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QUEST 100 · MEMBERS

Recipe for Disaster

The cook in Lumbridge has a surprisingly small number of ingredients on hand in his kitchen, possibly as a result of an endless stream of newcomers with light fingers, taking anything that isn't nailed down from his kitchen. Luckily, in the past, a kind Cook's Assistant was willing to help him in his culinary duties, but a problem has now appeared that could spell... a Recipe For Disaster! Almost all members may attempt to solve his tricky predicament, and be rewarded accordingly, but only the v

Difficulty
Special
Length
Very Long
Quest points
10
Released
15 March 2006
START POINT

Talk to the Cook in the kitchen of Lumbridge Castle.

BEFORE YOU LEAVE THE BANK

Preparation

Requirements are gates. Recommendations are comfort and risk controls, not mandatory levels unless the game enforces them.

Requirements

  • 10 Cooking (boostable)
  • Completion of Cook's Assistant
  • All prerequisite quest requirements
  • 175 Quest (9 are earned for the other parts of the quest, and 79 are gained by completing all required quests)
  • 70 Cooking (boostable)
  • 48 Agility
  • 50 Mining (boostable)
  • 53 Fishing (boostable)
  • 53 Thieving
  • 25 Herblore (boostable)
  • 59 Magic (boostable)
  • 40 Smithing (boostable)
  • 50 Firemaking (boostable)
  • 40 Ranged
  • 40 Crafting (boostable)
  • 10 Fletching (boostable)
  • 36 Woodcutting (boostable)
  • The ability to defeat high leveled monsters, several of which have to be defeated without using Prayer
  • Completion (or partial completion where stated) of the following quests:
  • Fishing Contest
  • Goblin Diplomacy
  • Big Chompy Bird Hunting
  • Murder Mystery
  • Nature Spirit
  • Priest in Peril
  • The Restless Ghost
  • Witch's House
  • Gertrude's Cat
  • Shadow of the Storm
  • Demon Slayer
  • The Golem
  • Started Legends' Quest up until gaining access to the Kharazi Jungle
  • Family Crest
  • Heroes' Quest
  • Shield of Arrav
  • Lost City
  • Merlin's Crystal
  • Dragon Slayer I
  • Shilo Village
  • Jungle Potion
  • Druidic Ritual
  • Underground Pass
  • Biohazard
  • Plague City
  • Monkey Madness I
  • The Grand Tree
  • Tree Gnome Village
  • Desert Treasure I
  • The Dig Site
  • The Tourist Trap
  • Temple of Ikov
  • Waterfall Quest
  • Troll Stronghold
  • Death Plateau
  • Horror from the Deep
  • Alfred Grimhand's Barcrawl

Items required

  • Eye of newt
  • Greenman's ale
  • Rotten tomato
  • Any fruit blast excluding a premade fr' blast
  • Ashes
  • About 320 coins (or 120 if you have the activated Ring of Charos)
  • Bowl of water (an empty bowl can be bought from the Culinaromancer's Chest)
  • Bucket of water (an empty bucket can be bought from the Culinaromancer's Chest)
  • 3 buckets of milk (can be bought from the Culinaromancer's Chest)
  • 2 eggs (can be bought from the Culinaromancer's Chest)
  • Orange
  • Banana (obtainable during the quest)
  • Any dye except red, yellow, or orange
  • Spice or gnome spice (can be bought from the Culinaromancer's Chest)
  • Gloves (ice gloves are preferred)
  • Charcoal
  • Fishing bait
  • Fishbowl
  • 2 bread
  • Pestle and mortar
  • Needle
  • 3 bronze wires
  • Cake tin (can be bought from the Culinaromancer's Chest)
  • 4 Asgarnian ale (6 recommended)
  • Any cat except an overgrown cat (you'll be chasing rats, so a wily cat is recommended)
  • Several bowls of stew (9 at most)
  • Raw chompy (several recommended in case of burning)
  • Raw chicken
  • Raw cod
  • Iron spit
  • Regular logs
  • Tinderbox
  • Ball of wool
  • Ogre bellows (obtainable during the quest)
  • Ogre bow and several ogre arrows (10 is enough)
  • 2 pots of flour (can be bought from the Culinaromancer's Chest)
  • Pot of cornflour (or raw sweetcorn and an empty pot)
  • Pot of cream (can be bought from the Culinaromancer's Chest)
  • Any axe
  • Any pickaxe
  • Any machete
  • Knife
  • Dramen staff and branch
  • M'speak amulet
  • Gorilla, ninja and zombie greegree (or 3000 coins and combat equipment if making the greegrees during the quest)
  • Monkey nuts (or 3 coins)
  • Rope

Recommended

No additional recommendations listed.

