Cooking Tips

In Seven Deadly Sins: Grand Cross there are many different recipes that you can cook with Ban in the Tavern or buy in the Material, Knighthood, or Fight Festival Shops (buying the cooked food outright is more expensive than buying the individual ingredients and cooking the recipes yourself, although some of the farming and PvP food items can only be bought from the Shops).  

With so many different types of cooking items that you can choose from, how do you decide which one to eat and when?

Free Stage/Farming Food

These are all good Cooking items to eat when you are farming Free Stages or working on progressing through the Story mode.

Attack +10%

(can be either bought in Vanya or cooked with Ban - farm in Vanya Plains to conserve stamina in Ingredient farming)

• Chicken Matango Tamagoyaki
  • Aged Meat
  • Egg
  • Sliced Chicken Matango
• Chicken Matango Grilled with Butter
  • Aged Meat
  • Butter
  • Sliced Chicken Matango
• Honey-roasted Chicken Matango
  • Aged Meat
  • Honey
  • Sliced Chicken Matango

EXP Gain +100%

(can be either bought in Vanya or cooked with Ban - farm in Vanya Plains to conserve stamina in Ingredient farming)

• Sweet Meatpie
  • Aged Meat
  • Sugar
  • Bay Leaf
• Veggie Meatpie
  • Aged Meat
  • Vegetables
  • Bay Leaf
• Milk Meatpie
  • Aged Meat
  • Milk
  • Bay Leaf

Defense +20%

(can be either bought in Dalmally or cooked with Ban - farm in Dalmally Plains to conserve stamina in Ingredient farming)

• Sand Crawler Grilled with Salt
  • Organic Animal Milk
  • Salt
  • Asparagus
• Sand Crawler Grilled with Butter
  • Organic Animal Milk
  • Butter
  • Asparagus
• Sand Crawler Grilled with Herbs
  • Organic Animal Milk
  • Butter
  • Asparagus

Max HP +10%

(can be either bought in Post Town Tala or cooked with Ban - farm in Forest of Nightmares to conserve stamina in Ingredient farming)

• Raisin with Pepper
  • Organic Fruits and Vegetables
  • Pepper
  • Assorted Grapes
• Raisin with Salt
  • Organic Fruits and Vegetables
  • Salt
  • Assorted Grapes
• Raisin with Sugar
  • Organic Fruits and Vegetables
  • Sugar
  • Assorted Grapes

Combat Class +10%

(can be either bought in Post Town Tala or cooked with Ban - farm in Forest of Nightmares to conserve stamina in Ingredient farming)

• Milk and Strawberry Combo
  • Organic Fruits and Vegetables
  • Milk
  • Truly Wild Strawberries
• Butter and Strawberry Combo
  • Organic Fruits and Vegetables
  • Butter
  • Truly Wild Strawberries
• Herbs and Strawberry Combo
  • Organic Fruits and Vegetables
  • Herbs
  • Truly Wild Strawberries

PvP Food

There are some specialized Cooking items that are best to used when fighting in the Vaizel Fight Festival.

Combat Class +10%

(can be either bought in Post Town Tala or cooked with Ban - farm in Forest of Nightmares to conserve stamina in Ingredient farming)

• Milk and Strawberry Combo
  • Organic Fruits and Vegetables
  • Milk
  • Truly Wild Strawberries
• Butter and Strawberry Combo
  • Organic Fruits and Vegetables
  • Butter
  • Truly Wild Strawberries
• Herbs and Strawberry Combo
  • Organic Fruits and Vegetables
  • Herbs
  • Truly Wild Strawberries

Evades an Attack or Debuff Skill (Limit: once)

(can be either bought in Liones Castle or cooked with Ban - farm in Liones Castle South Gate to conserve stamina in Ingredient farming)

• Egg and Chips
  • Smoked Jerky
  • Egg
  • Potato
• Fish and Chips
  • Smoked Jerky
  • Vegetables
  • Potato
• Steak and Chips
  • Smoked Jerky
  • Herbs
  • Potato

Festival Coin Gain upon winning the Fight Festival +1000%

(can be either bought in Vaizel or cooked with Ban - farm in Darby Cliffs to conserve stamina in Ingredient farming)

• Fried Chicken
  • High-quality Chicken
  • Milk
  • Teriyaki Sauce
• Chicken Steak
  • High-quality Chicken
  • Honey
  • Teriyaki Sauce
• Glazed Chicken
  • High-quality Chicken
  • Herbs
  • Teriyaki Sauce

Boss Battle Food

Cooking items used for Boss Battles is very similar to what is used in PvP and while farming.

