Learn how to cook meals and well-done steaks in Monster Hunter Wilds using the Portable BBQ Grill. Discover ingredient effects and how to get the best buffs.
In Monster Hunter: World, the Portable BBQ Grill was used to turn Raw Meat into Well-Done Steaks for Stamina, while full meals were at the canteen. Monster Hunter Wilds, being more open-world, requires a flexible solution since base camps aren't separate zones. The Portable BBQ Grill allows hunters to cook meals anywhere.
Once unlocked, use the Portable BBQ Grill for two options: “Grill a Meal” and “Grill Meat”. “Grill Meat” turns Raw Meat into Well-Done Meat. “Grill a Meal” is more interesting, granting hunters various boons depending on ingredients used. Meals generally boost maximum health and stamina for 30-60 minutes, and can also enhance other stats like attack, defense, elemental resistances, and skills.
When you choose “Grill a Meal”, you can select “Recommended Meal”, “Custom Meal”, or “Favorite Meals”. The “Recommended Meal” option uses your inventory to create a general buff meal without specific thought. “Custom Meal” allows you to mix a Ration with two other ingredients.
Rations can be gathered at base camps and are periodically supplied by NPCs like Tom at the Ingredient Center or the Support Deck. Rations can act as a meat, fish, or veggie base, providing minor health boosts and massive stamina boosts, along with other buffs (meat = attack, fish = defense, veggies = defense and elemental resistance). Cooking a Ration on its own is an efficient way to maintain health and stamina.
Adding an “Additional Ingredient” or a “Finishing Touch” allows for more ingredients to enhance meal effects and duration, often by adding food skills that grant various boons. These ingredients can be found from various sources like quest rewards, trading, looting herbs and mushrooms, capturing endemic life, and more. The more regions you access, the more ingredients you can collect.
Well-Done Steaks only recover spent health and stamina but are more readily available and can be consumed on the go.
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