If eaten, it heals a maximum of 2,225 life points, but due to the time required to collect and process the ingredients it is recommended not to use them as food. Its left click option is also "Use" instead of "Eat". When eaten, the tortle shell bowl used to hold the stew is destroyed and you cannot get it back.
Cook on a portable range, or the grill in Waiko; doing so provides a 5% chance to produce an additional item.
Cooking in The Arc provides a 2.5% chance to spawn an Azure Parrot.
Wearing a modified sous chef's toque provides a 5% chance to produce an additional item, stacking with other effects.
Since the ingredients required to make Arc gumbos stack, large quantities of stews can be manufactured, cooked, and then sold to Tang at the Waiko market while using the grill to produce extra stews.
^33 chimes profit if you bought the first Commodity sell price increase upgrade and 36 chimes profit at the second Commodity sell price increase upgrade, taking in consideration the price increase of base resources.
The following Arc resources had their base costs adjusted, which can be increased further with Sell Price Increase upgrades: Arc gumbo now sells for 45 chimes.