One of your primary duties in Spiritfarer is to prepare meals for your crew using a kitchen and up to two ingredients.
In this guide, we’ll show you how to cook food for your spirits and highlight each one’s likes, dislikes, and favorite recipes.
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How To Cook For Your Spirits
The cooking mini-game is probably the easiest one in the game, with the only requirement being time. Once you have built a kitchen, you can go inside and interact with the oven to start cooking. Select your ingredient, wait for the timer to finish, and voila! You have a meal you can now give to one of your Spirits.
The amount of time it takes to cook will depend on the ingredient selected. Feeding your Spirits food will cause their mood to go up and may advance their questline or unlock new objectives. Later on in the game, you can upgrade the kitchen, giving you the ability to combine up to two ingredients.
Try cooking with a bunch of different ingredients to discover new recipes and learn more about your crew’s taste buds. Note that any recipes you previously made can be repeated by selecting them from the ‘Recipes’ tab in the cooking menu.
All Food Likes and Dislikes
Since each Spirit that boards your ship has a unique palette, some will prefer certain foods over others or may outright reject what you have to offer. Try to pay attention to their requests and hints regarding which foods they like or dislike. Giving a Spirit their favorite dish will cause their mood to go up significantly.
When a Spirit’s mood is in good standing, they’ll start to pitch in around the ship in different ways. For example, Summer will play music to make crops grow faster, Alice will cook food on her own, and Astrid will make Ingots using the Foundry. That being said, below we’ve highlighted each Spirit’s likes, dislikes, and favorite dish:
Gwen
- Likes: Comfort Food, Fine Dining Food
- Dislikes: Anything with Shellfish or Fruit
- Favorite Dish: Black Coffee (Coffee Beans)
Atul
- Likes: Everything
- Dislikes: Nothing
- Favorite Dish: Pork Chops (Pork)
Summer
- Likes: Salads, Dessert, Vegan Food
- Dislikes: Non-Vegan Food
- Favorite Dish: Grain Salad (Grain + Any Vegetable)
Astrid
- Likes: Plain Food, Soups
- Dislikes: Anything Sweet, Fine-Dining Food
- Favorite Dish: Noodle Soup (Rice Flour)
Alice
- Likes: Old-Fashioned Food, Dessert
- Dislikes: Acquired Taste Food, Exotic Food, Stimulants
- Favorite Dish: Vegetable Pot Pie (Any Flour + Any Vegetable)
Stanley
- Likes: Breakfast, Dessert
- Dislikes: Vegetables, Fruits, Stimulants
- Favorite Dish: French Fries (Potato + Fat)
Giovanni
- Likes: Fine Dining Food, Stimulants
- Dislikes: Anything with Eggs or Carbs
- Favorite Dish: Beef Fondue (Beef + Fat)
Gustav
- Likes: Acquired Taste Food, Exotic Food
- Dislikes: Anything Fried or Sweet
- Favorite Dish: Surstromming (Fermented Herring)
Bruce and Mickey
- Likes: Pub Food
- Dislikes: Single-Ingredient Food, Allergic to Crustaceans
- Favorite Dish: Garlic Bread (Wheat Flour + Garlic)
Buck
- Likes: Comfort Food, Old-Fashioned Food
- Dislikes: Lactose Intolerant, Fruit
- Favorite Dish: Tomato Pizza (Tomato + Wheat Flour)
Elena
- Likes: Plain Food, Healthy Food
- Dislikes: Fine-Dining Food, Fried Food, Meat
- Favorite Dish: Green Salad (Any Leafy Vegetable + Fat)
All Food Recipes
As mentioned earlier, upgrading your kitchen will allow you to combine different ingredients to create a wider variety of dishes. The Kitchen Upgrade blueprint can only be acquired by advancing Atul’s questline.
