Requirements
- Completion of the following quests:
- Gertrude's Cat
- Recipe for Disaster/Another Cook's Quest
- Cook's Assistant
- Shadow of the Storm
- Demon Slayer
- The Golem
RECIPE FOR DISASTER SUBGUIDE · MEMBERS
Freeing Evil Dave
Evil Dave needs some kind of spicy stew. You will need Evil Dave's help for this one. He lives in his mother's basement...
- Difficulty
- Special
- Length
- Medium
- Quest points
- 1
- Released
- 15 March 2006
Inspect Evil Dave in the Lumbridge Castle dining room.
BEFORE YOU LEAVE THE BANK
Preparation
Requirements are gates. Recommendations are comfort and risk controls, not mandatory levels unless the game enforces them.
Items required
- Any cat except an overgrown cat (note that each cat has a different effective rat catch rate -- kittens or lazy cats are not recommended)
- Several bowls of stew (9 at most)
Recommended
- 25 Cooking (boostable)
- Fast travel to Lumbridge (Lumbridge teleport)
- Fast travel to Edgeville (amulet of glory, Fairy Rings to DKR, ring of wealth to the Grand Exchange or a Varrock teleport)
- Fish if using a kitten to catch rats, or if you want to battle hell-rat behemoths after the quest (buckets of milk can also substitute for hell-rat behemoth fights)
Enemies to defeat
None listed.
ACTION CHECKLIST
Walkthrough
Nested rows are alternatives, dialogue selections, or substeps under the action above them. Recheck the pinned source after a game update.
Walkthrough
- 01
Inspect Evil Dave
- 02
Talk to Doris (House west of Edgeville bank). Dialogue: Is Dave in? → Yes, I'm evil!
- 03
Talk to Evil Dave in Edgeville (Down the trapdoor). Dialogue: What did you eat at the secret council meeting? → You've got to tell me because the magic requires it!
- 04
Talk to Doris upstairs.
- 05
Use your cat to catch hell-rats. (Right-click chase). Using a fully grown cat is much more efficient, but using a kitten still works.
- 06
Collect spices from hell-rats there are 4 spices to collect: yellow, orange, red, brown. You only need a maximum of 6 doses of each colour.
- ↳
The spicy stew required to free Evil Dave consists of all 4 different colour spices, 1-3 dose(s) of spice of each colour need to be added to the stew.
- ↳
Add 1 dose of one colour and give it to Evil Dave. If he says "Hmm... I think you've got the amount of one spice right, but the others are wrong" then make a note that it is 1 dose of that colour.
- ↳
If he doesn't say this then try again with 2 doses of the same colour, if he says "Hmm... I think you've got the amount of one spice right, but the others are wrong" then make a note that it is 2 doses of that colour. If he doesn't say this then make a note that it is 3 doses of that colour.
- ↳
Repeat this process with the other 3 colours.
- 07
When you have made a note of the amount of the 4 colours individually, add these amounts to the same stew and give it to Evil Dave (he will not consume it), then give him the spicy stew in Lumbridge.
- 08
Congratulations, section complete!
QUEST COMPLETE
Rewards
- 7,000 Cooking Cooking experience
- The ability to catch hellrats to get a Hellcat
- The ability to have your cat fight Hell-Rat Behemoths
- The ability to add coloured spices to stew by catching hellrats (Spicy stews can boost and lower certain stats)
- Further access to the Culinaromancer's Chest
REVISION-PINNED EVIDENCE
Verify the guide after updates.
Facts and walkthrough actions are adapted from Old School RuneScape Wiki contributors under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. This page is fan-made and not affiliated with Jagex.
- Recipe for Disaster/Freeing Evil Dave ↗full guide · revision 15294908
- Recipe for Disaster/Freeing Evil Dave/Quick guide ↗quick guide · revision 14892804