Mashed Meat in Valheim: The Level-6 Cauldron Food With the Second-Highest Health Gain
Mashed Meat adds 100 health and 34 stamina for 1,500 seconds — 25 minutes — with 6 hp healed per tick. It is an Ashlands-tier food cooked in a level 6 Cauldron, and the wiki flags it as sitting just one rung below the top of the entire health-gain list: only Piquant pie beats it. The in-game description doesn't take itself too seriously about it either: "Leftover meat can actually be pretty tasty if you just mash it right!" This guide breaks down the full stat block, the exact recipe, and where Mashed Meat sits against the rest of Valheim's food roster.
Mashed Meat at a Glance
The wiki's infobox lists a complete stat block for the item, worth reading in full before deciding whether it earns one of your three food slots:
| Stat | Value |
|---|---|
| Health | +100 |
| Stamina | +34 |
| Duration | 1,500 seconds (25 minutes) |
| Healing | 6 hp per tick |
| Weight | 1.0 |
| Stack size | 10 |
| Teleportable | Yes |
Item type is listed simply as Food, cooked at a Cauldron, with usage Eating — no other consumption method is documented. Teleportable: Yes means, as with every other finished dish in Valheim, a stock of Mashed Meat carries through a portal without the boat run some raw materials require. Stack size 10 and weight 1.0 keep a full food loadout light to carry between biomes.
The Recipe
The source is specific about the station tier: Mashed Meat is produced in a level 6 Cauldron, using:
- Asksvin tail x1
- Volture meat x1
- Fiddlehead x1
This fact set does not document the ingredients' drop rates, spawn locations, or harvesting method, so any specific farming route for Asksvin tail, Volture meat, or Fiddlehead is undocumented here and should be checked separately before planning a supply run. What is confirmed is the station requirement itself: a level 6 Cauldron is the highest upgrade tier referenced in this recipe, and Mashed Meat itself is confirmed as an Ashlands-tier food.
How It Stacks Up
The wiki's Notes section makes a direct, quotable ranking claim rather than a vague comparison:
"Mashed meat provides the second highest health gain in the game at 100, only being surpassed by Piquant pie."
Piquant pie's own exact health figure is not given in this source, so this article can confirm the ranking — second place, 100 health — without being able to state the margin between the two dishes; treat "how far ahead Piquant pie actually is" as undocumented here. The same wiki entry also carries its own built-in caveat on this specific claim, noting the ranking is likely to age as new items are added to the game — a reminder that a "highest in the game" claim is a snapshot of the current roster, not a permanent fact, and worth re-checking before repeating it in anything long-lived.
The Duration in Context
The infobox lists duration as 1,500 seconds. Converted into a planning-friendly unit: 1,500 ÷ 60 = 25 minutes — long enough to cover a full Ashlands excursion or boss encounter without needing to re-eat mid-fight.
The healing rate is listed as 6 hp per tick, but this source does not specify how long a single tick lasts in seconds, so the total health points regenerated across the full 25-minute window can't be computed from this data alone — that figure is undocumented here and shouldn't be estimated from a tick length sourced elsewhere.
Practical tips
- 100 health, 34 stamina, 1,500 seconds (25 min) — the full stat line, straight from the infobox.
- Cook it at a level 6 Cauldron with 1 Asksvin tail, 1 Volture meat, and 1 Fiddlehead.
- Teleportable — no portal-free run required to keep a stock on hand.
- Second-highest health food in the game at 100, per the wiki, behind only Piquant pie — the wiki itself notes this ranking can shift as new items are added.
- 1,500 seconds = 25 minutes (1,500 ÷ 60).
- Ingredient farming routes, tick length in seconds, and Piquant pie's exact stats aren't covered by this source — treat all three as unconfirmed until checked elsewhere.
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Conclusion
Mashed Meat is an Ashlands-tier Cauldron food — level 6 Cauldron, 1 Asksvin tail + 1 Volture meat + 1 Fiddlehead — delivering +100 health, +34 stamina, 1,500 seconds (25 minutes, from 1,500 ÷ 60) of duration, and 6 hp of healing per tick. The wiki calls it the second-highest health gain in the game, behind only Piquant pie, though Piquant pie's exact number and the margin between the two aren't given in this source — and the wiki's own note warns that ranking may not hold as new food gets added later. Tick length behind the 6 hp/tick figure, and the exact farming routes for Asksvin tail, Volture meat, and Fiddlehead, are undocumented here and worth checking separately before you plan a precise healing budget or a supply run.
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