Bear and Breakfast is an adorably charming management sim game. I know I say this about a lot of games but this one has talking animals and a curious happy little bear in the woods. It’s SO CUTE. *soft bear noises*. In Bear and Breakfast, you run a little R&R establishment in the woods. It’s extremely relaxing and easy to play through. Maybe too relaxing for some of you more hardcore management sim players. Guilty. But what the game does offer is a set of adorable characters and a pretty hefty storyline running through the game.
That being said this isn’t a review of Bear and Breakfast but a guide. If you’ve made it here you’ve already gotten to the cooking portion of the game. When you’re cooking for hundreds of guests a day, it can become extremely difficult to keep up. In this Bear and Breakfast Cooking Guide, we will discuss what furniture you will need to add to your kitchen, what recipes you can get, and where to grab your fresh ingredients.
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How To Cook in Bear and Breakfast
Cooking in Bear and Breakfast is simple once you get the hang of it. Just walk up to an appliance in the kitchen and your recipes will appear on the right-hand side.
Clicking on a recipe will open up an ingredients list for the said recipe. And if you look along the bottom of the Cooking Menu inside the appliance window, you’ll see what looks like a deck of cards. You’ll need these action cards to start cooking.
For example, the French Onion Soup recipe needs x1 Bread, x2 Onions, x1 Butter, and x1 Cheese. To prepare each ingredient, you will need to use the cooking cards on each ingredient. SLICE the bread, BOIL the onions, and SIMMER the butter and cheese. This will all be done on your cutting board and stove.
You’ll also need Fuel to cook the food. Each recipe will list how much Fuel you need. You can obtain Fuel from bundles of wood scattered about or purchase it from Jax’s Shop in Winterberry.
Cooking Appliances
To start cooking in Bear and Breakfast, you’ll need to build a kitchen. The kitchen must contain a cutting board of some kind, whether it’s level one or level three, it has to be there. Optional, but extremely helpful items you can add would be a Stovetop, Refrigerator, Griddle and/or Microwave.
As mentioned previously each recipe will require a specific appliance as well as the Cooking Card actions. Below is the list of all the actions you can use.
Cutting Board – Raw, Slice, Dice
Stovetop – Boil, Roast, Fry, Simmer, Bake, Sautee, Fuel
Griddle – Grill, Sear, Fuel
Microwave – Microwave, Sous Vide, Fuel
Note: The basic minimum appliance for any kitchen in Bear and Breakfast would be the stovetop. Because if you just have a cutting board you won’t be producing enough food points to satisfy your guests. Leading to those dreaded negative reviews.
Ingredients
Once you have selected the recipe you would like to follow, you will need to collect the ingredients for that dish. Ingredients can be obtained in two ways, from foraging and purchasing. As you travel around the different cities, you will notice quite a few little plants sprouting from the ground. These are the ingredients you will need for cooking!
Make sure to collect anything you may see as your travel, such as apples from the apple trees, carrots from the ground, mint leaves and herbs, and more.
Forageable Ingredients
Here is a list of all the forageable ingredients in Bear and Breakfast and where to get them:
| Apples – Highlake, Pinefall | Beans – Winterberry Greenhouse |
| Beets – Winterberry Greenhouse | Blackberries – Beachside (The map calls them Blueberries) |
| Carrots – Winterberry Greenhouse, Pinefall | Chamomile – Highlake, Pinefall |
| Corn – Highlake, Pinefall | Garlic – Winterberry Greenhouse, Pinefall |
| Ginger – Whitestone Bay | Herbs – Darkgrove, Highlake, Winterberry Greenhouse, Pinefall |
| Honey – Whitestone Bay, Pinefall | Lemons – Winterberry Greenhouse, Jax’s House |
| Linden – Beachside | Mint – Highlake, Pinefall |
| Mushrooms – Darkgrove, Highlake, Pinefall | Peach – Whitestone Bay |
| Onions – Highlake, Winterberry Greenhouse, Pinefall | Pepper – Winterberry Greenhouse, Pinefall |
| Potato – Highlake, Whitestone Bay, Pinefall | Plum – Whitestone Bay, Pinefall |
| Sage – Darkgrove | Spinach – Pinefall |
| Strawberries – Highlake, Winterberry Greenhouse, Pinefall | Tomatoes – Highlake, Winterberry Greenhouse, Pinefall |
Purchasable Ingredients
Ingredients that need to be purchased can be bought from the Bodega in The A24. That is until you unlock the shop in Pinefall.
