The flavors

[ShinshilkaInSpace]

Hi, just finished the demo and ended up with a question; might be dumb, might have overlooked something, but I checked the in-game guide and did not see a clarification, so I decided to ask.
How is the final flavor attributed to a cooked food item? For example, the very first one that must be cooked is a stew that is not spicy. When you include a spicy ingredient, get a spicy stew, so far so good, but then you have to consider that, if you make one that is not spicy, you are including 3 ingredients which ended up, for me, earthy, refreshing and salty.
When cooking Marzipan, it ended up sweet, however, the second ingredient is earthy, as well. My assumption is that some flavors win over others, like spicy over salty and salty over earthy and refreshing (the order of ingredients did not seem to make a difference), but I'm curious to know if that is the case or not and whether it is something the player is meant to discover on their own.
Thanks in advance for the help.

[Skaule]

Hey, you're already on the right track, but, yes, in detail that's something players are meant to discover on their own. And the full game offers a few more ways to figure out the details.

[franplants]

Can you give any hints regarding this? I’m playing the full game now on game pass (I love it!!) but haven’t been able to suss out what determines the final flavor of a dish (for instance, trying to make delicate bottled stew but keep getting creamy no matter what delicate ingredients I use). I’ve read the encyclopedia entries but they don’t seem to address this, unless I’m missing something.

Thanks for any help!!

['Strict]

Originally posted by franplants:

Can you give any hints regarding this? I’m playing the full game now on game pass (I love it!!) but haven’t been able to suss out what determines the final flavor of a dish (for instance, trying to make delicate bottled stew but keep getting creamy no matter what delicate ingredients I use). I’ve read the encyclopedia entries but they don’t seem to address this, unless I’m missing something.

Thanks for any help!!

There's a thing you can buy later that tells you what it will end up as flavourwise

[Gwynnether]

Originally posted by franplants:

Can you give any hints regarding this? I’m playing the full game now on game pass (I love it!!) but haven’t been able to suss out what determines the final flavor of a dish (for instance, trying to make delicate bottled stew but keep getting creamy no matter what delicate ingredients I use). I’ve read the encyclopedia entries but they don’t seem to address this, unless I’m missing something.

Thanks for any help!!

Did a little experiment... I made a mushroom croquette in the frying pan using timbermoss (savoury) and timbershade mushroom (earthy), which gave me a 'savoury' croquette. Tried the same thing again but this time I also added a hazelnut (earthy) to the mix and that ended up giving me an 'earthy' croquette. My theory as of right now is that maybe that the more rare the ingredient (ie common/rare/exotic) the more potent it is. It took two 'common' earthy ingredients to overpower the 'rare' savoury ingredient. This is just a guess though! Don't have enough proof yet to substantiate my claim

[franplants]

Originally posted by Gwynnether:

Originally posted by franplants:

Can you give any hints regarding this? I’m playing the full game now on game pass (I love it!!) but haven’t been able to suss out what determines the final flavor of a dish (for instance, trying to make delicate bottled stew but keep getting creamy no matter what delicate ingredients I use). I’ve read the encyclopedia entries but they don’t seem to address this, unless I’m missing something.

Thanks for any help!!

Did a little experiment... I made a mushroom croquette in the frying pan using timbermoss (savoury) and timbershade mushroom (earthy), which gave me a 'savoury' croquette. Tried the same thing again but this time I also added a hazelnut (earthy) to the mix and that ended up giving me an 'earthy' croquette. My theory as of right now is that maybe that the more rare the ingredient (ie common/rare/exotic) the more potent it is. It took two 'common' earthy ingredients to overpower the 'rare' savoury ingredient. This is just a guess though! Don't have enough proof yet to substantiate my claim

I think I tried something similar and it didn’t work, though I wasn’t very scientific about it haha. But I managed to find the item that tells you what flavor to expect before cooking.

[Ket]

Originally posted by Gwynnether:

Originally posted by franplants:

Can you give any hints regarding this? I’m playing the full game now on game pass (I love it!!) but haven’t been able to suss out what determines the final flavor of a dish (for instance, trying to make delicate bottled stew but keep getting creamy no matter what delicate ingredients I use). I’ve read the encyclopedia entries but they don’t seem to address this, unless I’m missing something.

Thanks for any help!!

Did a little experiment... I made a mushroom croquette in the frying pan using timbermoss (savoury) and timbershade mushroom (earthy), which gave me a 'savoury' croquette. Tried the same thing again but this time I also added a hazelnut (earthy) to the mix and that ended up giving me an 'earthy' croquette. My theory as of right now is that maybe that the more rare the ingredient (ie common/rare/exotic) the more potent it is. It took two 'common' earthy ingredients to overpower the 'rare' savoury ingredient. This is just a guess though! Don't have enough proof yet to substantiate my claim

You have part of it with using multiple items, but no its not the rarity. Once you get the keepsake that tells you the result, you also get a guide that tells you the exact rules.

[franplants]

I finally figured out how to make my delicate bottled stew, THANK GOD!!!

['Strict]

Originally posted by franplants:

I finally figured out how to make my delicate bottled stew, THANK GOD!!! :Valiant_Pet:

How? I have the quest but not the recipe =/

[franplants]

Originally posted by 'Strict:

Originally posted by franplants:

I finally figured out how to make my delicate bottled stew, THANK GOD!!!

How? I have the quest but not the recipe =/

You can get the bottled stew recipe from Cassia the witch (sorry if I'm remembering wrong). Now, figuring out a combination of ingredients that works in the hard part ;-)

['Strict]

Originally posted by franplants:

Originally posted by 'Strict:

How? I have the quest but not the recipe =/

You can get the bottled stew recipe from(sorry if I'm remembering wrong). Now, figuring out a combination of ingredients that works in the hard part ;-)

Yup that was the correct person, now I just gotta figure out how to make it bitter (or delicate)