Top 11 Graveyard Keeper Best Food

Nearly every task you do in Graveyard Keeper uses energy, from planting crops and working with corpses to fighting monsters. This energy depletion is important to take note of as players can’t complete their tasks with low to no energy. Aside from sleeping, which regenerates energy as time passes, eating food and drinks is a great way to get back your energy levels without sacrificing precious in-game time. As well, a lot of dishes provide players with special buff effects. This article will go over some of the best foods in Graveyard Keeper to cook and eat.

There are three ways to cook food: at the Cooking Table, the Oven, and over a Bonfire. The Cooking Table and Oven are already available at the start of the game; there is no need to unlock or craft them. The only thing that has to be unlocked, which happens gradually in the early game, is the food recipes. The Cooking Table mostly prepares food that can be used to cook more complicated dishes, such as cutting raw meat into slices and creating dough for bread. There are a few “cold” dishes that can be made at the Cooking Table and eaten straight away.

The Oven is where the bulk of the dishes are made, and it requires fuel to be used, either wooden sticks, firewood, or coal. The oven prepares the food in real-time seconds instead of in-game time, which is fine because most food takes seconds to cook. Some food can be cooked in batches, saving players from needing to cook one dish at a time. There are also dishes that can be crafted at quality levels, which are needed for some quests as well as providing more energy when consumed.

Bonfires are found all over the village, with one directly to the left of the graveyard keeper’s home. This is a unique cooking workspace as it cooks only two types of food. Just like the Oven, it needs fuel before being able to be used. It only takes wood materials as fuel.

The last thing to be aware of is that making food costs energy too, and while the oven does not consume any, the fuel it runs on can take a lot of energy to make. Now, without further ado, this article will discuss what the best foods are in Graveyard Keeper and what makes them great.

11. Green and Red Jelly

Green jelly is a Cooking Table dessert that restores a moderate amount of energy upon consumption. It's a unique food, as it is capable of being studied at a Study Table. Green jelly is also a material that is obtained by killing green slime in the dungeon or north of Sweet Home. Aside from being used to create a dessert, Green jelly is utilized for alchemy. Slimes are relatively docile enemies that slowly move toward the player and lunge at short range, so they can be easily killed.

What makes Green and Red Jelly Great:

• The recipe produces 3 Jellies each.
• Collecting the green jelly is pretty easy, as the Slime mob can be found north of the gravekeeper’s home in the morning. The mob can also be found in the Dungeon on Floors 1 to 4.
• Studying Green Jelly for the first time gives the reward of 10 Green Tech Points.
• These Jelly dishes provide players with a nice chunk of energy replenishment.

Green and Red Jelly details:

• Restores: Green Jelly restores +30 Energy. Red Jelly restores +36 Energy.
• Effect Duration: None
• Ingredients: Green Jelly is made with 4 Green Jelly and 1 Honey. Red Jelly is made with 4 Green Jelly and 1 Berry Juice.

10. Fish Nuggets

Fish Nuggets are one of several Oven Fish dishes. Fishing is an easy mini-game within Graveyard Keeper that gives a great output, with the caught fish available to be sold to the Fisherman, turned into fillet, and cooked in dishes. This fish dish in particular is one of the few that can be cooked with any quality-leveled fish, and its quality can’t be improved based on the fish fillet’s quality. This is considered an advantage, especially in the early game.

What makes Fish nuggets Great:

• The recipe only requires two ingredients that are easy to get access to.
• Cooking it is not only good to get some energy but also to use up low-quality fish.
• It adds a fishing speed buff that gives players more time to hook a fish.

Fish nuggets details:

• Restores: +25 Energy
• Effect Duration: Applies the fast reflexes buff for 2 minutes when consumed.
• Ingredients: 1 white fish fillet, 2 oil, and uses 5 Fuel. Produces 1 dish.
• Can sell it to Horadric for 18 Copper coins.

9. Baked Kebab

Bonfire Meals is unique in that only Baked Apples and Baked Kebabs can be cooked there. We will focus on Baked Kebabs as apples can also be cooked in the Oven. The baked kebab is a food item that restores energy and provides players with an effect. Its uniqueness stems from its special cooking workstation and its complex craftability, due to having different craftable qualities. It can be prepared with different vegetables, requiring a mid-to-high-tier fish fillet, as well as a choice between pumpkin, onion, or edible mushroom, as it is a similar product to Baked Mushrooms.

The recipe is unlocked after speaking with the gypsy baron, who is found in the gypsy camp northeast of the village. He tells players he's willing to share his family’s recipe if they bring him 4 Silver-Quality fish fillets. This can be achieved with the basic fishing rod, or players can choose to buy the fillets from the fisherman for 1 Silver coin each.

