All W-Shop Foods and Unsolved Recipe Pictures In One Convenient Place!

[monkeecj]

I spent some time copying and pasting pictures of all the W-Shop foods onto Paint and then morphed the pictures together to make a giant collaboration of all the foods. I think this may be useful to those solving recipes (it is for me), so they can take a look at what the food looks like without having to log onto Webkinz World. It helps you to take notice of the color of the foods and the plates/bowls they are on/in so you can compare them to the secret recipes.

I also have some small pictures of the unsolved recipes conveniently in one place...

...AND NOW SO MUCH MORE!

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Contents:

The Basics:
--- W Shop Food Pictures ---
--- Unsolved Recipe Pictures ---

All About Unsolved:
Tusslepuff:
--- Comparisons to the W Shop Foods ---
--- Ingredients NOT in the Recipe ---

(Post #1)

Ideas:
--- The Original Thread Use: How I Solved Floridisa ---
--- AChip's thread about Unused Ingredients ---

Solved Recipe Follow-ups:
--- Yummytummy Tumbler ---
---Abracaldo Dabra ---
--- Sweet Creola ---
--- Picaroon ---
--- Grapplesnap/Springerle Drizz ---
--- Poppaballoo ---
--- Twistifish Fondue/Fixichini/Pearlipate ---
--- Symphoscone ---
--- Rextexmex ---
--- Ainbowray Canape ---
--- Cogitaticake ---
--- Megachinewich ---
--- Monstrosoupy ---
--- Spinneretti ---
--- Bluchetta Grillon ---
(Post #3)

Other Links:
-To learn more about the wonders of the Recipez section, read through WI's longest post which contains text about the most influential secret recipes of all time:

An Anniversary Tribute to Webkinz World's Greatest Secret Recipes

-Make sure to check out this amazing thread by serinasong that gives in detail the number of times ingredients have been used in secret recipes!:

**UPDATED 03/12/09** Number of times each food has been used & the recipes they are in

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--- THE BASICS ---

*THE W-SHOP FOODS*





I still have the old pictures. If you would like to see them, just ask. (:


*THE UNSOLVED SECRET RECIPES*

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--- ALL ABOUT UNSOLVED ---

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*Interesting Comparisons for Tusslepuff*
Take a look at the similarities of the shape and color of the W Shop foods to the shape and colors of Tusslepuff. Which ingredients look plausible based on their images?

*Ingredients NOT in Tusslepuff*
The foods below have all been eliminated completely on the stove for Tusslepuff which means they are not in the recipe IF they were eliminated correctly.

Here is an alphabetical list of all the ingredients eliminated from Tusslepuff:

blueberries
blueberry cheesecake
coconut
pancakes
peppermints

(all on the stove)


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[rattyjol]

thanks for taking the time to do this, i bet it will really help the avid recipe solver... reps for u!

[monkeecj]

--- IDEAS ---

*On Solving Floridisa*
I used this thread to help myself solve Floridisa back on August 9th, 2008! I was able to mentally compare the color of french fries and the color of the central structure in Floridisa to conclude that french fries were in the recipe. If you look closely, they are nearly the same! It is that kind of comparison that this thread can be used for. I hope it helps to get other recipes solved in the future!




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*AChip's Thread on Unused Ingredients*
One of our theories has been that ingredients never used in secret recipes will be more likely to be used in the newer recipes. Here is a closed thread originally posted by AChip:

Spoiler: show

Originally Posted by AChip

POSSIBLE NEW THEORY FOR GETTING YTT SOLVED.

Thanks to carmel_mom for her list of ingredients hardly used when YTT first came out; here is what I have done, I have taken carmel_mom's list and compared it to the list of ingredients never used in secret recipes list: listed below are those items that appear on BOTH lists:
Almonds
Cupcake
Grapefruit
Peach
Popcorn
Potato Chips

Some of these ingredients have been used since this part of the thread debuted:

Macaroni & Cheese is in Fixichini.
Pear is in Pearlipat.
Pretzel is in Fixichini.