Enemies to defeat

  • Icefiend (level 13) (only if you lack ice gloves)
  • 5 Mudskippers (level 30/31)
  • Crab (level 21/23)
  • Evil Chicken (level varies) (see below)
  • Black dragon (level 227)
  • Big Snake (level 84)
  • Zombie monkey (levels 82/129)
  • Monkey guard (level 167)
  • Ninja monkey (level 86)
  • Agrith-Na-Na (Level 146)
  • Flambeed (level 149)
  • Karamel (level 136)
  • Dessourt (level 121)
  • Gelatinnoth Mother (level 130)
  • Culinaromancer (level 75)

ACTION CHECKLIST

Walkthrough

Nested rows are alternatives, dialogue selections, or substeps under the action above them. Recheck the pinned source after a game update.

Starting out

  1. 01

    Speak to the Lumbridge Cook. Dialogue: Do you have any other quests for me? → Angry! It makes me angry! → What seems to be the problem? → YES

  2. 02

    Speak to him again with items in inventory. Dialogue:

  3. 03

    Enter the door behind the Cook and watch the cutscene.

Subquests

  1. 01

    Inspect the dwarf.

  2. 02

    Go to the Rising Sun Inn in Falador and talk to Emily or Kaylee. Pay her (Ring of Charos(a) persuades her for free) to learn how to make Asgoldian ale. Dialogue: What can you tell me about dwarves and ale? → I could offer you some in return, how about 200 gold?

  3. 03

    Use coins on your Asgarnian ales.

  4. 04

    Go to the tunnel under White Wolf Mountain.

  5. 05

    Talk to "An old Dwarf" (Rohak) and give him Asgoldian ales until he agrees to make a dwarven rock cake.

  6. 06

    Talk to him 3 times and he will place a dwarven rock cake on the table. (His name will change to Rohak)

  7. 07

    If you have ice gloves, equip them and pick up the cake. Otherwise pick up the cake with regular gloves then kill an icefiend (at Ice Mountain) to cool the cake. If you forgot to use the ice gloves, you can drop the cake, equip your ice gloves, and pick the cake back up to cool it.

  8. 08

    Give the dwarven rock cake to the dwarf in Lumbridge.

  9. 09

    1 Quest Quest point

  10. 10

    1,000 Slayer Slayer experience

  11. 11

    1,000 Cooking Cooking experience

  12. 12

    (Further) access to the Culinaromancer's Chest.

  13. 13

    Inspect one of the goblin generals.

  14. 14

    Go to the Goblin Village and climb down the ladder in the north-east building.

  15. 15

    Talk to the Goblin Cook (Mudknuckles). Dialogue: I need your help... → What do you need? Maybe I cam get it for you., then talk to him again and give him the charcoal. Dialogue: I've got the charcoal you were after.

  16. 16

    Talk to the Goblin Cook again. Dialogue: I need your help...

  17. Slice an orange and add blue, green, or purple dye.

  18. Use spice on a fishing bait.

  19. Use a bucket of water on bread.

  20. 17

    Talk to the Goblin Cook again. Dialogue: I've got the ingredients we need...

  21. 18

    Give the slop of compromise to the generals in Lumbridge.

  22. 19

    1,000 Farming Farming experience

  23. 20

    1,000 Crafting Crafting experience

  24. 21

    Inspect Pirate Pete.

  25. 22

    Talk to the cook in the next room about protecting the pirate. Dialogue: Protecting the Pirate

  26. 23

    Go through all 5 chat options. Dialogue: Where do I get Ground Cod? → Where do I get Ground Kelp? → Where do I get Ground Giant Crab Meat?3 → Where do I get Breadcrumbs? → What do I do with all of it?

  27. 24

    Use your pestle and mortar on the raw cod.

  28. 25

    Use your knife on the bread and make breadcrumbs.

  29. 26

    Talk to Murphy in Port Khazard. Dialogue: Talk about Recipe for Disaster.

  30. 27

    Talk to Murphy again. Dialogue: Yes, Let's go diving.

  31. 28

    Equip your fishbowl helmet and diving apparatus, agree to go diving.Dialogue: Talk about Recipe for Disaster. → Yes, Let's go diving.

  32. 29

    Pick some kelp.

  33. 30

    Go north and talk to Nung.

  34. 31

    Go west and pick up 5 rocks, then enter the cave.

  35. 32

    Kill 5 mudskippers (level 30/31) for 5 hides.

  36. 33

    Talk to Nung twice.

