Want to know how you can cook in Dinkum?
In Dinkum, food is one of the most crucial things to have. Not only does it keeps your character alive, but it can also cure near-fatal injuries and replenish your stamina. If you’ve been hit too many times by a gribbly or have wandered around for too long, an apple will sort you right out.
Besides eating fruits and vegetables from the get-go, you can also combine them with meat to create even better food.
Much like in the real world, cooking food in Dinkum will give you more benefits than eating them raw.
In this guide, we’ll show you how you can cook in Dinkum.
Let’s get right into it!
Cooking Overview


Cooking in Dinkum is simply the process of heating something up. Sometimes you will heat something with other things to make new things, but in general, heat is required. Cooking nearly always enhances the healing and regeneration effects of food.
How to Cook in Dinkum
To cook in Dinkum players will need two things, a cooking station, and at least one ingredient. Cooking stations come in several forms and can be something as simple as a Camp Fire, or as advanced as a Cooking Table.
Ingredients similarly can be something as easily found as a banana or a refined good like flour. Here’s a list of cooking stations you can use in the game:
- Camp Fire
- Cooking Table
- BBQ
Cooking Recipes
There are a handful of recipes in Dinkum and different recipes will require a different type of cooking station. There may be three in Dinkum but you can lump Camp Fires and BBQs into the same category for recipes.
BBQs are simply an upgrade from a Camp Fire when it comes to cooking food.
Food Name | Station | Ingredients | Effects |
Cooked Apple | CF/BBQ | x1 Apple | +10 Health |
Cooked Banana | CF/BBQ | x1 Banana | +10 Stamina |
Cooked Bush Lime | CF/BBQ | x1 Bush Lime | +4 Health+6 Stamina |
Cooked Cactus Figs | CF/BBQ | x1 Cactus Figs | +5 Stamina |
Cooked Croco Meat | CF/BBQ | x1 Croco Meat | +25 Health+10 Stamina |
Cooked Flake | CF/BBQ | x1 Flake | +20 Health+20 Stamina |
Cooked | CF/BBQ | x1 Drumstick | +5 Health+10 Stamina |
Cooked Giant Drumstick | CF/BBQ | x1 Giant Drumstick | +5 Health+10 Stamina |
Cooked Quandong | CF/BBQ | x1 Quangdong | +8 Health+8 Stamina |
Bread | CT | x3 Flour | +35 Health+25 StaminaDefence Up (3 minutes) |
Dagwood Dog | CT | x1 Cornx1 Meatx1 Mangrove Stick | +15 Health+25 staminaAttack Up (3 minutes)Defence Up (3 Minutes) |
Damper | CT | x1 Flourx1 Milk | +25 Health+15 Stamina |
Fairy Bread | CT | x1 Breadx2 Sugar | +10 StaminaMovement Up (2 minutes) |
Fish and Chips | CT | x1 Flakex2 Potatox1 Bush Lime | + 10 Health+30 StaminaFishing Up (20 minutes) |
Fruit Salad | CT | x2 Bush Limex2 Applex2 Bananax2 Quandong | +10 Health+20 StaminaDefence Up (5 minutes)Woodcutting Up (5 minutes) |
Garden Salad | CT | x1 Cabbagex1 Tomatox1 Onion | +20 Health+20 StaminaDefence Up (2 minutes)Heal Over Time (2 minutes) |
Hearty Stew | CT | x1 Meatx1 Potatox1 Onionx1 Carrot | +45 Health+10 StaminaAttack Up (3 minutes)Defence Up (3 minutes) |
Lamington | CT | x1 Flourx1 Sugarx1 Coconutx1 Chicken Eggx1 Milk | +30 StaminaDefence Up (4 minutes)Movement Up (60 seconds)Mining Up (4 minutes)Woodcutting Up (4 minutes) |
Meat On A Stick | CT | x3 Meatx1 Mangrove | +35 Health+15 StaminaDefence Up (3 minutes) |
Meat Pie | CT | x1 Flourx1 Meatx1 Raw Drumstick | +25 Health+5 StaminaAttack Up (3 minutes) |
Pastie | CT | x1 Flourx1 Cabbagex1 Carrotx1 Potato | +30 Health+30 StaminaMining Up (3 minutes)Woodcutting Up (3 minutes) |
Pavlova | CT | x4 Big Chicken Eggsx2 Sugarx1 Fruit Salad | +40 Health+45 StaminaMovement Up (3 minutes) |
Prime Roast | CT | x1 Raw Prime Meatx3 Potatox2 Carrotx1 Kalex3 Green Beanx1 Pumpkin | +50 Health+50 StaminaAttack Up (5 minutes)Defence Up (5 minutes) |
Quiche | CT | x1 Flourx1 Chicken Eggx1 Cheese | +20 Health+30 StaminaMovement Up (5 minutes)Mining Up (5 minutes)Woodcutting Up (5 minutes) |
Sausage Roll | CT | x1 Flourx1 Chicken Eggx1 Meatx1 Onion | +30 Health+30 StaminaAttack Up (5 minutes)Defence Up (5 minutes)Movement Up (5 minutes) |
That ends our guide on how to cook food in Dinkum. If you have questions, please leave a comment below, and we’ll do our best to answer them.