How to Get Cooking Recipes in Animal Crossing: New Horizons
To start, a list of all of the opportunities to obtain food DIY recipes should be helpful to those players that are looking to collect them all, and such a list can be found below. While these sources may not come as much of a surprise to veteran Animal Crossing: New Horizons players, some of them may get overlooked nonetheless.
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Balloons
Players that are on the hunt for cooking DIYs should keep their eyes on the skies, as the presents that are attached to balloons will occasionally contain them. To access these presents, players should simply use their slingshots to pop the balloons in ACNH.
Be a Chef! DIY Recipes+ & Basic Cooking Recipes
Both of these items unlock several food recipes when purchased. For full clarity, Be a Chef! DIY Recipes+ comes from the Nook Stop and costs 2,000 Nook Miles, while Basic Cooking Recipes is in the cabinet at Nook’s Cranny and costs 4,980 Bells.
Fishing
Several of the cooking DIYs use fish as one of their ingredients, and players can learn those recipes upon catching the associated creatures. For example, the karei no nitsuke dish is crafted from Dab, and players may unlock the recipe when they land one of those fish in Animal Crossing: New Horizons.
Message in a Bottle
Two bottles appear on an island’s beaches everyday, and there will occasionally be a food DIY recipe inside of them.
Villagers
Fans should make sure to visit their villagers in their homes when time allows, as they will receive a cooking recipe if they catch the character cooking. Notably, Animal Crossing villagers should take care of their own kitchens, and players do not need to give them one in order to obtain recipes.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons - Food DIY Recipe List
Now that details on where cooking DIYs come from have been established, some players might be interested in getting a sense of what recipes are available to them and what ACNH ingredients they will need to craft them. Here is a list of these new recipes, and it will be updated as more are confirmed:
Animal Crossing: New Horizons is available now for Nintendo Switch.
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