The Culinary Crucible: The Spice of Life

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: The Spice of Life" is a Culinary Crucible Event in Twisted Wonderland that features Kalim Al-Asim and Trey Clover. It is the second 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 Kalim and Trey'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 are spicy. They all use a common ingredient: chili powder. 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 (Kalim & Trey)

Associated Story: Nostalgic Home of Spice Story

Event Period

May 16, 2022 2:00 PT to May 24, 2022 22:59 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 Kalim and Trey, and unlock the epilogue for the story
5. Trade Culinary Crucible Tokens for items in the Culinary Crucible Token Shop (closes May 31, 2022, 22:59 PT)

Trial Ingredients

• The required ingredients for Jalapeno and Chili Pepper Pizza are given to get you started:
  • Chili Powder
  • Flour
  • Cheese
  • Pizza Sauce

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 your selected location.
• The longer you spend on an excursion, the more ingredients you'll get.
  • Please note that you must have either Kalim or Trey cards to start the excursion.
  • R Kalim (School Uniform) and R Trey (School Uniform) are also available in Card Shop (Thaumarks).

• The following cards will grant a bonus to the number of ingredients you earn from excursions.
  • SR Kalim (Apprentice Chef)
  • SR Trey (Apprentice Chef)
• Riddle and Silver's Apprentice Chef SRs do not provide this bonus.

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

• 

  Low

• 

  Medium

• 

  High

Location	Ingredients Available
Scarabia Dorm	Chili Powder
Botanical Garden	Carrot Tomato Garlic
Windmill	Rice Flour Pasta
School Store	Meat Tofu Shrimp
Botanical Garden - Subtropical Zone	Lettuce Onion Ginger
Chicken Coop	Cheese Tortillas Pizza Sauce

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 are 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 in each dish raises, you will be able to cook higher scoring dishes.

Judging Standards	Characters
Very Strict	Leona Kingscholar Vil Schoenheit Divus Crewel
Reasonable	Cater Diamond Jade Leech Ortho Shroud Mozus Trein
Lenient	Ace Trappola
Very Lenient	Ruggie Bucchi Lilia Vanrouge

Recipes

Dish	Recipe
Jalapeno and Chili Pepper Pizza	Chili Powder Flour Cheese Pizza Sauce
Jerk Chicken	Chili Powder Meat
Peperoncino Pasta	Chili Powder Garlic Pasta
Arrabbiata Pasta	Chili Powder Garlic Tomato Pasta
Briyani	Chili Powder Rice Meat Onion
Chili Shrimp	Chili Powder Garlic Shrimp Ginger
Curry	Chili Powder Carrot Rice Meat Onion
Mapo Tofu	Chili Powder Garlic Meat Tofu Ginger
Tacos	Chili Powder Tomato Meat Lettuce Tortillas

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 (Kalim & Trey) or buy with Culinary Crucible Key	The Culinary Crucible Limited-Time (Kalim & Trey) 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 May 24 at 22:59 (PT). After this date, you can no longer do missions or get rewards.

Event Missions

Rewards	Mission
×20	Successfully cook ★★★ Jalapeno and Chili Pepper Pizza
×20	Successfully cook ★★★ Jerk Chicken
×20	Successfully cook ★★★ Peperoncino Pasta
×20	Successfully cook ★★★ Arrabbiata Pasta
×20	Successfully cook ★★★ Briyani
×20	Successfully cook ★★★ Chili Shrimp
×20	Successfully cook ★★★ Curry
×20	Successfully cook ★★★ Mapo Tofu
×20	Successfully cook ★★★ Tacos
×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 Kalim (Apprentice Chef) and SR Trey (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 May 31 at 23:59 (PT).

	Item	Limit	Cost
SR Apprentice Chef	SR Kalim Apprentice Chef Card	1	1
SR Apprentice Chef	SR Trey 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 May 31 at 23:59 (PT).

	Item	Limit	Cost
	Magical Key (Culinary Crucible)	1	840
	Magical Key	3	280
	Awakening Perfume (SR)	3	280
	Starshards	5	50
	Bottle of Starshards	3	110
	Phial of Blooming Honey	30	8
	Jar of Blooming Honey	20	20
	Jug of Blooming Honey	10	30
	Secret Snack	30	5
	Secret Spread	20	10
	Secret Smorgasboard	10	30
	Club Candy - Trey	3	80
	Turban Candy - Kalim	3	80
	Fire Spellboost Bundle	2	170
	Water Spellboost Bundle	2	170
	Flora Spellboost Bundle	2	170
	Cosmic Spellboost Bundle	2	170
	Phial of Blooming Honey	Unlimited	15
	Secret Snack	Unlimited	10