Welcome to Elderfield Best Food — Cooking Recipes and HP Restore Values

The best food in Welcome to Elderfield, judged by the HP values the community wiki publishes, is Pumpkin Pie at 75 HP, with Pizza at 50 and Baked Fish Fillet at 45 behind it. There is no developer ranking, but that ordering is the useful answer because the developer's own advice is to carry good food instead of grinding levels. Cooking is a three-station system, so what you can actually make depends on which recipes you have unlocked.

Foods Ranked by Documented HP

The Cooking wiki lists recipes with their restore values and where each recipe comes from. Basic recipes come free with the Cooking Pot, quest recipes come from Fisherman Herb and Edwin, and shop recipes come from Chef Elroy and the Saloon.

Dish	HP restore	MP restore	Recipe source
Pumpkin Pie	75	—	Purchased from Chef Elroy after The Skull Chalice
Pizza	50	—	Basic beginner recipe
Baked Fish Filet	45	5	Herb after stage 2 of Casting Your Line, also sold at the Saloon
Ghost Sashimi	40	10	Gift from Edwin after he mentions he is an amateur chef
Hotdog	30	—	Basic beginner recipe, also sold at the Saloon
Tempura	30	5	Herb after stage 1 of Casting Your Line
Ghost Flounder Soup	30	—	Herb after stage 1 of Casting Your Line
Vegetable Soup	20	—	Basic beginner recipe, also sold at the Saloon
Bread	10	—	Basic beginner recipe
Cooked Meat	5 to 7	—	Basic beginner recipe

Ingredients, Stations and Recipes

Cooking runs through four stations: the Cooking Pot for basic meals, the Juicer, the Oven and the Coffee Maker. Basic ingredients are cheap and mostly foraged — Bitter Herb restores 2 HP, costs nothing to find and sells for 4g, while Dough sells for 25g and Secret Sauce for 37g. Dough is made by processing Wheat in a Grinder or Windmill, and Secret Sauce comes from Eyeball in the same machines, which links the kitchen back to the farm.

Ingredient	Sell	How to get it
Bitter Herb	4g	Foraging, Tier 1 garbage loot, Tier 1 loot boxes
Red Mushroom	6g	Foraging, Tier 1 garbage loot, Tier 1 loot boxes
Dough	25g	Process Wheat in a Grinder or Windmill
Secret Sauce	37g	Process Eyeball in a Grinder or Windmill
Mystery Meat	7g	Monster loot in the Mall and Sewers

Practical Food Habits

• Carry the highest-HP dish you can craft, not the cheapest one — fights are decided by healing per turn.
• Keep a stack of Bitter Gel for MP if you lean on rituals.
• Fish for Ghost Flounder and Fog Eel to unlock the mid-tier recipes through Herb.
• Buy the Saloon's ready-made dishes when you would rather not farm the ingredients.
• Watch the Cooked Meat discrepancy: the wiki lists 5 HP and 7 HP in different tables, so confirm it in-game.

Two habits make the ranking easier to use in practice: cook in batches so one trip to the Cooking Pot fills a stack, and keep the free basic recipes stocked so you are never deciding between a Pumpkin Pie and a fight on an empty inventory.

• Batch-cook Bread and Hotdogs as cheap filler while saving the high-HP dishes for hard areas.
• Use Bitter Gel to top up MP before a ritual-heavy fight.
• Unlock Herb's fish recipes early; they bridge the gap between Bread and Pizza.
• Buy Saloon dishes when you lack ingredients but need a full stack fast.

For how food fits into the wider survival loop, see the tips page, and for the materials that feed the stations, see resources.