They did say that the set of recipes that came out with YTT used ingredients that were hardly ever used, maybe, just maybe one of these together will produce YTT. I have not checked with Amneris' list yet of what combos out of these 11 have already been done. I have each combo already on a list, it will take a while to complete this list in combination with each other, but just wanted to put this out there for thought.

I might just be grasping at straws here, but who knows, please let me know what you think.





This is a list of ingredients USED ONLY ONCE and this includes secret recipes
and the regular recipes:


INGREDIENTS THAT HAVE ONLY BEEN USED ONCE

1. Broccoli
2. Chocolate Milk
3. Corn on the Cob
4. Oatmeal


When I originally made this list (it was in May) there were 12 food items, I have listed the food item and the secret recipe it was found to be in:

Burger -----------------------------Cloyin Hoipoli
Carrot Cake-----------------------Chortletorte
Chocolate Pudding-------------Slimescraper and Misrateru Druppling
Granola-----------------------------Misrateru Druppling
Grapes------------------------------Spinneretti
Oatmeal----------------------------Slimescraper
Orange Pop ----------------------Sweet Creola
Papaya------------------------------Epochiquox Glimmer
Ramen Noodles------------------Bluchetta Grillon

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This second set is a list of ingredients that HAVE NOT BEEN USED IN THE SECRET RECIPES.

Almonds
Baked Potato
Bottled Water
Broccoli
Carrots
Chocolate Milk
Corn on Cob
Cupcake
Fruit Punch
Grapefruit
Orange Juice
Peas
Popcorn
Potato Chips
Shrimp
Strawberries
Toffee
Tomato

Grapes are in Spinneretti.
Hot dog is in Megachinewhich.
Webkinz crackers are in Ainbowray Canape.
Spaghetti is in Cogitaticake.
Nacho Chips are in Rextexmex.
White Rice is in Symphoscone.
Fishsticks are in Twistifish Fondue.
Pretzel is in Twistifish Fondue.
Cheeses are in Twisitifish Fondue.
Macaroni & Cheese is in Fixichini.
Pear is in Pearlipat.
Orange Pop is in Sweet Creola.
Apple is in Abracaldo Dabra.
Milk is in Demitasse Lassi.
Peach is in Demitasse Lassi.

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--- SOLVED RECIPE FOLLOW-UPS ---

*Follow-up on Yummytummy Tumbler*


"The emotions of the day the most influential recipe in Webkinz World is solved will likely be more powerful, more substantial, more unpredictable than all of those reminisced in the other seven recipes above. Yummytummy Tumbler’s solve will be something too great for words, and I hope every moment that it will be soon."

-Excerpted from "An Anniversary Tribute to Webkinz World's Greatest Secret Recipes"

When I wrote that in the very beginning of August 2009, I was not able to fathom in the slightest how truly powerful those emotions would be on September 25th, 2009, the day Yummytummy Tumbler was solved....

Even today, days after the discovery of the ingredients, I am still in shock. Just typing "the day Yummytummy Tumbler was solved" jolts me into a startling realization of what has finally happened: the longest unsolved recipe ever has been solved. Yummytummy Tumbler has been solved. The recipe that has been "there" for as long as I can remember has been solved. These thoughts continue to shock me. Seeing the ingredients to Yummytummy Tumbler above, reading its boost statistics, and noticing its thread not a sticky any longer all pang me with this deep feeling of shock. How could it possibly be so powerful?

The pass of Yummytummy Tumbler is both a wonderful thing and a horrible thing. On the bright side, it is no longer there to haunt our dreams. We nevermore have to stare at that wretched image and worry about the possible ingredients.... On the other hand, Yummytummy Tumbler has certainly scarred us with memories of its grueling past, the endless frustration, the pain we all felt... And most horrible of all is that it has left a gaping hole in the Recipez section. We no longer have Yummytummy Tumbler to look forward to if all other secret recipes are solved; surprisingly, we really depended on Yummytummy Tumbler for something unknown to me...

