The Food Connoisseur Update in Roblox Grow a Garden is an exciting expansion update which is a part of the Cooking Event and adds new ways to cook, fun rewards, and a cool new character called the Rat Connoisseur. The Food Connoisseur Update was released on August 9, 2025, and will run until August 16, 2025. In this guide, I will explain everything you need to know about the update, including how to cook special foods, get new pets and seeds, and make the most of the Kitchen Storm event. Let’s dive in!
What Is the Food Connoisseur Update?
The Food Connoisseur Update is the second part of the Cooking Event in Grow a Garden. It builds on the cooking system introduced on August 2, 2025, where you mix crops to make dishes and feed them to a pig NPC named Chris P. for rewards. This update adds:
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- Rat Connoisseur: A new NPC who loves special “mutated” foods and gives unique rewards.
- Kitchen Storm Event: A server-wide event that speeds up cooking and boosts chances for special crops.
- New Recipes: Five new dishes to cook, like Spaghetti and Smoothies.
- New Pets and Seeds: Cool pets like the Gorilla Chef and new crops like King Cabbage.
- New Cosmetics: Fun garden decorations like a Cooking Cauldron and Smoothie Fountain.
This guide will walk you through each part of the update and share tips to get the best rewards.
Meet the Rat Connoisseur
The Rat Connoisseur is a new NPC who looks like a fancy rat chef (think Remy from Ratatouille). He’s near Chris P.’s Kitchen in the game’s lobby. Unlike Chris P., who takes any food, the Rat Connoisseur only wants mutated foods—dishes made with special crops that have cool effects like sparkles or glows. When you give him a mutated food, he lets you pick one of three random rewards.
How to Feed the Rat Connoisseur
- Make a Mutated Food: Cook a dish using crops with mutations (more on this below).
- Find the Rat: He’s next to the cooking pot in the lobby.
- Give the Food: Hold the mutated dish, press “E” near the Rat, and select “Try this food I cooked up!”
- Choose a Reward: Pick one of three rewards he offers, like a Culinarian Chest or a new pet.
Tip: Mutated foods have sparkly effects in your inventory, like glowing or changing colors, so they’re easy to spot.
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How to Make Mutated Foods
Mutated foods are dishes made with crops that have special mutations, like Gold, Rainbow, or Aromatic. These crops have cool effects, like sparkles or glows, and make your dishes more valuable. Here’s how to make them:
- Get Mutated Crops:
- Aromatic Mutation: Use a Pet Mutation Shard Aromatic on a pet, or grow crops during the Kitchen Storm event (explained below). Aromatic crops have a sweet smell and sparkly effects.
- Other Mutations: Grow crops during special weather (like Rain for Wet mutation) or events (like Blood Moon for Bloodlit). You can also use pets like the Chicken Zombie for Zombified mutations.
- Random Chance: Gold (20x value) and Rainbow (50x value) mutations can happen randomly while crops grow (1% and 0.1% chance).
- Cook with Mutated Crops:
- Go to the cooking pot in the lobby.
- Add mutated crops to a recipe (e.g., use an Aromatic Tomato instead of a regular Tomato for a Salad).
- Check the mutation meter above the pot:
- Green Bar: Your dish will be mutated (60%+ mutation chance).
- Red Line: Your dish won’t be mutated.
- Lucky Cook: There’s a small chance your dish becomes mutated automatically, even with normal crops.
- Press “Cook” and wait for the timer (5-10 minutes, depending on the recipe).
- Tips for Mutated Foods:
- Use more mutated crops in a recipe to increase the chance of a mutated dish.
- Cook during the Kitchen Storm event to boost mutation chances.
- Grow crops like Tomatoes or Corn, which are used in many recipes, to make mutated dishes easier.
Example: To make a mutated Pizza, use 1x Aromatic Violet Corn + 1x Aromatic Sugar Apple + 3x Bone Blossom for a Prismatic mutated Pizza.
What Is the Kitchen Storm Event?
