Ultimate Cooking Guide for Story of Seasons: FoMT

by Kal S.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Unlocking the Kitchen
- Kitchen Utensils
- Kitchen Appliances
Learning Recipes
Getting Cooking Ingredients
Using Recipes

Unlocking the Kitchen

To get the kitchen, the first thing you need to do is upgrade your house.

The very first house renovation (the Slightly Bigger House) costs the following in money & materials:

150 Lumber
50 Material Stone
3,000 G

The farmer buys the first house upgrade from Gotts.

After 3 days, you’ll have a shiny new kitchen in the middle of your farmhouse.

It’s ready for use to make some recipes that don’t require equipment, but you’ll need to purchase a few more things before you start cooking.

Kitchen Utensils

There are 8 kitchen utensils you can collect in total, and all of them are needed in some way for each recipe.

The first tool, a Seasoning Set, can be purchased from the General Store right after the farmhouse upgrade is complete.

However, the remaining 7 utensils will only be available one by one with 10-day intervals in between.

Screen capture of the General Store shop inventory showing kitchen utensils.

Cooking Utensils
Equipment	Availability	Cost
Seasoning Set	Immediately after purchasing the Medium House upgrade	2,500 G
Cooking Pot	10 days after the Seasoning Set becomes available for purchase	1,000 G
Frying Pan	10 days after the Cooking Pot becomes available for purchase	1,200 G
Knife	10 days after the Frying Pan becomes available for purchase	1,500 G
Oven	10 days after the Knife becomes available for purchase	2,500 G
Rolling Pin	10 days after the Oven becomes available for purchase	750 G
Mixer	10 days after the Rolling Pin becomes available for purchase	1,200 G
Whisk	10 days after the Mixer becomes available for purchase	500 G

Tip: If you want to buy them all in one go, you can choose to wait exactly 70 days after the Slightly Bigger House upgrade to avoid the hassle of visiting Jeff’s store every week.

Kitchen Appliances

If there just isn’t enough storage room in your cabinet to keep all the ingredients you need, Gotts will also sell refrigerators at a fair price.

This allows you to keep raw ingredients, cooked dishes, and pantry items all in one place.

The farmer stands in front of the Large Refrigerator.

The normal Refrigerator requires the Slightly Bigger House upgrade and costs 2,500 G.

After you upgrade to the Large House, you can buy the Large Refrigerator for 5,000 G.

Learning Recipes

The most challenging part of cooking in any Story of Seasons game is learning the recipes and collecting them until you complete the cookbook.

There are a total of 120 recipes in the game, and you can start learning them even when you don’t have a kitchen yet.

Each recipe can also be obtained in multiple ways.

For example, you can learn how to make Raisin Bread by watching the Tasty Time TV show or through inspiration by making 5 dishes with Wild Grapes.

Method 1: Experience

The farmer learns how to make Grilled Fish.

The majority of the recipes available can be learned simply through cooking.

Whenever you make a certain number of dishes with a specific ingredient, there’s a chance that you might learn something new.

Method 2: Tasty Time TV Show

The farmer watches the Tasty Time TV Show.

Every Tuesday, the entertainment channel on your TV will broadcast a cooking show that teaches you how to make a new dish. There are 15 recipes in regular rotation – meaning you can still rewatch the episodes and learn them even if you miss a few shows.

On Spring 5th of your second year, a special New Year’s exclusive show will teach you how to make Zenzai.

Method 3: High Friendship with Villagers

Harris teaches the farmer a new recipe.

Once you befriend the people of Mineral Town, they’ll find ways to express their fondness for you as well. After reaching the 4 friendship note milestone, they’ll mention a new recipe to you in passing.

Villager	Recipe Taught
Carter	Strawberry Milk
Cherry (Nature Sprite)	Yam Dessert
Doctor	Mixed Juice
Dudley	Cheese Fondue
Ellen	Sandwich
Gotts	Okonomiyaki
Harris	Fried Rice
Kai	Popcorn
Lillia	Tamagoyaki
Manna	Mashed Potatoes
Mugi	Ice Cream
Saibara	Winter Sun
Sasha	Chocolate Cookies
Zack	Summer Sun

Method 4: Anna’s Confectionaries Class

The farmer attends Anna’s cooking classes.

Reaching 8 friendship notes with Anna will prompt her to invite you to her exclusive cooking classes held every Saturday at her house.