What makes Baked Kebab Great:

• Each Kebab type produces 6 pieces.
• Baked Kebab with Onion–Effect: On use, this baked kebab will apply the 'Rage' buff for a duration of 2 minutes, increasing the player's damage by 5 Health. The buff deals additional damage to monsters. Copper quality provides +25 energy, Silver quality provides +35 energy, Gold quality provides +45 energy
• Baked Kebab with Pumpkin–Effect: On use, this baked kebab will apply the 'Tough Mood' buff for a duration of 2 minutes, increasing the player's defense by 4 points, and incoming damage is also reduced. Copper quality provides +25 energy, Silver quality provides +35 energy, Gold quality provides +50 energy
• You can sell this dish to the Merchant for 36 Copper Coins apiece.

Baked Kebab details:

• Restores: Baked Kebab with Onion +25-45 energy. Baked Kebab with Pumpkin +25-50 energy.
• Effect Duration: Baked Kebab with Onion–Applies the 'Rage' buff for a duration of 2 minutes, increasing the player's damage by -5 Health. Baked Kebab with Pumpkin–Applies the 'Tough Mood' buff for a duration of 2 minutes, increasing the player's defense by 4 points.
• Ingredients: Baked Kebab with Onion 1×Quality Quality fish fillet 2×Quality Onion Or 1×Quality Blue fish fillet, 2×Quality Onion. Baked Kebab with Pumpkin–1×Quality Quality fish fillet or 1×Quality Blue fish fillet and 2×Quality Pumpkin.

8. Vegetable Soup

A soup chock full of veggies is a healthy way to get the necessary nutrients and energy, and this soup in particular also provides players with a buff after being eaten. This dish is made in the oven and can be prepared with different quality ingredients, with each quality type providing a higher amount of energy. 

What makes Vegetable soup Great:

• The recipe produces 4 soups.
• The Deep Sleep buff effect allows the player to regenerate more energy points during sleep. This is helpful as it reduces how long it takes to fill up the energy.
• It uses vegetables that are easy to access and grow in the early game.
• It can be sold to the Merchant for 55 Copper coins at Gold Quality.

Vegetable soup details:

• Restores: Copper Quality +35 Energy, Silver Quality +45 Energy, and Gold Quality +55 Energy
• Effect Duration: On use, vegetable soup will apply the deep sleep buff for a duration of 2 minutes.
• Ingredients: 2 Cabbage, 2 Carrots, 2 Quality Pumpkin, uses 30 Fuel.

7. A Bowl of Sauerkraut

A traditional and ubiquitous dish in Central and Eastern Europe, Sauerkraut is finely cut raw cabbage that has been fermented by various lactic acid bacteria. With a long shelf life and a distinctive sour flavor, it is a perfect dish that is handy at any time of the year. In the game, this is a Cooking Table Snack that restores energy and provides a buff when consumed.

The only way to get Salt is through cremating corpses, so be sure to cremate some corpses every now and then.

What makes A Bowl of Sauerkraut Great:

• The recipe produces 3 bowls of sauerkraut.
• Eating this dish makes any buffs that started before or after Sauerkraut was eaten last longer.
• Though there is a Copper quality star on the dish, it uses ingredients that lack quality levels.

A Bowl of Sauerkraut details:

• Restores: +30 Energy
• Effect Duration: On use, a bowl of sauerkraut will apply the slow metabolism buff for a duration of 2 minutes, extending the duration of all other buffs.
• Ingredients:  3 cabbage, 2 carrots, 1 salt. Produces 3 bowls.

6. Burger

Burgers are one of the dishes that utilize both the Cooking Table and the Oven but are considered a Cooking Table meal as they are assembled there. The dough and raw meat are prepared at the Cooking Table, and then both are cooked separately in the oven. Then back to the Table go the ingredients to add a quality onion and assemble the burger. This meal is a dish that restores a moderate amount of energy while applying the steady hand buff when consumed. 

It’s recommended to either buy flour from the Farmer or start growing your own Wheat in order to make the bread. After helping the Miller, you can get your wheat turned into flour for free, which also saves energy levels. Onions can also be bought from the Farmer after reaching Tier with him, either as a vegetable or as seeds. There is a slight chance of finding seeds in the Dungeon.

What makes Burger Great:

• The recipe produces 4 burgers.
• It provides the Steady Hand buff that reduces the risk of surgical errors during body part extraction in the Morgue. 
• It is needed for a quest–Snack Time: The Inquisitor asks that you build a buffet tent and sell food and drink for the witch burning. You will need to make 15 Gold quality Burgers and 30 Gold Quality Mugs of Beer. 5 gold-star Burgers are used in each burning during the Inquisitor's Buffet Tent event.

Burger details:

• Restores: Copper quality +30 energy, Silver quality +35 energy, and Gold quality +40 energy.
• Effect Duration: It applies the steady hand buff for a duration of 2 mins.
• Ingredients: 4x Baked Meat, 2x Bread, 1x Onion, and uses 5x Fuel.