The Kitchen Storm is a special server-wide event that makes cooking faster and increases your chance of getting Aromatic crops. It’s triggered by feeding Chris P. foods to fill the Kitchen Storm Bar above his head. Here’s how it works:
How to Start the Kitchen Storm
- Feed Chris P.: Give Chris P. any cooked dish (mutated or regular) by holding it, pressing “E,” and selecting “Try this food I cooked up!”
- Earn Points: Each dish gives points based on its rarity:
- Common: 2 points
- Uncommon: 3 points
- Rare: 4 points
- Legendary: 5 points
- Mythical: 6 points
- Divine: 7 points
- Prismatic: 8 points
- Transcendent: 9 points
- Fill the Bar: When the bar reaches 40 points, the Kitchen Storm starts. All players on the server help fill it, so work together!
Kitchen Storm Levels
- Level 1 (40 points): Cooking speed is 1.5x faster, and Aromatic mutation chance increases.
- Level 2 (80 points): Cooking speed is 2.5x faster, better Aromatic chance.
- Level 3 (120 points): Cooking speed is 3x faster, even better Aromatic chance.
- Level 4 (160 points): Cooking speed is 3.5x faster, best Aromatic chance.
Note: Higher levels make the event last longer, but it ends faster at Level 1. Keep feeding Chris P. to upgrade the kitchen and extend the event.
Benefits of Kitchen Storm
- Faster Cooking: Dishes cook quicker, so you can make more food.
- Aromatic Crops: During the event, most crops in your garden turn Aromatic, perfect for making mutated foods for the Rat Connoisseur.
- More Rewards: Faster cooking means more dishes to trade for rewards.
Tip: Cook simple dishes like Soup (1x any crop, 5 minutes) to quickly add points to the Kitchen Storm Bar.
New Recipes in the Food Connoisseur Update
The update adds five new dishes to the cooking system. These work the same as the original 12 recipes (like Pizza and Sushi). Here are the new recipes, with their main ingredients and rarities. Cooking times and water colors are still being confirmed by players, so we’ve noted where info is missing.
Candy Apple
- Mythical: 1x Sugar Apple + 1x Blueberry
- Divine: 1x Sugar Apple + 1x Mango OR 1x Banana + 1x Sugar Apple + 3x Bone Blossom
- Prismatic: 1x Apple + 1x Bone Blossom
- Transcendent: 1x Sugar Apple + 1x Sugarglaze OR 3x Bone Blossom + 1x Sugarglaze + 1x Sugar Apple
- Cook Time: Unknown
- Water Color: Unknown
- Tip: Great for high-tier rewards if you have Sugar Apples.
Porridge
- Mythical: 2x Violet Corn + 3x Dragon Fruit
- Divine: 2x Corn (or Violet Corn) + 3x Mango
- Prismatic: 1x Corn + 4x Sugar Apple OR 1x Corn + 1x Banana + 3x Bone Blossom
- Transcendent: 3x Bone Blossom + 1x Sugar Apple + 1x Corn
- Cook Time: Unknown
- Water Color: Unknown
- Tip: Use Corn and Sugar Apples for easy high-rarity Porridge.
Sweet Tea
- Mythical: 2x Ember Lily + 1x Burning Bud + 1x Blueberry
- Divine: 2x Ember Lily + 1x Burning Bud + 1x Blueberry
- Prismatic: 4x Sugar Apple + 1x Ember Lily OR 1x Elder Strawberry + 1x Sugar Apple + 1x Ember Lily + 1x Sugarglaze
- Transcendent: 2x Candy Blossom + 3x Bone Blossom
- Cook Time: Unknown
- Water Color: Unknown
- Tip: Needs rare crops, so trade for Ember Lily or Candy Blossom.
Smoothie
- Mythical: 1x Dragon Fruit + 1x Grape
- Divine: 1x Mango + 1x Grand Volcania
- Prismatic: 1x Sugar Apple + 1x Bone Blossom OR 1x Sugar Apple + 1x Burning Bud
- Transcendent: 1x Sugar Apple + 4x Bone Blossom
- Cook Time: Unknown
- Water Color: Unknown
- Tip: Easy to make with common crops like Sugar Apple.