She will teach you six recipes in total:

To unlock the first cutscene that lets you attend the rest of the dessert classes, enter Anna and Basil’s house under the following conditions:

The farmer has at least 8 friendship notes with Anna
It is anytime between 10:00 AM and 1:00 PM on a Saturday
The weather is Sunny
The farmer has spoken to both Anna and Manna in the last season
Both Anna and Manna are inside Basil’s house

Method 5: Lou’s Cookbook

The farmer visits Lou at the Inn.

After offering 75 gifts to the Harvest Goddess, a new visitor will arrive in Mineral Town.

Lou is a chef from the Forgotten Valley who is more than happy to teach you new recipes once you’ve shown her your previous experience.

She will teach you 10 recipes when you’ve made a certain number of recipes from this list: Zaru Soba, Mixed Juice, Popcorn, Tamagoyaki, Chocolate Cookies, Bamboo Rice, Caffeine, Curry Rice, Large Mayonnaise, and Miso Soup.

Below is a table of what you’ll learn after you cooked X number of dishes from the list above:

Lou’s Recipe	Requirements
Wild Grape Water	1 dish
Veggie Juice	2 dishes
Roasted Corn	3 dishes
Baked Apple	4 dishes
Curry Bread	5 dishes
Relax Tea	6 dishes
Super Caffeine	7 dishes
Relax Tea Leaves	8 dishes
Spring Sun	9 dishes
Autumn Sun	All 10 dishes

Method 6: Side Quests

The farmer fishes in the ocean.

Two rare recipes show up in random places around Mineral Town.

The Bottled Message, containing the recipe for French Fries, can be fished up from the ocean during Spring when you use a Mithril Fishing Rod or higher.

The farmer finds a Bottled Message.

The second recipe can be uncovered on the 255th floor of the Spring Mine.

There’s a small chance that you can dig up a Tomatosetta Stone, which contains the recipe for Ketchup.

The farmer digs up the Tomatosetta Stone.

These two items can either be displayed in your farmhouse as decoration or sold to Huang for a high price after learning the recipes.

Getting Cooking Ingredients

There are limitless ways to collect ingredients for recipes in Mineral Town. You can either use the items right away after you harvest them, or store them in the cabinet/refrigerator for later use.

Using higher-quality ingredients won’t affect the selling price of the dish at all, but it does help you find inspiration for learning new recipes quickly.

1. Crops

The farmer plants a field of Adzuki Beans.

Planting crops is a classic way to stock up on ingredients for vegetable-based recipes like Stir Fry, Veggie Juice, or Palbochae.

Since many recipes call for crops that are grown in different seasons, investing in a refrigerator is the best way to always keep stock on hand.

2. Fish

The farmer fishes in the town river.

One pro of cooking in SoS: FoMT is that there aren’t any specific fish you need for the recipes.

Any fish can be used, with some dishes calling for bigger sizes.

For example:

The recipe for Fish Soup requires a large fish, but the recipe for Seafood Rice Bowl only calls for a medium fish.

The species of fish you use doesn’t matter, but they are strict about whether or not you can use a medium fish for a large recipe and vice versa.

3. Farm Animals

The farmer milks a cow.

Chickens and cows are the first animals you usually start off with in your first year, and they also give you the best edible products!

Cheese and eggs are used in a variety of recipes, and they’re always in demand.

4. Foraging

The farmer finds a Bamboo Shoot in the mountains.

Forage items like mushrooms, colored grass, fruit, and even flowers can be used in a lot of recipes.

These forageables are usually limited to one season only, so make sure you stock up on Bamboo Shoots or the rare Matsutake mushroom when you go on a foraging expedition.

5. Shops

The farmer buys ingredients from the General Store.

Just like any other kitchen, the pantry still needs to be stocked with basic ingredients like Flour, Oil, and seasoning for it to function.

Jeff stocks these pantry ingredients all year round in the general shop, so there’s no need to worry about running out. Just head there to buy more whenever you need them.

Note: For recipes that need medicinal items such as Caffeine or Stamina Booster, these can be bought from Elly at the Mineral Clinic.

Using Recipes

The farmer sells a stack of Pancakes to Huang.

There are really only three things you can do with cooked food:

Eat the food for stamina
Give your food to villagers as gifts
Or sell your food to Huang

Note: Cooked dishes cannot be placed in the shipping bin.

Unfortunately, cooking large amounts of food for profit doesn’t really work out in SoS: FoMT because it’s not the most efficient use of your ingredients.

Huang likes to haggle his prices, so you need to offer one item at a time to even sell them to him.