The Cooking Station is a Crafting device in Starfield. Crafting is a feature in the game that allows you to create various objects that will help you in battles and in explorations, such as Aid Items, and modifications for Weapons and Armor. The Cooking Station focuses on specifically allowing players to create Aid Items that will help them survive during their ventures and explorations, in the form of food and drinks. These consumables grant a variety of effects, including healing and better O2 management. Initially, Aid Items that can be cooked are limited and might be relatively weak in terms of effects, but more Aid Items can become craftable as players progress in the game. Notably, many food and drink recipes, become unlocked through the Research Laboratory.
What is a Cooking Station in Starfield?
The Cooking Station allows players to create their own stock of food and drink Aid Items any time they have access to it, as long as they have the right materials to do so. These can range from simple food items like meat jerky to complex dishes or even cocktails that the player can learn to make. Each food or drink item has specific effects to grant the player when consumed, and all of them will require different materials in the form of Resources, or even other smaller Aid Items in order to cook.
Starfield Where to find a Cooking Station?
Players will actually have access to the Cooking Station the earliest that they step foot in the Frontier, the default ship in the game. It can be easy to miss though, as it's called a Galley instead of a Cooking Station. In any case, players will unlikely have any materials to cook anything yet anyway at that point. Nevertheless, the Galley Cooking Station in the ship will be there to stay, so players will be able to visit it anytime and cook food and drink Aid Items accordingly as they gather the materials for them. Additionally, The Lodge will also have a Cooking Station ready for use at any time as well. You're mainly look for an implement that will have recognizable pots and pans on it. Players will have an initial list of simple food and drink items they can cook. They can then unlock more complex ones with stronger and more effects through completing Food & Drink Research Projects at a Research Laboratory. Finally, players will also be able to build a Cooking Station on their Outposts so they can craft food and drink Aid Items whenever they visit their developing areas.
Starfield How to Use the Cooking Station?
After interacting with a Cooking Station, players will be able to see a list of food and drink Aid items that they are able to cook. As players scroll down and view the different items, they'll be able to see a description of the food as well as its effects on the left side of the screen.
Players will also be able to see the materials needed to cook the food or drink Aid Item on the right side of the screen. Below that will be the Food & Drink Research Project that would've been required to unlock the food or drink Aid Item as a craftable item on the Cooking Station, as well as the button to actually begin the process of crafting the item. Simply press the button to cook the chosen Aid Item.
What is a Research Laboratory in Starfield?
The Research Laboratory expands the main character's Crafting capabilities, which in turn expands the player's capabilities, in terms of healing, Equipment, and managing their Outposts. Completing Research Projects will allow the player to unlock new creations to craft using various different crafting devices. Afterward, players will be able to attach these new creations to their Equipment, or use/consume them at will in the case of Aid Items and Food. Research Projects are divided into the following categories:
- Pharmacology
- Food & Drink
- Outpost Development
- Equipment
- Weaponry
Food & Drink research will result in being able to cook food and drink Aid Items with various healing and other beneficial effects, by using the Cooking Station.
For an in-depth guide to the Research Laboratory, visit our page here.
Crafted Aid Items with the Cooking Station
You can search by Name, Effect, Materials, Required Research, Mass, or Value. Just type into the search box what you are looking for.
Quick Search of All Craftable Food & Drink Aid Items
| Name | Effect | Materials | Required Research | Mass | Value |
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| Alien Jerky | Restores 3 Health | N/A | 0.30 | 50 | |
| Alien Liquor |
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Mixology 1 | 0.30 | 165 | |
| Alien Sandwich |
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N/A | 0.30 | 155 | |
| Alien Scramble |
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N/A | 0.50 | 185 |
| Alien Tea |
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N/A | 0.30 | 105 | |
| Alien Tonic |
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Beverage Development 1 | 0.30 | 105 | |
| Boba Alien Tea |
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Beverage Development 1 | 0.30 | 105 | |
| Distilled Water |
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N/A | 0.30 | 45 | |
| Grandpa's Meatloaf |
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Given in conversation with your father when visiting your parents home, if you chose the Kid Stuff trait | 0.50 | 240 |
| Grilled Cheese Sandwich |
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N/A | 0.30 | 75 | |
| Ham and Cheese Sandwich |
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N/A | 0.30 | 75 | |
| Meatloaf |
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Old Earth Cuisine 1 | 0.50 | 185 |
| Reuben |
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Old Earth Cuisine 1 | 0.50 | 140 | |
| The Deep |
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N/A | 0.50 | 1055 | |
| Yellow Giant Splash |
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Beverage Development 1 | 0.50 | 140 |
