Best & Easiest Dishes to cook in Coral Island 

Right?! My brain finds it so satisfying. recycling goes brrrr

How did you get that recipe?

@@LillyianPuppy any bug + grill. Manual cooking. Its on coral island wiki pages somewhere

Haha, I had like 5 different Indonesian commenters nudging me to the correct pronunciation so it felt right to address it in this video. Hopefully I was closer this time around. :P And yeah dishes make such great gifts for villagers I totally do the same!

Happy to help! I started cooking in my second year too, so it's definitely a great jumping in point.

Wait WHAT... 😰 but- but that's how the Dutch pronounce tortilla. OK. NEW RULE: Once we occupy your country for 300 years you are allowed to bully me for my pronunciation too. 😂

@@heartforpixels My best instruction on pronouncing tortilla is tore-tea-yah. The 'll' pronunciation trips up a lot of people. In Spanish, 'll' is always pronounced as a 'y' sound. The same way, a 'j' is pronounced as an 'h' like with jalapeños. The 'ñ', I think, is best described as an 'ny' sound.

Viewer or creator, in the end we're all servants to the almighty algorithm. ;P And cheers! That's so kind of you to say. I've actually been making RU-vid videos for over 8 years now, but those are more video essay related. Gaming content is quick and easy in comparison so I've been having a lot of fun on here! :D

@@heartforpixels ​ I didn't even look. Your intro made is sound like this was your second or third. That explains why you really seem to have a good rhythm and sound like a pro. My own channel was spun up on '06 and I'm constantly impressed by you guys who keep at it.

Aw that's so sweet of you to say! I'm almost done with a 30-minutes Coral Island challenge run video so keep an eye out for that in the next 7 days (also, I'm non-binary so call me pal instead! 😉)

Have you tried putting your crops into kegs or mason jars? That usually helps up the price. Especially rice into sake, grapes into wine and barney and wheat into beer are excellent money makers. Definitely do the same for your animals! Turn your eggs into mayonaise and your milks into yogurt. Great sources of money. Bee houses are also a GREAT way to make money. All flowers you planted should go into your bee houses for sure. If you find titan arum (fall) or rafflesia (winter) around the island. Put! It! In! The! Bee! House! The base price is *3000 gold*!!! I hunted those things for sport in my first year because those are tremendous money makers. Hope this helps you through your first year!

Happy to hear it! :D

I was so worried about getting my pronunciation of jamu and lodeh and even shallot right, but then tortilla suckerpunched me out of nowhere hahaha! 😆Someone else commented on this too and I've been having a mild existential crisis ever since. Like, have I been saying it wrong all my life??? But no, I checked a Dutch RU-vidr and they pronounced it the same way I did. No idea why we Dutchies decided "tortilja" is the way to go, but it never even occured to me it's a very Dutch way of saying the name of this dish. 😂

Super fair that you want to wait. I don't mind the slow build-up to more content, but I totally understand wanting to explore it all in one go once it's fully released. Glad you still enjoyed my video tho and found it informative. :)

Ah man that sucks. Hope you're getting a better utensil next week! Cooking is such a great money maker ^^

Glad the video is helpful! ^^ haha people either seem to love my accent or absolutely hate it. no inbetween. I've long since given up on trying to understand it. :')

This was filmed in v0.1 where the fridge didn't work yet. I'm currently betatesting the v0.3 and the fridge does work there. So it'll work like Stardew's yeah!

Aw thank you! 😄I just checked the wiki and it appears currently (?) unavailable for the v0.2 update. Might be a bug, because I just checked my game file where I bought a skillet in v0.1 and it's still available to me. But yeah, the game is in full development still so bugs and changes happen! My advice is to regularly check the wiki and official discord. ;)

I haven't played Coral Island in months, but generally having crops/ flowers and then processing them (into honey, wine, sake, whatever) is a good money maker. Also farm animals. It's a heavy cost upfront, but pays back the more you have it. In my 1,500+ sharks and millionaire video you can maybe get some inspiration for money making! (though some tactics may be a bit outdated or... insane lmao)

I didn't get the recipe, I crafted it manually. Just use any fruit and blend it. (I'm not sure if the recipe for the smoothie is already in the game? it certainly wasn't when I recorded this video).

You can still craft jamu, but I personally just left it in a chest and hoarded it (not that I managed to gather a lot of ginger to begin with...)

@@heartforpixels Yeah I didn't know it was rare and sold my ginger T_T also sold all my artifacts before I knew about the enchantments. I'm trying to save up to quickly buy the upgrade for my house. Getting frustrated with not being able to cook and not knowing what crops to save and what to sell.

I believe there's even a spider specific dish (we can't make yet bc it needs gourmet salt) that sells for even MORE money. I love this game haha.

@@heartforpixels hoooooly moly!!!

Insects are a much more common source of protein on Asia and Africa it seems. It makes sense. They have way more protein than mammals and are an extremely renewable resource.

@@AdamantErinyes uhmm i was about to say "most of Asia.. some of us aren't that familiar with those" but then i remember in my country, they eat Ulat Sagu (Sago Catepillar?) lol

@@AdamantErinyes Oh in no way, shape or form was this supposed to be a dig at ppl eating insects! I just think it's funny that a fly i can sell for 10g in game can be turned into a 235g dish. :')

The skillet is currently unavailable in the 0.2 version. I'm assuming it's due to a bug.

Grilling your own fish is definitely more profitable than buying it bc you can turn your 30g fish into a 180g dish. But yeah, I suggest trying to select and deselect all your untensils, exiting the menu, and try cooking again for now. I'm sure they'll fix this eventually, but it'd be great if it is implemented sooner rather than later.

Yeah, cooking got a massive money nerf, though it got more balanced in the sense that more complicated dishes now sell for more. With the energy spend on it tho - if you got the recipe unlocked (like with bug jerky!) you can now make several dishes in one go for just 10 energy. For bug jerky it has to be the same bug though for it the count as one single cooking session. But that way it doesn't feel as energy-draining and it feels profitable to cook at least for your own use for deep dives!

There's a LOT of fish you unfortunately cannot catch yet but will be implemented into the game. I did play a bit when they launched the accidental update (now rolled back) and I already noticed fishing was so much better. I caught a better variety, it was quicker, and there was even a fourth fishing zone. For now, at what place you fish and at what time in what weather seems to REALLY matter. I always look between the community sourced google doc sheet and the Coral Island wiki to see where a fish is at.

@@heartforpixels yes I’ve actually since leaving this comment found a few more and also managed to get C rank in early fall which was my ultimate goal so I’m happy just to be able to get the greenhouse. Now I’m just building up my cookware collection. I’ve already started on my vegetable jerky empire 😂.

@@AramasG Hahaha, excellent!

I believe others have made videos about this topic already but off the top of my head: - Cooking dishes (like grilled fish or bug jerky) - Turning your flowers into honey (go hunt for the rare titan arum (fall) or rafflesia (winter) around the island. the base price of that honey is 3000 gold!! - Turn everything you can into artisan goods. Especially invest in the alcoholic drinks for maximum profit.

I think I just walked into the barn with it? Might've been 0.1 hijinks tho. :P