My Time at Sandrock: How to Cook (& Unlock More Recipes)

Players can become entirely self-sufficient when it comes to making food in My Time at Sandrock once they get the right tools up and running.

Cooking food is one of life’s simplest pleasures, and the same can be said in My Time at Sandrock. This cozy life sim offers a whole host of cooking recipes for players to discover, and every meal has the potential to boost a player’s stats or replenish HP/stamina.

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While building is the primary focus in My Time at Sandrock, players can still play the role of a gourmet chef if they so desire. However, there are a few hurdles that must be overcome before players reach that point. This guide shows how to get started with cooking in this game, as well as a few of the most useful recipes everyone should know.

How to Cook in My Time at Sandrock

Apprentice Cooking Station recipe window in My Time At Sandrock

First, players need to unlock the diagram for a cooking station at Qi’s Research Center. The most basic one is the Drying Rack, which is only meant to produce jerky as well as dried fish and fruit. To get into the actual cooking, players need to unlock the Apprentice’s Cooking Station. Those who are out of Data Discs will need to scavenge for some in abandoned ruins like the one near Eufaula Salvage.

The actual act of cooking is fairly simple:

Select a main ingredient.
Pick additional ingredients.
Choose a cooking tool (Wok, Cooking Pot, Steamer, etc).
Click the Confirm button.

The first two steps are where recipes come in. Players need to use the right ingredients in order to make an actual meal. If they use the wrong combination of foodstuff, they’ll get Food Scraps instead. Players can guess a recipe by using random food items, or they can improve their relationships with the people of Sandrock in hopes of getting recipes from them.

Here are a few useful Cooking Station recipes to help players get started (without spoiling much of the discovery part of the game):

Apprentice’s Cooking Station
Tool	Food	Recipe	Effect
Cooking Pot	Braised Meat	1x Meat 1x Potato 1x Sugar 1x Sand Leak	DMG +4% (30s)
Steamer	Stewed Eagle Cistanche	1x Cistanche 1x Chestnut 1x Meat 1x Sea Salt	Stamina +4 (30s)
Chef’s Cooking Station
Tool	Food	Recipe	Effect
Wok	Master Chef Omelet	1x Egg 1x Sea Salt	HP +29
Wok	Cilantro Meat Loaf	1x Meat 1x Cilantro 1x Flour 1x Five Spice Powder	Stamina +26
Advanced Cooking Station
Tool	Food	Recipe	Effect
Oven	Pizza	1x Flour 1x Yakmel Milk 1x Meat 1x Egg	CRIT DMG +3% (30s)
Oven	Lasagne	1x Flour 1x Yakmel Milk 1x Tomato 1x Meat	CRIT DMG +4% (30s)
Blender
Tool	Food/Item	Recipe	Effect
Blender	Flour	4x Wheat	Used for baking
Blender	Hemostat	3x Oregano 1x Medicine Bottle	HP +300

Cooking tools carry over to the next tier of Cooking Station, which means players only need one in their home in order to cook all the recipes they want.