  37. 34

    Enter the crab pen, kill at least one crab and take its meat (acquire multiple in case the fishcake is burnt).

  38. 35

    Use your pestle and mortar to grind the kelp and crab meat.

  39. 36

    Talk to the Cook in Lumbridge about freeing the pirate again. Dialogue: Protecting the Pirate

  40. 37

    Use the ingredients (ground cod, breadcrumbs, ground kelp and ground crab meat) on each other then cook the fishcake.

  41. 38

    Give the fishcake to Pirate Pete in Lumbridge.

  42. 39

    1,000 Fishing Fishing experience

  43. 40

    1,000 Smithing Smithing experience

  44. 41

    The ability to go diving and fight crabs (you need your diving apparatus)

  45. 42

    The ability to cook crab meat (heals 10 hitpoints in 5 bites)

  46. 43

    The ability to kill crabs to get their shells and claws, which can be made into a helmet and gloves with a chisel

  47. 44

    (Further) access to the Culinaromancer's Chest

  48. 45

    Inspect the Lumbridge Guide. Dialogue: Yes, I'm sure I can make a cake.

  49. 46

    Talk to Wizard Traiborn on the first floor of the Wizards' Tower. Dialogue: Ask about helping the Lumbridge Guide.

  50. 47

    Talk to him again to enchant the egg by identifying 3 mystery NPCs. Dialogue: Ask about helping the Lumbridge Guide. → Ok. Let's start!

  51. Man with ponytail and book - Reldo

  52. Ghostly green woman - Velorina

  53. Man with desert robes and white beard - Ali Morrisane

  54. Elf - Islwyn

  55. Man with purple shirt - Unferth

  56. Man with brown vest - Professor Gronigen

  57. Woman with pink top - Gertrude

  58. Woman (green witch) - Hetty

  59. Man (hooded) - Pirate Pete

  60. Man with a crown - King Lathas

  61. 48

    Talk to him again to enchant the milk by answering trivia. Dialogue: Ask about helping the Lumbridge Guide. → Ok. I'm ready!

  62. Defence requirements to wear a Mystic hat - 20

  63. Ingredients in a cake - Flour, egg, milk

  64. Combat level of Goblins near Lumbridge - 2

  65. GP to bribe an Al Kharid gate guard - 10

  66. What doesn't lie between Morytania and Asgarnia - Keep Le Faye

  67. Gold ring is to 5 as a holy symbol is to - 16

  68. Glass vial is to 33 as a glass orb is to - 46

  69. Guild closest to Fishing Platform - Legends'

  70. Bar west of Pollnivneach - Bandit Camp

  71. The River Salve runs from - North to south

  72. I can hear howling in one direction and buzzing in the other—where am I? - Catherby

  73. If I'm going to need glass, first I will need - Sand, bucket, soda ash, glassblowing pipe

  74. Which tower is closest to the Crafting Guild - Dark Wizards' Tower

  75. Take the number of fire runes required to cast Fire Strike, and multiply by the number of air runes used to cast Wind Strike before adding the number of earth runes used to cast Earth Wave - 10

  76. 49

    Talk to him a third time to enchant the flour with a memory test. Dialogue: Ask about helping the Lumbridge Guide. → Quiz me!

  77. 50

    Take a screenshot of the items and then close the interface via the X button to answer the questions.

  78. 51

    Do not use the ESC key to close the interface as it will reset that portion of the test!

  79. Which item began with the letter 'm'? - Mind Talisman

  80. Which of the following items were NOT shown to you? - Trout

  81. How many weapons were you shown? - Three (Maple Longbow, Magic Shortbow and Black Longsword)

  82. How many types of rune were there? - Two (Fire Rune and Chaos Rune)

  83. Which items were amongst those you were shown? - Book of Balance (noted as Guthix Prayer Book,) Magic Logs, Pike

  84. 52

    Use one of the ingredients on the cake tin, then cook the raw cake.

  85. 53

    Give the cake of guidance to the Lumbridge guide.

  86. 54

    2,500 Cooking Cooking experience

  87. 55

    2,500 Magic Magic experience

  88. 56

    Inspect Evil Dave

  89. 57

    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!

  90. 58

    Talk to Doris upstairs.

  91. 59

    Use your cat to catch hell-rats (right-click chase on your cat). Using a fully grown cat is much more efficient, but using a kitten still works.

  92. 60

    Collect spices from hell-rats. There are 4 spices to collect: yellow, orange, red, brown. Collect at least 3 doses of each.

  93. 61

    Now find the perfectly spiced stew with the right quantity of all 4 colours of spice.

