🍳 Grow a Garden Cooking Event Guide: Roblox Recipes, Rewards & Tips
Published: August 3, 2025
Roblox’s farming hit Grow a Garden launched a thrilling new feature on August 2, 2025: the Cooking Event. Running until August 9, this event introduces food crafting, a giant cooking pot, and a pig NPC (Chris P) who judges your meals. It’s a game-changer—literally.Grow a Garden hit over 21 million concurrent players during peak in June, and this update promises even more engagement.
🎯 What Is the Cooking Event?
This limited-time update (Aug 2–9) adds:
- A giant cooking pot in the central map
- The ability to combine fruits/veg into meals
- A pig NPC (Chris P) that rates your dish
- Exclusive cooking-themed rewards like Gourmet Seed Packs, Gourmet Eggs, mutations, pets, and gear.
📅 How It Works & Prep Tips
Every hour, the event reactivates. Here's what to do:
- Visit the cooking pot in the center map.
- Add fruits/vegetables: rarity affects dish quality.
- Feed the meal to Chris P. A satisfied pig yields better rewards.
- Trade cooking tickets and new pets through the added trading system.
Prep Tips: Save high-variant fruits like Dragon Fruit, Moon Melon, Bone Blossom. Stockpile Sheckles and don't clear old crops—you might need them. Use both garden slots: one for farming, one for prep.
🥗 Cooking Recipes & List
Here are example dish types and ingredients (from community sources):
- Salad: e.g. 2× Tomato or Strawberry + Bell Pepper
- Sandwich: Corn + Tomato
- Pie: Pumpkin + Apple + Corn + Sugar Apple or Moon Melon
- Hot Dog: Pepper + Corn or variants
- Ice Cream: Corn + Blueberry or Banana combinations
- Pizza: Banana + Tomato + Corn or Ember Lily
- Sushi, Cake, Burger, Waffle, Donut: various combos with Bamboo, Fruit, Blossom, Pepper etc.
Higher rarity ingredient → better grade meal → higher tier reward.
🎁 Cooking Rewards You Can Earn
Feeding Chris P gives tier-based rewards:
- Common: Sheckles, Mutation Spray Burnt, basic gear
- Uncommon: Food Crate, Reclaimer, Corn Seeds
- Rare: Gourmet Seed Pack, Artichoke Seed, Advanced Sprinkler
- Legendary: Gourmet Egg, Mutation Spray HoneyGlazed, Small Toys
- Mythical/Divine/Prismatic: Pancake Stack, Taco Fern Seed, Pet Mutation Shard, Mochi Mouse pet.
🐝 Bizzy Bear (Chef Bear) Crafting Recipes & Rewards
Alongside cooking, you can craft seeds and gear at the Bizzy Bear bench. Popular recipes: Pollinated and HoneyGlazed fruits plus honey yields:
| Honey | Fruit Req. | Reward |
|---|---|---|
| 5 | 0.36 kg Pollinated Strawberry | Anti Bee Egg |
| 13 | 15.4 kg Pollinated Dragon Fruit | Manuka Seeds |
| 18 | 20 kg Pollinated Mango | Flower Seed Packs |
| 33 | 24.6 kg HoneyGlazed Mango | Dandelion Seeds |
| 40 | 24.5 kg Pollinated Purple Dahlia | Honeysuckle Seed |
This crafting path yields high-value seeds and pets like Anti Bee Eggs and Nectar Staffs.
⚖️ Strategy: Progress Your Cooking & Crafting
- Honey farming: Use mutated plant rotations to generate honey efficiently
- Stockpile crop variants: Save rare fruits for cooking or crafting
- Event timing: Use real-world clock reminders for hourly cooking resets
- Trade smart: Use trading system to swap duplicates for missing ingredients or pets
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
Q: When does the Cooking Event run?
It runs from August 2 to August 9, 2025. Cooking resets hourly.
Q: What should I prepare beforehand?
Don’t clear your garden, start stacking honey/cash, and gather rare crops. Save both garden slots.
Q: Are cooking and crafting separate systems?
Yes—cooking with Chris P yields food-based rewards; crafting with Bizzy Bear (Chef Bear) exchanges honey/glazed produce for seeds, gear, and pets.
💡 Final Thoughts
Grow a Garden’s Cooking Event is one of Roblox’s most engaging updates yet—combining farming, cooking, trading, and crafting for layered strategy and game value. With rewards like Gourmet Eggs, seed packs, pets, cosmetics and more, this is your moment to shine as a culinary master in the garden world. Whether you're a longtime player or just starting out, this event is packed with opportunities.
Happy farming, cooking, and trading—see you in the pot!