Regardless, I believe that my statement above was correct: I could never have planned for the startling emotions of Yummytummy Tumbler's solve. It really was a memory that will stick with me forever.

As for the ingredients, I couldn't have possibly been more disgusted. Nearly everyone who worked for years eliminating all combinations of the W Shop foods were offended beyond belief by cabbage. Cabbage was the key to everyone's disgust. HOW COULD GANZ DO THAT? How in the world could they add cabbage to a secret recipe? All recipe foods are supposed to use ingredients that are "readily available to everyone" which means only foods from the W Shop. However, cabbage is a Farm Fresh food and has to be grown in a garden in order to be available for use. This breaks all the etiquette ever set up in the Recipez section; it simply cannot be done.

But that rotten Ganz did it.

No wonder we didn't solve the recipe when we all thought more highly of Ganz, assuming they wouldn't do something that cruel. Shame on us for trusting them! And one of the most gut-wrenching realizations is that the rules were broken back in the second set of recipes ever released! How can they stoop that low? As has been discovered already, it is annoying beyond measure to want to try out the Yummytummy Tumbler recipe and not have any cabbages... In order to make one, a person would have to wait at least eight days in order to grow the darn thing! THAT is why ingredients have to be only from the W Shop. Ganz crossed a line that should never been crossed by putting cabbage in Yummytummy Tumbler and I will NEVER forgive them.

I still don't seem to believe it when I glance back up to the picture of Yummytummy Tumbler and its ingredients above, thinking I can't really know the ingredients. However, trying to compare them to the image of Yummytummy Tumbler can at least be done in my denial... One of the things I noticed immediately with the cabbage is that the veins/lines of the cabbage are perfectly reminiscent of those stripes in the Yummytummy Tumbler concoction that drove us mad forever! THAT's what they are! Not noodles, not a play on the cutting boards of bread or sushi, but cabbage! AHA!

Papaya and ginger ale were almost another shock to me just because they make so much sense. In fact, a majority of members new to the Recipez section would look at Yummytummy Tumbler for the first time and instinctly shout out ginger ale and papaya! It was THAT easy... all we had to do was mix them with cabbage! The realization is daunting. Ginger ale is needed to make the recipe a drink and that's about as much purpose as it serves. In addition, both ginger ale and papaya were noted for relating to stomachs, which was noticed because of the recipe's name: ginger ale is supposed to help an upset "tummy" and papaya is noted in the W Shop as an aid to digestion. For that reason, both were brought up numerous times and by newcomers as well as veterans.

Thinking back to some theories about secret recipes... Of course, Yummytummy Tumbler did not include an ingredient from its set so we were always correct with that one (that makes me smile so nicely to think that we still can call that theory true!). We also know that the theory/Plumpy hint about ingredients being used that weren't used in many other recipes was true as well, because of both papaya and ginger ale and most obviously cabbage which hasn't been in a recipe ever! It is my personal opinion that AChip was correct with her theory, too, the "Irony Theory." This stated that the ingredients to Yummytummy Tumbler would be ones that fit well in Gladdugrumble and vice versa (because we already thought so with Gladdugrumble's ingredients). I ALWAYS thought that the "heads" of Gladdugrumble were papayas; I never once gave that idea up and think they would have done so well in that recipe... On May 12th, 2008 (one of my first dozen or so posts in the Recipez section), I said on the original "List of Eliminated Recipe Combinations":

"Actually, I was trying for Gladdugrumble (the two figures look like papayas to me)..."

Because of this, it is my belief that papaya, being so perfect for Gladdugrumble, has an ironic twist being in Yummytummy Tumbler, and that AChip's theory is correct.

One very amazing thing I noticed while searching for that above quotation was a post on the same page from the "List of Eliminated Recipe Combinations." It is by ClaraZ25 who solved Yummytummy Tumbler and it is dated May 13th, 2008 - the DAY he joined WebkinzInsider! And guess what? He says:

"Has anyone ever eliminated cabbage+___________+everything else yet. ???

