Quest Prediction: Follow the Yellow Brick Road!!!

Follow the Yellow Brick Road to Gourmet Ranch!

 Next Thursday June 16th we should get a new quest and I am pretty sure we are gonna see a return of the Wizard. 

This isn't a bad quest. Certainly above the Rock the Ranch quest in  my opinion. Could be because I am an avid book reader and I really enjoyed the Wizard of Oz in its original form. 

Like the Rock the Ranch quest, we are gonna be cooking up a storm. For the top level players, 149 of each dish. That could be a lot given that two of the suspected quest dishes are gonna be 12 hours. But  what everyone is REALLY waiting for is not the quest, but the surprise the wizards at GR might give us. 

More on that in a minute, but back to quest talk. 

The first dish last year was the wicked witch's emerald lamb reduction. Yum. 

Found on the Animal Side of the unlocks.

The second dish is the Ruby Tartlets. I left out the middle word on purpose. I misspell it all the time. This dish is just 8 hours.  This is available on the CROP side of the unlocks. And it is the TOP item. 

3rd quest dish was the Tornado Beest Pie. Made with rubbery Flying Wildebeest. This is the top dish available for this quest. Its available on the ANIMAL side for the unlock.  And its a 12 hour dish.  

Here is the spreadsheet for the Wizard.  Red is the supers. Yellow is anything you can grow year round. Blue is just basic information.

But what you really want to know is what the surprise might be?

Well I THINK we might see the exotic animals. If we do they are VERY good dishes. Better than anything the quest has to offer. They are also pretty pricey at 28 keys for just four items. 

But the good stuff always costs more doesn't it?

So our first dish, the flamingos is nearly 600 coins. Only downside is the long term animal the  Dairy Sheep. It takes 2 days to give you Feta Cheese.  Only 8 hours to cook. Not bad though.

So the 2nd dish is the Fried Water beetle. GR is fond of making our imaginary people eat bugs.  But for what they are charging we can claim they are a delicacy I suppose.  Yes you probably noticed that it ALSO takes a long growing ingredient the Scotch bonnet.  So not only are we feeding our people bugs we are giving them peppers that are some of the HOTTEST on the entire planet. And we are still charging a fortune.  Just six hours to cook. I like short dishes. 

The 3rd dish from the Exotic animals is the Wolverine. Oh look ANOTHER long growing item. The pineapple. Three days. Just four hours to cook. I really really like short cooking dishes. 

Snails are bugs in my book. Sorry for those who disagree. And look ANOTHER 3 day crop for this dish. Garlic. But just 4 hours to cook. 

If you need an idea, the snails and wolverine are just 6 keys each to unlock and the flamingo and fried water beetle are 8. Of course you have to go in order of lowest paying (snail) to highest paying (flamingo.).

Have a great day ranchers!

Rock The Ranch Mini Quest

Well Good morning Ranchers!

GR was a bit playful on this mini quest. Normally you have three items you have to do.

Cook, Plant and Unlock. 

BUT

Gourmet Ranch added a fourth option for this quest. HARVEST.  That meant I had to wait for some stuff to finish before I could move on to the next step. It didn't stop me from doing the quest but it did slow me down a bit lol. 

So let's get started. 

STEP 1

STEP 2

STEP 3

You need 20 sorrel and 20 chili peppers. As well as 20 Rock potatoes. 

STEP 4

You will need 20 Presley Duck, 40 Reggae Rice, 20 Lemons, 20 Rock potatoes and 20 Curry Leaves.

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STEP 5

STEP 6

You will need 20 Jagger Cows, 20 Jazz  Bean Sprouts and 20 Bell peppers

STEP 7

You will need 20 Ringo Calamari, 20 Jagger cows and 20 rock potatoes. 

So your grocery / prep list is as follows.

Items you need to cook

SEASONAL

60 Rock potatoes

40 Jagger Cows

40 Reggae Rice

20 Presley Duck

20 Jazz bean Sprouts

20 Ringo Calamari

REGULARS

20 Sorrel

20 Chili Peppers

20 Lemons

20 Curry Leaves

20 Bell Peppers

ITEMS TO HAVE PLANTED READY TO HARVEST

20 Rock potatoes

20 Reggae Rice

20 Presley Ducks

I hope everyone has a great day and a great weekend!

Welcome back Slot Machine!

I know so many of us missed it.  

Okay so if you are one of the lucky people who got the slot machine let me tell you how it works. You click on it and it should bring up a small slot machine. Two rows. One for the crop or animal row and one for the stars. Stars determine your discount. IE 3 stars is 50 percent off. 2 Stars is 40 percent I think and 1 star is just 30 percent. Most people get 3 stars.  For the 1st slot which is the crop or animal you should see the last animal or crop up for contention. IE Iguana, and Jackfruit. 

It costs you NOTHING to spin the wheel. So spin it and see what they offer you. 

So here is an offer. Regular cost of all these ingredients is a whopping 32 keys. You can have the whole row for just 16 keys. 

Of course not everyone would be happy with this row.  Saffron is a necessary ingredient at Christmas time and its in a major super. Cloves is in a super as well though not a very good one.  