Spaghetti
- Mythical: 1x Tomato + 1x Corn + 1x Mushroom + 2x Dragon Pepper
- Divine: 1x Tomato + 1x Corn + 1x Beanstalk + 2x Ember Lily
- Prismatic: 1x Tomato + 1x Corn + 1x Bell Pepper + 2x Bone Blossom
- Cook Time: Unknown
- Water Color: Unknown
- Tip: Save Dragon Pepper or trade for it to make high-rarity Spaghetti.
Note: For older recipes (like Pizza, Sushi, or Cake), check the chalkboard near the cooking pot or our previous guides for ingredient lists. Mutated crops work with any recipe to make mutated dishes.
All Rat Connoisseur Rewards
When you give the Rat Connoisseur a mutated food, he offers one of three random rewards. Here’s a list of possible rewards and their odds (where known):
- Culinarian Chest (40%):
- Rhubarb Seed (34.5%)
- Bacon Pig Pet (34.5%)
- Badlands Pepper Seed (14.5%)
- Hotdog Daschund Pet (14.5%)
- King Cabbage Seed (1%)
- Lobster Thermidor Pet (1%)
- Gourmet Seed Pack (50%):
- Onion Seed (40%, single-harvest)
- Jalapeno Seed (25%, multi-harvest)
- Crown Melon Seed (20%, multi-harvest)
- Sugarglaze Seed (10%, multi-harvest)
- Tall Asparagus Seed (4.5%, multi-harvest)
- Grand Tomato Seed (0.5%, multi-harvest)
- Spring Onion Seed (30%): Single-harvest, worth 30,000 Sheckles
- Bitter Melon Seed (5%): Multi-harvest, worth 77,000 Sheckles
- Pricklefruit Seed (8%): Multi-harvest, worth 80,000 Sheckles
- Butternut Squash Seed (10%): Multi-harvest, worth 35,000 Sheckles
- Cooking Cauldron (30%): Garden cosmetic
- Gourmet Egg (50%):
- Bagel Bunny (50%)
- Pancake Mole (38%)
- Sushi Bear (7%)
- Spaghetti Sloth (4%)
- French Fry Ferret (1%)
- Kitchen Cart (20%): Garden cosmetic
- Kitchen Crate (30%):
- Frying Pan (17.48%)
- Pizza Box (17.48%)
- Sink Cabinet (13.99%)
- Stove (13.99%)
- Fridge (13.99%)
- Cabinet Utensil (13.99%)
- Donut Swing (6.99%)
- Kitchen Flooring (30%): Garden cosmetic
- Pet Mutation Shard Aromatic (20%): Adds Aromatic mutation to a pet
- Gorilla Chef Pet (5%): May duplicate foods when cooking (needs Cooking Pot or Cauldron in garden)
- Sunny-Side Chicken Pet (30%): Boosts egg hatch speed by 20%
- Smoothie Fountain (15%): Garden cosmetic
Tip: The Culinarian Chest and Gourmet Egg have the best rewards, like the Lobster Thermidor pet or Grand Tomato seeds. Keep giving mutated foods to get more chances!
All New Plants in the Connoisseur Update
The update adds new crops you can get from the Rat Connoisseur or Culinarian Chest. Here’s the list:
| Plant | Rarity | Base Value | Harvest Type | How to Get |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spring Onion | Common | 30,000 Sheckles | Single-harvest | Rat Connoisseur Rewards |
| Rhubarb | Uncommon | 15,000 Sheckles | Multi-harvest | Culinarian Chest, Exotic Culinarian Chest, Rainbow Sack |
| Butternut Squash | Rare | 35,000 Sheckles | Multi-harvest (3-4 fruits) | Rat Connoisseur Rewards |
| Badlands Pepper | Legendary | 45,000 Sheckles | Multi-harvest (4 fruits) | Culinarian Chest, Exotic Culinarian Chest, Rainbow Sack |
| Pricklefruit | Legendary | 80,000 Sheckles | Multi-harvest (1 fruit) | Rat Connoisseur Rewards |
| Bitter Melon | Mythical | 77,000 Sheckles | Multi-harvest (4 fruits) | Rat Connoisseur Rewards |
| King Cabbage | Divine | 120,000 Sheckles | Multi-harvest (1 fruit) | Culinarian Chest, Exotic Culinarian Chest, Rainbow Sack |
Tip: Multi-harvest crops like Bitter Melon and Badlands Pepper are great for getting more Aromatic crops during Kitchen Storm.
