The Culinary Crucible: Raising the Steaks

"The Culinary Crucible: Raising the Steaks" is a Master Chef event in Twisted Wonderland that features Riddle Rosehearts and Silver. It is the first 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 Riddle and Silver's experiences in the Master Chef elective class which teaches students how to cook.

As the event's name implies, all of the dishes featured in this event use meat as an ingredient. Each dish, high score, Skill and recipe can be viewed in the Album, under the Master Chef tab.

Associated Summoning Event: The Culinary Crucible Limited-Time (Riddle & Silver)

Associated Story: Bliss of Meat Story

Event Period
March 10, 2021 2:00 to March 21, 2021 23:59 PT

How to Play

 * 1) Gather ingredients
 * 2) Cook a dish
 * 3) Based on the points earned for each dish, you will earn Master Chef Medals
 * 4) Use the medals to exchange for Riddle and Silver, and unlock the epilogue for the story
 * 5) Trade Chef Medals for items in the Chef Medal Shop (closes March 4, 2021 14:59 JST)

Trial Ingredients

 * The required ingredients of Cabbage Rolls are given to get you started:
 * Meat
 * Cabbage
 * Onion

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


 * The following cards will grant a bonus to the number of ingredients you earn from excursion.
 * SR Riddle (Apprentice Chef)
 * SR Silver (Apprentice Chef)


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

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 Madols for each dish you cook regardless of its success or failure. The Madols distributed is based on the number of ingredients used in the dish.

Judges

 * The amount of Culinary Crucible Tokens you receive is based on your score.
 * As your skill of each dish raises, you will be able to cook higher scoring dishes.

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.

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 March 21 at 10:59 p.m. (PT). After this date, you can no longer do missions or get rewards.

Magical Key (Culinary Crucible) Shop

 * SR Riddle (Apprentice Chef) and SR Silver (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 March 28 at 11:59 p.m. (PT).

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 March 28 at 11:59 p.m. (PT).