Forest Market Meals & Recipes Tier List

Cooked meals are how Forest Market players break out of raw-crop poverty. This tier list ranks recipe families by coin uplift, ingredient stress, and shelf sell-through. Numbers move when Project Dukun patches the kitchen, so verify in-game and watch the Updates Hub.

Use with the crop tier list, cooking guide, and stocking guide. Hub criteria live on the Tier List Hub.

How we rank meals

1. Coin uplift vs raw ingredients — the only score that matters long term.
2. Ingredient availability — eggs/milk gated dishes need healthy pens (animals & Tuyul).
3. Cook time / dish caps — slow recipes need higher payouts to justify blocking the station.
4. Buyer demand — what actually leaves shelves in live servers.
5. Badge / progression value — early Cook badge recipes can rank higher for new accounts.

S tier — cook on sight

High-uplift staple meals
Recipes that clearly pay more than selling the same crops and animal goods raw. These are your house specials: always keep ingredients ready, always keep a shelf row reserved. If a script menu mentions “match buyers,” these are usually the dishes customers clear first.

S-tier meals fund plot expansions and pen upgrades without needing codes or risky scripts.

A tier — strong when ingredients are cheap

Dairy-forward and mid recipes
Dishes that need eggs or milk shine when pens are overproducing. Cook them hard during animal surplus; pause when feed is tight. A-tier is where most mid-game profits hide.

B tier — situational / event plates

Event or niche recipes
Guild Hall menus, Magic Shop ingredients, or forage/mine additives can create temporary B-tier winners. During Guild Hall, cook the event plate even if normal uplift looks average — event sinks matter.

Also park “okay” meals here that fill shelves when S/A ingredients run out.

C tier — learning recipes

Low uplift but tutorial-friendly dishes
Useful for unlocking the Cook badge and learning the station UI. Graduate out of C as soon as an S/A recipe is available. Leaving C meals on shelves forever wastes premium slot space.

F tier — value traps

Recipes that lose money vs raw
If combining ingredients sells for less than the parts, stop. Some novelty dishes exist for fun or flex; they do not belong in a profit circuit. Recheck after patches — today’s F can become tomorrow’s A.

Shelf strategy by tier

• S: permanent shelf presence
• A: stock when dairy/crop surplus exists
• B: event weeks or filler
• C: badge push only
• F: cook only for fun, never for profit goals

Empty shelves are still worse than C-tier food — see stocking.

Ingredient planning

Map each S/A meal back to plots and pens:

1. List ingredients.
2. Assign farm rows using crop tiers.
3. Size pens for egg/milk appetite.
4. Recycle failures into raw shelf sales instead of trash.

Co-op kitchen roles

On 12-player servers, one chef cooking only S/A meals while farmers feed ingredients beats everyone dabbling. Share the Players Hub tips for badge timing around First Sale and Cook.

Automation angle

Auto Cook modules in auto-farm scripts often include dish caps and buyer matching. Configure them to prefer S/A lists or they will happily mass-produce F-tier junk.

Refresh ritual after every update

1. Cook one batch of each major recipe.
2. Compare payout to raw.
3. Watch five minutes of shelf traffic.
4. Reorder your personal S–F list.
5. Skim patch notes on updates.

Cook smart, stock fresh, and let plated value turn your forest farm into a real pasar empire that funds every upgrade.