The Culinary Crucible: Raising the Steaks

This article is about an event from the English server for Twisted Wonderland. For the Japanese server's version of this event, see here.

"The Culinary Crucible: Raising the Steaks" is a Culinary Crucible Event in Twisted Wonderland that features Riddle Rosehearts and Silver. It is the first cooking event in the game, requiring players to send their cards out to gather ingredients for a fixed time so that they can cook various dishes. The story consists of a prologue and epilogue which briefly explore Riddle and Silver's experiences in the cooking elective class which teaches students how to cook.

As the event's name implies, all of the dishes featured in this event use meat as an ingredient. Each dish, high score, Skill and recipe can be viewed in the Album, under the Culinary Crucible tab.

Associated Summoning Event: The Culinary Crucible Limited-Time (Riddle & Silver)

Associated Story: Bliss of Meat Story

Event Period

March 10, 2022 2:00 PT to March 21, 2022 23:59 PT

How to Play

1. Gather ingredients
2. Cook a dish
3. Based on the points earned for each dish, you will earn Culinary Crucible Tokens
4. Use the medals to exchange for Riddle and Silver, and unlock the epilogue for the story
5. Trade Culinary Crucible Tokens for items in the Culinary Crucible Token Shop (closes March 28, 2022 22:59 PT)

Trial Ingredients

• The required ingredients of Cabbage Rolls are given to get you started:
  • Meat
  • Cabbage
  • Onion

Note: The ingredients above are sent directly to your account.

Gathering

• Select the location you would like to go to for an excursion.
• You can get different kinds of ingredients based on the location you select.
• The longer you spend on an excursion, the more ingredients you'll get.
  • Please note that you must have either Riddle or Silver cards to start the excursion.
  • R Riddle (School Uniform) and R Silver (School Uniform) are also available in Card Shop (Thaumarks).

• The following cards will grant a bonus to the number of ingredients you earn from excursion.
  • SR Riddle (Apprentice Chef)
  • SR Silver (Apprentice Chef)

• Ingredients can come in 3 grades: Low, Medium and High

• 

  Low

• 

  Medium

• 

  High

Location	Ingredients Available
Farm	Meat
Botanical Garden - Subtropical Zone	Cabbage Onion Potato
Botanical Garden	Carrot Tomato Garlic
School Store	Demi-Glace Sauce Consommé Pie Dough
Chicken Coop	Cheese Milk Egg
Windmill	Rice Flour Bread Crumbs

Cooking

• Use collected ingredients to cook dishes.
• Select a dish and ingredients from the menu.
• Recipes start off hidden. Each correct ingredient used will be revealed only after cooking.
• The score of the dish you cook will be affected by the quality of ingredients.
  • If you select the wrong ingredients, the dish is considered a failure.
  • No matter if you cook the dish successfully or not, you will not regain spent ingredients.
  • The dish icons do not represent the actual recipe; the required ingredients may differ from the icons.
  • The number of stars is not determined by the total score from judges but based on the quality of ingredients and your cooking skill.
  • The order of the ingredients does not matter.

• You earn Thaumarks for each dish you cook regardless of its success or failure. The Thaumarks distributed is based on the number of ingredients used in the dish.

Ingredients Used in Dish	Thaumarks Earned
2	×350
3	×400
4	×450
5	×500

Judges

• The amount of Culinary Crucible Tokens you receive is based on your score.
• As your skill of each dish raises, you will be able to cook higher scoring dishes.

Judging Standards	Characters
Very Strict	Vil Schoenheit
Strict	Jamil Viper Idia Shroud Malleus Draconia
Reasonable	Jack Howl Floyd Leech
Lenient	Deuce Spade Trey Clover Dire Crowley
Very Lenient	Ashton Vargas

Recipes

Dish	Recipe
Cabbage Rolls	Meat Cabbage Onion
Beef Stew	Meat Potato Carrot Demi-Glace Sauce
Steak	Meat Garlic
Tomato-Simmered Chicken	Meat Onion Tomato Consommé
Meat Pie	Meat Onion Carrot Pie Dough
Salisbury Steak	Meat Onion Milk Bread Crumbs
Cutlet	Meat Flour Egg Bread Crumbs
Bolognese Rice Gratin	Meat Tomato Cheese Rice
Croquettes	Meat Onion Potato Egg Bread Crumbs

The Culinary Crucible Album

• The dishes you cooked will be recorded in the album, and you can check the recipes or scores there.
  • You can check your album by: Album > The Culinary Crucible
• Only successful dishes will be available on the album.

Event Cards

Card	SR Apprentice Chef	SR Apprentice Chef
Unlock Conditions	The Culinary Crucible Limited-Time (Riddle & Silver) or buy with Culinary Crucible Key	The Culinary Crucible Limited-Time (Riddle & Silver) or buy with Culinary Crucible Key

Limited Missions

• Clear the limited missions during the event period and get the following rewards:
  • Gems: 60 (maximum)
  • Culinary Crucible Tokens: 230 (maximum)
• Please claim your limited mission rewards before March 21 at 10:59 p.m. (PT). After this date, you can no longer do missions or get rewards.

Rewards	Mission
×20	Successfully cook ★★★'s Cabbage Rolls.
×20	Successfully cook ★★★'s Beef Stew.
×20	Successfully cook ★★★'s Steak.
×20	Successfully cook ★★★'s Tomato-Simmered Chicken.
×20	Successfully cook ★★★'s Meat Pie.
×20	Successfully cook ★★★'s Salisbury Steak.
×20	Successfully cook ★★★'s Cutlet.
×20	Successfully cook ★★★'s Bolognese Rice Gratin.
×20	Successfully cook ★★★'s Croquettes.
×50	Successfully cook all dishes.
×10	Successfully cook 10 time(s).
×10	Successfully cook 30 times(s).
×10	Successfully cook 50 time(s).
×30	Successfully cook 100 time(s).

Magical Key (Culinary Crucible) Shop

• SR Riddle (Apprentice Chef) and SR Silver (Apprentice Chef), which can be exchanged for Magical Key (Culinary Crucible), are the same cards as The Culinary Crucible Limited-Time Showcase.
• Culinary Crucible Token Shop and Magical Key (Culinary Crucible) Shop are available until March 28 at 11:59 p.m. (PT).

	Item	Limit	Cost
SR Apprentice Chef	SR Riddle Apprentice Chef Card	1	1
SR Apprentice Chef	SR Silver Apprentice Chef Card	1	1

Culinary Crucible Token Shop

• You can use Culinary Crucible Tokens in the Culinary Crucible Token Shop to exchange them for Magical Keys (Culinary Crucible) and other items.
• After you collect 1000 Culinary Crucible Tokens, you will unlock the story ending.
• Culinary Crucible Token Shop and Magical Key (Culinary Crucible) Shop are available until March 28 at 11:59 p.m. (PT).

	Item	Limit	Cost
	Magical Key (Culinary Crucible)	1	1,300
	Magical Key	3	400
	Awakening Perfume (SR)	3	400
	Starshards	5	70
	Bottle of Starshards	3	150
	Phial of Blooming Honey	30	10
	Jar of Blooming Honey	20	25
	Jug of Blooming Honey	10	50
	Secret Snack	30	10
	Secret Spread	20	20
	Secret Smorgasbord	10	40
	Rose Candy	3	120
	Knight Candy	3	120
	Fire Spellboost Bundle	2	250
	Water Spellboost Bundle	2	250
	Flora Spellboost Bundle	2	250
	Cosmic Spellboost Bundle	2	250
	Phial of Blooming Honey	Unlimited	20
	Secret Snack	Unlimited	20