  94. Figure it out one colour at a time by adding different quantities of a colour and giving the stew to Evil Dave. When he says "...I think you've got the amount of one spice right..." you know the correct dose for that spice (be sure to finish the dialogue with Dave, otherwise you will not be able to give him the stew in Lumbridge).

  95. Start by adding 1 dose of a colour to a stew, and if that isn't right add 2 doses of that colour to a stew; if 1 or 2 doses are not right, you know 3 doses is the correct dose for that colour.

  96. 62

    Give Evil Dave the completed stew, then give him that spicy stew in Lumbridge.

  97. 63

    7,000 Cooking Cooking experience

  98. 64

    The ability to catch hellrats to get a Hellcat

  99. 65

    The ability to have your cat fight Hell-Rat Behemoths

  100. 66

    The ability to add coloured spices to stew by catching hellrats (Spicy stews can boost and lower certain stats)

  101. 67

    Inspect Skrach Uglogwee. Dialogue: Yes, I'm sure I can get some Jubbly Chompy. → Oh Ok then, I guess I'll talk to Rantz.

  102. 68

    Talk to Rantz Dialogue: I'm trying to free Skrach, can you help? → Ok, I'll do it.. (You can use the fairy ring code AKS and run east)

  103. 69

    Go south-east and talk to Rantz by the coast. Dialogue: Ok, here I am...I guess this is the watery place? What now?

  104. 70

    Use your woodcutting axe on the fallen tree twice.

  105. 71

    Talk to him again. Dialogue: Ok, the boat's ready, now tell me how to get a Jubbly?

  106. 72

    Get some raw chompies if needed.

  107. 73

    Go to Karamja and find the tree with an arrow in it (small tree on the coast, just south of transportation icon west of Tai Bwo Wannai).

  108. You can use the fairy ring code CKR and run north along the coast to the west to find it

  109. 74

    Light a fire next to the tree, use your iron spit on a raw chompy, then cook it.

  110. 75

    Board the ogre boat. Dialogue:

  111. 76

    Talk to Rantz south-east near the coast. Dialogue: Ok, now tell me how to get Jubbly!

  112. 77

    Collect a bloated toad from the nearby swamp.

  113. 78

    Make sure your ogre bellow has at least 1 charge remaining

  114. 79

    Get a rock from the mine by Rantz' cave.

  115. 80

    With the rock and ball of wool in your inventory, use the ogre bellows on the bloated toad for a balloon toad.

  116. 81

    Drop the balloon toad and kill the Jubbly with ogre arrows. You may have to attempt multiple times.

  117. 82

    Cook the Jubbly on Rantz's spit-roast.

  118. 83

    Give the Cooked jubbly to Skrach Uglogwee in Lumbridge.

  119. 84

    1,500 Woodcutting Woodcutting experience

  120. 85

    1,500 Cooking Cooking experience

  121. 86

    1,500 Crafting Crafting experience

  122. 87

    1,500 Ranged Ranged experience

  123. 88

    The ability to use the boat trip to travel between Karamja and the Feldip Hills (you must pay a fee of chompies or exotic herbs)

  124. 89

    Inspect Sir Amik.

  125. 90

    Ask the cook how you helped Sir Amik Varze. Dialogue: More... → More... → Protecting Sir Amik Varze

  126. 91

    Use milk on cream.

  127. 92

    If you need a pot of cornflour, grind raw sweetcorn in a windmill and fill a pot with it.

  128. 93

    Add the pot of cornflour to the milky mixture.

  129. 94

    Pick a vanilla pod in the Kharazi Jungle (SW of the pool used in Legends' Quest), add it to the cornflour mixture.

  130. 95

    Talk to the Wise Old Man in Draynor, ask about strange beasts, then the Evil Chicken. Dialogue: I'd just like to ask you something. → Strange beasts → The Evil Chicken Make sure you finish the dialogue or you will not be able to proceed.

  131. 96

    Use a raw chicken on the Evil Chicken shrine in northern Zanaris (where you arrive from the swamp.)

  132. 97

    Run north past the dragons and kill the Evil Chicken, pick up its egg and add it to the brulee.

  133. 98

    Kill a black dragon, there is a safespot to the east, pick up the dragon token.

  134. 99

    Grind a dramen branch with a pestle and mortar to make cinnamon, add it to the brulee.

  135. 100

    Return to Zanaris through the southern portal.

  136. 101

    Equip ice gloves then rub the token. Dialogue: Please flambe this creme brulee for me.

  137. 102

    Give the Brulee supreme to Sir Amik in Lumbridge.

