The latest update for Grow a Garden, the Kitchen Storm, has introduced a massive new layer of gameplay involving cooking, new event mechanics, powerful pets, and a much-requested pity system for chests. This guide will explain everything you need to know to get started, cook the best food, and earn the rarest rewards.
How to Use the New Cooking System
At the core of the update is a new cooking mechanic. You’ll notice a Kitchen Storm meter and a Recipe Book in your UI. The goal is to cook food for a pig NPC to fill the meter and trigger the event.
- Check the Recipe Book: You start with an empty Recipe Book. As you successfully cook new dishes, they are added to your book, which acts as an index of all discovered recipes.
- Combine Ingredients: Go to a cooking pot and add ingredients. For example, to make a smoothie, you might use one banana and four other fruits like elephant ears.
- Cook Your Dish: Once the ingredients are in, start the cooking process. You can use Robux to skip the timer.
- Feed the Pig: Give the finished food to the pig NPC. This will grant you points, increase your “craving bonus,” and fill up the Kitchen Storm meter.
When the meter is full, the Kitchen Storm begins! This event provides powerful temporary boosts to your garden:
- 2x Cooking Speed
- Higher chance for mutations to carry over to new dishes
- Increased chance for Aromatic fruit to grow
How to Get Rewards from the Rat Connoisseur
The Rat Connoisseur is a key character for earning specific event rewards. Instead of cooked meals, you give him high-quality mutated fruits directly.
- Offer Mutated Fruit: Give a mutated fruit to the Rat Connoisseur for a “food review.”
- Choose Your Reward: If he likes the food, you get to choose one reward from a selection. This is a great way to target specific items you want.
- New Rewards: This is the only way to get some exclusive items like the Gorilla Chef and the Pet Mutation Shard (Aromatic). You can also earn Culinarian Chests, rare seeds, and cosmetics.
You can also pay 90 Robux to “Skip the Review,” which automatically pleases him and lets you choose a reward.
The Culinarian Chest and Pity System
A major highlight of the update is the Culinarian Chest and its associated pity system. This guarantees that you will receive specific rare items after opening a certain number of chests, which is great for players with bad luck.
The Culinarian Chest can be earned from the Rat Connoisseur or purchased directly with Robux.
| Guaranteed Reward | Chests to Open |
| Free Bonus Item | 4 |
| Bacon Pig | 6 |
| Hot Dog Pet | 23 |
| King Cabbage Seed | 75 |
| Lobster Pet | 100 |
| Rainbow Lobster Pet | 750 |
How to Use The New Pets and Items
This update adds several game-changing pets and items, primarily found in the Culinarian Chest or from the Rat Connoisseur.
- Lobster (Legendary Pet): The ultimate prize from the chest.
- Every 15 minutes, it has a 20% chance to make a nearby fruit Molten.
- Every 30 minutes, it has a 10% chance to turn a nearby fruit into a Meteor.
- Gorilla Chef (Pet): A unique support pet from the Rat Connoisseur.
- If you have a Cooking Pot or Cauldron, the Gorilla has a 5% chance to duplicate any food you cook.
- Hot Dog (Legendary Pet): A versatile pet from the Culinarian Chest.
- Every 4 minutes, it drops a mustard or ketchup puddle.
- Pets on mustard get 20% faster ability cooldowns.
- Pets on ketchup gain 20% more experience.
- Pet Mutation Shard (Aromatic): A rare reward from the Rat Connoisseur.
- When applied to a pet, that pet will infuse a nearby fruit with a pungent aroma every 25 minutes, applying the Aromatic mutation. This is like having a piece of the Kitchen Storm active at all times.
- Bacon Pig (Uncommon Pet): A basic pet from the chest that increases egg hatching speed by 20%.
