What is the best Glow recipe in TOTK?

Cook 4 × Deep Firefly + Lizalfos Tail. You get Bright Elixir (None, effect Lv 3, sells for 46 rupees). The effect lasts 11:10.

Glow recipes in Tears of the Kingdom

Bright dishes make Link himself glow, which beats throwing Brightbloom Seeds when you are moving through a cave rather than mapping it. Three ingredients carry the effect, all of them found in the dark places they help you explore. The cap is Lv 3 and each one adds 90 seconds of base duration.

Best recipes

Cooked with the same engine as the simulator. Critical hits are a chance, not a guarantee: these values are without one.

Maximum effect

4 × Deep Firefly + Lizalfos Tail

Bright Elixir

Hearts: None
Effect: Lv 3
Duration: 11:10
Critical rate: 40%
Sell price: 46 rupees

Five of the strongest ingredient: the effect is capped and the duration is as long as this effect allows.

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Best critical rate

Deep Firefly + Glowing Cave Fish + Brightcap + Lizalfos Tail + Bokoblin Guts

Bright Elixir

Hearts: 3 Hearts
Effect: Lv 2
Duration: 12:20
Critical rate: 55%
Sell price: 89 rupees

Five different ingredients push the critical rate to its 25% ceiling, which can add hearts, a level or five extra minutes.

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Every ingredient: Glow recipes in Tears of the Kingdom

3 ingredients carry this effect. Potency stacks until the effect reaches Lv 3. Hearts are what the raw ingredient restores before cooking doubles it.

Ingredient	Type	Potency	Hearts	Sell price
Deep Firefly	Critters	2	-	2
Glowing Cave Fish	Fish	2	1	6
Brightcap	Mushrooms	1	0.5	4

Cook your own

The simulator takes any combination of five ingredients and returns the exact dish: open the TOTK cooking simulator.