Here is a list of all the purchasable ingredients in Bear and Breakfast and where to get them:
| Butter – 45c | Eggs – 45c |
| Milk – 45c | Sugar – 45c |
| Bread – 45c | Onions – |
| Flour – 90c | Cheese – 90c |
| Rice – 150c | Pasta – 90c |
| Syrup – 150c |
Bear And Breakfast Recipes
Each recipe will call for something different, so make sure you have everything ready to go in your inventory before heading to your kitchen.
| Recipe | Cooking Card | Ingredients |
| Apple Boil | Raw | x1 Apple |
| Strawberry Bowl | Raw | x2 Strawberries |
| Boiled Eggs | Boil Fuel | x1 Egg x1 Wood |
| Citrus Peach Cooler | Raw Slice | x1 Strawberry, x1 Lemon x1 Peach |
| Grilled Cheese | Grill x2 Fuel | x1 Cheese, x2 Bread x3 Wood |
| Mashed Potato | Boil Fuel | x2 Potato x2 Wood |
| Microbaked Apple | Microwave x2 Fuel | x1 Butter, x1 Apple x2 Wood |
| Mint Tea | Boil Fuel | x2 Mint x2 Wood |
| Mushroom Soup | Boil Fuel | x1 Onion, x2 Mushrooms x3 Wood |
| Popcorn | Microwave x2 Fuel | x1 Butter, x1 Corn x2 Wood |
| Plum Schnaps | Boil x2 Fuel | x1 Sugar, x1 Plum x2 Wood |
| Snappy Beet Chips | Roast x2 Fuel | x1 Herbs, x2 Beet x3 Wood |
| Bread Pudding | Raw Microwave x2 Fuel | x2 Honey x1 Milk, x1 Bread x2 Wood |
| Chamomile Tea | Boil Raw Fuel | x1 Chamomile x1 Sugar x1 Wood |
| Chili Mac | Roast x2 Simmer x2 Fuel | x1 Cheese, x1 Pasta x2 Tomato, x1 Beans x5 Wood |
| Corn Flakes | Roast Raw Fuel | x1 Corn x1 Milk x1 Wood |
| Corn on the Cob | Raw Roast Fuel | x1 Butter x1 Corn x1 Wood |
| Egg Dippy | Boil Roast Fuel | x1 Eggs x1 Bread x2 Wood |
| Grilled Garlic Bread | Raw Grill x2 Fuel | x1 Butter x1 Garlic, x1 Bread x2 Wood |
| Hash Browns | Raw Fry Fuel | x1 Onion x1 Flour, x2 Potato x3 Wood |
| Hearty Soup | Boil x3 Simmer x2 Fuel | x2 Carrot, x1 Beans, x2 Potato x1 Herbs, x1 Onion x7 Wood |
| Pepper Pasta | Boil Roast x2 Fuel | x1 Pasta x2 Pepper, x2 Garlic x5 Wood |
| Pickled Beet Eggs | Dice Boil Fuel | x1 Beet x1 Eggs x1 Wood |
| Plate of Fries | Raw Fry Fuel | x1 Herbs x2 Potato x2 Wood |
| Roasted Potatoes | Raw Roast x2 Fuel | x1 Herbs x1 Butter, x2 Potato x3 Wood |
| Spicy Linden Tea | Raw Simmer x2 Fuel | x1 Honey x1 Ginger, x1 Linden x3 Wood |
| Tomato Soup | Raw Boil Fuel | x1 Herbs x2 Tomato, x1 Milk x3 Wood |
| Butter Croissant | Boil Roast x2 Bake x2 Fuel | x2 Strawberry x1 Milk, x1 Butter x1 Eggs, x1 Flour x6 Wood |
| French Onion Soup | Slice Boil Simmer x2 Fuel | x1 Bread x1 Onion x1 Butter, x1 Cheese x4 Wood |
| Honey Sage Tea | Raw Slice Boil Fuel | x1 Honey x1 Lemon x2 Sage x2 Wood |
| Peach Iced Tea | Raw Boil Simmer Fuel | x1 Honey x2 Sage x1 Peach x3 Wood |
| Plum Galette | Raw x2 Roast Bake x2 Fuel | x1 Lemon, x1 Syrup x2 Plum x1 Flour, x1 Butter x4 Wood |
| Pasta Aglio e Oilio | Raw Slice Boil Simmer Fuel | x1 Herbs x2 Garlic x1 Pasta x1 Cheese x2 Wood |
| Spinach Stromboli | Slice Dice Bake x2 Sautee Fuel | x1 Garlic x2 Herbs x1 Cheese, x1 Flour x2 Spinach x4 Wood |
Bear And Breakfast
Bear and Breakfast is a laid-back management adventure game where you play as a well-meaning bear trying to run a B+B in the woods. Hank and his friends find an abandoned shack and, equipped with their teenage ingenuity, turn it into a money-making bed and breakfast scheme for unsuspecting tourists.
Bear and Breakfast is available now on PC – Steam and will be coming to the Nintendo Switch.
