Sea of Thieves: Cooking guide Sea Of Thieves guide, walkthrough

Last update: 13 July 2020

In this chapter of the guide to Sea of Thieves the player will find important information about cooking - how to identify a perfectly cooked dish and what can you gain after eating such food.

In Sea of Thieves, cooking makes meat and fish more nutritious - they replenish more health points when eaten. What's more, cooked fish and meat are valuable for The Hunter's Call - you can earn nice money by selling the items to the merchants. Fish and meat can be cooked on the ship (under the deck) or in special cauldrons placed on most Outpost islands.

• How to cook in Sea of Thieves?
• Renewal health bar

How to cook in Sea of Thieves?

Once you succeed in capturing a fish or hunting an animal, you must place the meat directly into a dish on the ship or into a cauldron on one of the islands. While carrying a raw food, watch out that you don't consume it - this will reduce its nutritional value and price. Once you place a piece of meat or a fish in a dish, you must wait until it is cooked. Once it happens, take it off the fire.

Stages of cooking in Sea of Thieves

Each type of meat and fish available in Sea of Thieves has different cooking time. It determines time it must be on fire before its nutritional value increases and it can be sold to The Hunter's Call for more cash. The table below shows the cooking time (in seconds) of each type of meat.

Type of meat	Undercooked	Cooked	Overcooked
Fish	30 seconds	40 seconds	80 seconds
Trophy Fish	80 seconds	90 seconds	180 seconds
Meat	50 seconds	60 seconds	120 seconds
Megalodon Meat	100 seconds	120 seconds	240 seconds
Kraken Meat	100 seconds	120 seconds	240 seconds

In the above picture you can see the phases of cooking a Trophy Fish. The picture is split into three parts: a raw fish, an undercooked fish, and a well cooked fish. As one can see, a well cooked fish has a brown color and its eyes changed color from black to white. This color change signals the best time to take it off the fire. If you would kept the fish on the fire for too long, it would start changing its color to black and a black smoke would start coming from the dish.

Renewal health bar

Your character can gain additional profits from cooked food in Sea of Thieves. Cooked meat or fish restore more health points than fruits or a coconut. When a character eats a well cooked meat, it will be able to take advantage of an additional mechanic called Renewal.

You can consider Renewal as an additional health bar marked with a skull icon. When the basic health bar is full and you eat cooked meat or cooked fish, the health surplus will be added to the renewal health bar. When your character receives some damage and then he or she gets out of combat for more than 10 seconds, the surplus health points will automatically transfer to the regular health bar.