If you decide this row is NOT the row for you, and you would rather have another spin, you have to pony up some keys to do so.  You need to unlock the FIRST item ONLY.  In this case it would be cloves.  So it would cost you 3 keys for a 2nd spin.  You can continue to unlock the first item of each row til you find a row you think is agreeable. It can get very expensive VERY quickly.  It ultimately comes down to what your preference is.  I personally suggest you unlock rows that have super ingredients in them. Especially supers that are often quest dishes. 

You only get to have ONE full row so you definitely want it to be the best row for you it can be. 

If you need an idea on how the Slot machine decides it starts with the rows you have the fewest items unlocked. Why? Well GR is a business. This will make you use the most amount of keys. Its technically better for you except for some of us those rows are probably just in the fish category by now. 

So looking above you can see I need 7 items in that row unlocked.  That means if I have a row with 4 ingredients I want to unlock, I have to get just about every other row to that same level before that row would even come into consideration. 

I wouldn't advise more than 2 or 3 spins. After that you have spent what keys you would have saved had the slot machine not even come along. 

Masters of Fruit Mastery Chart.

Good Afternoon Ranchers I have been hard at work with some new stuff for the blog. Right now I have made the chart for ALL the steps for the Fruit Mastery. It is an um-timed mini-quest on your right hand side. Its has the fruit icon.

	Fruits
Harvest 100 Raspberry, Serve 25 Raspberry Tart Reward 5000 Coins	Harvest 100 Watermelon Serve 25 Watermelon Sorbet Reward 500 XP	Harvest 100 Grapes, Serve, 25 Grape Juice Reward 1000 XP
Unlock Strawberry Harvest 200 Strawberries Serve 50 Strawberry Milkshake Reward 100 Speedups	Unlock Pineapple Harvest 200 Pineapples Serve 50 Pineapple Puddings Reward 3 GR Cash	Unlock Kiwi Harvest 200 Kiwi Serve 50 Grape and Kiwi Pudding Reward 10,000 Coins
Unlock Blackberry Harvest 300 Blackberries Serve 75 Blackberry Crumble Reward 1500 XP	Unlock Cranberry Harvest 300 Cranberries Serve 75 Stuffed Goose Reward 2000 XP	Unlock Passion Fruit Harvest 300 Passion Fruit Serve 75 Passion Fruit Meringue Reward 125 Speedups
Unlock Blueberry Harvest 400 Blueberries Serve 100 Vanilla and Blueberry Pancakes Reward 6 GR Cash	Unlock Honeydew Melon Harvest 400 Honeydew Melon Serve 100 Melon Madness Reward 20,000 Coins	Unlock Pomegranate Harvest 400 Pomegranates Serve 100 Bream with Orange Reward 2500 XP
Unlock Black Currant Harvest 500 Black Currants Serve 125 Baked Alaska Reward 3000 XP	Unlock Gooseberry Harvest 500 Gooseberries Serve 125 Gooseberry Gems Reward 150 Speedups	Unlock Red Grape Harvest 500 Red Grapes Serve 124 Steak with Red Wine Jus Reward 8 GR Cash
Unlock Starfruit Harvest 600 Starfruits Serve 150 Exotic Fruit Kebab Reward 30000 Coins	Unlock Rhubarb Harvest 600 Rhubarb Serve 150 Plum and Rhubarb Pie Reward 3500 XP	Unlock Dragon Fruit Harvest 600 Dragon Fruit Serve 150 Low Cal Salad Reward 4000 XP
Unlock Kumquat Shrub Harvest 750 Kumquats Serve 175 Kumquat Yogurt Reward 175 Speedups	Unlock Acai Bush Harvest 75 Acai Berries Serve 175 Acai Crepes Reward 10 GR Cash	Unlock Fig Shrub Harvest 750 Figs Serve 175 Angler Fish with Figs Reward 50000 coins
Unlock Prickly Pear Harvest 900 Prickly Pears Serve 200 Fiery Prickly Pear Jelly Reward 4500Xp	Unlock Lingonberry Harvest 900 Lingonberry Serve 200 Lingonberry Sorbet Reward 5000 XP	Unlock Elderberry Harvest 900 Elderberry Serve 200 Swordfish with Elderberry Sauce Reward 5500 XP
Unlock Physalis Harvest 1000 Physalis Serve 250 Chocolate and Physalis Cupcakes Reward 200 Speedups	Unlock Jackfruit Harvest 1000 Jackfruits Serve 250 Jackfruit Mint Soothie Reward 13 GR Cash	Unlock Damson Harvest 1000 Damson Serve 250 Damson, Pear and Walnut Muffins Reward Functional Trophy

Quest Prediction: Are you ready to ROCK?!?

Are you ready to rock your ranch GR style?

Well get ready! All the greats will be visiting your ranch on Thursday.  Ringo, Hendrix, Elton, Jagger and of course Presley.  

Are you excited? Of course you are. Except this is one of those lackluster quests I am sorry to say. 

Lets take a quick glance at our handy dandy spreadsheet. 

