Cooking is a life skill in Grand Blue. Prepare dishes more efficiently and improve their effects.
Skill Tree
Top Branch
| Upgrade |
Effect
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| Steady Hand 1-5 |
The Perfect window stays open 10% longer.
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| Slow Simmer |
Your food burns 15% Later (30% at rank 2) – more slack after the Perfect window closes.
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| Chefs instinct |
Your hands know the moment even when your eyes do not – 25% chance a merely-good pull comes out Perfect anyways.
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Left Branch
| Upgrade |
Effect
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| Hot Stove 1-5 |
Dishes reach cooked 5% sooner.
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| Rolling Boil |
A Perfect dish leaves the pot roaring – your next dish cooks 25% faster (50% at rank 2).
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| Flash Sear |
The pan was already screaming hot – 20% chance a dish you start is ready almost instantly, with the golden window right behind it.
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Right Branch
| Upgrade |
Effect
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| Thrifty Cook 1-5 |
+4% chance a finished dish hands one ingredient back.
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| Waste Not |
50% chance (100% at rank 2) that scraping YOUR burnt pile also rescues one ingredient.
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| Second Helping |
There is always more in the pot – 25% chance a collect cooks a secondary copy of the dish.
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Bottom Branch
| Upgrade |
Effect
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| Rich Flavor 1-5 |
Dishes you cook have 5% stronger food effects.
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| Hearty Meals |
Meal buffs from dishes you cook last 15% longer (30% at rank 2).
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| Gourmet Touch |
Perfection means something on your stove – Perfect dishes you cook gain another 50% potency.
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Rebirth Upgrades
Every 100 levels, rebirthing grants one point that can be spent on this life skill's rebirth upgrades.[1]
| Upgrade |
Maximum Rank Listed |
Point Cost Shown |
Effect
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| Seasoned Chef |
5 |
1 |
Practice seasons the hand. +20% Cooking EXP per rank.[2][3]
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| New Menu |
Not specified |
1 |
Respec your Cooking tree without spending a Stat Reset.
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| Salvage |
Not specified |
1 |
Every ingredient in a burnt dish has a 50% chance to be refunded, mutations intact.
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| Flame Whisperer's Return |
Not specified |
1 |
50% chance a 'burnt' dish is pulled off the fire at the last possible second, fully cooked.
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| Share the Feast |
Not specified |
3 |
When you eat, party members within 60 studs with no food buff of their own receive 100% of yours.
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| Batch Cooking |
4 |
1 |
Cook a recipe in bulk: each rank lets you load and cook one more full set of ingredients at once.
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| Portable Chef |
Not specified |
1 |
Set down a temporary cooking station wherever you stand. Lasts 5 minutes; 60s to repack between deploys.
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Recipes
See Food for the documented ingredients, healing, and meal effects.
References
