Culinaromancer's Chest

Release date	15 March 2006 (Update)
Members only?	Yes
Minimap icon	No
Location	Lumbridge Castle basement
Owner	No
Specialty	Cooking supplies Culinaromancer's gloves Kitchen weaponry

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The Culinaromancer's Chest is a special chest accessible to members during and after the Recipe for Disaster quest. It is located in Lumbridge Castle's cellar but is invisible until the player reaches the point in Recipe for Disaster where Gypsy Aris stops time, spawning multiple sub-quests. It has a bank, a food store that sells items for the Cooking skill, and a combat item store. The combat store sells metal gloves that act as armour and give offensive bonuses and Kitchen weaponry utensils, which act as analogues to increasingly powerful weapons.

As the player progresses through the quest, greater access to the chest is granted, with more items of food, better gloves, and more powerful utensils available for purchase.

This is a members-only chest from a members-only quest. It cannot be used on a free-to-play world, even by a member, though it can be seen in those worlds.

StoreEdit

Food store Edit

	Item	Number in Stock	Price sold at	Price bought at	GE Price	GE Resell Value
	Chocolate bar	300	20	6	155	40,500
	Tomato	10	14	4	40	260
	Grapes	5	1	1	1,325	6,620
	Pizza base	1	4	1	123	119
	Bucket of milk	10	12	4	111	990
	Pat of butter	10	4	1	125	1,210
	Pie dish	10	3	1	244	2,410
	Bowl	10	4	1	109	1,050
	Empty pot	10	1	1	5	40
	Bucket	10	2	1	31	290
	Cheese	10	8	2	70	620
	Cooking apple	50	36	12	279	12,150
	Pot of flour	100	14	4	106	9,200
	Egg	10	4	1	41	370
	Pot of cream	10	19	6	35	160
	Spice	10	230	76	1,011	7,810
	Cake tin	10	10	3	51	410
	Jug	10	1	1	146	1,450
	Empty cup	10	2	1	10	80

There are limits on the number of each item, and those limits rise as the player completes more phases of the Recipe for Disaster quest. Many stock items are limited to 10 items with completion of the full quest, but some are limited to slightly less or much more.

Items purchased from the store respawn over time until their limit is reached. The respawn time seems to be one of each item per minute for most items. However, some are slower: pizza base and spice respawn once every 5 minutes, grapes once every 6 minutes, chocolate bars once every 6 minutes 51 seconds, and flour once every 20 minutes 33 seconds.

On 9 September 2009 the maximum stock of cooking apples was raised from 10 to the original amount of 50. All other quantities remained unchanged.

Items store Edit

	Item	Number in Stock	Price sold at	Price bought at	GE Price	GE Resell Value
	Culinaromancer's gloves 1	10	50		Not sold	Not sold
	Culinaromancer's gloves 2	10	100		Not sold	Not sold
	Culinaromancer's gloves 3	10	250		Not sold	Not sold
	Culinaromancer's gloves 4	10	500		Not sold	Not sold
	Culinaromancer's gloves 5	10	1,000		Not sold	Not sold
	Culinaromancer's gloves 6	10	1,500		Not sold	Not sold
	Culinaromancer's gloves 7	10	2,500		Not sold	Not sold
	Culinaromancer's gloves 8	10	5,000		Not sold	Not sold
	Culinaromancer's gloves 9	10	100,000		Not sold	Not sold
	Culinaromancer's gloves 10	10	100,000		Not sold	Not sold
	Wooden spoon	10	35	o	56	210
	Egg whisk	10	35		10	-250
	Spork	10	325		229	-960
	Spatula	10	1,920		1,023	-8,970
	Frying pan	10	1,660		881	-7,790
	Skewer	10	3,200		1,794	-14,060
	Rolling pin	10	14,000		8,483	-55,170
	Kitchen knife	10	8,000		4,739	-32,610
	Meat tenderiser	10	41,000		24,547	-164,530
	Cleaver	10	25,000		15,196	-98,040

Metal gloves usable as armour can be bought from the chest. These gloves resemble the normal metal classes (bronze through dragon) plus basic gloves and barrows gloves. The barrows gloves appear exactly like barrows equipment but do not have to be repaired like the gear. All ten types/colours of these are called "Culinaromancer's gloves" in-game and have the requirements of their armour type as well as a certain amount of progress in the Recipe for Disaster quest.

Basic gloves are available after the first subquest is completed. The metal gloves are revealed one at a time as each member of the secret council is rescued. Finally, the Barrows gloves are unlocked by players who have fully completed the Recipe for Disaster final fight. The gloves bought from this store cannot be traded.

The gauntlets that can be received as rewards from the Fist of Guthix minigame of equivalent metal have different stats. Gauntlets are classified as melee armour, therefore they give better protection versus ranged attacks and worse protection versus magic. Culinaromoncer's gloves give balanced protection versus all three combat styles. Gauntlets and gloves of the same tier give the same life bonus, but their armour ratings vary.

For example, black gauntlets have a +75 life bonus and 12 armour rating. Black gloves from the Culinaromancer's chest also have a +75 life bonus, but give only 10 armour rating. On the other hand, Rune gauntlets give 25 armour rating, whereas rune gloves give 35, so neither consistently out-performs the other across all tiers.

There is also a selection of kitchen weaponry, each of which have combat statistics equivalent from bronze to rune weapons. These are generally only used for show and jokes, but they are quite usable as weapons. Unlike the gloves, kitchen weaponry can be traded.

On 31st January 2012 the gloves were renamed to be "Culinaromancer's gloves" and a number was placed after the name starting at 1, with basic gloves, to 10 with barrows gloves, as opposed to "Gloves."

See also Edit

• Calculators/Culinaromancer's chest calculator - due to the changing prices as supply decreases, this may not be entirely accurate.