I was wondering about this because it can be used to make gunk so there might be an unsolved recipe using cabbage."

He was DESTINED to solve Yummytummy Tumbler!!!


A couple unanswered questions that everyone was dying to know at one point:

1. What the heck are those bumps on top of the glass?
The answer probably relates back to the papaya. I would say that they are either the papaya seeds that could easily make that outline, or else a reference back to papaya's image with those two slight bumps on the top of each fruit. The connection there seems to be pretty obvious... although the possibilities were infinite when we didn't know the ingredients.

2. Why is YTT that pink color if it has three non-pink ingredients?
I wouldn't have believed it, but papaya actually does turn the mixture slightly pink! How do we know? cocoabean tested it out on her real blender (see the picture here: Making a real life YTT! With pictures!)! As it turns out, cabbage, ginger ale, and papaya together make a pinkish drink when blended together! She notes that the papaya in real life is more pink on the inside than the one shown in the W Shop. How could we have ever guessed when it was important?

I will likely continue to say that "I can't believe Yummytummy Tumbler is actually solved..." for a while longer. Who knows - maybe I won't ever be able to believe it. Finally, after all the troubles we went through for more than two years, Yummytummy Tumbler is out of the way and we finally know its ingredients. No more worries...

"Nothing in his life
Became him like the leaving it."
-Macbeth, Act I Scene IV

Momentary peace in the Recipez section at last.
For that, I am very grateful. Thank you, Yummytummy Tumbler.

- September 2009

*Follow-up on Abracaldo Dabra*

"It's magically delicious!"

... reads a tag on the Abracaldo Dabra thread that never failed to make me laugh. Now that Abracaldo Dabra has been solved (the 40th shortest solve out of the current 51), something it has definitely magically done is make me confused...

Once again I have been disappointed with my lack of motivation to try combinations that seem should surely work. When Sweet Creola was solved I was disgusted that we had not pursued cream soda further because we were all as sure as we could be without knowing the ingredients that cream soda was in the recipe. I told people often to eliminate that ingredient (and it is true we got several combinations done the day it was introduced, including one I did within the hour, cola) but we never stuck with it because we were too preoccupied with other ideas. Abracaldo Dabra had an upsettingly similar fate, as almost everyone thought it had licorice from the first day, yet it was never eliminated in the blender; it took someone new to the forum to do the work we should have done from the beginning.

Licorice, of course, is the obvious ingredient, of which many recipes seem to have at least one. Ganz makes no attempt to disguise it: there is the piece of licorice laying right behind the hat in plain sight. Although could we trust Ganz to include an obvious ingredient? cocoabean made a discussion thread about that idea soon after the recipe was released and we came up with several instances where ingredients that were in the picture were used (such as orange in the amazing Floridisa). So why not try it, because it is the most obvious place to start anyway? Now I am wishing I had forgotten my other combinations and had gone straight to this, that same regret I felt with Sweet Creola.

The confusion begins with the other two ingredients. My first instinct is usually to connect ingredients to the picture, but in this case I don't see any connections to make whatsoever. We are never "told" what those chicken nugget-looking stars are that fall/float upwards (what a fun "argument" that was, sydney88 and Dixiecup!) with the reveal of the ingredients. I suppose the apple contributes them, but how so? I was thinking maybe they could be deep-fried (if that is possible in a WW blender) apple slices to give them the color. Otherwise, someone will have to explain that to me!! We also never get a straight answer as to what that purple jelly is. Is THAT the result of licorice sticks put in a blender? I've always wondered! (:

And the sunflower seeds don't have any connection to the picture at all besides a slight color similarity on the hat. What do they really contribute to the recipe, though? I am left in the dark on SO many questions here:

-What are those chicken nugget things?
-What is that purple jelly?
-Which part of the recipe is the apple?
-Which part of the recipe is the sunflower seeds?
-WHY IN THE WORLD are the boosts off by so much, further pulverizing our hopes of ever again solving a recipe by the boosts?!?!