Dish | Ingredient 1 | Ingredient 2 |
Grilled Fish | Any Fish or Cephalopod | N/A |
Steamed Shellfish | Any Shellfish | N/A |
Popcorn | Corn | N/A |
Poached Fruit | Any Fruit | N/A |
Plain Rice | Rice | N/A |
Grilled Vegetable | Any Savory/Root Vegetable | N/A |
Lobster Germinal | Lobster | N/A |
Heat-Treated Crab | Snow Crab | N/A |
Black Coffee | Coffee Beans | N/A |
Grilled Mushroom | Mushroom | N/A |
Hot Milk | Milk | N/A |
Grilled Chicken | Chicken | N/A |
Cup of Tea | Tea Leaves | N/A |
Cheese Fondue | Cheese | N/A |
Candy | Sweetener | N/A |
Grilled Steak | Beef | N/A |
Noodle Soup | Rice Flour | N/A |
Squid Skewer | Squid | N/A |
Grilled Octopus | Octopus | N/A |
Sunny Side-up Eggs | Egg | N/A |
Bread | Wheat/Corn Flour | N/A |
Shrimp Cocktail | Shrimp | N/A |
Pork Chops | Pork | N/A |
Questionable Meal | Lettuce | N/A |
Coal | Wood/Sawdust | N/A |
Homemade Paper | Sawdust | Household Glue |
Paella | Shellfish | Grain |
Shellfish Stew | Shellfish | Any Vegetable |
Grain Salad | Grain | Any Vegetable |
Southern Boil | Any Crustacean | Grain |
Fish Curry | Any Fish | Grain |
Clam Cake | Clam | Any Flour |
Apple Pie | Apple | Any Flour |
Bisque | Any Crustacean | Any Vegetable |
Bouillabaisse | Any Fish | Any Vegetable |
Berry Pie | Berries | Any Flour |
Pear Tartlet | Pear | Any Flour |
Fisherman’s Pie | Any Seafood | Any Flour |
Cherry Pie | Cherry | Any Flour |
Peach Cobbler | Peach | Any Flour |
Lobster Roll | Lobster | Any Flour |
Crab Cake | Snow Crab | Any Flour |
Shrimp Tempura | Shrimp | Any Flour |
Vegetable Pot Pie | Any Vegetable | Any Flour |
Calamari Rings | Squid | Any Flour |
Tuna Tataki | Any Tuna | Any Savory Vegetable |
Mushroom Salad | Mushroom | Any Vegetable |
Mock Gruel | Sawdust | Dairy |
Clam Chowder | Any Clam | Any Dairy |
Fried Surf | Any Shellfish | Fat |
Muesli | Berries | Yogurt |
Cereal Bowl | Grain | Dairy |
Rice Pudding | Rice | Dairy |
Maple Salmon | Any Salmon | Maple Syrup |
Fruit Candy | Any Fruit | Sweetener |
Corn Bread | Corn Flour | Fat |
Fish Sticks | Any Fish | Fat |
Vegetable Stir-Fry | Any Vegetable | Fat |
Green Salad | Any Leafy Vegetable | Fat |
Fried Rice | Rice | Fat |
Latte | Coffee Beans | Any Dairy |
Egg Salad | Egg | Any Vegetable |
Sweet Coffee | Coffee Beans | Sweetener |
Casserole | Grain | Any Meat |
Corn Dog | Corn Flour | Pork |
Fried Crawfish | Any Crustacean | Fat |
French Fries | Potato | Fat |
Focaccia | Any Flour | Fat |
Cake | Any Flour | Sweetener |
Meat Stew | Any Meat | Any Vegetable |
Pancakes | Egg | Any Flour |
Surf and Turf | Any Crustacean | Beef |
Fried Mushrooms | Mushroom | Fat |
Fried Chicken | Chicken | Fat |
Meat Pie | Any Meat | Any Flour |
Crepes | Wheat Flour | Milk/Cream |
Wonton Soup | Rice Flour | Any Meat |
Sweet Yogurt | Yogurt | Sweetener |
Omelette | Cheese | Egg |
Scrambled Eggs | Egg | Dairy |
Crème Brulee | Egg | Sweetener |
Frittata | Egg | Fat |
Tomato Pizza | Wheat Flour | Tomato |
Schnitzel | Fat | Pork |
Bacon and Eggs | Egg | Pork |
English Tea | Tea Leaves | Dairy |
Cheese Sticks | Cheese | Any Flour |
Sweet Tea | Tea Leaves | Dairy |
Garlic Bread | Wheat Flour | Garlic |
Toffee | Dairy | Sweetener |
Sauerkraut Meal | Sauerkraut | Pork |
Beef Fondue | Beef | Fat |
Onion Rings | Onion | Any Flour |