Recipe for Disaster
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Recipe for Disaster (also known as Rfd and Rd) is the 100th quest released by Jagex composed of 10 subquests. The subquests range in difficulty from easy to very hard. Jagex had wanted it to be a quest where nearly any member can start it, but only the best players will be able to complete the quest.
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[edit] Details
| Official quest description: The cook in Lumbridge has a surprisingly small number of ingredients to 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 very elite of Questers will be able to put an end to his problem permanently! |
| Release date: 15 March 2006 |
| Start: Speak to the cook in Lumbridge Castle |
| Difficulty: ***** |
| Length: Extremely Long |
| Members only: Yes |
Requirements:
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| Items needed: See below |
| Monsters to kill: None |
Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.
[edit] Subquest 1: Another Cook
| Official quest description: The cook in Lumbridge has a surprisingly small number of ingredients to 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 now a problem has 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 very elite of Questers will be able to put an end to his problem permanently! |
| Release date: 15 March 2006 |
| Start: The Cook in Lumbridge Castle's kitchen. |
| Difficulty: ***** |
| Length: Short |
| Members only: Yes |
Requirements: Level 10  , completed Cook's Assistant
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| Items needed: Eye of newt, Greenman's ale, Rotten tomato, Knife, Ashes, Cocktail shaker, Cocktail glass, 2 Lemons, 1 Pineapple, 1 Orange |
| Monsters to kill: None |
Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.
[edit] Walkthrough
The Lumbridge Cook.
- The Cook is preparing for the centennial feast in Lumbridge. He is going to cook using a recipe that was created by his ancestor Franizzard Van Lumbcook a hundred years ago and handed down to him by his forefathers. However, he needs your help gathering the ingredients.
- The Cook tells you that he needs a newt's eye, a Greenman's ale, a rotten tomato, and a Dirty blast.
- When asked how to make a Dirty blast, he tells you to add ashes to a Fruit blast that you make yourself. (Alternatively, the Fruit blast given by Curator Haig Halen for completing the Digsite Quest will work.)
- The Cook also gives you 100 coins to buy everything and allows you to keep the change.
- Buy an Eye of Newt from any Herblore shop.
- Greenman's ale is sold in Yanille.
- A Rotten tomato can be bought at the Duel Arena, at the Yanille pillory, at the Seers Village pillory, or at the Varrock pillory (select "buy from" option).
- Make a Fruit blast. (If you bought ingredients at the Gnome Stronghold's Grand Tree, you can make the blast there. Otherwise, you can make it when you return to the Cook.) (Note: Buying a premade Fruit blast will not work for the quest: It needs to be "fresh").
- Add the ashes to make a Dirty blast.
- Once you have all four items, give them to the Cook.
Congratulations! Subquest 1 of 10 complete.
[edit] Rewards
- 1 Quest point
- An invitation to the feast
- The ability to start 8 new subquests
[edit] Subquests 2 to 9
[edit] The Secret Council
- Enter the doors to the dining room to observe the feast.
- You will see members of the Lumbridge Secret Council seated at the table:
- A Mountain dwarf from White Wolf Mountain
- Osman from Al-Kharid
- Gypsy Aris from Varrock (Aris is late to the feast and does not arrive till after the player enters the room)
- General Wartface and General Bentnoze from Goblin Village
- Pirate Pete from Morytania
- Phineas, the Lumbridge Guide
- Evil Dave from Edgeville
- Skrach Uglogwee from the Feldip Hills
- Sir Amik Varze from Falador
- Awowogei from Ape Atoll
- Duke Horacio
[edit] The Council frozen in time
- A cutscene ensues, where the Duke will get a visit from the Mysterious Old Man and will leave the room to deal with it. Osman will then get taken away by Evil Bob.
- At this point, you enter the room. A short while later, the Culinaromancer crashes the party and starts to attack everyone at the dining table with magic spells.
- Luckily, the Gypsy from Varrock (who arrives late to the banquet) enters the room and casts a spell to freeze everyone in time (except you and her). (Although the banquet attendees and the Culinaromancer are frozen, you will be able to enter and exit the dining room at will.) You learn the Culinaromancer was a cook in Lumbridge a hundred years ago.
- To protect each member of the council from the Culinaromancer's spell, you must feed each of them their favourite food. After you give each member his favorite dish, Gypsy teleports him away to safety and tells you how many more council members are left to protect. The Gypsy and Cook will both be there to help you.
- You can complete these subquests in any order and start as many of them at a time as you want. Each subquest gives 1 Quest point and opens up further access to the Culinaromancer's Chest. In addition to this, there are additional experience rewarded depending the subquest.
[edit] Freeing the Council members
There are nine council members you must save from the Culinaromancer:
[edit] Subquest 10: Killing the Culinaromancer
- After you have freed all the council members, you will see a cutscene, where Gypsy Aris restarts time by saying "Tempus procedit!" The Culinaromancer will then retreat through the portal. Gypsy says you too must go through the portal to finish him off.
