Little Chef: Cozy Cooking Chapter 1 Walkthrough: All Recipes
Little Chef: Cozy Cooking is a physics-based cooking game developed by Julien Truebiger, Erika Zakse, and Danny van Duist. The game is all about discovering lip-smacking dishes by dropping the right ingredients into cooking appliances to create new recipes.
Using the wrong ingredients unlocks bad dishes, but some of these are surprisingly quirky and fun to discover. These include rare creations such as Katana and Frankenstein’s Toast, which are worth unlocking despite being classified as “bad” dishes.
In this guide, you will find a complete walkthrough of all the recipes in Little Chef: Cozy Cooking, including both good and bad dishes.
Quick Access
How to Play
Click on the chef’s hat in the top-left corner of the screen to open the recipe book.
In the recipe book, you can view a list of undiscovered recipes, each represented by a silhouette. Click on a recipe’s silhouette to see how many ingredients it requires. At first, the ingredients will be displayed as question marks (?) and will only be revealed once you discover the correct ones.
In the example screenshot below, you will see a list of recipes on the left and the selected recipe’s name on the right. The question mark indicates one ingredient needed to make Baked Banana. If there were two question marks, it would mean the recipe requires two ingredients. You can combine up to three ingredients to prepare dishes. Some recipes will show three ingredients, so you might need to mix three different ingredients to unlock a dish.
Click on the bulb icon in the top-right corner to get ingredient hints. The hints are hand-drawn, as if a child has scribbled them on a piece of paper, and can sometimes be quite vague.
You will see a few bookmarks on the left side of the book. There are two separate bookmarks for good and bad recipes. There’s also a separate page for achievements:
To start cooking, drag and drop up to three ingredients into the cooking appliance and then click on the appliance. Little Chef has three chapters, and in each chapter the appliance changes: In chapter 1, it’s a cooking pot, whereas in chapter 2, there’s a microwave oven that does all the cooking for you.
Student Dorm
Chapter 1: The Student Dorm has 48 good recipes and 29 bad recipes to unlock. Let’s try them all! Before we get started, though, we need to unlock Shane’s locker to obtain additional ingredients. Otherwise, we won’t be able to prepare some of the dishes.
How to Unlock Shane’s Locker
Before we start cooking, we need to get the cheese and canned tomatoes from Shane’s locker. In the first chapter of Little Chef: Cozy Cooking, you will need to unlock the locker to access these ingredients. First, find the key in the kitchen. The pink sticky note attached to the locker provides a clue: D, 2.
Now, check the tiled wall. Move your mouse cursor over the hanging cups to reveal letters and numbers etched into the top row of tiles. The letters and numbers on the wall hint at the number of rows and columns on the tiled wall.
On the first row, you will find the following numbers and letters on each tile hidden behind the cups:
1 B C <blank tile> E (replace the blank tile with the letter D).
The number 3 is hidden behind the potted basil plant.
1-3 are rows, and B, C, D, and E are columns.
The key is in tile D2, which means column D, row 2. See the screenshot below to see the hidden key’s exact location. Click on the tile repeatedly to break it open, and you will see the key hidden inside it.
Pick the key and drag it onto the red padlock on Shane’s locker to unlock it:
Chapter 1: All Recipes
Ingredients
Before we begin, let’s identify every ingredient in this chapter. This will serve as a guide to help you prepare all good and bad dishes:
- Banana
- Pasta
- Strawberry Jam
- Coffee Maker
- Peanut Butter
- Canned Beans or Beans
- Cassette Player
- PBJ (will appear in the kitchen rack after making it)
- Toaster
- Milk
- Bread
- Potatoes
- Eggs
- Protein Powder
- Pink Glass Jar (will be used to combine with other ingredients in making bad dishes)
- Ramen
- Canned Tomato or Tomato
- Cheese
- Three kitchen knives
- Sponge
- Orange Glass Jar (will be used to combine with other ingredients in making bad dishes)
- Green Glass Jar (will be used to combine with other ingredients in making bad dishes)
- Potted Basil
- Cooking Pot
Good Recipes
After unlocking Shane’s locker, open all the other three lockers. Also, pay attention to the to-do list shown in the bottom-left corner of the screen:
You can move on to the next chapter only after completing all the quests listed in the to-do list. This means you will need to unlock all the good dishes and finish every quest to progress. I think dad dishes appear to be optional, so you can unlock them at your own pace whenever you feel like it.
To begin, drag and drop up to three ingredients into the cooking pot and then click on the pot to start making a dish. Here are all the good recipes:
1. Baked Banana: Banana
2. Banana Bread: Bread + Banana
3. Beans on Toast: Beans + Toast. To make toast, put the bread slice into the toaster and pull the switch down.
4. Boiled Eggs: Drop the egg into the cooking pot
5. Coffee: To make coffee in Little Chef: Cozy Cooking, you will need to find the coffee maker:
Wash the dishes first. Use the sponge to clean them.
Next, click on each utensil to put it in its proper place. As you arrange the utensils, you will discover the coffee maker. Place it on the empty gas stove and click on it to brew coffee. You will also complete the fourth task in the to-do list: “Make Coffee”.
6. Savory Sandwich: Bread + Egg or Bread + Cheese + Tomato.
7. Cheesy Ramen: Cheese + Ramen
8. Chili Sin Carne: Beans + Tomato
9. Warm Beans: Beans
10. Plain Ramen: Ramen
11. French Toast: Toast or Bread + Milk + Egg
12. Fries: Use the middle knife from the green rack to cut through the sack of potatoes. Drop a potato from the sack into the cooking pot to make fries.
