My masterplan

Time for an update on my progress in the great quest to master every recipe the gamemakers can throw at us players.

I've discussed my method of mastery previously, but it's worth recapping. Rather than picking a dish and cooking it till those two gems drop out, and then moving on to the next recipe, I like to master all the dishes together. This allows me to bag a bucketful of gems in one go, while also keeping a nice variety of food on my counters.

Kitchen section of The Garlic Tree

Game update: 28/05/14

To round off May, there's a Rustic theme.

Notification for Rustic update

In all honesty it's one of those rather underwhelming updates in which there's only a small number of additions, but here's the usual list all the same:

Tables:

• Checker Table - 95,000 coins

Recipe ratings (3 hours)

Information in this post is correct as of Saturday 24th May 2014.

In the latest recipe ratings post, it's the 3 hour dishes which are going under the microscope, with the recipe garnering the best ratings being inducted into the Recipe Hall of Fame.

Unlike the 1 and 2 hour durations, the 3 hour recipes are few and far between, with only 23 dishes in the duration, 20 of which are currently available to cook if you have completed all the previous goals. However if we don't count recipes on goal or removed appliances, then this drops to just seven!

 Previous recipe rating posts

 10/05/14 2 hours
 26/04/14 1 hour

Why are there so much fewer 3 hour foods? It seems the game's developers prefer the neatness of even numbers since there are also only a sprinkling of 5, 7 and 9 hour recipes. Personally I'd have liked a more even spread of the dish durations, but that's a discussion for another day...