The recipe for Dubious Food is earned by completing the Quest "Extreme Survival Cuisine". It is made using two Hearty Durians, two Rock Salts, and two Hot-Footed Frogs. However, it can be lowered to one of each ingredient through the completion of "Hungry Hunches". When prepared before a Challenge or Scenario, the Warriors will gain twice as many Rupees, including those earned after the mission, but they will have 20% less total Hearts.
Dubious Food
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Dubious Food is a recurring Meal in The Legend of Zelda series.
Names in the American English canon
| Name | Dubious Food |
|---|---|
| Appearance(s) |
| Name | Appearance(s) |
|---|---|
Dubious Food |
For terminology in other regions, see § Nomenclature below.
Location and Uses
Breath of the Wild
Dubious Food can be made from several different Cooking combinations:
- Food with Monster Parts or critters, but not both
- Monster Parts on their own
- Critters on their own
- Any recipe that would produce an Elixir without an effect (e.g. Monster Part + Chilly critter + Spicy critter)
- Seasonings without Food
Dubious Food is noted to be too gross to look at and emits a bizarre smell.[1] However, it can restore a random amount of Link's Hearts depending on the ingredients used.
Moza, who can be found near Ishto Soh Shrine, will give Link three recipes, two of which result in Dubious Food. One is her ancient Meat dish, which involves Cooking Meat with an Ancient Material from a Guardian.[4] When Link calls this gross, she will scold him, saying the only way to Cook Meat is something with history.[5] She asks Link how else she is supposed to make her ancient meat dish.[6] However, Moza admits to Link that her only results have been Dubious Food.[7]
For her other dish, the ultimate survival dish, Moza tells Link to defeat Monsters and to put their parts in a Cooking Pot.[8] This time, if Link calls her recipe gross, she will insist that one has to be willing to eat anything to survive in the wild.[9] Though she always ends up with Dubious Food, she asserts she will not achieve her goal unless she makes some sacrifices.[10] She also admits to Link that she is unsure what is so dubious about using Monster Parts.[11]
Tears of the Kingdom
Other Appearances
Age of Calamity
The following section is not part of the Zelda canon and should not be taken as such.
Nomeclature
 Names in Other Regions  | ||
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| Language | Names | Meanings |
 Japanese |
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 ChineseSISimplified |
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   ChineseTRTraditional | 奇異的菜餚 (Qíyì de càiyáo) (BotWBreath of the Wild | TotKTears of the Kingdom) | |
 Dutch | Mislukte maaltijd (BotWBreath of the Wild | AoCAge of Calamity)[12][13] | Failed Meal |
 FrenchCACanadian | Plat douteux (TotKTears of the Kingdom | AoCAge of Calamity)[14] | |
 FrenchEUEuropean | Plat douteux (BotWBreath of the Wild | TotKTears of the Kingdom | AoCAge of Calamity)[15][16] | Dubious dish |
 German | Dubiose Matsche (BotWBreath of the Wild | TotKTears of the Kingdom) | |
 Italian | Poltiglia (BotWBreath of the Wild | TotKTears of the Kingdom) | |
 Korean |
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 Russian | Сомнительное блюдо (Somnitelʹnoye blyudo) (BotWBreath of the Wild) | |
 SpanishLALatin American | Comida sospechosa (BotWBreath of the Wild) | |
 SpanishEUEuropean | Comida sospechosa (TotKTears of the Kingdom) | |
| This table was generated from Zelda Wiki's translation data. | ||
Gallery
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Age of Calamity
Dubious Food icon
See Also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1
Dubious Food
— Inventory (Breath of the Wild)
It's too gross to even look at. A bizarre smell issues forth from this heap. Eating it won,t hurt you, though...probably. - ↑
Dubious Food
— Inventory (Tears of the Kingdom)
It's too gross to even look at. A bizarre smell issues forth from this heap. Eating it won't hurt you though...probably. - ↑
Dubious Food
— Cooking (Age of Calamity)
It's too gross to even look at. A bizarre smell issues forth from this heap. Eating it won't hurt you, though...probably. - ↑
Sure thing! I'll happily teach you the recipe for my ancient meat dish. First, prepare the meat you want to use. I recommend either bird meat or steak. And then you cook it with something from a broken Guardian... AN ANCIENT PART!!
— Moza (Breath of the Wild) - ↑
[That sounds gross.] Hey! That's not nice! Cooking delicious meat with something that smacks of history is the only way!
— Moza (Breath of the Wild) - ↑
How else would one create an ancient meat dish the likes of which no one has ever seen before?!
— Moza (Breath of the Wild) - ↑
To be honest, what I always end up making is dubious food... Though I don't see what's so dubious about it! Even when I use ingredients I'm certain will be perfect, there are lots of times I still mess it up. Cooking is complicated.
— Moza (Breath of the Wild) - ↑
Sure thing! I'll happily teach you the recipe for my ultimate survival dish! First, you'll have to defeat a monster!! After that, just find yourself a cooking pot and toss in... tons of monster parts!!
— Moza (Breath of the Wild) - ↑
[That sounds gross.] In order to survive out in the wild, you've got to be willing to eat anything! That's the idea behind my ultimate survival dish!!
— Moza (Breath of the Wild) - ↑
I may end up with nothing to eat but dubious food...but I won't achieve my goal unless I make some sacrifices!
— Moza (Breath of the Wild) - ↑
I don't see what's so dubious about using monster parts, though... Even when I used ingredients I'm certain will be perfect, there are lots of times I still mess it up. Cooking is complicated.
— Moza (Breath of the Wild) - ↑
Mislukte maaltijd
— Inventory (Breath of the Wild) - ↑
Mislukte maaltijd
— Cooking (Age of Calamity, Dutch version) - ↑
Plat douteux
— Cooking (Age of Calamity, Canadian French version) - ↑
Plat douteux
— Inventory (Breath of the Wild)
Un fumet bizarre se dégage de ce curieux amas. S'il reste comestible, son aspect rebutant en fait un plat peu présentable ! - ↑
Plat douteux
— Cooking (Age of Calamity, European French version)