How To Upgrade the Kitchen in Spiritfarer (Plus Full Recipes List)

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The Kitchen upgrade/improvement in Spiritfarer is automatically given by the spirit Atul during one of his early requests.

Once upgraded, the Kitchen will allow Stella to cook dishes that have two ingredients. This is important, as cooking several dishes early in the game are needed to progress the story.

The process itself begins with building the primary kitchen, before recruiting Atul and receiving the improvement after a number of quick requests.

This how-to guide will teach you everything you need, as well as everything the kitchen offers once improved.

Let’s begin!

 

Building the Kitchen

 
Gwen will first introduce you to the kitchen during one of her first requests / Spiritfarer
Gwen will first introduce you to the kitchen during one of her first requests.
 

When you start the game and recruit your first spirit (Gwen) aboard the ship, building the kitchen will be one of your first tasks.

Gwen herself will first ask you to build the kitchen during the request “I Get Cranky When I’m Hungry.”

Luckily the kitchen itself is automatically unlocked in the Beginner Blueprint Station, and you can immediately build it once you have the materials.

Simply go to Stella’s blueprint station atop her cabin and look for the Kitchen. This building requires a 3×5 space, and the materials needed are:

  • 5 Maple Logs
  • 8 Bright Jellies

Maple logs are found by chopping the maple trees found in Mosstein Cove, Barkensheim Creek, and Greenhalten Bay.

Meanwhile, bright jelly is obtained through the Jellyfish event. The event itself will be first introduced by Gwen, with Stage located at the coordinates X:80, Y: 92, and marked by the Jellyfish icon. There are three more succeeding stages, but you don’t need to concern yourself with them for now.

Once you start the mini-game, you will see small jellyfish icons appearing on the right side of the screen. Simply position Stella into these spots to grab as much jellyfish as you can.

 
Catch as many jellyfish as you can in the minigame / Spiritfarer
Catch as many jellyfish as you can in the minigame.
 

Green jellyfish will give you bright jelly, while the yellow jellyfish will give out Glims that you can spend on the game.

After getting the required number of bright jellies, you can go ahead and build the kitchen.

When you first build the kitchen, you’re only allowed to use one ingredient per dish.

To start cooking, just stand inside and interact with the oven.

Then pick an ingredient and wait for the timer that will appear to finish to get the food. Note that leaving any food inside the oven for too long will result in Burnt Food.

 
The kitchen is automatically unlocked in the construction buildings / Spiritfarer
The kitchen is automatically unlocked in the construction buildings.
 

Here’s a list of the complete dishes you can make in the basic kitchen:

Dish Ingredients Type of Food
Steamed Shellfish Shellfish Acquired Taste
Surstromming Herring Acquired Taste
Hot Milk Dairy Breakfast Food
Eggs Sunny Side Up Egg Breakfast Food
Popcorn Corn Comfort Food
Pork Chops Pork Comfort Food
Cheese Fondue Cheese Comfort Food
Grilled Steak Beef Comfort Food
Poached Fruit Fruit Dessert
Lobster Germinal Lobster Fine Dining Food
Heat-Treated Crab Snow Crab Fine Dining Food
Squid Skewer Squid Fine Dining Food
Grilled Octopus Octopus Fine Dining Food
Grilled Veggie Savoury or Root Veggie Healthy Food
Grilled Mushrooms Mushroom Healthy Food
Grilled Chicken Chicken Healthy Food
Grilled Fish Fish or Cephalopod Plain Food
Plain Rice Rice Plain Food
Bread Flour (not Rice Flour) Plain Food
Noodle Soup Rice Flour Soup
Black Coffee Coffee Beans Stimulant
Cup of Tea Tea Leaves Stimulant
Questionable Meal Any Invalid Ingredient Combination Non-Edible

Aside from these recipes, you can also put wood or sawdust in the oven to make coal, which is also useful in the game.

 

Recruiting Atul & The Kitchen Improvement

 
Atul will give you the kitchen improvement blueprint / Spiritfarer
Atul will give you the kitchen improvement blueprint.
 

The next step is recruiting Atul the spirit, who will eventually give you the kitchen improvement.

Usually, he’s the second spirit you’ll recruit onto the ship, and you’ll find him in Berkensheim Creek at the coordinates X: 5, Y: 117.

Once he’s on the ship, it’s all a matter of following his requests (a lot of which are quick and easy) until you get the kitchen improvement.

Here’s all of the requests that you need to accomplish beforehand:

Request What To Do
Sticky Fingers Jump in the pond to recover Atul’s Lemon.
Welcome Aboard Welcome him onto the ship.
Sea Master 2000 Go fishing in the back of the ship for Atul.
The Drawing Board Upgrade blueprint at Albert’s Shipyard.
Woodwork Build a sawmill.
The Sommeiler Open a bottle you fish from the sea.
Measure Twice, Cut Once Use the sawmill to cut some logs.
Atul’s Workshop Build a house for Atul to stay in.
Movie Night Cook some popcorn and give to Atul.

After accomplishing these tasks, you’ll get the request “Big Stove,” where Atul will ask you to “step up your culinary game” by improving the stove. He will then give you the kitchen improvement blueprint.

To make the improvement, you’ll need:

  • 5 Bright Jellies
  • 8 Lightnings in a Bottle
  • 12 Linen Fabrics
  • 0 Glims

Lightning in a bottle is acquired through the mini-game that Atul introduces to you, where you’ll have to jump around the boat in order to catch the lightning that will hit various parts of the boat.

 
The lightning in a bottle minigame / Spiritfarer
The lightning in a bottle minigame.
 

Meanwhile, linen fabric is made by using linen thread in the Loom. The Loom itself is unlocked in the Hobbyist Blueprint Station in Albert’s shipyard.

