Kale Chips in Valheim is prepared in two stages after Valheim Patch 1.0.21: craft Raw Kale Chips at the Food Preparation Table, then bake it in a Stone Oven. The uncooked recipe is no longer at the Cauldron.
Iron Gate moved the preparation step on 28 October 2026, while keeping the finished food and its oven stage. Here’s the updated method, how to get the recipe to appear and when Kale Chips is worth adding to your food loadout.
Kale Chips in Valheim: Food Preparation Table and the October change
Kale Chips in Valheim: ingredients and cooking time
| Ingredient | Quantity |
|---|---|
| Kale | 12 |
One preparation produces 4 Raw Kale Chips. Put each uncooked portion in a Stone Oven with wood fuel. Baking takes about 50 seconds per portion before you collect the finished Kale Chips.
Iron Gate’s notes explicitly move Unbaked Poteitr, Raw Kale Chips and Oven Pancake Batter away from the Cauldron. Raw Kale Chips is one of those intermediate foods. The developer also corrected the uncooked recipes’ tooltips, so the new crafting location should be clear once your platform receives the patch.
If you used a pre-patch guide and cannot find the ingredient mixture at a Cauldron, switch to your Food Preparation Table. You don’t need to rebuild an expensive Cauldron just to perform this particular preparation. Patch 1.0.21 reached different platforms over several days, so check your installed version.
Kale Chips in Valheim: How to make the finished meal
Gather 12 Kale at the Food Preparation Table. Use the Food Preparation Table to make the intermediate item, then carry that item to an operating Stone Oven and finish the baking process. Collect the finished Kale Chips when it’s ready.
Don’t confuse the raw intermediate item with the completed meal. The table performs the preparation, but it doesn’t cook the food for you. The Stone Oven is still required even after the new update. Prepare several portions while the station is available and keep the uncooked items together so they don’t get mixed up with harvested crops.
Ingredients and Deep North farming
Grow Kale for a repeatable supply and keep some of the harvest for another planting. The crop is the useful starting point, not the Cauldron. The relevant ingredients and stations must already be discovered by your character for a new recipe to appear.
Keep your crops and other cooking supplies near the preparation station so you can repeat the route without another long trip. Patch 1.0.21 changed the station rather than the ingredients, so the recipe quantities remain those shown in the table above.
Kale Chips in Valheim: Food stats and survival role
The existing Version 1.0 guide records 35 health and 105 stamina for 25 minutes for the finished food. That makes Kale Chips a stamina-heavy food for running, dodging and weapon attacks. Compare its duration and stat balance with what you already eat before spending your entire ingredient supply.
Valheim allows three active foods. A mage needs Eitr but still benefits from stamina to dodge and move; a fighter may want more health and stamina for blocking and attacking. Think of this as one slot in your loadout, not a meal that automatically replaces every other late-game food.
Kale Chips in Valheim: Recipe not showing after the patch
If the recipe is missing, check your game version, confirm you’ve picked up the required ingredients, then open the Food Preparation Table. The intermediate item you’re looking for is named Raw Kale Chips. Older screenshots of the Cauldron’s recipe list will be out of date.
If the raw stage is available but the finished Kale Chips isn’t in your inventory, you still need the baking step. Check that the Stone Oven can run and that the intermediate food has actually been collected. The two parts of this cooking process use different stations, and the patch has only moved the first one.
Kale Chips in Valheim: Cooking for a group and saving ingredients
Shared worlds benefit from an organised food chest. Store Kale and any prepared Raw Kale Chips separately so other players can see what is available to cook. Do the preparation work before a boss attempt rather than discovering at the last minute that your ingredients are still raw.
If you’ve just unlocked the Deep North, maintain a small surplus of crops for replanting and other recipes. This is more useful than using every harvested ingredient to make one batch, particularly when friends have different stamina and Eitr needs.
Other recipes affected by 1.0.21
The same station change applies to Baked Poteitr, Kale Chips and Oven Pancake. Those foods still use the Stone Oven after their uncooked stages.
That doesn’t mean every Deep North recipe or every Cauldron dish moved. Our Valheim Deep North Food overview keeps the station changes together with the broader list of ingredients and dishes.
| Stage | Item | Station |
|---|---|---|
| Prepare | Raw Kale Chips | Food Preparation Table |
| Bake | Kale Chips | Stone Oven |
Related Guides: Kale Chips in Valheim
Official source: Iron Gate Studio: Patch 1.0.21 cooking changes.
