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
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.
Cooking Skill Adds a cooking skill complete with professions.
Mechanics
Mandatory Meals Requires the farmer to eat a real meal (forage off the ground and field snacks just won't do!) every day or only half their stamina will be recovered the next day
Another Hunger Mod Adds a hunger system to the game requiring the farmer to eat throughout the day to maintain stamina. You also must feed your spouse.
Survivalistic - Hunger and Thirst 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.
Food on the Table Leave food on the table for other NPCs to eat. That's right: leave your spouse or roommate a home-cooked meal before leaving to tend to your farm!
Recipes
PPJA More Recipes and PPJA Even More Recipes These have been around since 2017 and really set the standard! Adds a ton of new recipes using the PPJA suite (so you'll need the crops, trees, and artisan goods) to cook everything.
Wildflour's Gourmet Bakery Recipes Adds over 100(!) new baking recipes using Wildflour's Wild Food and Gourmet pantry mods.
Lunar New Year Food Adds 8 new Lunar New Year themed recipes using items from the base game!
Peachery Kitchen Do you love peaches? Me too! Adds 9 new recipes using peaches.
Cooking with Gus Adds 10 new recipes available for purchase at the Saloon and the Resort Bar.
Candies & Curses Recipes Adds 17 new candy recipes from the indie mobile game Candies 'n Curses!
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.
Hisame's New Recipes Adds 20 new recipes that can be obtained on Mermaid Island. Mostly seafood!
Bonster's Recipes Adds new recipes to the game using basic ingredients plus crops from Bonster's Crops.
Dessert food Adds over 30 dessert food recipes which you can purchase from Gus.
Snack Time Adds loved snacks for vanilla, SVE, and RSV characters.
The Sushi Project Adds 33 new sushi recipes, available for purchase on Tuesdays and Saturdays from a fae vendor in Cindersap Forest.
SSaturn's Oriental Kitchen Adds over 50 cooking recipes using SSaturn's Tropical Farm, Bonster's Crops, and PPJA packs.
Pride Pastries Adds Pride-themed sweets such as cheesecake, cookies, donuts, smoothies, and ice cream. Available in 13 pride flag colors.
Soup du Jour Adds 10 new soup recipes to the game! Uses PPJA and SSaturn's Tropical Farm crops.
Puffs and Pastries Adds 43 new pastry-related recipes to the game! Uses PPJA for some recipes.
Letteas Bed and Breakfast Meals Adds 24 Bed and Breakfast inspired food items.
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).
Help! Gus Has Too Many Recipes
Gus's Recipe Book Moves PPJA recipes into a separate cookbook, so you can stop scrolling and get back to ordering pizza for Sam and pepper poppers for Shane.
Khadija's Recipe Shop Declutters the vanilla shops and allows you to buy recipes through a randomized shop inventory. Integration with PPJA.
Garden Village Shops for CP A small expansion of shops that declutters the vanilla shops. Integration with PPJA Recipes, Hisame's Recipes, Bonster's Recipes, and Cakes & Creams!
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.