Spicy stews are available only to those who have completed the Freeing Evil Dave subquest in Recipe for Disaster. Evil Dave's spicy stew, or 'EVIL STEW OF DOOM' as he calls it, requires all 4 colours of spice and can boost or decrease a wide number of skills which can be -5 to +5. Each of the four colours of spice affects its own specific set of skills, so players making spicy stew after the quest usually only use one colour of spice, to get a temporary boost in a particular skill. At one time ±6 boosts were possible, but after an unknown update (even prior to EOC) the boost of ±6 seems to have been eliminated.