Feed the Scorchpot Recipes Tier List
The best recipe is the one your hexes can pay. The worst is a legend you cannot cook.
Eighty-plus recipes means you will not memorize every Codex line. Rank the job. Pair this with Recipes and Scoring Combos. Sibling lists: buildings and dice.
S-tier: legal volume
Recipes that pay for the ingredient you already grow in bulk. Grain stew on a grain peninsula. Fish on a harbor cluster. These cards turn Fodder into Flavor without asking you to rebuild the island.
Recipes that scale with volume rather than a single rare tag. If more farms make the cook louder, it is S. If more farms do nothing because the card caps at two fish, it is A at best.
The first matching recipe of a run. It outranks a theoretically stronger card you cannot fire this year. Year-one S is “can I cook at all.”
A-tier: late math
Essence partners that still match your cluster. Late contract food. Buy them when Flavor-only cooks start failing the walkthrough curve.
Recipes that want a building you already placed (shrine-cooked, harbor-cooked). If you already own the shrine, they are A. If they want a shrine you refused to place, they are C until the skyline changes.
Upgradable starters. A year-one stew that grows into an Essence dish is A even if the first rank looks modest.
B-tier: garnish
Side-tag recipes that want a splash of dairy or fruit you already touch with a triple corner. They add a second cook without a second peninsula. They become C if they force a new farm on a dead number.
Narrow legends with huge multipliers and painful costs. High-score bait. Teaching-run poison.
C-tier: pantry traps
Cards that demand a food you do not grow. Spice and garnish recipes that dilute a working multiplier (the lesson in the spices high-score video on the combos page). Second copies that starve the first by paying the same ingredient twice. Anything you buy because the name is funny while a matching stew sits one reroll away.
Slot tax
A B-tier card in your last slot that blocks an S-tier match is a C-tier decision. Keep a slot hungry. Trade posts that add slots are building ranks, but they exist because this tax is real. See Buildings.
Shop-scorch modifier
If the shop will close, the matching B-tier stew jumps to S for the afternoon. A closed kitchen does not honor your wishlist. Shop Tools cannot replace a recipe you refused to buy.
Practical ranking method
- Name your two most common tiles.
- Throw out every card that cannot pay them.
- Rank the remainder by Flavor per ingredient, then Essence, then upgrade path.
- Check Island Layout before you grow a new food for a C-tier legend.
That is the whole list. It stays honest because it refuses to pretend we have a datamined DPS sheet. Your Codex has the names. This page has the filter.
When the filter is done, cook. Then tune the tray with the dice tier list.
A worked “is this S or C” test
You farm grain on 8 and 9. The shop shows a fish legend with a huge Flavor number and a spice card that wants a garnish you grow once. Both are C until your coast changes. A grain stew with a modest Flavor number is S. If chat disagrees, chat is ranking a different island.
Year-twelve test: Flavor-only cooks fail twice. Now the Essence partner that still pays grain is S, not A. The calendar moved. The walkthrough is the calendar. This list is not frozen at year one.
If you cannot fire a card this season, it is not S in your pocket. It is a poster. Keep a slot open anyway so next season’s match can land. Slot tax is how B-tier rows become C-tier decisions.
Frequently Asked Questions
Quick answers to the most common questions.
What is the best recipe in Feed the Scorchpot?
The matching volume cook for your seed. There is no universal number-one card.
Are spice recipes bad?
They are bad when they pull you off a working multiplier. They are fine when your cluster already grows that tag.
Should I fill every recipe slot?
Leave one open so a real match can land. A full row of near-misses is a tax.
When do Essence recipes become S-tier?
When Flavor-only cooks fail the late quota. Until then they are A-tier extras.