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Recipe for Disaster/Freeing Evil Dave

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OSRS TCG Recipe for Disaster/Freeing Evil Dave — Old School RuneScape quest card mapping

Start: talk to Evil Dave.

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...

Recipe for Disaster/Freeing Evil Dave is a members Old School RuneScape quest rated Special. The OSRS TCG Recipe for Disaster/Freeing Evil Dave card list covers 2 of the items and monsters involved, including Cat and Stew. This page pairs the quest with those cards and with the open player trades for them; the OSRS Wiki remains the authority on requirements and the walkthrough itself.

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Required items & monsters

Items you need to bring and the monsters you'll fight, paired with their OSRS TCG cards. See the wiki for the full requirement list.

Cat

Cat

Resource

This cat definitely likes you.

1 gpCommon

Stew

Stew

Resource • Consumable

It's a meat and potato stew.

20 gpCommon

Walkthrough overview

A brief summary of the quest, noting where each card is used. The OSRS Wiki has the full, authoritative walkthrough.

  1. 1

    Inspect Evil Dave in the Lumbridge Castle dining room to start, then go to his mother Doris's house in Edgeville and climb down into the basement.

  2. 2

    Talk to Evil Dave to learn he wants a perfectly spicy evil stew, then use your cat to catch the hellrats in the basement.

    • Cat
  3. 3

    Cook bowls of stew and season them with the correct spices to make a spicy evil stew.

    • Stew
  4. 4

    Give the correctly spiced stew to Evil Dave to free him and complete the subquest.

    • Stew

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OSRS TCG Recipe for Disaster/Freeing Evil Dave — frequently asked

Which OSRS TCG cards are linked to Recipe for Disaster/Freeing Evil Dave?
2 catalogue cards map to Recipe for Disaster/Freeing Evil Dave: Cat and Stew. They are the quest's items and the monsters you fight that exist as cards in the Old School RuneScape TCG. The mapping is maintained by OSRS Card Exchange; whether something is a card, and its rarity, come from the OSRS TCG catalogue.
Is Recipe for Disaster/Freeing Evil Dave members only?
Yes, Recipe for Disaster/Freeing Evil Dave is a members quest. It is rated Special.
What is the rarest card from Recipe for Disaster/Freeing Evil Dave?
Cat at Common, which packs land on about 37.34% of the time. Rarity comes from the card's OSRS TCG score, not from the quest.
How do I get the OSRS TCG Recipe for Disaster/Freeing Evil Dave cards?
Pull them from packs in the OSRS TCG RuneLite plugin, or trade for them. Open exchanges for this quest's cards are listed further down this page, and the trade itself happens in the plugin's own Trade window in game.
Does this page tell me how to complete Recipe for Disaster/Freeing Evil Dave?
It gives a brief walkthrough overview and maps the quest to its OSRS TCG cards — the items and monsters involved, and who is trading them. For the complete requirements, detailed steps and rewards, the OSRS Wiki link on this page is the authority.

Related cards

Cards that come up around Recipe for Disaster/Freeing Evil Dave but that you don't actually need for it — NPCs mentioned in passing, scenery, or items suggested only for convenience.