After getting the improvement, you should be able to cook dishes with 2 ingredients. Here’s a complete list of the dishes you can whip up:

Dish Ingredients Type of Food
Mock Gruel
  • Sawdust
  • Dairy
Acquired Taste
Sauerkraut Meal
  • Sauerkraut
  • Pork
Acquired Taste
Pancakes
  • Flour
  • Egg
Breakfast
Bacon and Eggs
  • Pork
  • Egg
Breakfast
Muesli
  • Berry
  • Yoghurt
Breakfast
Cereal Bowl
  • Grain
  • Dairy or Sweetener
Breakfast
Rice Pudding
  • Rice
  • Dairy
Breakfast
Sweet Yoghurt
  • Yoghurt
  • Sweetener
Breakfast/Dessert
Omelette
  • Cheese
  • Egg
Breakfast/Plain Food
Scrambled Eggs
  • Egg
  • Dairy
Breakfast
Frittata
  • Egg
  • Fat
Breakfast/Exotic
Fried Chicken
  • Chicken
  • Fat
Comfort Food
Crab Cake
  • Snow Crab
  • Flour
Comfort Food
Corn Bread
  • Corn Flour
  • Fat
Comfort Food
Casserole
  • Grain
  • Meat
Comfort Food
Focaccia
  • Flour
  • Fat
Comfort Food
Tomato Pizza
  • Wheat Flour
  • Tomato
Comfort Food
Apple Pie
  • Apple
  • Flour
Dessert
Berry Pie
  • Berry
  • Flour
Dessert
Pear Tartlet
  • Pear
  • Flour
Dessert
Cherry Pie
  • Cherry
  • Flour
Dessert
Peach Cobbler
  • Peach
  • Flour
Dessert
Fruit Candy
  • Fruit
  • Sweetener
Dessert
Cake
  • Flour
  • Sweetener
Dessert
Crepes
  • Wheat Flour
  • Milk/Cream
Dessert
Crème Brulee
  • Egg
  • Sweetener
Dessert
Toffee
  • Dairy
  • Sweetener
Dessert
Paella
  • Shellfish
  • Grain
Exotic Food
Southern Boil
  • Crustacean
  • Grain
Exotic Food
Fish Curry
  • Fish
  • Grain
Exotic Food
Clam Cake
  • Clam
  • Flour
Exotic Food
Shrimp Tempura
  • Bay Shrimp/Black Tiger Shrimp
  • Flour
Exotic Food
Tuna Tataki
  • Tuna
  • Savoury Veggie
Exotic Food
Vegetable Stir Fry
  • Fat
  • Veggie (save for potato, mushroom, and leaf veggie
Exotic Food/Healthy Dish
Fried Mushrooms
  • Mushroom
  • Fat
Exotic Food
Bisque
  • Crustacean
  • Mushroom or Veggie
Fine Dining Food/Soup
Bouillabaisse
  • Fish
  • Mushroom or Veggie
Fine Dining Food/Soup
Lobster Roll
  • Lobster
  • Flour
Fine Dining Food
Shellfish Stew
  • Shellfish
  • Mushroom or Veggie
Old-Fashioned Food
Fisherman’s Pie
  • Seafood
  • Flour
Old-Fashioned Food
Veggie-Pot Pie
  • Flour
  • Mushroom or Veggie
Old-Fashioned Food
Maple Salmon
  • Salmon
  • Maple Syrup
Old-Fashioned Food
Fried Crawfish
  • Crustacean
  • Fat
Old-Fashioned Food
Meat Stew
  • Meat
  • Veggie
Old-Fashioned Food
Meat Pie
  • Meat
  • Flour (but not rice flour)
Old-Fashioned Food
Schnitzel
  • Fat
  • Pork
Old-Fashioned Food
Beef Fondue
  • Fat
  • Beef
Old-Fashioned Food
Fried Rice
  • Rice
  • Fat
Plain Food
Calamari Rings
  • Squid
  • Flour
Pub Food
Fried Surf
  • Shellfish
  • Fat
Pub Food
Fish Sticks
  • Fish
  • Fat
Pub Food
Corn Dog
  • Corn Flour
  • Pork
Pub Food
French Fries
  • Potato
  • Fat
Pub Food
Surf and Turf
  • Crustacean
  • Beef
Pub Food
Cheese Sticks
  • Cheese
  • Flour
Pub Food
Garlic Bread
  • Wheat Flour
  • Garlic
Pub Food
Onion Rings
  • Onion
  • Flour
Pub Food
Grain salad
  • Grain
  • Mushroom or Veggie
Salad
Mushroom Salad
  • Mushroom
  • Veggie
Salad
Green Salad
  • Leaf Veggie
  • Fat
Salad
Egg Salad
  • Egg
  • Veggie
Salad
Clam Chowder
  • Clam
  • Dairy
Soup
Wonton Soup
  • Rice Flour
  • Meat
Soup/Exotic Food
Latte
  • Coffee Beans
  • Dairy
Stimulant
Sweet Coffee
  • Coffee Beans
  • Sweetener
Stimulant
English Tea
  • Tea Leaves
  • Dairy
Stimulant
Sweet Tea
  • Tea Leaves
  • Sweetener
Stimulant
Homemade Paper
  • Sawdust
  • Household Glue
Inedible
 
You can check all of your discovered dishes in the recipes section of the kitchen / Spiritfarer
You can check all of your discovered dishes in the recipes section of the kitchen.
 
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Feb has been trying to speedrun Super Mario 64 since he was 10 years old, but doesn't have the hand-eye coordination for it. When not attempting that, he spends his free time playing Metroidvanias, platformers, and Resident Evil 4 on all available consoles. He also likes building Gunpla and writing music, and thinks bicycles are man's greatest invention.