Summary

One thing you’re going to be doing a lot inAvowedis exploring and interacting with either enemies or NPCs you run across. You may end up in fights or situations where you wish you had been a little bit more prepared - either because you’ve run out of potions or just because you need an extra point to get a little bit more dialogue.

Perhaps, you need to prep for a boss fight before you go in just so it doesn’t end up backing you into a corner. As such, you should probably ensure that you’re regularly cooking all of the ingredients you pick up.

Avowed, Grog in the crafting menu, showcasing the additional effects, the recipe, and a brief description.

10Grog

Grog may not seem like it’s all that worthwhile, but you will quickly change your mind once you have been poisoned. Poison, Bleed, and Elemental Accumulations are super annoying, especially when you’re in a fight with a boss who just won’t stop throwing those status effects onto you.

Having some Grog on hand is super useful for keeping yourself alive and out of the danger zone. It helps that it also heals you a little bit and that it doesn’t require all that much to make - just don’t overconsume it, because it is labeled as alcohol.

Avowed, Stew in the crafting menu, showcasing the additional effects, the recipe, and a brief description.

9Stew

Stew is pretty simple, and it’s more than likely that you have an overabundance of ingredients to make it. Regardless of what you have on hand, this prepared food item is handy to have in a pinch.

It restores 70 Health and 70 Essence, which makes it a really versatile food, regardless of what fighting style you’ve opted for in Avowed. Just make sure that you pick up literally every single food item you come across (there doesn’t seem to be a penalty for robbing anyone) and you’ll be set to make a billion stews.

Avowed, Mariner’s Porridge in the crafting menu, showcasing the additional effects, the recipe, and a brief description.

8Mariner’s Porridge

Although the description for this item reads that it’s high in nutrition and low in flavor, you probably don’t care about flavor at all. Avowed is just a video game, after all, so all that matters is the utility of the item.

Mariner’s Porridge is definitely one of the cooking items that has a strong utility, especially in combat. Restoring 70 Health and 70 Essence (much like Stew), it’s easy to make and has a high reward for opting to make and fill your inventory with it.

Avowed, Wild Mushroom Stew in the crafting menu, showcasing the additional effects, the recipe, and a brief description.

7Wild Mushroom Stew

Avowed is basicallyyour standard fantasy game, but with a bunch of mushrooms, so it makes sense that you would have a lot of mushrooms in your inventory. You, as a godlike, are even part mushroom (does that make this cannibalism?), so you should be no stranger to mushrooms at any part of the game.

The Wild Mushroom Stew gives you +2 Resolve and +5 percent maximum stamina, which is awesome when you’re going into specific conversations (sometimes you just need that extra point) or if you’re going to go into a boss fight and need to make sure you may enact those charged attacks.

Avowed, Beetle Pie in the crafting menu, showcasing the additional effects, the recipe, and a brief description.

6Beetle Pie

Look, this sounds kind of gross - not many people would think that beetles have that much meat and the entire thing just sounds crunchy in a horribly unpleasant way. However, you fight more than your fair share of beetles (especially in Emerald Stair), and you should feel entitled to put them to some kind of use.

This use is, most likely, baking a Beetle Pie and getting +2 Might and ten percent more damage. It’s not like there are really any normal animals in Avowed (no cows in sight), so maybe it makes sense that they would use the bugs and monsters that plague the world to make food.

Avowed, Fine Aedyran Mead in the crafting menu, showcasing the additional effects, the recipe, and a brief description.

5Fine Aedyran Mead

It’s not a surprise that alcoholic drinks are pretty easy to whip up whenever you visit your camp. If the Aedyran Empire provides anything good to the Living Lands, it’s the Fine Aedyran mead.

This mead grants you +2 to Perception and also gives you ten percent more Essence on top of that. Perception is somewhat commonly used in dialogue options and theEssence is great if you have a magic-based build, which makes Fine Aedyran Mead versatile and useful. Just make sure you down a bottle of it ahead of time.

Avowed, Tani Cream in the crafting menu, showcasing the additional effects, the recipe, and a brief description.

4Tani Cream

Tani Cream kind of just looks like your standard Coconut Milk, although based on the ingredients it’s just watered down sweet milk. The description for it does say that it creates a delicious tangy beverage, however, so maybe this is the best thing your godlike has ever tasted.

Either way, it grants you +2 Dexterity and increases your maximum Stamina by five percent.If you enjoy using charged attacks or ranged weapons, then you should have some Tani Cream made at all times, though this may be one of the harder items to keep in stock constantly.

Avowed, Fruitful Wine in the crafting menu, showcasing the additional effects, the recipe, and a brief description.

3Fruitful Wine

There is a lot of Rotten Food in Avowed and you may be tempted to throw it out - but hold off for a little bit. You can make some really good alcoholic beverages with Rotten Food, including Fruitful Wine.

This alcoholic beverage grants you +2 Constitution and reduces the damage you take by five percent, which makes it a really handy item for any fight. If you’re going up against an enemy you aren’t prepared for but are determined to take down, drink some liquid courage (aka Fruitful Wine) and head right on in.

Avowed, Cooked Bovigrand Loin in the crafting menu, showcasing the additional effects, the recipe, and a brief description.

2Cured Bovigrand Loin

This is probably the simplest recipe that you’re able to cook in Avowed, as it only requires one ingredient. That ingredient isn’t the easiest to get, but if you raid Xaurip encampments, you can probably find one or two of them.

If you come across Raw Bovigrand Meat, make sure you pick it up and cook it as soon as possible. This prepared food item can not only be used in other recipes (though you should try not to use it over other cooked meats) but it also restores 150 Health.

Avowed, Ivory Spinner and Spreling Fire Pot in the crafting menu, showcasing the additional effects, the recipe, and a brief description.

1Ivory Spinner And Sporeling Fire Pot

The Ivory Spinner and Sporeling Fire Pot requires a lot of ingredients, but it’s worth it and the chances of you already having said ingredients are pretty high so long as you’ve been collecting enemy loot. Thankfully, despite the large number of ingredients, when you cook this item, you get three Ivory Spinner and Sporeling Fire Pots.

Although this doesn’t grant you any health or essence itself, it does drastically increase the rate at which other cooked items restore Health and Essence. If you’re in a pinch, pop this cooked item in your mouth first and then down the food or drink you need to survive.