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Two guys, 78 recipes, and one very unforgiving kitchen timer.

Polygon’s Brian David Gilbert and Eater’s Adam Moussa set out to do something no sane person attempts: cook every single recipe from The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild in a single day. The July 10, 2019 episode of Polygon’s video series Unraveled follows the pair as they try to replicate all 78 in-game dishes using nothing but the actual ingredients Link would gather in Hyrule — no salt, no pepper, no shortcuts. It goes about as well as you’d expect.

• Gilbert and Moussa attempt all 78 recipes from Breath of the Wild in one day, restricted to only in-game ingredients with no extra culinary staples allowed.
• It took them an hour and a half just to finish the first nine recipes, a pace that made the full 78 look nearly impossible.
• Their egg pudding collapsed into scrambled eggs with sugar (which they refused to eat), their fruitcake came out looking like a hamburger patty, and the only dish they happily finished was frybread made from wheat, salt, and oil.

The Rules That Made It Brutal

The premise sounds like a fun kitchen romp until you hear the ground rules. Gilbert and Moussa committed to cooking strictly with what’s actually available in Breath of the Wild‘s crafting system — no unlisted seasonings, no cheat ingredients, nothing that isn’t in the game’s item list. Gilbert says from the jump that the restriction would be “brutal,” and he wasn’t exaggerating.

That constraint turns simple-sounding dishes into genuine culinary puzzles. A recipe that works fine with a pinch of salt or a splash of oil suddenly doesn’t work at all when you’re locked into whatever raw materials Hyrule provides. Nine recipes into the day, the two had already burned an hour and a half — a pace that, extrapolated across all 78, would have taken them well over 12 hours.

Unexpected Consequences of Recipe Modification

Some dishes simply refused to cooperate. The egg pudding, meant to be a custardy, comforting treat, instead turned into a pan of scrambled eggs sitting in sugar — a combination so unappetizing that Gilbert and Moussa declined to even taste it. The fruitcake fared no better, emerging from the process looking less like a dessert and more like a hamburger patty.

“Please don’t ever ask me to do this again.”

That line from Moussa, delivered by the end of the marathon, sums up the toll the challenge took. Cooking in bulk under a ticking clock, with no seasoning safety net, turned what should have been a fun gimmick into a genuine test of endurance for both of them.

The One Dish That Actually Worked

Amid the wreckage, one recipe came through clean: basic bread. Made as frybread with nothing more than wheat, salt, and oil — no yeast required — it was the single dish of the entire 78 that Gilbert and Moussa willingly ate in full. Everything else got picked at, grimaced through, or abandoned outright, but the frybread earned an unqualified pass.

It’s a fitting anticlimax for a challenge built on chaos: the most complicated stews and elixirs in the game’s cookbook lost out to the simplest thing on the list. If you’re the type who enjoys watching creators put video-game logic under real-world pressure, this one sits comfortably alongside other endurance-style content like 100 Hours In Minecraft Hardcore: Episode 1 or the Apex Legends: Defiance Launch Trailer, where the appeal is watching a gaming premise pushed way past its comfort zone.

Gilbert’s Takeaway

Asked to distill the entire grueling exercise into a single lesson, Gilbert didn’t reach for anything profound. His conclusion: “Never improve.” It’s the kind of deadpan, self-deprecating line that’s become a signature of his work at Polygon, and it lands harder than any actual cooking tip could after watching two grown men fail to eat their own egg pudding.

Whether Gilbert and Moussa ever get roped into a sequel — say, tackling the cookbook from a different Zelda title — remains an open question, but on the evidence of this one, Moussa’s answer would almost certainly be no.