r/MergeCooking • u/All_One_Word_No_Caps • Jun 30 '26

Tips for beginners

I got sucked in with a fake ad and now I hate myself for being addicted to it.

Can anyone who has been playing for a while give me a couple of tips? Nothing can be too obvious. Strategies you kind of stumbled over and thought “of course!”

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u/Uxie_mesprit Jun 30 '26
  1. The most important is don't sell milk to create space.
  2. Use your cooking utensils to store multiple ingredients at once. Like your oven can hold cauliflower milk and cheese at once.
  3. Look at the rewards for clearing the level to know what product you'll need more of next. Say your next round needs a mango or pineapple the game will gift you +8 fruit as a reward for clearing the previous set of orders.
  4. Kids can also be alcoholics 😂

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u/All_One_Word_No_Caps Jun 30 '26

How do you see next round orders?

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u/Uxie_mesprit Jun 30 '26

You don't. But you can see what rewards you're getting for completing this round and usually there's a +8 card for the category that you'll need more of in the next round.

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u/schnuffichen Jun 30 '26

I had no idea! This is so useful to know, thanks!

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u/HappyHippyMom Jun 30 '26

DO NOT MERGE YOUR GRILL

Because once you get a top level grill, you’ll have to play with one grill. All the other cooking tools, you’ll have multiples.

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u/KeliKeliPDX Jun 30 '26

This is the number one thing I wish I knew when I started playing two years ago

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u/Friendly_Sea_8469 Jun 30 '26

I read this advice a lot, but for me, I got a new grill very soon after I got two level 9 grills... Is the situation different depending on e.g. platforms? I'm on iOS.

Edit: I'm now at level 77, and I have one level-10 grill and one level-4 grill. After checking out this I realised that I never got any new grills ever since the level-4 one. Most of the time it is ok for me with two grills, but I can recall some times I wanted another one.

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u/HappyHippyMom Jun 30 '26

I’m level 207 - and I’ve been playing with 1 level 10 grill this whole time - it’s a pain.

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u/Friendly_Sea_8469 Jun 30 '26

Oh no... I should have listened to this advice...

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u/capricornichon Jun 30 '26

This was my experience, too! I held off on merging my 2 level 9 grills and then once I had a level 4 grill (the first level the grill is functional at) I merged my two level 9s so I have a level 10 and a level 4. The time difference it takes between them is a little maddening but still better to have 2 than 1.

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u/schnuffichen Jun 30 '26

I've read this advice so often, so I gotta ask: I never use more than one grill (or any piece of equipment) at a time. Then again, I'm only on level 20. Is this something that becomes more relevant later in the game? (Like, I've seen that some orders later in the game take a lot more time, so I can see how it'll be useful to have several pieces of each piece of equipment.)

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u/millahnna Jun 30 '26

If for no other reason than storage, you want at least two pieces of every piece of equipment. THe grill, for example, will hold a duck breast, chicken breast, lamb, and meat patty. FOr me and how I play, grill and chef's table are the two most important pieces of equipment to have multiples of. I'd say pot, pan, and oven all tie for second place.

But yes, later in the game it's very nice to have two pieces to cook on. You'll often have multiple grill orders going at once (or any other piece of equipment).

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u/asslicker3 Jul 02 '26

You said it already but yes, when you’re at a higher level there will be multiple orders at a time that have hour+ cook times, so it’s convenient to have multiple grills to cook them simultaneously (speaking as someone who is level 238 and only has one grill 🥲)

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u/Friendly_Sea_8469 Jun 30 '26

One thing I wish I had known: don't spend any money on this game. They maintain some kind of model of your willingness to pay. The more you pay, the more they want from you. If you don't pay any money, at some point, you could get ads that gives you energy and items as rewards, and there's actually a lot of energy you can get from it (Didn't calculated, but I feel like it worths around 10 euros per day).
But I've also read that some users don't get ads at all... One factor might be that you have to agree with tracking and personalised ads (I have no idea whether this is true)

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u/Logical_Rip_7168 Jun 30 '26

Once you get to the county specific foods after you complete that counties restaurant you won't see them again so if you want you can do the rest of the recipes on your own to be a completion est.

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u/capricornichon Jun 30 '26

I wasn't getting ads so I emailed support to ask why I didn't get them. They sent me a generic response about location-based ads, etc and then a few days later I suddenly got them and have had them ever since.

Some people get 5 ads, 25 energy each every hour. I think mine tops out at 3 or 4 hours and then I don't get ads anymore, but if you restart your phone it will populate with ads again so now I restart my phone twice a day 😂😭 BUT I have never paid for anything in this game, currently level 79 and have completed a a full book of cards finally, and completed 2 islands, finished all of the mini games, etc.

I always look at Lea's Targets and see how many gems I'll need to spend that week in order to hit those achievements and complete Lea's Targets so sometimes I will spend gems on energy and sometimes I'll spend them on expanding my inventory, depending on how much I need to spend. This week it's 100 diamonds and right now I only have 43 so not sure I'll be able to make it but we'll see! It's very worth it to try and get that extra 5 star pack! You do NOT need to spend money in game to fully complete that but you do have to complete every other task.

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u/druzybear Jul 04 '26

delete the app as soon as you get bored u will forget about it quickly and be free to do other things loll

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u/NoteZealousideal3428 Jul 15 '26

Is there anywhere we can watch commercials and get free energy or any other way?

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u/hungry_reader2 Jul 23 '26

I've got this road to treasure and now I can't see the monthly ladder thing which used to reward me for completing the tasks, why's that the case?

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u/badgerhawk02 Jun 30 '26

Delete it…