Cook's Assistant

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Old School RuneScape uses the British convention for floor numbering: Ground floor, first floor, etc.

This quest has a quick guide found here. It briefly summarises the steps needed to complete the quest.

Cook's Assistant (#1)
Members only		No
Release date		4 January 2001 (Update)
Quest series		None
Official difficulty		Novice
Developer		Paul Gower

The Lumbridge Castle cook is in a mess. It is the Duke of Lumbridge's birthday and the cook needs to bake him a cake in order to celebrate.

Details

Start point	Speak to the Cook in the kitchen of Lumbridge Castle.
Official difficulty	Novice
Description	The Lumbridge Castle cook is in a mess. It is the Duke of Lumbridge's birthday and the cook is making the cake. He needs a lot of ingredients and doesn't have much time.
Official length	Short
Requirements	None
Items required	An empty pot (obtainable during the quest) A bucket (obtainable during the quest) An egg (obtainable during the quest)
Recommended	A bucket of milk, a pot of flour, and an egg to skip a majority of the quest. Supplies for making bread (Easy Lumbridge & Draynor Diary): A second empty pot (obtainable during the quest) 1 teleport to Lumbridge: Lumbridge Home Teleport (no magic level required, can only be used once ever 30-minutes) or Lumbridge Teleport Tablet (no magic level required) or Lumbridge Teleport (requires 31 magic)
Enemies to defeat	None

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Walkthrough

A feast for a Duke

The quest start location.

To begin the quest, talk to the Cook on the ground floor^[UK]1^st floor^[US] of Lumbridge Castle inside the kitchen. He informs you that it is Duke Horacio's birthday, and that he is supposed to prepare a cake for the celebration. However, he has forgotten to bring some of the ingredients required for the cake and asks you bring him a bucket of milk, an egg, and a pot of flour.

Note: you can skip the intended process by bringing a pot of flour, a bucket of milk, and an egg with you and talking to the Cook again, completing the quest in seconds.

Prep Work

Pick up a pot from the table near the Cook. Head down the nearby trapdoor, pick up a bucket from the nothernmost table, and then leave the basement.

Note: You can collect a second pot if you wish to make bread on the Lumbridge Castle's range, the Cook-o-matic 100, to complete the easy Lumbridge & Draynor Diary task.

Egg

The location for a quick egg, just north-west of Lumbridge Castle.

From the Lumbridge Castle, follow the path north, past the sheep pen, then west towards the chicken coop and pick up an egg.

Pot of flour

Leave the chicken pen, head west a few paces, and pick some grain from the wheat field. Head to the top floor and put the grain in the hopper then pull the lever. Back on the ground floor^[UK]1^st floor^[US], use your pot to collect flour from the bin.

Optional: You may talk to Millie Miller inside the mill for an explanation on how to make flour.
Optional: Collect 2 pots of flour to complete the easy Lumbridge & Draynor Diary task.

Bucket of milk

A dairy cow.

With your empty bucket, go north of the windmill the northern Lumbridge cow field. Use the empty bucket on a dairy cow to obtain some milk.

Delivery

After collecting all the ingredients, take them back to the Cook. Speak to him one last time to give him the ingredients.

Quest complete!

Optional: Pick up the jug near the Cook and use it on the sink to get a jug of water. Use the jug of water on the pot of flour to get bread dough. Use your bread dough on the range (Cook-o-matic 100) to complete the task.

Rewards

• 1 Quest Quest point
• 300 Cooking Cooking experience
• Permission to use the Cook-o-matic 100, which significantly reduces the chance of burning food.

Required for completing

The completion of Cook's Assistant is a requirement to complete the following:

• Recipe for Disaster
• Easy Lumbridge & Draynor Diary: "Bake some bread on the Lumbridge castle kitchen range."

Trivia

• Cook's Assistant is one of 6 quests released on the launch day of RuneScape.
• There is an easter egg in the Death to the Dorgeshuun quest — when you introduce Zanik to the Lumbridge Cook, he tries to offer the quest to her. "In fact, it's a good thing I met you. It's the Duke's birthday today, and I should be making him a lovely big birthday cake. I need eggs, flour and milk..." You then tell the cook she does not have time for that, to which he responds "It was worth a try." This insinuates that the cook tries to trick newcomers into bringing him supplies.

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