Cooking

"Ignis's area of expertise. He is almost solely responsible for preparing camp meals. His skills improve with every dish he makes." Cooking is a skill unique to Ignis. He uses ingredients to prepare meals at havens. The meals available for cooking depend on the recipes unlocked and the available ingredients. By cooking meals, Ignis obtains skill points which unlock more elaborate dishes.

Recipes
Recipes can be obtained by eating new dishes in restaurants, finding books, reading signs, or obtaining ingredients by purchasing them, catching fish, or defeating specific types of enemies.

Boosts
Eating dishes at restaurants or preparing them at camp gives the party certain stat boosts.

Levels
Ignis' cooking skill can reach up to level 10.

Achievements and trophies
The following achievements and trophies are related to cooking:
 * Cooking Rookie
 * Cooking Expert

Trivia

 * The Golden Chocobo Tart and Kupoberry Cheesecake recipes were made available outside of the Moogle Chocobo Carnival in patch 1.24 on June 7th, 2018.
 * All guest-character dishes from Comrades were first unlockable in FFXV in patch 1.18 (November 10th, 2017), wherein the player could obtain the recipes in the main game once their respective cooks appeared in Comrades at camp after completing hunts/quests. These recipes were made available in FFXV by default in patch 1.27 on December 13th, 2018 after Comrades was made a "standalone" game.