Gourmet - A Cooking Overhaul
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🔍 Analysis
- 👍 0.1% endorsement rate
- 🏆 #1 of 5 Crafting mods in this game by downloads
📋 About This Mod
Gourmet - A Cooking Overhaul
Gourmet is a complete overhaul of Skyrim’s cooking system that distributes food, ingredients, and crafting tables throughout the game. In addition to thoroughly reworking cooking recipes, it also rebalances the inventories of all food vendors, including innkeepers, general merchants, grocers, butchers, and brewers. New recipe items, cookbooks, and chef merchants have also been added to the game, as well as new drinks and drugs.
Requirements
Gourmet comes with a suite of new icons designed for use with Constructible Object Custom Keyword System and Inventory Interface Information Injector. Since the mod will still function without these icons, these mods should be considered soft requirements.
Food
In Gourmet, food provides long-lasting buffs to Health, Magicka, or Stamina Regeneration. Meats and stews provide Health Regeneration; vegetables, soups, and breads provide Stamina Regeneration; and pastries, desserts, and cheeses provide Magicka Regeneration. All food buffs last for 20 minutes by default, and the player can benefit from all three buffs at once.
Meats and Stews
Uncooked meat grants 10% Health Regeneration. If Survival Mode is installed, these items also have a chance to give the player Food Poisoning. Cooked meat grants 25% Health Regeneration. These meals are created in a cooking pot with raw meat and salt. Stews and chowders provide 50% Health Regeneration. Meat stews are created in a cooking pot with raw meat, frost mirriam, garlic, and salt. Mushroom stews are created in a cooking pot with two mushrooms, frost mirriam, elves ear, and garlic. Chowders are created in a cooking pot with raw meat, butter, milk, and salt.
10% Health Regeneration
Horker Meat
Mammoth Meat
Mudcrab Legs
Skeever Meat
Slaughterfish Meat
25% Health Regeneration:
Cooked Beef
Cooked Boar
Cooked Chicken
Cooked Goat
Horker Loaf
Cooked Horse
Mammoth Steak
Steamed Mudcrab Legs
Pheasant Roast
Rabbit Haunch
Charred Skeever
Slaughterfish Steak
Venison Chop
50% Health Regeneration
Clam Chowder
Horker Stew
Mammoth Stew
Pheasant Stew
Rabbit Stew
Venison Stew
Mushroom Stew
Wild Mushroom Stew
Glowing Mushroom Stew
Clam Chowder
Gourmet is a complete overhaul of Skyrim's cooking system, redistributing food, ingredients, and crafting tables throughout the game. With over 6,000 endorsements and 8.4 million downloads, it's a popular choice for players seeking a more immersive culinary experience.
✨ Key Features
📊 Pros & Cons
✅ Pros
- Huge community trust: 6,163 endorsements and 8.4 million downloads.
- Makes cooking feel like a real part of the world instead of a menu afterthought.
- Actively maintained, last updated June 2026.
⚠️ Cons
- May conflict with other mods that alter food or crafting tables.
- Requires careful load order management to avoid issues with vanilla cooking.
For Skyrim players who want cooking to be more than a quick buff stop—if you enjoy immersion and world-building, this is for you. Skip if you're happy with the vanilla cooking system or prefer gameplay mods that add new mechanics rather than redistribute existing ones.
💡 Beginner Tips
- Use a mod manager like Vortex or Mod Organizer 2 to keep track of load order.
- Place Gourmet early in your load order to let other mods overwrite if needed.
- Check the mod's page for any patches if you use popular food or crafting overhauls.
📊 Mod Details
- Game
- Skyrim Mods
- Author
- Simon Magus Jelidity and wolll
- Version
- 1.2.0
- Downloads
- 8,374,952
- Endorsements
- 6,163
- Category
- Crafting
- Created
- 7/30/2023
- Updated
- 6/23/2026
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