Animal Crossing: New Horizons players will want to farm Flour to cook a large variety of recipes. While Flour is a popular cooking ingredient, players will first need to harvest five Wheat and craft the Wheat into Flour before the Flour can be used to create culinary dishes. The completed dishes can be used to decorate indoors or outdoors, given to villagers as gifts, or eaten by the player, allowing them to move trees or smash rocks.
The first step to obtaining Flour is to find Wheat. Players can wait for Leif to appear on their island, which will occur once per week, and see if his randomized inventory includes Wheat Starts. If Leif is offering Wheat Starts, they will cost 1,400 Bells for five starts. Alternatively, players can check Leif's stand at Harv's Island in Animal Crossing: New Horizons if they have purchased his plot. His stock on Harv's Island will refresh every Monday, and it includes the same items he has a chance to bring directly to the player's island. Additionally, Players can also use the boat service offered by Kapp'n to visit a random island once per day for 1,000 Nook Miles to see if the randomized island has Wheat. If the island tour has Wheat, players will be able to use a Shovel to bring the Wheat home and plant it on their own island.
Once players have acquired Wheat Starts, they can plant them on their island. Players will want to water the starts regularly for three or four days until the Wheat is fully grown. If players watered the crop in Animal Crossing: New Horizons while it was growing, they have a chance to harvest multiples of the crop. Once the Wheat is fully grown, players can harvest more Wheat every two days. Unlike fish and bugs, crops are not seasonal and can be grown and harvested all year.
Cooking With Flour in Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Once the Wheat is grown, players can pluck the crop and craft it into Flour by using a Kitchen appliance that allows the player to cook. To cook, players can approach the appliance and select the option to cook, just like using the crafting menu. However, before players can cook, they will need to purchase the Be a Chef!" DIY Recipes+ from Nook's Cranny for 2,000 Nook Miles to unlock the cooking recipe in Animal Crossing: New Horizons for Flour and various other cooking recipes. To obtain a Kitchen, players can craft a Stonework Kitchen, which is included in the Be a Chef!" DIY Recipes+ bundle, for 30 Stone, 15 Clay, and 10 Iron Nuggets. In addition, other Kitchen furniture items can be purchased from Nook's Cranny, including the Kitchen Island and Clay Furnace.
Players will want to harvest plenty of Wheat to craft into Flour for sweet recipes such as Bread, Pumpkin Pie, Pretzels, Pancakes, Cupcakes, and Carrot Cake. Flour is also used for savory options, including Spaghetti Marinara, Mushroom Pizza, Potato Curry, and Salmon Bagel sandwiches. Of note, some recipes will require more than one Flour to cook in Animal Crossing: New Horizons.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons is available on Nintendo Switch.