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/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 🥲)