13. Grilled Cheese: Bread + Cheese
14. Hot Milk: Milk
15. Mac and Cheese: Pasta + Cheese + Milk
16. Mashed Potatoes: Potato + Milk
17. Omelette: Egg + Cheese
18. Pasta A La Carbonara: Pasta + Egg + Milk
19. Pasta: Drop the Pasta into the cooking pot.
20. PB&J: Peanut Butter + Strawberry Jam
21. PB&J Sandwich: Peanut Butter + Strawberry Jam + Bread or Toast or PB&J Jar + Bread
22. Pesto: You’ll need basil leaves for making pesto, but first, you must water the basil plant before you can harvest its leaves. There are two ways to water the basil plant in Little Chef: Cozy Cooking:
- Turn on the kitchen tap and wet the sponge. Use the wet sponge on the wilted basil plant to water it.
- Turn on the kitchen tap and let the water flow. Keep it running until the sink overflows and the water level rises to the height of the basil plant. This is a quirky way to water the plant. It unlocks a new achievement if you don’t turn it off and the entire kitchen gets flooded!
Pick a basil leaf and drop it into the cooking pot to make Pesto. Pesto is added as an ingredient in your kitchen.
23. Ramen: Ramen + Egg
24. English Breakfast: Beans + Eggs + Bread
25. Scrambled Eggs: Egg + Milk
26. Decent Protein Shake: BIG protein + Milk
27. Sweet Sandwich: Bread + Strawberry Jam
28. Red Pasta: Tomato + Pasta
29. Tomato Soup: Tomato + Toast
30. Toast: Put the bread slice into the toaster and pull down the switch to make toast.
31. Baked Potato: Potato + Cheese
32. Creamy Tomato Soup: Milk + Tomato
33. Cheese Dip: Cheese
34. Cheese Fondue: Milk + Cheese
35. Pasta E Fagioli: Pasta + Beans
36. Milk and Pasta: Pasta + Milk
37. Green Pasta: Pesto + Pasta
38. Cheesy Pasta: Pasta + Cheese
39. Eggy Pasta: Pasta + Eggs
40. Good Protein Shake: Big Protein + Milk + Peanut Butter or Banana
41. Peanuts: Drop peanut butter into the cooking pot
42. Banana Pancake: Banana + Milk + Egg
43. Smoothie: Strawberry Jam + Banana + Milk
44. Cheese Jamwich: Bread + Cheese + Strawberry Jam
45. Banana Milk: Milk + Banana
46. Potato Bread: Bread + Potato
47. Hash Brown: Egg + Potato
48. Tomato Egg Stir Fry: Tomato + Egg
Bad Recipes
1. Mystery Meal: Green Glass Jar + Beans (or any other ingredient)
2. Horrible Sandwich: Toast + Egg + Tomato
3. Beany Mess: Beans + Milk + Tomato
4. Carb Overload: Potato + Pasta + Ramen
5. Carb Sandwich: Bread + Pasta
Bad Ramen: Milk + Ramen + Cheese
Tomato Mess: Tomato + Cheese
Bad Protein Shake: Big Protein + Egg + Tomato
Food Monster: Cheese + Egg + Banana
Remix: This is a unique recipe. Open the cassette player compartment and take the pink cassette.
Put it in the cassette rack. From the rack, drop the pink and green cassettes into the cooking pot to make Remix.
Spongeman: Drop the cleaning sponge into the cooking pot.
Sponge Sandwich: Bread + Sponge + Cheese
Musical Dish: Cassette + Any ingredient (I chose tomato)
Katana: Combine all three kitchen knives. Drop them into the cooking pot.
Canned Food: Kitchen knife + Beans
Terrible Smoothie: Egg + Milk + Tomato
Breadless Sandwich: Just put the strawberry jam into the cooking pot
Nothing: Click on the empty cooking pot to create nothing.
Tape Spaghetti: Ramen + Cassette
Heavy Metal: Key + Cassette
Iron Ingot: Drop the key into the cooking pot to make an iron ingot
Secret Sauce: Green Glass Jar + Orange Glass Jar + Pink Glass Jar
Burnt Toast: Put the bread in the toaster to make toast. Now put the same toast in the toaster twice to make burnt toast.
Soggy Toast: First, make toast using the toaster. Then, turn on the kitchen tap and hold the toast under the running water to make soggy toast. Or you can hold the piece of bread under the running water to make it wet and drop it into the cooking top to cook it.
Frankenstein’s Toast: Normal Toast + Burnt Toast + Soggy Toast
Milk Bread: Milk + Bread
To-Do List Tasks
Completing all good recipes + all tasks mentioned in the to-do list unlocks chapter 2. Here’s how to complete all tasks:
1. Cook pasta dishes: Cook eight pasta dishes using ramen or pasta as one of the ingredients.
2. Borrow Shane’s Cheese: Find the key in the tiled wall (D,2). Use the key to unlock Shane’s locker. Now use the cheese in the locker to make a good dish (example: Grilled Cheese: Bread + Cheese )
3. Play All Cassettes: You already have the red and green cassettes. Insert them into the cassette player one at a time and press the play button. You can create a third cassette, called Remix, by combining the red and green cassettes. Make sure to play the Remix cassette as well to complete the task.
4. Make Coffee: Clean the utensils in the sink using the sponge. Then, click on each utensil to put it in its proper place. As you arrange the utensils, you will discover the coffee maker. Place it on the gas stove to brew coffee.
5. Water the basil: Turn on the tap and hold the sponge under the running water until it becomes soggy. Then, move the soggy sponge over the wilted basil plant to water it.
6. Cook new dishes: Make a total of 40 good + bad dishes to complete this task.