Top dish on this quest 210 coins. Yikes.  The good news is the rock potatoes are a FREE ingredient. YAY. The bad news is Ringo takes 18 hours to get ready.  SO this quest has the double whammy of long growing and low paying.  If you are short on keys feel free to skip this quest but remember to give your neighbors time to grow. 

Oh but I have a little bit more bad news. 

First this is high dish quest. So instead of our usual 106 dishes, we are gonna have to do 149 of each dish. 

And that is only the tip of the iceberg. 

The expected quest dishes 

Surf and Turf Burger

Ringo Calamari, Jagger Cow and Rock Potatoes

Festival Lamb Kabobs

Hendrix Sheep, Disco Onions and Tomatillos

Indian Peppered Lamb and Chips

Punk Pepper, Hendrix Sheep and Disco Onions

Now go back and look again. Do you see the issue. DOUBLES!!! We need double of the Disco Onions and double of the Hendrix sheep.  But since this is a quest with a higher dish count. That actually means we need 300 of each of those ingredients. 

The good news is you only need ONE regular so 149 tomatillos.  Everyone should be able to grow those at least and the potatoes. 

In addition to this quest GR brings back the Gourmet Games. Its not an exciting quest and its even lower paying that this quest. I don't have a spreadsheet so you will have to take my word.

Have a great week and happy ranching !

Alien Vacation : Mini Quest

So the aliens stopped by and brought us some delicious vegetables. If you look over on your right hand side you should see that a new mini quest has popped up. 

For 10 GR cash this is what you gotta do:

STEP 1

STEP 2

STEP 3

STEP 4

STEP 5

STEP 6

STEP 7

Well that was fun. If you can't see the above then I will break it down even easier. You need to have both Alien sides open.  

You have to cook 20 of each of the following dishes

Xeno Berry Salad

Sweet Larvae Jello

Crunchy Sputnik Beets

Gray Berry Slush

Crispy Fractal Omelette

Space Chowder

Araki Slug Risotto

Rhizome Fruit Salad

Your on hand ingredients should be :

SEASONAL

80 Red Planet Berries

40 Fractal Cauliflower

20 Xeno Triffld

20 Jelly Allen

40 Aurige Sea Larvae

20 Oculus Spawn

20 Sputnik Potatoes

20 Robo Brains

20 Teuthida Molusca

40 Purple Lips Venus Plant

20 Araki Slug

REGULAR

20 Goose Eggs

20 Yellow Beetroots

20 Cranberries

20 Clams

20 Rice 

20 Prickly Pears

Quest Prediction: ALIEN INVASION!!! And they are bringing....

The Aliens are coming!!!!

For vacation?!?

Well I guess everyone deserves a few days off. 

If everything goes as last year the Aliens should be bringing us back Super Vegetables. Yep. Get ready to mow down on some yummy delicious Vegetables of the Super variety. 

But first lets talk Aliens. 

So to sate our soon to be arriving Alien friends, you will need to cook 106 batches of each of the following three dishes.

Space Chowder - 12 hours , you will need to have CLAMS found in your crustaceans section. 

Araki Slug Risotto - 8 hours, you will need RICE found under grains. 

Rhizome Fruit Salad - 12 hours and you will need PRICKLY PEARS found in your fruits section almost completely at the bottom. 

I will take a minute to point out that prickly pears and rice are both 1 day ingredients. Its really important to get those down in advance. If you notice above in the photos and below on the spreadsheet the Purple plant is needed in TWO dishes.  Well I should warn you that the Araki slug and the purple plant are BOTH very long growers at 1 day and 18 hours. Although I might have the grow times flipped. Its worth noting that long growing PLUS medium value dishes makes this just an okay quest.   If you have limited keys it might not be in your advantage to unlock it. 

As always this is the spreadsheet I have made for this particular quest.  I will say the previous year 2014, we had to do Oculus soup. Which requires mint. I doubt you will see that as a quest dish but I will put it out there as a warning. 

Yes I do notice that on the Araki slug risotto I messed up and the Purple Lips Venus Plant is in yellow instead of red.  I don't want to have to redo the whole spreadsheet over a color issue.  Sorry my ocd is burnt out today lol. 

But what you REALLY want to know about are the VEGETABLES!

Last year the Aliens brought us Vegetables and I do hope they bring them again. 

They were expensive to unlock 28 Keys for FOUR ingredients.  The Alien quest is cheaper on your key stock but doesn't pay as well. 

First up was the Titanic tomatoes

The we had the Mega Leek

Then comes cabbage. 

And finally the Mushrooms. 

I did not flip the two by the way. I realize the cabbage dish is actually more per dish BUT Gourmet ranch actually had them in order of who gave you more money overall.  The ramen dish gives you an extra 140k coins. 

This is a spreadsheet for Mastery Supers only.  

Orange is Exotic Animals

Green is Livestock

Yellow is Fruit

Purple is Vegetables 

Blue is Herbs and Spices

I post this because I believe we will see the exotic animals (orange) in about a months time. So not THIS quest or the one immediately following it but the one after that. It should begin in June. Just before 4th of July quest.  

I will be updating the quest calendar as I come across the information for the backup unlocking options.