  138. 103

    4,000 Cooking Cooking experience

  139. 104

    4,000 Hitpoints Hitpoints experience

  140. 105

    Access to the Evil Chicken's Lair, where you can fight black dragons (The fowl beast himself has moved on to other things.)

  141. 106

    Inspect Awowogei.

  142. 107

    Travel to Ape Atoll, equip a monkey greegree and M'speak amulet.

  143. 108

    Talk to Awowogei south of the temple.

  144. 109

    If you need a banana and monkey nuts, buy them from the food store now.

  145. 110

    Talk to any of the 3 monkeys in the north-west corner of the temple. Dialogue: Do you know anything about the King's favourite dish?

  146. 111

    Use your Banana and Monkey nuts on any of them. (Ensure you use both your Banana and Monkey nuts on them or else the Tchiki nuts will not appear on the bush.)

  147. 112

    If you already have a gorilla, ninja, and zombie monkey greegree then skip this part.

  148. Buy 3 blank monkey talismans from the rune store.

  149. Kill a monkey archer in the market and take its bones. (Protect from Missiles)

  150. Kill a Monkey Guard in the temple and take its bones.

  151. Kill a zombie monkey under the temple and take its bones.

  152. Bring the bones and talismans to Zooknock at the end of the Ape Atoll Dungeon.

  153. 113

    Note: You should take at least 3 snake corpses, red bananas, and tchiki nuts in case you burn the stuffed snake (use the drop trick for the nuts and the banana).

  154. 114

    Travel to Crash Island and climb down the pit. Kill some level 84 big snakes for their corpses. (Recommended to pray melee before descending into the pit)

  155. 115

    Return to Ape Atoll and find the red banana tree north-west of the big gate (by the shore).

  156. 116

    Equip your gorilla greegree and use a rope on the tree to get some red bananas.

  157. 117

    Equip your ninja greegree and enter the Ape Atoll agility course.

  158. 118

    After swinging the rope, enter the hole and pick some tchiki nuts.

  159. 119

    Grind the tchiki nuts, slice the red banana, and add them to the snake corpses.

  160. 120

    Equip your zombie greegree and enter the temple dungeon.

  161. 121

    Go down one of the ramps and enter the crack in the wall between the two ramps.

  162. 122

    Lay your stuffed snake on the rock to cook it (requires 70 cooking).

  163. 123

    Give the cooked stuffed snake to Awowogei in Lumbridge.

  164. 124

    10,000 Cooking Cooking experience

  165. 125

    10,000 Agility Agility experience

  166. 126

    Ape Atoll Teleport spell

The final battles

  1. 01

    You will need 175 Quest Points and complete Desert Treasure I and Horror from the Deep before entering the portal.

  2. 02

    Remember, you can bank between every kill. Enter the portal and defeat without prayers:

  3. Agrith-Na-Na – Range or melee it, wear dragonhide.

  4. Flambeed – Mage him with water spells + snare. He can unequip your weapon, unless you are wearing ice gloves.

  5. Karamel – Run into melee distance and use fire spells. Ranged and melee work as well, but are less accurate. She will lower your stats frequently. Bring at least 2 restore potions. If going melee, use super combat potions

  6. Dessourt – Mage (air spells or Iban blast) or range him. Snare will help.

  7. Gelatinnoth Mother – Bring runes for all 4 elemental spells, a melee weapon, and a ranged weapon. Aim for high range defence without sacrificing too much magic attack.

  8. Culinaromancer – Attack with whatever you can hit hardest with. Most of his damage comes from a magic attack that hits at a flat 1-in-3 rate, so your magic defence is irrelevant.

  9. 03

    Congratulations, quest complete!

QUEST COMPLETE

Rewards

  • An antique lamp, which grants 20,000 experience to any skill above 50 (can be banked for later use)
  • Access to the following areas:
  • Mogre Camp
  • Evil Chicken's Lair
  • Ability to dive for crabs
  • Ability to cook crab meat
  • Ability to catch hell-rats
  • Ability to own a hellcat
  • Ability to add coloured spices to stews of any sort
  • Ability to use the boat trip to travel between Karamja and Feldip Hills
  • Ape Atoll Teleport spell
  • Full access to Culinaromancer's Chest
  • Access to Kitchen weaponry
  • Access to the banking chest (under Lumbridge Castle)
  • Access to a food store in the Culinaromancer's Chest
  • Access to buy Barrows gloves
  • Evil Chicken accessible in the Nightmare Zone on completion of Recipe for Disaster - Freeing Sir Amik Varze subquest.
  • Agrith-Na-Na, Flambeed, Karamel, Dessourt, Gelatinnoth Mother, Culinaromancer accessible in the Nightmare Zone after quest completion.

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