How did you tackle the cooking and crafting achievements?

[JackivalTrades]

The new update has content relative to these, but how did you go about completing these achievements without tearing your hairs out?

Did you find a guide and tick stuff off one by one?
Did you hoard everything in an effort to tackle it one day?
Do you just wing it one crafting recipe at a time?

I'm trying to go about this in such a way that I don't go mad.... So, I caught 1 of every fish to hoard away for a fish pond reproduction, I'm working on every single crop seed x25, and I have chests that I'll be placing any of the finished crafting/cooking pieces in.

... Am I .... doing it right?

EDIT:

I appreciate you all mentioning guides and listing off what needs collected, but please understand how I posted this was moreso asking preference and what you're doing. I have spent hours and hours on the wiki, and have frequently looked at the file checker. I'm not saying that these aren't incredibly appreciated. Just note that the title says "How did YOU tackle [them]?" Thanks, y'all!

[Xpliciit]

Well I didn't really stress about these things I just picked up 4 of each of the reproducing crops and planted them on the island plus 10 of each of the non reproducing crops to plant on the island. When I need more I just use the 4 Seedmakers I have on the island. For Fishing I just used the wiki to see when and where to catch them rather than guessing which made it really quite simple.

A more efficient way of checking what you need and what you have missed is with this website. It tells you everything you need to know about your save file for 100%

https://mouseypounds.github.io/stardew-checkup/

[Quizzer]

The crafting one isn't that bad. With 'show advanced crafting' in the options when you hover over something you can craft it will tell you how many you've made. If it doesn't say, you haven't made it. Unless you are missing recipes...

[I Kinda Fail]

I just looked for a list of what fish are needed for recipes, and made sure I stockpiled the ones needed for it.

Idk about crafting recipes, many aren't season specific... Only one I can think of, aside from the forage, would be the fairy powder stuff...

[glyntowen]

I craft a few chests for storing the mats and the created items, ticking things off as i go.
I then use the mousey pound link from above and just work though them one by one

for cooking there are a few lists that show what you are needed available on the reddit site, helps with the seasonal veggies for example, some of them just needed updating for version 1.5 - I just found them with a google search

My simple cooking mats text file list copied below - think it's right, not tested it with 1.5 yet

FORAGE GENERAL GOODS
Cave Carrots 5 Sugar 20
Coconut 3 WheatFlour 22
Winter Root 2 Rice 3
Blackberry 2 Oil 10
Hazelnut 4 Vinegar 4
Wild Plum 2
Common Mushroom 3 FOOD
Fiddlehead Fern 1 Fried Egg 1
Dandelion 1 Hashbrowns 2
Leek 1 Pancakes 1
Morel 1 Tortilla 2
Omlet 1
TREES
Apple 1 SPRING CROPS
Apricot 1 Blue Jazz 1
Maple Syrup 1 Cauliflower 1
Garlic 2
Animal Products Green Bean 2
Eggs 8 Kale 2
Milk 12 Parsnip 2
Cheese 3 Potato 2
Mayo 2 Rhubarb 1
Void Mayo 1
SUMMER CROPS
FISH Corn 2
Bream 1 Blueberry 2
Largemouth Bass 1 Hot Pepper 3
Carp 4 Melon 2
Any Fish 2 Poppy 1
Green Algae 5 Raddish 2
White Algae 2 Red Cabbage 3
Salmon 1 Tomato 7
Sea Cucumber 1
Eel 2 FALL CROPS
Sardine 2 Amaranth 1
Sunfish 1 Artichoke 1
Rainbow Trout 1 Beet 1
Tuna 1 Bok Choy 1
Squid 1 Cranberries 4
Pumpkins 3
CRAB POTS Eggplant 2
Lobster 1 Yam 2
Clam 1
Crayfish 1
Crab 1 Island
Mussel 1 Ginger 3
Shrimp 1 Banana 1
Snail 1 Mango 1
Periwinkle 2 Taro Root 4
Pineapple 1
FishPond
Squid Ink 1

for crafting there was a good PDF for 1.4 that I used as a base, will see if I can find it, think that might have been on Reddit again

my list for 1.5 crafting - again I've not fully tested this yet

Acorn 1
Ancient Seed 1
Any Fish 1
Aquamarine 1
Bananas 10
Bat Wing 40
Battery Pack 7
Blackberry 1
Bone Fragment 128
Bug Meat 41
Cactus Fruit 10
Chanterelle 1
Cinder Shard 20
Clam 11
Clay 8
Cloth 1
Coconut 11
Common Mushroom 1
Coral 13
Crocus 1
Crystal Fruit 1
Daffodil 1
Dandelion 1
Diamond 3
Dragon Tooth 11
Dwarf Gadget 1
Earth Crystal 11
Fairy Rose 1
Fibre 269
Fire Quartz 1
Frozen Tear 10
Garlic 10
Ginger 1
Grape 1
Hardwood 203
Hazelnut 1
Honey 1
Jazz Seeds 1
Leek 1
Maple Seed 1
Maple Syrup 1
Marble 1
Mixed Seeds 1
Morel 1
Oak Resin 2
Oil 1
Pine Cone 1
Pine Tar 7
Poppy Seeds 1
Pumpkin 1
Purple Mushroom 1
Radioactive Bar 2
Radioactive Ore 1
Red Mushroom 1
Refined Quartz 35
Sap 81
Slime 220
Snow Yam 1
Solar Essence 83
Spangle Seeds 1
Spice Berry 1
Stone 1255
Sweet Pea 1
Torch 1
Truffle Oil 1
Tulip Bulb 1
Void Essence 51
Wild Horseradish 1
Wild Plum 1
Winter Root 1
Wood 763

Ore Coal Total Ore
Copper 105 21 133
Gold 150 30 154
Iridium 290 58 295
Iron 220 44 224
Total Coal 249

[Elaisren2020]

Tbh, I think other posters have answered your question for the vanilla version of SDV.

Although for some of the steam achievements NGL I'll use a mod to make life easier (if i wanted the mono-culture/poly-culture early game i.e. early spring Y1 as I'm lazy, then item spawner is rather handy, if a bit overkill - you can also easily include completing the crafting and cooking achievements by using this for the ingredients and trashing the excess, but it takes time to actually cook/craft in order to get the achievements and can be a real drag - I like to change activities to avoid endless repetition/boredom).

In terms of the crafting achievement I did that bit by bit as I went along - which seemed to fit nicely, giving me something to do in game if i'd already dealt with everything else for that day.

Regarding cooking, unless I HAVE to do it (a recipe for a quest or whatever), I always tend to leave it until later in the game (that way I know I should have all the needed ingredients to just box the achievement off in either one huge cooking session or less mind-numbing, easily manageable few cooking sessions.) Around the time of Ginger Island (once I've got the 2nd farm up and running).

Most of the other achievements are fairly easy to achieve with a bit of practice/patience.
The arcade game achievements can be a pain (PK is imo the easier of the two - I didn't need a mod for that - just practice. Junimo kart is another story - Mods all the way after seriously struggling with it.)

[glitzerpaillette]

I just posted a guide on how to get the crafting achievement. You'll find it easily

[ruurdvis]

I just found out that there's a "show advanced crafting information" checkbox in the options menu, which will show the crafted amount of an item in the crafting menu. That was a lifesaver at 97% crafting completion, I would've lost my mind trying to figure out which 3 items I hadn't made yet.