Gorilla Chef

Legendary

Passive Ability

King Cook:

As long as players have a Cooking Pot or Cooking Cauldron in player garden: The Gorilla cooks in it and grants 5-10% to duplicate food on cook!

How to get

Rat Connoisseur

Overview

The Gorilla Chef is a legendary pet, added in the second part of the Cooking Event.

How It Works

King Cook: As long as players have a Cooking Pot or Cooking Cauldron in player garden: The Gorilla cooks in it and grants 5-10% to duplicate food on cook!

Gorilla Chef Value

Wondering how much Gorilla Chef is worth? Below is the current market value for the pet and its Huge variant.

Value: 75

Best For

Kitchen Storm event farming with 2x cooking speed and food duplication synergy
Multiple pet stacking strategy - teams of 8 Gorilla Chef for optimal duplication
Culinarian Chest grinding through mass mutated food production for Rat Connoisseur
Resource conservation with Helping Hands ability saving crafting materials

Pro Strategies

8-Gorilla Chef Army Strategy

Build a team of 8 Gorilla Chef pets for maximum food duplication rates. Each pet provides 5-10% duplication chance, and multiple pets stack for significantly higher success rates. Use Pet Slots feature to quickly switch between cooking loadouts and normal farming setups during different phases of gameplay.

Kitchen Storm Synchronization

Trigger Kitchen Storm events (40 points to Chris P) before mass cooking sessions. The 2x cooking speed combined with multiple Gorilla Chef duplication creates 'insane duplication rates' according to community testing. Time your cooking sessions around storm events for maximum efficiency.

Cauldron Placement Optimization

Equip multiple Cooking Cauldrons in your garden (obtainable from Rat Connoisseur rewards). Each cauldron allows simultaneous cooking while Gorilla Chefs work on all of them. Position cauldrons centrally where all your Gorilla Chefs can access them for maximum coverage.

Mutation Farming Loop

Execute the advanced farming loop: grow mutated plants → cook during Kitchen Storm → feed duplicated food to Rat Connoisseur → obtain Culinarian Chests → repeat. Focus on Prismatic Smoothies (2 Bone Blossoms + 1 Coconut) for maximum Rat Connoisseur rewards and chest chances.

Alternatives

budget: Single Gorilla Chef + Basic Setup

Cost: 5% drop chance from Rat Connoisseur vs building full team

Tradeoff: 5-10% duplication vs 40%+ with multiple pets but requires massive grinding

Equipment

Cooking Pot cosmetic (basic requirement for any Gorilla Chef functionality)
Kitchen Storm event triggers for speed boosts without pet investment

Common Mistakes

Forgetting Cooking Pot/Cauldron cosmetic - abilities don't work without them equipped
Cooking outside Kitchen Storm windows - missing 2x speed and enhanced mutations
Using mutated food with Chris P instead of Rat Connoisseur for rewards
Single pet approach - missing massive multiplication benefits from stacking

Advanced Tips

Helping Hands stacking: multiple Gorilla Chefs increase material conservation rates
Age optimization: older Gorilla Chefs have higher duplication rates (6.57% at Age 100)
Recipe targeting: focus on Transcendent-tier recipes during duplication sessions
Future-proofing: keep 8+ Gorilla Chefs as cooking may become permanent game feature

Appearance

The Gorilla Chef resembles a real-life gorilla, but instead wearing a cooking outfit and wielding a wooden spoon.

Did You Know?

This section is a trivia section.

Please relocate any relevant information into other sections of the article.

1. Despite being one of the pets in the cooking update, it is not affected by the Mochi Mouse's passive for as it isn't considered a food type pet.

1. This is the very first pet that players can collide with. It's unknown if this was intended.

1. The gorilla will also work if the player has a Cooking Kit placed down

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