Total War: Warhammer II – Grom’s Cauldron recipes, ingredients, and Food Merchant guide

Grom’s Cauldron recipes and food buffs

I’ll summarize a few tidbits about Grom the Paunch’s cooking recipes. Firstly, new recipes can be taught by the Food Merchant or discovered when combining ingredients (we have these listed below). Next, you have to combine two main ingredients in order to create a unique recipe. Likewise, only one ingredient per “color” is allowed — ie. red + orange or red + blue.

Next, let’s talk about the buffs:

• The individual effects from each ingredient will be taken into account. Let’s say you want something that can benefit Goblin and Night Goblin units, you can combine Phoenix Claws (green) and Troll Meat (orange). This will give you “Regeneration” for infantry units and “Phoenix Fire” ammunition for missile units.
• Additionally, recipes provide specific buffs for Grom.
• The buffs from recipes last 15 turns or until you cook a new recipe.
• Switching to a different active recipe costs 50 scrap, and you can only cook once per turn.

Note 1: The more new recipes get cooked, the stronger Grom becomes. He’ll gain bonuses to his HP, leadership for Goblin units, and additional capacity for Goblin Big Bosses. Lastly, once you’ve cooked all 15 recipes, Grom gets the “Perfect Vigor” attribute.

Note 2: As mentioned, you only need to take note of the color-coded ingredients to create a majority of recipes. Since we already listed the ingredient-specific buffs, we’ll focus on the recipe-specific buffs for Grom.

Once I unlocked the Misty Mountain Broth recipe, it’s the delicacy I picked since it turns Grom the Paunch into an absolute killer. I believe I used the Lizard Legs (orange) + Dragon Tail (green) due to the composition of my armies.