Image Name Requirements Items needed 
Defeating the Culinaromancer - 176 Quest points
- Completed all subquests listed above
- Completed Desert Treasure
- Completed Horror from the Deep
- Ability to fight very tough, high-levelled enemies with no prayer. (You don't have to beat all of them in one go; you can make several trips if you wish.)
[edit] Rewards
- 1 Quest point
- An experience lamp, which gives 20,000 experience to any skill above 50
- Full access to the Culinaromancer's Chest
Congratulations! Entire quest complete.
[edit] Full rewards (for all 10 subquests)
If you have fully completed all 10 subquests for "Recipe for Disaster", you will have got the following:
- 10 Quest points
- Experience
- 28,000
- 1,000
- 2,500
- 1,000
- 1,000
- 1,000
- 2,500
- 1,500
- 1,500
- 4,000
- 10,000
- 20,000 experience points for any skill above 50 (can be banked)
- 28,000
- Access to the following areas:
- Ability to dive for crabs
- Ability to cook crab meat
- Ability to catch hellrats
- 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 the metal gloves such as Dragon gloves, plus Barrows Gloves
- Access to Kitchen weaponry
- Access to the banking chest
- Access to a food store in the Culinaromancer's Chest
[edit] Music
Music tracks unlocked during this quest:
- Chef Surprize - during Defeating the Culinaromancer (the dining room in Lumbridge castle).
- Chickened Out - during Freeing Sir Amik Varze (the Evil Chicken's Lair).
- Davy Jones' Locker - during Freeing Pirate Pete.
- Mastermindless - during Freeing the Lumbridge Guide
- Too Many Cooks - during Freeing the Goblin generals.
[edit] Trivia
A player making the Futurama reference.
- Many parts of the quest reference the number 100 since this was the 100th quest that RuneScape released.
- 'A few beers later' is a pun on 'A few years later' (This phrase was later changed to 'Several beers later')
- When informed, (By Gypsy Aris), that the universe could be destroyed, the player exclaims, "Not the whole universe! That's where I keep my stuff!" This is a reference to the animated comedy series Futurama.
- The 3 monkeys during Awowogei's part is a reference to the 3 Wise Monkeys, who can see no evil, hear no evil, and speak no evil.
- Kamil shouts "Sallamakar-Ro" when he casts spells. Karamel, on the other hand, shouts "Semolina-Go".
- Before the release of Grim Tales, this quest had the highest requirement, with 70 Cooking.
- The names of the final bosses are a play on words of some foods and certain quest bosses:
- Agrith-Na-Na and banana/Agrith Naar
- Flambeed and flambé/Fareed
- Karamel and caramel/Kamil
- Dessourt and dessert/Dessous
- Gelatinnoth Mother and gelatin/Dagannoth Mother
- Evil Dave still lives with his mother in the basement. This may be a joke on the secret hideouts of many villains.
- The quest point requirement used to be only 175. It was increased to 176 after the Learning the Ropes tutorial update, which gave an extra quest point upon completion.
- If you examine Mudknuckles while he is on the wall, it says "Half way up the wall is maybe not a naturally tenable position for a goblin."
- The cook, after telling you about defeating the Culinaromancer, says, "Did you ever know that you're my hero?" This is a reference to Bette Midler's "Wind beneath my Wings".
- During the quest if you ask the cook for help, he will say that you already saved the people. This is because in his current time outside of the frozen dining room you have saved them, and therefore asking how you saved someone you already saved would cause a time paradox, as the gypsy informs you.
- The song Chef Surprize was available to people who did not start the quest after a glitch involving the Pest Control Update. This glitch was later fixed.
- When you attempt to release Pirate Pete, the gypsy exclaims "Wait a moment, my gypsy-sense is tingling..." This is a reference to Spiderman.
- The bank in the castle cellar which is unlocked after the quest can not be used to collect items from the Grand Exchange and returned items box.
- When asking the Lumbridge Cook for help on a section of the quest you didn't start yet, the gypsy will stop you, saying that it will make a time paradox if they don't talk to her about it first
- It has always been possible for players with 1 defence to complete the sub-quests up until they have Mithril Gloves. However, a recent change to the quest Monkey Madness means that players with 1 defence can now return to Ape Atoll. This subsequently allows those players to complete the sub-quest Freeing King Awowogei and obtain up to Adamant Gloves, providing they have 48 Agility and 70 Cooking.
- The name of the quest, "Recipe for Disaster," is an idiom meaning a mixture of people and events that could only possibly result in trouble.
- Players can unlock the track 'Too Many Cooks' before it is time to save Mudknuckles by climbing down the ladder and walking towards the Goblin Cook in Goblin Village.
- Mudknuckles said, when Freeing the Goblin generals, "I think ill call it 'fast food' because how fast it goes from raw to burnt!" This probably a joke that jagex made saying how fast food restaurants got their name and how mediocre they are when they cook the food.
[edit] References
- RuneScape Game Guide - Quests - Recipe for Disaster
