{"id":2722,"date":"2026-04-13T07:45:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T07:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/2020\/11\/23\/21595341\/age-of-calamity-botw-hyrule-warriors-nintendo-switch-dubious-food-recipe-rupees"},"modified":"2026-04-13T07:45:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T07:45:16","slug":"breath-of-the-wilds-dubious-food-is-the-best-recipe-in-age-of-calamity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/breath-of-the-wilds-dubious-food-is-the-best-recipe-in-age-of-calamity\/","title":{"rendered":"Breath of the Wild\u2019s dubious food is the best recipe in Age of Calamity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cooking is a huge part of Breath of the Wild<\/em><\/a>, but if you ever end up with a pixellated plate, it\u2019s usually a sign that you messed up somewhere along the way. For the most part, you didn\u2019t want to produce \u201cdubious food,\u201d which the game says is so bad, you can\u2019t even look at it. But in Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity<\/em><\/a>, there\u2019s a very good reason to make dubious food.<\/p>\n

Actually, my Link\u2019s diet is almost exclusively dubious food now. That\u2019s because, in this hack-and-slash take on The Legend of Zelda, eating dubious food lets you make double the rupees per mission. The catch? You\u2019ll have fewer hearts while the awful food is active. Note that the picture below shows that to make dubious food, you need some frogs and the ancient Hylian equivalent of durians, which … gross. <\/p>\n

\"Dubious <\/picture> <\/span> <\/span> Image: Koei Tecmo Games\/Nintendo via Polygon<\/cite> <\/span> <\/figure>\n

While Age of Calamity<\/em> is fairly generous with its materials, if you want to do all the side quests on the map, or fully upgrade your weapons and characters, you will inevitably have to grind a bit. But there are food items that can help you gather more ingredients and rupees, so I\u2019ve found myself cooking those options nearly every time. Fortunately, I\u2019ve added enough hearts to all my main characters that I hardly even notice when I\u2019ve got dubious food active. But I still get a kick knowing that my Link has to stomach a plate of garbage every time we go out in a mission.<\/p>\n