Recommendations: Cooking Mods
by beyondrecovery
A list of mods related to cooking and food! Whether you already love cooking in the game or you're looking to make cooking more meaningful, here are some mods to enhance your experience!
Skills and Mechanics
Love of Cooking Adds a cooking skill and a number of features to make cooking more immersive, including a cookbook with a recipe filter, an upgradeable frying pan, and most importantly: a pancake-flipping animation for the farmer.
YACS - Yet Another Cooking Skill Adds a cooking skill complete with professions.
Survivalistic - Hunger and Thirst (unofficial update) Adds a hunger and thirst system to the game, with different penalties depending on the tools you're using and different feed and hydrate values for edible items.
Spice of Life Forces you to vary up your diet, so you don't keep eating the same foods every day.
Recipes
Wildflour's Atelier Goods Adds many new baking and canning recipes using Wildflour's Wild Food and Gourmet pantry mods.
Peachery Kitchen Do you love peaches? Me too! Adds 9 new recipes using peaches.
The Sushi Project Adds 33 new sushi recipes, available for purchase on Tuesdays and Saturdays from a fae vendor in Cindersap Forest.
Delicious in Stardew Adds 14 recipes based on monster parts, inspired by the series Delicious in Dungeon/Dungeon Meshi.
Snack Time Adds loved snacks for vanilla, SVE, and RSV characters.
Pride Pastries Adds Pride-themed sweets such as cheesecake, cookies, donuts, smoothies, and ice cream. Available in 13 pride flag colors. (note: requires JA)
Lunar New Year Food Adds 8 new Lunar New Year themed recipes using items from the base game! (note: requires JA)
Cooking with Gus Adds 10 new recipes available for purchase at the Saloon and the Resort Bar. (note: requires JA)
Dessert food Adds over 30 dessert food recipes which you can purchase from Gus. (note: requires JA)
Cakes n Creams Adds nearly 30 delicious cakes to the game that can be cooked (or processed in a special cake oven for more profitability. (note: requires JA and PFM)
Culinary Delight Adds over 60 recipes utilizing both vanilla and modded ingredients so you can put modded items to use!
Special Orders
Townies Need Food! Adds 54 special orders involving cooked meals! 35 vanilla recipe orders, 18 Love of Cooking orders, and 1 Always Raining in the Valley order! Villagers will ask for their favorite foods and you'll have a week to deliver them. Don't let the townies go hungry!
Lumisteria's Special Orders Adds many special orders including 5 cooking-related orders. Fully configuable.
Emyn's Meals on Wheels Makes adjustments to the base price of cooked items and adds 5 food-related special orders (including 1 which is repeatable with different versions for each season).
We're Gonna Need a Bigger Fridge
Remote Fridge Storage Allows you to mark chests for storing your cooking ingredients instead of storing it all in the fridge.
Expanded Fridge Turns the mini-fridges into tabs inside the main fridge and sends the mini-fridges away into the void so you can stop cluttering up your kitchen.
Kaya's CCS Kitchen Station Set Organizes your cooking menu into logical components (kitchen counter, induction oven, dessert station, snack bar).
Queen of Sauce
Glam Kitchen - Queen of Sauce TV Replacer Replaces the Queen of Sauce with TikTok sensation The Glam Kitchen.
Queen of Sauce Cookbook Because you're a busy farmer who probably forgot to tune in on Sunday ... (and are sick of waiting for the relevant rerun on Wednesday), the Queen of Sauce Cookbook is here to send you recipes in the mail.
Better Looking Food
Fresher Food Retextures the vanilla food and includes fully customizable serveware with the aim to produce a more consistent look.
Vanilla Tweaks Retextures most items in game, including the food! Fully configurable.
Drinks n Rock Candy RetexRetextures Tea, Stardrop tea, coffee, triple shot espresso, and magic rock candy. offers desaturated and saturated versions along with blue or rainbow rock candy in the config.