DIY Cooking Thought!

[Khaelis]

So, we all know Cooking is coming and I was rewatching the Direct for fun and I had a thought about DIY Cooking. I saw that we are able to purchase a DIY card from Nook's Cranny, which will teach you new recipes, which led me to this thought: what if we learn how to cook new things from our villagers and holiday events, just like regular DIYs?

Just imagine, you walk into your one villager's house and they're at the kitchen cooking something, and they teach you how to make grilled fish or something, or its Turkey Day and Franklin teaches you how to make an apple pie.

I dunno... this is probably me just setting expectations but I thought it was neat to think about. It'd just be pretty bland to learn every recipe upon purchase of the DIY Cooking "unlock" at the Nook Stop and then buying the rest for 4980 Bells at Nook's Cranny. Learning recipes from villagers and holiday NPCs would really liven the game up.

 

[Sarabelle]

I love this. I really hope that's the way it is!

I wonder how many cooking recipes we're going to get anyway.
Correct me if I'm wrong, it's been a while; Every time we've purchased DIY's from the Nookling's shop we've received only a small set of recipes of maybe 1-10, right? Assuming they've added more than 10 cooking recipes, I agree it would be a bland way to unlock that all and to add to that, awkward.

Basically, I concur and I think it would be nice to have a new "mission"- to collect all the cooking recipes.

 

[kiwikenobi]

I'd like it if we could experiment with combinations of ingredients and discover recipes that way. Maybe the cookbook, or whatever will keep track of recipes, could have dishes listed, but not the ingredients, so you'd have to experiment until you found the right combination. Or maybe villagers would tell you hints about it without actually giving you the recipe ("Hey, if you want to make tomato soup, I heard you have to add a tomato!" only not as obvious as that.)

Waiting for weeks or months (almost years now for some of these) for a villager to craft that one specific recipe that you want can be really frustrating. Unless there would be a way to influence it, maybe by gifting them an ingredient to inspire them to prepare the recipe or something.

 

[nightglow]

I can see that in the next ac game. Idk about new horizons. It could get frustrating getting more diys cards while trying to get cooking cards. They may do it that way though.
I think there is a fair chance of unlocking a set or individual recipe via buying through nooks.
It would be cool to get them through friendship level of villagers by personality. Like they randomly come up to you wanting to talk, then tell you the recipe like how the expressions are.

 

[Raz]

So, we all know Cooking is coming and I was rewatching the Direct for fun and I had a thought about DIY Cooking. I saw that we are able to purchase a DIY card from Nook's Cranny, which will teach you new recipes, which led me to this thought: what if we learn how to cook new things from our villagers and holiday events, just like regular DIYs?

Just imagine, you walk into your one villager's house and they're at the kitchen cooking something, and they teach you how to make grilled fish or something, or its Turkey Day and Franklin teaches you how to make an apple pie.

I dunno... this is probably me just setting expectations but I thought it was neat to think about. It'd just be pretty bland to learn every recipe upon purchase of the DIY Cooking "unlock" at the Nook Stop and then buying the rest for 4980 Bells at Nook's Cranny. Learning recipes from villagers and holiday NPCs would really liven the game up.

Imagine if they came to visit you and you could give them food, and then, if they like it, they'll give you a diy recipe for another dish.

 

[Xara]

i would absolutely love this! i don’t mind having to buy a few of the diys from the nookstop terminal and nook’s cranny, but i really hope that’s not how we’re going to obtain all of them. i’d love to be able to obtain some of the recipes from my villagers, balloons, events, etc — i honestly just want some new diys to hunt for, since its been a while xD.

i mentioned this in another thread, but i’d love if villagers had a favourite and least favourite food — you wouldn’t know what they are until you give them said food, but i think it could be fun! being able to give them soup when they’re sick would be really cute as well. :’)

 

[Fridaynightcatlady]

Yes! It’s still pretty unknown how we’re getting cooking recipes. I assume some will come from Nook/Isabelle but it’d be cool if we could see our villagers cook more often or ask us for specific dishes like “I’m really in the mood for some pie… hey! Could you make me some? Here’s a recipe”.

 

[Marshmallows]

With the update releasing a couple weeks before Turkey Day, I could see Franklin and our villagers teaching is at least a few recipes! That would be great.

 

[ikouluke]

Amazing idea, I love it!

 

[maria110]

I like that idea. I hope it can make it into the coding of the game. But if not, I'm glad to just have cooking.

 

[DJStarstryker]

I'd like it if we could experiment with combinations of ingredients and discover recipes that way. Maybe the cookbook, or whatever will keep track of recipes, could have dishes listed, but not the ingredients, so you'd have to experiment until you found the right combination. Or maybe villagers would tell you hints about it without actually giving you the recipe ("Hey, if you want to make tomato soup, I heard you have to add a tomato!" only not as obvious as that.)

Waiting for weeks or months (almost years now for some of these) for a villager to craft that one specific recipe that you want can be really frustrating. Unless there would be a way to influence it, maybe by gifting them an ingredient to inspire them to prepare the recipe or something.

I agree with this post. I managed to fill in a large chunk of my DIY gaps through trading, but there's STILL some DIYs I really want (I'd like to eventually have all of them just to collect them, but I will be honest - I don't care about the flower wreath or crown DIYs very much) and I've never found them in-game yet nor have I found anyone to trade for them.

While the idea of getting them through villagers sounds cute, the RNG nature of it can be quite irritating. I don't want to get to the point where I want to make a pizza, but I can't because my villagers won't give it to me.

 

[QueenOpossum]

With the update releasing a couple weeks before Turkey Day, I could see Franklin and our villagers teaching is at least a few recipes! That would be great.

I'm bummed that Halloween didn't get any tweaks, but I'm hoping Turkey Day (and Toy Day) get some sprucing!

 

[Khaelis]

I'm bummed that Halloween didn't get any tweaks, but I'm hoping Turkey Day (and Toy Day) get some sprucing!

The Version 2.0 update can contain data to pretty much update all current holidays with ease, so we will have to see.

 

[AlyssaAC]

I for one love this idea! Having more recipes to track down will give me and other people some more things to do. I would love if Franklin gave a recipe for apple pie, as it’s one of my favorite fruit pies!

 

[psiJordan]

It’d be cute if you saw a villager cooking in their house and talked to them, they would ask for a certain ingredient. Once you brought it to them, you do a little “let’s get cooking!” dance and your villager teaches you how to cook the recipe
I also like the idea of experimenting on your own to learn recipes

 

[Dunquixote]

Interesting idea. What I think would be interesting is if we learned recipes by consuming certain items kinda like FFXV or collecting them from different sources including from villagers, but also books, and while cooking (like how in the sims 3 when you level up the skill, you learn some recipes.

 

[VanitasFan26]

I haven't seen anyone discuss this but would it make more sense if all this cooking would work so well for the Turkey Day event? I am trying to think how it would because if I remember from last year you had to collect a lot of ingredients to make Franklin cook 4 different dishes and the last 4 dishes with "special" ingredients and thats how we got the Turkey Day DIYs. So I am wondering since Cooking is a thing will there be like new special dishes that Franklin will ask you get that require you cooking the food or you having to pick up the new ingredients (like the new crops) to help make the dish? This makes me wonder if this type of mechanic was supposed to be part of the event last year but was not completed yet.