Recipe for Disaster/Freeing Evil Dave/Quick guide

This quest has an [[{{#replace:Recipe for Disaster/Freeing Evil Dave/Quick guide|/Quick guide}}|in-depth guide]].

It contains a more detailed description of dialogue, cutscenes, and storyline.

For the main quest guide, see Recipe for Disaster.

Details

Start point	Inspect Evil Dave in the Lumbridge Castle Dining Room.
Official difficulty	Special
Official length	Medium
Description	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...
Requirements	25 Cooking (boostable) (not required to start) 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
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	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
League notes	Desert✓ — location requirement Kandarin✓ OR Morytania✓ — location requirement

Walkthrough

Items required: a cat or wily cat and several bowls of stew (9 at most).

• Inspect Evil Dave
• Talk to Doris (House west of Edgeville bank). ( 1•1)…

  1	Is Dave in?
  1	Yes, I'm evil!

• Talk to Evil Dave in Edgeville (Down the trapdoor). ( 3•4)…

  3	What did you eat at the secret council meeting?
  4	You've got to tell me because the magic requires it!

• Talk to Doris upstairs.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Congratulations, section complete!

Rewards

• 1 Quest point
• 7,000 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