5. Pasta

This is a simple Oven-cooked meal that restores over half of the energy and applies the hard worker buff when consumed. This is another dish that doesn’t use quality ingredients. The only way to get cheese is from Rosa, the Shepherd's wife. She is located north, directly behind the Tavern.

What makes Pasta Great:

• The recipe produces 3 dishes.
• It has a buff that makes you spend less energy working with axes and pickaxes by 49%.

Pasta details:

• Restores: +50 energy
• Effect Duration: On use, it will apply the hard worker buff for a duration of 2 minutes.
• Ingredients: 3 dough and 1 cheese, and uses 40 Fuel.

4. Pumpkin Soup

Not to be confused with the A Bowl of Pumpkin Soup dish, which is more of a creamy soup, this soup is a more hearty vegetable soup with pumpkin as the main ingredient. This soup restores a relatively moderate amount of energy and applies the 'Deep Sleep' buff when consumed. Just like the other soups, it is made in the oven. It's a complex craftable, in that it has various qualities dependent on the quality of the ingredients.

What makes Pumpkin Soup Great:

• The recipe produces 4 soups.
• It provides a buff that allows the player to regenerate more energy points when sleeping.
• You can sell them for 44 Copper Coins each.

Pumpkin Soup details:

• Restores: Copper Quality +40 energy, Silver Quality +50 energy, Gold Quality +60 energy each.
• Effect Duration: On use, this consumable will apply the 'Deep Sleep' buff for 2 minutes.
• Ingredients: 1 Beet, 2 Carrot, 2 Quality Pumpkin.

3. Royal Fish

This food item can be cooked in the Oven or purchased from the Merchant. The quality of this dish is dependent on the ingredients used as well as any perks or sermons that might be active. Higher-quality meals have a larger restorative effect when consumed. The recipe is learned using Recipe Fish Delicacies, which are purchasable from Miss Chain in The Dead Horse Innhouse. 

Blue fish fillets can either be crafted at the cooking table or purchased from the Lighthouse Keeper. The fillets can be crafted from Sturgeon, Salmon, Carp, Gold crucian, and Goldfish. 

Honey can be gathered from bee hives, which can be found scattered across the village, bought from the beekeeper in the western part of the village, or harvested from craftable beehives at the apiary (or bee garden) northwest of your home.

What makes Royal Fish Great:

• The recipe produces 2 dishes.
• It is a high-quality dish with the power to restore high amounts of energy when consumed.

Royal Fish details:

• Restores: Copper Quality provides +40 energy; Silver Quality provides +50 energy; Gold Quality provides +70 energy.
• Effect Duration: None
• Ingredients: 1 Blue Fish Fillet, 1 Honey, and it uses 5 Fuel.

2. Cake

Cake decadent Oven-cooked dessert is a special dish made with some of the best ingredients in the game. Not only is it delicious, but it also provides players with a high amount of energy along with an amazing buff. As all food items are given an initial energy value that is equal to their base cost, this makes cake an exceptionally good food for energy. Since all the items that can be used to craft cakes lack quality, they cannot be improved by using higher-quality ingredients. 

What makes Cake Great:

• The recipe produces 1 cake and is obtained from Dig for the exchange of 5 Honey.
• It provides a buff that gives players additional blue tech points when studying new items at the study table.
• It only produces in Gold quality.
• It sells for 95 Copper coins each.

Cake details:

• Restores: +95 energy 
• Effect Duration: On use, Cake will apply the Circumspect buff for a duration of 2 minutes.
• Ingredients: 1 pastry dough, 1 honey, 5 berries, and it uses 10 Fuel.

1. Grape Pie

Another great Oven Dessert, this food item can be crafted with higher-quality versions that have a larger Energy-restorative effect. The recipe is learned by using Recipe Pies, which can be purchased from Miss Chain. 

Grapes are a great quality crop and one of five different types of complex seeds. They are a type of crop that can be grown from grape seeds in the Vineyard. Grapes are an improvable crop, meaning they have a variety of quality levels and can be improved upon with fertilizer. The quality of the grapes will affect the quality of the products made from them.

In order to obtain grape seeds, you will likely need to purchase them from the Merchant, though there is a small chance of finding some within the Dungeon.

What makes Grape Pie Great:

• Two pies are produced.
• On use, a grape pie will apply the circumspect buff for a duration of 2 minutes, which will give additional Blue Tech Points when studying new items at the study table. You get extra points when studying new items.
• It’s a dish that sells for a high amount of coins, with the Gold quality selling for 1 Silver and 25 Copper coins.

Grape Pie details:

• Restores: Copper quality +80 energy, Silver quality +100 energy, Gold quality +125 energy
• Effect Duration: Applies the circumspect buff for 2 minutes when consumed
• Ingredients: 1 Pastry dough, 1 Quality Grapes, uses 10 Fuel.

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