In Crimson Desert, cooking meals is key to survival, as eating food is among the most convenient ways to restore HP of Kliff, Damiane and Oongka on the fly. However, this healing system comes with a bit of friction: if you didn't stop at a bonfire to cook a meal before heading into a dangerous area or ahead of a difficult boss fight, you may be out of healing items before you know it.
However, with its sandbox mechanics, Crimson Desert allows you to solve several issues creatively. As such, it is possible to cook the simplest of meals using one of the game's core abilities and one of the most useful: Blinding Flash.
How to Cook Using Blinding Flash
After unlocking Blinding Flash in Chapter 2, you can use its unique heat generation properties to light anything on fire by directing light towards certain objects. This includes discarded ingredients such as meat and fruit.
To cook using Blinding Flash, you need to:
- Open your inventory and discard the ingredients you want to cook on the fly (meat and fruit work best).
- Hold L1/LB + R1/RB to use Blinding Flash, and then hold L1/LB to focus the beam of reflected light towards the discarded ingredients.
- Continue focusing the beam of reflected light for a few seconds on the discarded ingredients. Once you notice they have changed their color, they are ready.
While this caveman cooking method can only be used to produce the simplest of meals, you shouldn't discard the usefulness of simple grilled meat. They restore a decent chunk of HP, and since you don't have to waste time locating the nearest bonfire, this secret cooking method works great in a bind when you are out of food at the worst possible time!
This concludes our guide. For more help, visit our Crimson Desert Complete Walkthrough and Guides Hub.
Guide based on a 40+ hours playthrough in the PC version of the game. Screenshots captured from the same version.
About the author: Francesco De Meo has been covering video games and technology since 2012, starting his career at small outlets like Gamersyndrome and GeekSnack. After joining Wccftech gaming section in 2015, he quickly expanded his video gaming coverage with in-depth reporting, interviews with iconic industry figures such as Grasshopper Manufacture founder and No More Heroes creator Goichi "Suda51" Suda, Resident Evil series creator Shinji Mikami, Team NINJA's president and Nioh series director Fumihiko Yasuda, and Silent Hill creator Keiichiro Toyama, reviews and on-the-ground coverage of major industry events such as Gamescom and E3. When he's not reporting or reviewing, Francesco can be found playing the genres he loves most, spending time with his six cats, reading, writing music, playing guitar and drumming for his progressive rock band.
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