Defense +20%

(can be either bought in Dalmally or cooked with Ban - farm in Dalmally Plains to conserve stamina in Ingredient farming)

• Sand Crawler Grilled with Salt
  • Organic Animal Milk
  • Salt
  • Asparagus
• Sand Crawler Grilled with Butter
  • Organic Animal Milk
  • Butter
  • Asparagus
• Sand Crawler Grilled with Herbs
  • Organic Animal Milk
  • Butter
  • Asparagus

Max HP +10%

(can be either bought in Post Town Tala or cooked with Ban - farm in Forest of Nightmares to conserve stamina in Ingredient farming)

• Raisin with Pepper
  • Organic Fruits and Vegetables
  • Pepper
  • Assorted Grapes
• Raisin with Salt
  • Organic Fruits and Vegetables
  • Salt
  • Assorted Grapes
• Raisin with Sugar
  • Organic Fruits and Vegetables
  • Sugar
  • Assorted Grapes

Evades an Attack or Debuff Skill (Limit: once)

(can be either bought in Liones Castle or cooked with Ban - farm in Liones Castle South Gate to conserve stamina in Ingredient farming)

• Egg and Chips
  • Smoked Jerky
  • Egg
  • Potato
• Fish and Chips
  • Smoked Jerky
  • Vegetables
  • Potato
• Steak and Chips
  • Smoked Jerky
  • Herbs
  • Potato

Regeneration Rate +10%

(can be either bought in Post Town Tala or cooked with Ban - farm in Forest of Nightmares to conserve stamina in Ingredient farming)

• Veggie Salad
  • Organic Fruits and Vegetables
  • Vegetables
  • Fairy’s Sprout
• Honey Salad
  • Organic Fruits and Vegetables
  • Honey
  • Fairy’s Sprout
• Egg Salad
  • Organic Fruits and Vegetables
  • Egg
  • Fairy’s Sprout

Lifesteal +10%

(can be either bought in Liones Castle or cooked with Ban - farm in Liones Castle South Gate to conserve stamina in Ingredient farming)

• Caviar Milk Canape
  • Smoked Jerky
  • Milk
  • Caviar
• Caviar Sugar Canape
  • Smoked Jerky
  • Sugar
  • Caviar
• Caviar Honey Canape
  • Smoked Jerky
  • Honey
  • Caviar

Death Match Food

Cooking items for Death Matches can only be bought from a Knighthood Shop from a Knighthood that is level 4 or higher.  Each of these costs 30 Knighthood coins to buy.

• Strawberry Parfait
  • Increases the gain amount of Red Demon’s Horn by 100%
• Chocolate Parfait
  • Increases the gain amount of Gray Demon’s Wing by 100%
• Mango Parfait
  • Increases the gain amount of Demonic Beast Howlex’s Ear by 100%

Event Food

Every so often, an event will have a special Boss or Death Match battle, and with it, you’ll get access to special food that can be used for that event.  Once the event is over, the benefits of that food become moot, so make sure to use them as much as possible during those events!

Affinity Food

Last but not least, you don’t always have to eat the cooked food items yourself!  Another use for food is to give it to your heroes to increase their Affinity.  Each hero has their own Cooking item that they prefer for increasing Affinity, although Vanya Ale or Affinity Increase Elixirs are always other backup options if you don’t have the correct food available.

Farming for Ingredients

If you’re looking to farm Ingredients the most efficiently, consider using Red Howzer alone on Easy mode.  Weinheidt is also a good alternative, but you want to take advantage of Red Howzer’s attack skills all affecting all enemies at the same time.

While you’re farming for Ingredients, you can also perform Village Quests to clear Free Stages.  This is a good way to “kill two birds with one stone”, and clear your Daily Quests simultaneously while you’re working on collecting materials to cook recipes.

Each Ingredient can be found in different locations.  The list below shows all locations that give Ingredients, so locations that give more than one Ingredient for a given recipe are the most effective to farm overnight in order to conserve stamina.

For example, Chicken Matango Tamagoyaki requires Aged Meat, Egg, and Sliced Chicken Matango, so it is most effective to farm for ingredients in Vanya Plains since both Aged Meat and Sliced Chicken Matango can be found in that location.

• Chapter 1: Vanya Plains & Fountain of Eternity
  • Vanya Plains (contains more base ingredients)
    • Sliced Chicken Matango
    • Truffle
    • Bay Leaf
    • Aged Meat
  • Fountain of Eternity
    • Herbs
    • Butter
    • Vegetables
    • Aged Meat
• Chapter 2: Broken Ruins & Dalmally Plains
  • Broken Ruins
    • Egg
    • Pepper
    • Milk
    • Organic Animal Milk
  • Dalmally Plains (contains more base ingredients)
    • Glamorous Mountain Goat Milk
    • Asparagus
    • Breath of Danafor
    • Organic Animal Milk
• Chapter 3: Forest of Nightmares & Dark Grave
  • Forest of Nightmares (contains more base ingredients)
    • Fairy’s Sprout
    • Assorted Grapes
    • Truly Wild Strawberries
    • Organic Fruits and Vegetables
  • Dark Grave
    • Honey
    • Sugar
    • Salt
    • Organic Fruits and Vegetables
• Chapter 4: Darby Cliffs & Hark’s Residence
  • Darby Cliffs (contains more base ingredients)
    • Liones Rice
    • Mozzarella Cheese
    • Teriyaki Sauce
    • High-quality Chicken
  • Hark’s Residence
    • Milk
    • Butter
    • Vegetables
    • High-quality Chicken
• Chapter 5: Buruka Cave & Garthum’s Residence
  • Buruka Cave (contains more base ingredients)
    • Assorted Clams
    • Dried Fruit
    • Adam’s Apple
    • Ordan Flour
  • Garthum’s Residence
    • Herbs
    • Pepper
    • Salt
    • Ordan Flour
• Chapter 6: Mountain Peak & Liones Castle South Gate
  • Mountain Peak
    • Egg
    • Honey
    • Sugar
    • Smoked Jerky
  • Liones Castle South Gate (contains more base ingredients)
    • Caviar
    • Dragon Fruit
    • Potato
    • Smoked Jerky