No wonder I am calling myself confused!!

Two more positive notes: I have been waiting for apple to be used in a secret recipe for so long that I am relieved that it has finally been done! What a wonderfully simple ingredient that is, and how sad that it hasn't had the opportunity to be a part of a secret recipe until now! Also, this recipe's boosts are off by so much that it is actually to the advantage of the everyday WW user because they can now make a recipe that is 20 cents less expensive per boost than even the cheapest recipes (Abracaldo Dabra costs a mere $.45 per boost! See my boost thread for more information)!

Once again, Chef Gazpacho, you have been able to put three ingredients together in a way that doesn't make too much sense but feels JUST PERFECT nevertheless. Quite "magical" if you ask me!!!

-September 2009

*Follow-up on Sweet Creola*


I have seen dozens of complaints concerning Sweet Creola's ingredients that question why these three put together on a blender create the recipe. That surprises me - I feel like the ingredients to Sweet Creola are no more shocking than those of any other secret recipe that has ever been solved. However, I am once again just working off of that "feeling" that the ingredients "seem" right without actually questioning them too deeply. Many times it is best for us to take in the overall effect of the ingredients without looking at intricate definitions and connections at which Ganz likely never batted an eye.

If you would have told me back on April 16th that Sweet Creola didn't have cream soda, I would have laughed at you. Cream soda in Sweet Creola fits so well that there could not have been a substitute that would better suit it. Without even looking at the image, we can read "Sweet Creola" and be reminded of a few possible ingredients, the first of which is "cream soda," followed by "cola" or "granola" and possibly "ice cream." But which of those listed REALLY sounds like it's in the name? At this point, monkeecj flashes back to a phantasmagoria of images of Spinneretti and those thousands of expensive attempts which eventually led to the elimination of spaghetti on the stove for the recipe... Then the frustration, then the reluctant suggestion of pumpkin... then he shrugs it off, but hopes that leaving this aside in italics will remind members to not always pay too much attention to the name, no matter how likely an ingredient seems. Now, in turn, we can ignore the title and focus on the image (which is what matters the most). The first thing we notice is a pink, bubbly drink... It is impossible NOT to have thought of cream soda by now - it is everywhere!!! Not only does the pink connect to the recipe, but the blue straw protruding from the glass of cream soda is nearly exactly the same as the stars covering Sweet Creola's glass mug (I like to think of it as glass instead of plastic, although both the mug and the stars could be made of plastic; if I am going to spend 15 KC for sushi, I better get my drink in a glass mug instead of a cheap plastic one!!).

Orange pop... Yes, I know that there isn't any orange in the recipe, but that's just what Ganz likes to do! They adore using one or two ingredients that fit the picture pretty well and then throwing in one that has no relation to it whatsoever. I like to think of the bubbly orange drink as the "POP!" Let's write it out like that: orange POP! (LOL) If we continued to discuss it, it would likely still be argued what those sizzly pink things are that hover above the recipe. For the sake of our now funny-sounding ingredient (orange POP! that is), let us call them fireworks (which was the most popular opinion) and then we can see why the warped name for that orange drink fits nicely into the recipe. Of course it adds to the fizz of the actual drink too. Why not just add a fizzy drink to a fizzy drink to make an extra-fizzy recipe? It is also my opinion that Ganz could not resist putting both cream soda and orange pop together in a recipe - they are just copies of the same image with different colorings! I've almost been expecting it because it's just funny sticking two things that look nearly identical in the same appliance. Maybe we will get a sickly chocolate-orange recipe someday if Ganz decides to do the same thing with chocolate milk and orange juice...!

