PEAKrequires you to put up with all the dangers of mountain climbing plus a bunch of other wacky hazards like ticks, poisonous berries, and exploding plants. You shouldn’t deal with these things on an empty stomach, so you’ll need to cook some food for you and your friends if you want to make it to the top of the mountain inPEAK.
You can eat all sorts of things inPEAK, but they’renot all great for your health. Cooking a food item will increase the amount of stamina it restores, which is crucial for completing the game’s toughest climbs. It doesn’t make everything safe to eat, though, so you might want to think twice about snacking on those berries even though you’ve found a campfire. Here’s what you need to know about cooking food inPEAK.
How to Cook Food in PEAK
Cooking food inPEAKis a relatively straightforward process. As long as there’s an open flame, you can hold an item in your hands and cook it. Campfires found at rest points are the most obvious places to cook, but you can actually use other sources of fire to spruce up your diet inPEAK.
As a matter of fact, you can flex your culinary skills as soon as you start the game. The fire fromthe Bing Bong plane crashcounts as an open flame, so you can cook anything you want before you start your climb.
The trees on the beach have a ton of coconuts to harvest, and these are perfect snacks for the game’s opening section.
Coconuts have to be cracked open before you’re able to eat them, though. Most coconuts will split into coconut halves when they fall from the tree, but you can also just throw a whole coconut straight up into the air as hard as you can to force it to break. A cooked coconut half restores much more stamina than a raw one, and you can keep them in your backpack in case you get hungry later on.
Not all food items can be cooked inPEAK, however, and cooking isn’t always the best option. While you may cook crispberries, for example, it won’t remove their poisonous properties. It’ll boost their stamina gains, but you’ll still have to put up with that annoying purple poison meter affecting your climbing abilities. You can’t cook things you find in luggage like trail mix or sports drinks, either, but these already come with incredibly helpful stamina-boosting properties anyway. Always be on the lookout for new food items inPEAKif you want toearn the Gourmand Badge, too.
