have that option too.

There are various recipes like Boiled Meat(Raw Meat x2), Chicken Noodle Soup(Ramen Noodles, Arm), Cream of Mushroom(Hydnum Repandum x3, Fly Aminata x3, King Oyster x3, Shiitake x3), and many more.

Sons of the Forest How to Cook Food guide will surely be a life savior for players who want to cook. This will boost your health and also have you collect various edible items. So, for your next gaming hour do try the Sons of the Forest recipes and comment about your experience. You might like to read about other guides as well so check our Guides page.