Epic gear serves a dual purpose. While you'll use the best ones for your active build, extra epic items are invaluable for two things:

For your hand slot, you want to maximize your personal cooking efficiency to carry the weight of early-game levels.

You will need these exact Epic items later as ingredients to forge powerful Legendary, Ultimate, and Mythic blueprints.

Use this if you prefer seeing larger gold numbers. Perfect food sells for 6x the value , which can help overcome expensive station upgrades if you aren't clearing stations quickly enough with speed. 3. The "Hybrid" Build Items: Mafia Hat + Box + Rolling Pin

Provides a massive speed boost and the highest instant food chance for this rarity. Box +100% Walk Speed

Once you have your "best" Epic gear, you can salvage less useful gear (common, rare) into your top gear to level it up.

: Widely considered the best epic headgear because it offers +38% Instant Food and +90% Walk Speed .