Recipe for Disaster/Freeing Evil Dave
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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. 2 of the items and monsters involved exist as OSRS TCG cards, 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.
Walkthrough overview
A brief summary of the quest, noting where each card is used. The OSRS Wiki has the full, authoritative walkthrough.
- 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
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
Cook bowls of stew and season them with the correct spices to make a spicy evil stew.
- Stew
- 4
Give the correctly spiced stew to Evil Dave to free him and complete the subquest.
- Stew
Open exchanges for these cards
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Recipe for Disaster/Freeing Evil Dave cards — 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.
- 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 in the TCG plugin land on about 37.34% of the time. Rarity comes from the card's score, not from the quest.
- How do I get the 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 Davebut that you don't actually need for it — NPCs mentioned in passing, scenery, or items suggested only for convenience.

Resource
Your hellish pet cat!!
An evolved cat mentioned around the quest (a cat becomes a hellcat by catching hellrats), not a required item you bring.