How to Cook Frog Legs in Don’t Starve

Last Updated: July 2, 2020

Sometimes, when exploring in the game Don't Starve, you might come across a nice little pond in the middle of the grasslands or the forest, when suddenly, frogs start attacking you! If you manage to survive the ordeal, you’ll find yourself with a large stock of Frog Legs. So what can you do with Frog Legs? Simple, you cook them! Action buttons provided are for Don’t Starve PC (Windows, OSX, Linux) and console (PS4/Vita).

Method 1

Method 1 of 3:

Cooking over Campfire

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Make your tools.You’ll be needing at least a pickaxe and an axe to gather some of the required materials for this venture. They’re both available through the Tool tab (crossed axe and pickaxe icon). Axes cost 1 each of Twig (gathered from dried-out bushes scattered in the world) and Flint (sharp-looking rock that’s scattered everywhere in the game), while pickaxes cost 2 each of the same materials.
- To use tools, select it by right-clicking on the tool (PC) or scrolling to it with the right analog stick and pressing the right button of the D-pad (PS4). Go up to the tree (axe) or boulder (pickaxe) and hold down the left mouse button (PC) or X button (PS4) to wear them down to states you can gather with.
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Gather some materials for the campfire. Aside from making sure you have enough Twigs, you also need to gather some Cut Grass, gathered from long tufts of grass found scattered everywhere in the world. Make sure you chop down some trees for your logs too.
- Gathering some Rocks would also be useful if you want to make fire pits.
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Make a campfire (or fire pit). When you have at least 2 Logs and 3 Cut Grass, you can make fire! Click the bonfire icon to your left, and on the very top of the list is a campfire. Campfires are essential because they’re the most reliable and easiest way to generate light during nighttime, as well as make a good way to cook your food, which can either prolong its freshness or increase the benefits to your health, hunger, and sanity when you eat it. You can make multiple campfires as long as you have enough resources.
- Later on, if you’ve got at least 12 Rocks and 2 Logs, you can make a fire pit, which is a permanent version of a campfire and does not spread flames when you add too much fuel.
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Start cooking! Now simply select the Frog Legs, then go to your campfire, and you'll be prompted to cook them. Now, when you left-click or press X, you’ll immediately start cooking!

Method 2

Method 2 of 3:

Drying It Out

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Make a science machine. You will need this to make your drying rack, so if you don’t have one yet, it’s high time to do so. It requires 1 Gold Nugget, 4 Logs, and 4 Stones, and is made in the Science tab (atom icon), which is located in your crafting hotbar (right-hand section of your screen on PC and L2 on the PS4).
- You can gather Gold Nuggets by trading meats with the Pig King (if he’s available in the current world); mining yellow-streaked boulders, which are dominantly available in Rockylands; or finding them scattered around Graveyards.
- Once you make your science machine, it will immediately prompt you to place it down (press X or left-click). Choose the area to place the machine wisely since after placing it, you won’t be able to pick it up again.
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Make a drying rack.To create a drying rack, you’ll need 3 Ropes, 2 Charcoals, and 3 Twigs. It can be made through the Food tab, represented by a planted carrot icon, through your science machine.
- You can get Charcoal by burning down a tree with a torch, but you have to be careful since fire spreads, and you might accidentally burn down your entire campsite with a single careless flame.
- You can get Rope by heading to the Refine tab, represented by a diamond, and making it. Rope costs 3 Cut Grass.
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Dry the Frog Legs. Much like with the campfire, simply select the Frog Legs and place them on the rack when prompted. You can only dry your meat when raw, and it takes a full day to dry out Frog Legs to produce small Jerky.
- Do note that you can’t dry multiple meats in the same rack, so if you want to dry them all out, better make some more racks!

Method 3

Method 3 of 3:

Using a Crockpot

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Make a crock pot. If you already have a science machine, you can make a crock pot there through the Food tab for 3 Cut Stone, 6 Charcoal, and 6 Twigs.
- You can create Cut Stone through the Refine tab in the science machine. It costs 3 Rocks to make.
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Choose your ingredients. When you interact (click or press X) with your crock pot, a small menu will pop up with 4 slots. You need to fill out those slots with one unit of your food items, then wait for around 40 seconds, depending on the recipe. Frog Legs count as a meat product, and meat dishes are normally some of the most filling.
- You can add Twigs, Honey Comb, and in Reign of Giants only, Ice as ingredients despite being generally inedible. Some recipes call for those too, in fact.
- Despite being edible, you can’t add Rot, Seeds, Petals, Rotten Egg, Hatching Tallbird Egg, Cooked Mandrake, Koalefant Trunk, Deerclops Eyeball, Guardian's Horn, Batilisk Wing, Leafy Meat, Foliage, Light Bulbs, or Glow Berries as ingredients.
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Cook! There are many crock pot recipes for you to try out in Don’t Starve. As long as you have the resources, feel free to experiment in the foodstuffs you put in.
- Don’t put in too many Monster Meat, Monster Jerky, or Durian in one recipe, since it would yield a Monster Lasagna, which actually damages instead of heals and also inflicts a large penalty on your sanity. Only do so if you plan on adding a Twig in your recipe.
- A recipe exclusive for Frog Legs is the Froggle Bunwich, which needs 1 Frog Leg and 1 Vegetable, plus two filler ingredients (excluding Honey, Mandrake, and Eggs). It takes 40 seconds to cook and makes for a relatively cheap, efficient, filling meal with a decent bonus to health and hunger.
  - If you’re using Twigs for your filler, use two instead of one, since a single Twig will turn your Bunwich recipe into a Kebab.