Cute critters in your veggie patch? The Grow a Garden Kitchen Storm update quietly slipped in a whole lineup of brand-new pets, and some of them come with tricks and bonuses most players haven’t noticed yet.
Among these new pets, we have another bunch of funny-looking, food-based pets like the last update. So, if you are curious, here is a list of all the new pets you can get in the Kitchen Storm update in Grow a Garden.
List of Kitchen Storm Update Pets in Grow a Garden
The paragraph below covers the new pets introduced in the Kitchen Storm update for Grow a Garden.
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The Kitchen Storm update adds several new pets, including a Lobster Thermidor as a Divine rarity, two Uncommons, two Legendaries, and one Divine rarity pet, expanding the lineup players can collect alongside fresh seeds and cooking-themed cosmetics.
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Players can obtain these pets through new reward systems tied to the Rat Connoisseur and by unlocking items in kitchen-themed chests, which also introduce seven new crops to grow, such as rhubarb, king cabbage, badlands pepper, bitter melon, pricklefruit, butternut squash, and spring onion.
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The Kitchen Storm event itself enhances gameplay by increasing cooking speed and mutation transfer chances during storms triggered by feeding meals, with ongoing progression possible as the storm level rises.
There are six new pets added to Grow a Garden in the Kitchen Storm update. You can either get them directly as a reward for bringing food to the Rat Connoisseur or from Culinarian Chests. Feeding the new Rat NPC requires you to bring him only mutated food made using the cauldron. That said, here are all the new pets, along with their traits:
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Bacon Pig | Culinarian Chest | – Every 116.80 seconds, it grants a 2x chance to every new fruit to grow variants within range for 15.48 seconds |
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Sunny Side Chicken | From Rat Connoisseur Rewards | – Increases the egg hatch speed by 20.23% |
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Hotdog Daschund | Culinarian Chest | – Every 4 minutes, drops a mustard or ketchup puddle lasting for 30.8 seconds – Pets with mustard have 21% faster cooldown – Pets with Ketchup gain 21% more experience |
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Gorilla Chef | From Rat Connoisseur Rewards | With a cooking pot or cooking cauldron in your garden, the pet will grant a 5.15% chance to duplicate food on cooking |
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Lobster Thermidor | Culinarian Chest | – Every 14.55 minutes, it has a chance to apply the Molten mutation to fruits – Every 29.52 minutes, it has a chance to apply the Meteoric mutation to fruits |
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Junkbot | Given during Junkbot Raid event to those who attended | Every 14:50 minutes, it has a 14.33% chance to give the Oil mutation to nearby fruits |
Also Read: How to Get Fried Mutation in Grow a Garden
Best Kitchen Storm Update Pets in Grow a Garden
Explore the Best Kitchen Storm Update pets in Grow a Garden, featuring new companions, fresh abilities, and practical tips to maximize your farming and cooking quests in Roblox.
The five new pets in the Kitchen Storm update have great passives. Some can be highly useful for a beginner, while others bring value to all experienced players seeking profits. Among them, here are three pets that seem to be the best among the lot:
- Lobster Thermidor: This will help you get two types of valuable mutations, so you will make lots of money in a short time.
- Gorilla Chef: This pet will help you get bonus food while collecting dishes from the cauldron. This way, you can get more rewards from the Rat Connoisseur NPC.
- Bacon Pig: It is the most versatile pet due to its easy availability and the ability to increase the chances of having variants on fruits in your garden.
How to get Lobster Thermidor pet
Lobster Thermidor is obtained from the Culinarian Chest during the Kitchen Storm/Cooking Event in Grow a Garden, and it has only about a 1% drop chance, so expect a long grind. Here is the step-by-step process:
Step 1: Unlock the Cooking Event
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Play during the Kitchen Storm/Cooking Event period, when the Rat Connoisseur NPC appears in your garden hub area.
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Make sure you have access to cooking stations (Cooking Pot or Cooking Cauldron) so you can start making mutated meals for the rat.
Step 2: Cook Mutated Meals
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Use the cooking stations to combine ingredients that can mutate into special meals; the Rat Connoisseur only accepts mutated food, not basic dishes.
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Farm plenty of crops and experiment with recipes so you always have a stock of mutated meals to hand in for more reward rolls.
Step 3: Trade With Rat Connoisseur
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Talk to the Rat Connoisseur and give it one mutated meal; it will then show you three random reward options to choose from.
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There is roughly a 40% chance that one of those three options will be a Culinarian Chest, so prioritize picking the chest whenever it appears.
Step 4: Open Culinarian Chests
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Open every Culinarian Chest you get; the pet pool includes Rhubarb, Bacon Pig, Hotdog Dachshund, Badlands Pepper, King Cabbage, and Lobster Thermidor.
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Lobster Thermidor and King Cabbage each have only about a 1% chance per chest, making Lobster Thermidor one of the rarest Divine-tier rewards.
Step 5: Use Exotic Culinarian Chests (If Available)
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Some guides and the community note that the Exotic Culinarian Chest variant guarantees Lobster Thermidor within 100 rolls, acting as a pity system for very unlucky players.
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Exotic Culinarian Chests are harder to get but are the most reliable method long-term if you are heavily investing in the event.
Lobster Thermidor Ability (Why It’s Good)
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Every 15 minutes, there is a 20% chance for Lobster Thermidor to turn a nearby fruit into a Molten mutation, greatly increasing its value.
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Every 30 minutes, there is a 10% chance to turn a nearby fruit Meteoric, which has one of the highest value multipliers among garden mutations.
What are Lobster Thermidor pet abilities
Lobster Thermidor has two powerful passive abilities that both apply high-value crop mutations to nearby fruits. Together, they make it one of the strongest value-boosting pets in Grow a Garden.
Core passive abilities
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Molten Boiling Point: Every 15 minutes (down to about 5 minutes with better rolls), there is roughly a 20%+ chance that a nearby fruit is turned into the Molten mutation, giving it a very large value multiplier. This effectively injects a steady stream of high-value Molten fruits into your garden over time.
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Meteoric Boiling Point: Every 30 minutes (down to about 8-10 minutes at best), there is about a 10%+ chance that a nearby fruit becomes Meteoric, which has one of the highest multipliers among mutation types, similar to Disco and only behind mutations like Voidtouched or Dawnbound.
Why these abilities are strong
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Both passives give access to mutations that were previously locked behind rare admin events such as Volcano and Meteor, effectively turning those limited events into regular, controllable effects in your garden.
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Because Meteoric has a top-tier multiplier, Lobster Thermidor is often treated as a generator of premium mutations that can then be spread or copied by other mutation-support pets like T-Rex, Spinosaurus, or Mimic Octopus for end-game setups.