All New Pets in the Connoisseur Update
New pets come from the Culinarian Chest, Gourmet Egg, or Rat Connoisseur rewards. Here’s what they do:
| Pet | Rarity | What It Does | How to Get |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sunny-Side Chicken | Uncommon | Boosts egg hatch speed by 20% | Rat Connoisseur Rewards (30%) |
| Bacon Pig | Uncommon | Grows Gold or Rainbow mutations on crops | Culinarian Chest (34.5%) |
| Gorilla Chef | Legendary | May duplicate foods when cooking (needs Cooking Pot/Cauldron) | Rat Connoisseur Rewards (5%) |
| Hotdog Daschund | Legendary | Speeds up event cooldowns and gives EXP | Culinarian Chest (14.5%) |
| Lobster Thermidor | Divine | Adds Molten (25x) or Meteoric (125x) mutations to crops | Culinarian Chest (1%) |
| Junkbot | Mythical | Adds Oil (15x) mutation every 15 minutes | Not available now (event-only) |
Tip: The Gorilla Chef is awesome for cooking more dishes, and the Lobster Thermidor gives super valuable crop mutations.
New Mutations in the Update
The update adds these new mutations for crops and foods:
| Mutation | Value Boost | How to Get | Looks Like |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aromatic | 15x | Kitchen Storm event or Pet Mutation Shard Aromatic | Sweet-smelling sparkles |
| Oil | 15x | Oil Rain weather or Junkbot pet | Oily sheen |
| Boil | 15x | Junkbot Raid admin event | Bubbling effect |
| Junkshock | 45x | Junkbot Raid admin event | Electric sparks |
Tip: Aromatic is the easiest to get during Kitchen Storm. Use it to make mutated foods for the Rat Connoisseur.
Tips to Maximize the Food Connoisseur Update
Here are simple tips to get the most out of the update:
- Focus on Mutated Foods: Grow Aromatic crops during Kitchen Storm and use them in recipes like Pizza or Sushi for the Rat Connoisseur.
- Trigger Kitchen Storm: Cook simple dishes like Soup (1x any crop) to fill the Kitchen Storm Bar quickly. Work with other players to hit Level 4 for the best benefits.
- Check Chris P.’s Cravings: Feed Chris P. what he wants every hour to get better rewards and fill the Kitchen Storm Bar faster.
- Farm Multi-Harvest Crops: Grow Badlands Pepper or Bitter Melon to get more crops for cooking.
- Trade for Rare Crops: Get Bone Blossom, Violet Corn, or Sugarglaze from other players to make high-rarity dishes.
- Use Gorilla Chef: Place a Cooking Cauldron in your garden and use the Gorilla Chef pet to double your dishes.
- Save Robux: You can skip cooking timers (39 Robux) or buy mutated foods for the Rat (89 Robux), but it’s cheaper to cook yourself.
- Stay Online: Kitchen Storm and mutations only happen when you’re in the game.
Final Thoughts
The Food Connoisseur Update makes Grow a Garden even more fun with new cooking challenges, cool pets, and awesome rewards. Focus on making mutated foods for the Rat Connoisseur, trigger the Kitchen Storm event, and grow new crops like King Cabbage to boost your garden. With this guide, you’re ready to cook up a storm and earn big! Have fun in Grow a Garden!
