Animal Crossing: New Horizons 2.0 update: How to Cook

The Animal Crossing: New Horizons 2.0 Update caught everyone off guard when it dropped a whole day early. One of the newest things that I’ve been waiting on is cooking. This allows you to not only farm and grow crops, but it also allows you to actually take ingredients and cook. And if you don’t think I dedicated an entire section of my island for a future farmland you don’t know me.

So when you want to get started, the first thing you need to do is head to City Hall and use the machine there to get the Cooking DIY upgrade. This adds a section to your crafting menu for DIYs involving food or, as humans call them, recipes. By default one of the first recipes you’ll have, which you’ll be able to do, is a smoothie using two of your island’s native fruit. My island grows every fruit but my recipe collection cares not. Pear smoothie it is.

After that, you need to have a kitchen. Hopefully, you’ve noticed that for the last two weeks Nook’s Cranny has been selling a ton of kitchen items and you got stocked up. If not, as long as you have something with a stove and a sink you should be good. But, honestly, go all out. Give yourself that kitchen.

Once you get started, it’ll bring up your DIY menu and give you the options. And guess what! You finally have something to do with all those sea bass and weeds you’ve been gathering for the last two years. Check it out!

Once that’s done, you can either eat it for strength, display it somewhere, or gift it to your fellow villagers who will be very surprised you handed them a whole plate of food. Personally, I made a smoothie and some food and displayed it in the set of the Great British Bake-off I’ve been working on to display my stuff.

As more time goes on you’ll be able to find more DIY recipes just like you could for furniture and, hopefully, if Leif ever gets his butt over to the island we’ll find out if he’s where you get wheat and sugarcane and veggies from. And maybe we’ll learn the most important question about cooking that the trailer refused to answer. Where. Do we get. Ham from.