Valheim Food Guide: How To Cook Meat & Best Food In Valheim

In Valheim, your main aim besides killing Odin’s enemies is to survive, tame, and flourish in its environment. You need to hunt, cook, eat, kill, sail, rest and sleep, all like a true lone Viking warrior. And if you are new to the game, you might have collected many raw meat chunks from Deer, Boar, and Necks, but you have to convert them into cooked meat to consume them. So in this Food guide, let’s look at how to cook meat in Valheim.

What’s the Best Food in Valheim (Food Guide)

Even though Valheim is a survival game at its core, it doesn’t have a thirst or hunger regulation system. The food has different stats like healing factor, stamina, and they give buffs to you for a specific duration. Eating food in Valheim increases your max health bar, and you will start to heal for a fixed duration. The duration is different for different food items. But the best food in Valheim is “Serpent Stew”, made using Cooked Serpent Meat, Mushroom and Honey. It gives you 80 max health and 80 max stamina for 2400 seconds.

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To get Serpent Meat you need to hunt Serpents in the Ocean biome. Cooked Serpent Meat will increase your maximum health by 70 units and maximum stamina by 40 units, the buff lasts 2000 seconds. We recommend you build a Karve or a Longship before setting into the seas. Of course, to cook Serpent meat you need a Cooking Station.

How To Cook Meat in Valheim?

To cook meat and turn it into food in Valheim you need to build a Cooking Station or a Cauldron on top of a campfire or hearth. The Cauldron can be used to cook Carrot Soup, Queens Jam, Sausages, Serpent Stew and Turnip Stew. The Cooking Station can be used to cook all the meat types. There are also a few recipes available to cook different meats.

RAW	COOKED MEAT	DURATION
Neck tail	Roasted Neck Tail	20 sec
Raw fish	Cooked fish	30 sec
Raw lox meat	Cooked lox meat	60 sec
Raw meat	Cooked meat	25 sec

How to Build a Cooking Station to Cook Meat

Now as you have the recipes, here’s how to build a Cooking Station for cooking meat in Valheim:

Equip your Hammer.
Build a Campfire in Misc Tab.
Place the Campfire on the open ground, if inside keep it properly ventilated.
Use Hammer again to place the Cooking station (crafting tab) over the firepit.
To build a Cooking Station you will need 2 pieces of wood.
Place it over a campfire (firepit) or hearth.
Move the mouse cursor over the station to reveal its options.
Press E to cook any meat available in your inventory.
Select the “1-8” option if you want to cook a specific food item.
Once you place the meat on the station, you will hear a sizzling sound.
Wait for the meat to cook. Usually takes under a minute.
Then once the meat is cooked it will again make a sizzling sound.
Remove the meat from the station.
If you leave the meat on the cooking station for a long, it will be burnt and finally, turn into coal.

Valheim Food Buff and Duration Guide

As we have seen above, different food gives different stats like healing factor and stamina buffs for a fixed duration. If you don’t have a boat to go into the Ocean and farm Serpents for Cooked Serpent Meat, then the next best food you can prepare is Sausages in the Cauldron by using 2 Entrails, 1 Raw meat and 4 Thistles. It will increase your maximum health by 60 units and maximum stamina by 40 units, the buff lasts 1600 seconds. So, here’s a table about the stats of major food items in Valheim:

FOOD ITEM	HEALTH	HEALING	STAMINA	DURATION (SEC)
Blueberry	15	1	20	600
Carrot	15	1	15	600
Carrot Soup	20	2	60	1500
Cooked fish	45	2	25	1200
Cooked meat	40	2	30	1200
Cooked Serpent Meat	70	3	40	2000
Grilled Neck Tail	35	2	20	1000
Honey	20	5	20	300
Mushroom	15	1	20	600
Queens Jam	30	2	40	1200
Raspberry	10	1	20	600
Sausages	60	3	40	1600
Turnip Stew	50	2	50	1600
Yellow Mushroom	20	1	20	600

That’s our Valheim food guide & how to cook meat in Valheim. While you’re here, check out more tips & tricks that will help you level up your gameplay in our Valheim guides. For more details do not forget to visit our Valheim Wiki Guide for cheats, boss fights, rare resource locations, etc.