Pets

In Cooking in the Rain, Pets are used as a way to obtain cooking ingredients, or to give small buffs (only if its a gourmet or premium pet). When you make a pet, it will appear in the pet menu, which from there you can send out for ingredients. While it may seem like a good option, pets tend to be a very unreliable source of ingredients, though this may change when levelling up is available.

Basic Pets
As said above, pets are used as a way to get ingredients without having to physically look for them. Pets can be sent out by Foraging. They will always retrun with any of the materials they can get.

Pets only Give One Ingredient Per Forage, making them rather useless until levelling is added. It is considered to save your coins rather then spending it on a pet.

Gourmet Pets
Gourmet Pets were added on 5/25/21 as a secondary pet form. They function the same as basic pets, except they also give, 5slight buffs to the character, such as higher cooking speed and higher jump. All gourmet pets require Gems, rather then coins.