Chef's Assistant

For the achievement, see Chef's Assistant (achievement).

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Chef's Assistant (#223)
Release date	11 February 2019 (Update)
Members	No
Voice Over	None
Official difficulty	Novice
Quest series	None
Age	Ambiguous
Developers
Main developer(s)	Mod Helen
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Concept	Unknown edit
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Infobox • Talk page

Chef's Assistant is a short to medium length novice quest and is a sequel to Cook's Assistant. To start the quest, the player must talk to the Head Chef in the Cooking Guild, which requires 32 Cooking to enter and must be wearing a chef's hat. Members may also use a sous chef's toque, cooking cape or max cape in place of this item. Members who have also completed the Hard Varrock task set can also enter without any of the aforementioned items.

During and after completing the quest, players will be able to make various cheesecakes, that restore both life and Prayer points.

Overview

Start point	Talk to the Head Chef in the Cooking Guild.
Member requirement	Free to play
Official difficulty	Novice
Official length	Short to Medium
Requirements	Skill requirements are not boostable unless marked with a [B] for boostable. Quests: Chef's Assistant Cook's Assistant 32 Cooking Ironmen: These levels can be boosted: 38 Cooking (to make a pat of butter) or access to the Culinaromancer's Chest
Items required	Items from the tool belt are not listed unless they do not work or are not automatically added. Chef's hat unless the Hard Varrock achievements have been completed (members may use a sous chef's toque, cooking cape or max cape instead) Logs (only normal logs work) Steel bar Bucket of milk (2 additional if churning your own butter and cream) Pot of flour (can be easily obtained during quest) Pat of butter Pot of cream Cake tin (can be easily obtained during quest)
Recommended	Teleport option near the Cooks' Guild such as a skills necklace, ring of Wealth, Modified sous chef's toque or luck of the Dwarves Explorer's ring 3 or better for Cabbageport to the nearby milk seller and dairy churn Lumbridge teleport Lumber yard teleport, invitation box or Wicked Hood for teleporting to Earth Altar
Enemies to defeat	None

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Starting out

The starting point of the quest, the Cooks' Guild.

The quest can be started by speaking with the Head Chef of the Cooks' Guild. Located in Varrock, the guild can be found west of the entrance to the Varrock Grand Exchange.

After hearing about the player successfully assisting the Lumbridge cook in baking a cake, the Head Chef asks the player for help in making a new type of cake.

Making the cheesecake

Location of Phil and Delphie

To start off, the chef will require some ingredients for the cheesecake. The first item is cream cheese, which can be obtained from Phil and Delphie in Falador, just south of the party room. After speaking with Phil and Delphie, they will ask the player to repair their dairy churn using logs and a steel bar. After repairing the churn, talk to them again and they will require some milk in order to make the cream cheese. Then you can use the churn to make the item.

Return to the head chef and he will ask you for a pot of cream and biscuits, he will also give you a cheesecake ingredients list. Pots of cream may be purchased at shops or may be made by using a dairy churn with a bucket of milk. Biscuits can be made by combining a pot of flour and pat of butter to make biscuit dough, which then can be cooked on a range. A pat of butter can be made in a dairy churn with 38 Cooking, purchased from the Culinaromancer's Chest after partial completion of Recipe for Disaster, or bought from the Grand Exchange.

The last listed ingredient is a cake tin which can be found at the Cooking guild, or bought from the Grand Exchange.

After bringing the Head Chef all the ingredients, he will ask the player to create the cheesecake with love and care. This can be done by clicking on the cake tin and creating the cheesecake. He will compliment it and ask the player to take it to 3 members of Cooks, Apprentices and Kitchen Experts Society listed on the cheesecake delivery list.

Delivering the cheesecake

delivering the cheesecake to the Lumbridge cook.

The first member, Mess Sergeant Ramsey, can be found east of the Taverley lodestone, inside The Pick and Lute pub.

The second member, the Lumbridge cook, can be found inside the Lumbridge Castle.

The third member, the cook of the Jolly Boar Inn can be found in the Jolly Boar Inn, to the north-east of Varrock.

Each member will state the cake is odd, but delicious. Return to the head chef once all members have been visited.

Congratulations, quest complete!

Rewards

• 1 quest point
• 1,500 experience lamp
• 3 cheesecakes
• Ability to make cheesecakes and biscuits
• 2 Treasure Hunter keys and 2 Hearts of Ice
  

Additional rewards/activities

• Cook 1 of each type of cheesecake and talk to the Head Chef to receive 8,000 experience lamp and 25 biscuits

Achievements

• Chef's Assistant ( 0) – Complete this Novice quest.
• Cheese and biscuits ( 10) – Make one of each kind of cheesecake.

Required for completing

Chef's Assistant is not currently required for any quests or miniquests.

Transcript

This article on a quest has an associated dialogue page. Click here for a transcript of possible conversations encountered throughout the quest. Click here for a transcript of the quest's journal entry.

Update history

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• patch 11 March 2019 (Update):
  • During Chef's assistant, cheesecake connoisseurs will no longer take bites out of whole cheesecakes, if an already-nibbled cheesecake is in your inventory.

• patch 18 February 2019 (Update):
  • Phil and Delphie will have something to say once the post quest content is completed after the new Chef's Assistant quest - they were oddly quiet beforehand.

Trivia

• When the Head Chef reveals to the player his plans for cheesecake, the player's confusion and having to break down the chef's words is a reference to the comedian Peter Kay, and his sketch on party foods including cheesecake.
• When the Head Chef provides the quest background about the CAKES looking for a new leader after a messy "incident" with a wild pie (with no lasting injuries), it is a references to the "pie incident" in the film, American Pie (1999).
• The Head Chef asks the player to retrieve cream cheese from Phil and Delphie, a word-play reference to Philadelphia Cream Cheese and the popular Kraft Recipe for Philadelphia Classic Cheesecake.
• Mess Sergeant Ramsey's exclamation that "It's raw!" is one of Gordon Ramsay's reactions on TV cooking shows. He is known for shouting this out when presented with poor quality cooking, along with other catchphrases for other meals.
• After the quest players can suggest new cheesecake flavours to the Head Chef. One option is raspberry, which the head chef thinks is a mispronounciation of redberries, although raspberries did exist in-game as an ingredient in the preparations for the Gielinor Games.
• The Head Chef's exclamation about liking the "buttery biscuit base" of the cheesecake is a reference to a mashup of a scene from MasterChef that gained popularity in 2011, released by Swedemason.
• This quest was created as part of a GameJam project.
• The "Yes Chef!" dialogue at the end of the first conversation with Head Chef is almost certainly an homage to the Brit Com "Chef!" starring Lenny Henry, in which the line appeared frequently.
• When the quest was first released, it was impossible to talk to Phil and Delphie after quest completion as there was no post-quest dialogue initially made for them. This was fixed in a subsequent update.