solution
Are You A Chef? was written in Inform and is © 2000 by Adam Biltcliffe.
This solution is by David Welbourn, and is based on Release 1 of the game.
Related link: Adam Biltcliffe's IF page (where you can download the game).
Note: This game pretty much requires that you're already played the game You Are A Chef! by Dan Shiovitz, aka inky, and that you're familiar with the ifMud. Otherwise you're not likely going to understand much of this.
| Lair Of The Oracle | Interrogation Lounge | — | Long Hall | ← | xyzzy (globally) | |
| \ | / | | | ||||
| Alex's Perch | Big Dig | Dorm A | ← | home (globally) | ||
| ↑step on pad | / | d↓↑u | | | |||
| Transporter Room | Incinerator Room | Outside | — | East Road | ||
| in↓↑out | ||||||
| Inside the Phone Booth | ||||||
[Dorm A]
>n.
[Long Hall]
>x ashes. x note. x board. w.
[Interrogation Lounge]
>x inky. x chair. x suits. x hole. x transformer.
>x andyf. x ender. x miseri. x dilbon. x katre.
>x pot. x paperclips. x monkey. x octopus.
>take andyf. (or any other potato)
>take dilbon. (or any other cabbage)
>e. sw.
[Big Dig]
>d. u. nw. se. sw.
[Transporter Room]
>x pad. step on pad.
[Alex's Perch]
Caution: Going down from the perch is fatal.
>x nut. take it. home.
[Dorm A]
>e. s.
[Outside]
>s. nw. e.
[East Road]
>x booth. (take booth. undo.) in.
[Inside the phone booth]
>x phone. x card. insert nut in phone. call 3327. out.
[East Road]
>x box. open it. x tomato. x pizza.
>x melted. x nuts. x anchovy. x seeds. x olives.
>take box. (eat pizza. undo.)
>xyzzy. sw. sw. step on pad.
[Alex's Perch]
Dropping a food item that isn't a person will save inky, but no one else. Only by playing You Are A Chef! are you likely to know that a potato, cabbage, and tomato are the missing pot ingredients needed to finish the recipe (and defeat the bad guys).
>drop potato. drop cabbage. drop tomato. xyzzy. w.