Red Dead Redemption 2: Cooking tips - bonfire, recipes Red Dead Redemption 2 Guide and Walkthrough

This page of our Red Dead Redemption 2 guide will show you how to make camp and list recipes that can be cooked to improve the hero's statistics. We present some cooking tips.

Last update: 03 October 2022

Meals in Red Dead Redemption 2 are used for replenishing the protagonist's attributes. You can eat at the main headquarters of the gang, buy food in the shop or prepare meals yourself. This section of the guide to RDR2 describes the recipes for meat obtained during hunting. Each of these meals can be prepared by the bonfire, so you will always have the energy to travel around the game world.

How to set a bonfire?

In order to cook, you have to set a bonfire. To do this, you have to set up a camp - enter the hero's items and select the "set camp" option.

You can not only cook by the bonfire, but also produce ammunition, weapons, medicines, lures and horse-care products.

Recipes

For the recipes listed below, it is sufficient to use only the obtained meat. In some cases, you can use oregano or thyme to create the food. Mint strengthens the level of stamina; oregano and thyme - of health.

Plain Game Bird

1. Ingredients: 1 meat of a bird of prey (e.g. heron, condor, crow, eagle, owl, raven, sparrow).
2. Effects: Restores a small amount of cores of all hero's attributes.

Plain Herptile

1. Ingredients: 1 amphibian or reptile meat (e.g. frog or iguana).
2. Effects: Restores a small amount of cores of all hero's attributes.

Plain Exotic Bird

1. Ingredients: 1 meat of an exotic bird (pelican or parrot).
2. Effects: Restores a large amount of cores of all hero's attributes.

Plain Flaky Fish

1. Ingredients: 1 fish (e.g. perch or pike)
2. Effects: Restores a medium amount of cores of all hero's attributes.

Plain Big Game

1. Ingredients: 1 big game meat (e.g. alligator, bear, wolf)
2. Effects: Fully restores cores of all hero's attributes.

Plain Pork

1. Ingredients: 1 meat (boar or swine).
2. Effects: Restores a large amount of cores of all hero's attributes.

Plain Plump Bird

1. Ingredients: 1 meat (chicken, turkey or geese).
2. Effects: Restores a medium amount of cores of all hero's attributes.

Gritty Fish

1. Ingredients: 1 fish.
2. Effects: Restores a small amount of cores of all hero's attributes.

Plain Prime Beef

1. Ingredients: 1 meat (cow, bull or steer).
2. Effects: Restores a large amount of cores of all hero's attributes.

Plain Crystacean

1. Ingredients: 1 crab.
2. Effects: Restores a medium amount of cores of all hero's attributes.

Plain Succulent Fish

1. Ingredients: 1 herring.
2. Effects: Restores a large amount of cores of all hero's attributes.

Plain Mutton

1. Ingredients: 1 goat or sheep.
2. Effects: Restores a medium amount of cores of all hero's attributes.

Plain Stringy Meat

1. Ingredients: 1 stringy meat (e.g. snake, rat, skunk, fox)
2. Effects: Restores a small amount of cores of all hero's attributes.

Plain Game

1. Ingredients: 1 meat (duck, pheasant, rabbit)
2. Effects: Restores a large amount of cores of all hero's attributes.

Plain Venison

1. Ingredients: 1 roe deer.
2. Effects: Restores a large amount of cores of all hero's attributes.