And here is where the "booing" begins - the sushi. The happy messages about how nicely cream soda fits were overpowered by the fiery complaints about sushi's crazy placement in Sweet Creola. I have never eaten sushi, so with my lack of experience I won't try to tell you that it is not sweet, not sizzling, and not integrated into Creole cuisine (at which the name "Sweet Creola" so obviously hints)... Well, I DID try to do some research on that last point: After typing "sushi in creole cuisine" into the Google search bar, I see fragments of messages like this:

"For a restaurant typically known for Cajun and Creole cuisine, Fishbone's serves up some pretty tasty sushi. An odd pairing? "

From that I assume the Japanese dish and a Louisiana name aren't the most common mixture.

Honestly, I don't have much more to add to the sushi argument than that it is needed to give the recipe substance. Without it, all we have are two drinks - we need a heavy food to make this a more true secret recipe. Sushi is one of the most expensive foods in the W Shop, so pairing it with the inexpensive sodas seems to make an okay combination (although I personally find it TOO expensive for this recipe's boost values).

Once again I feel that Ganz had a pretty smart way of making three ingredients work for a secret recipe, no matter the complaints our sushi-filled drink will probably receive in the future. Sweet Creola's ingredients, even if a bit strange, work almost perfectly for it and I feel once again Chef Gazpacho has given us a great recipe to create and forever ponder the reasons behind it.

-July 2009

*Follow-up on Picaroon*


The latest secret recipe to have its ingredients discovered is Picaroon, solved 1 month, 21 days after its release (currently 28th shortest in amount of time before its solve).

This cookie-like recipe is yet another one that has three ingredients that seem so perfect, so obvious, so "why-didn't-I-think-of-that?" I think all three are flawlessly put together and I also believe Ganz did a decent job designing this recipe.

First off, the webkinz crackers are the foundation of the recipe. I was thrown trying to decide what starch-like ingredient should be used to create the cookie part of this recipe - perhaps the crackers are a good idea, or maybe cookies themselves? What I felt was most worthy of being in Picaroon was bagel. Bagel has the same texture, same curve as the bottom doughy section of the recipe. In fact, just recently I noticed how Hole in One has that same texture in its base and it does include bagel. Unfortunately, Ganz either didn't realize how well bagel worked or else wished to throw people like me off the trail of solving it (I think the latter). Webkinz crackers, however, do make a worthy substitution.

Now, the eggs. They are the middle ingredient, the one that holds the other two in place. I know that many people thought eggs because of the dollop in the middle that is reminiscent of them. Also, the recipe's reminder of "macaroon" in the name might hold the key to the placement of eggs. I also like to think eggs may be in there because of the bright colors. I am unsure why Ganz likes to include eggs in recipes that have bright hues such as Poppaballoo's vivid basket or Fried Callistorm's rainbow sprinkle precipitation, but it seems to be a recurring theme. Maybe it is the plate eggs sit on that does the trick - notice the bright purple that reminds us of Picaroon's magenta lines. Webkinz crackers could themselves be contributing to the colors too, as the box is full of them.

Raspberries, the final ingredient, are the most out-of-place yet the pièce de résistance. Those gorgeous berries make the recipe in my mind, but they don't have a real connection to the picture or name (unless, maybe, we are "picking" raspberries?). Perhaps the shape of each flower petal is nearly the shape of the raspberries (although they seem more closely related to corn kernels to me)? I don't know of the connection, but it sure makes me pleased to think of biting into that cookie and experiencing a raspberry flavor.

Hopefully my ramblings above clear up any confusion anyone may be experiencing when it comes to this recipe. Of course I don't doubt that it probably could have contributed...

-June 2009

*Follow-up on Grapplesnap and Springerle Drizz!*


Two new recipes to write follow-ups for and I don't have much at all to say! Hmm....

Well to begin, Grapplesnap was the first of the newest set of recipes to be solved. It also has the record for fastest recipe EVER solved too - it was solved just under 2 hours after its release! Also, I have the privilege of being the member to solve this recipe! It was my first blender recipe and my fourth recipe overall.

The reason that it was solved so darn quickly is because the ingredients are rather obvious. "Grapplesnap" - of what does that remind you? Grapes and apples of course! The first combination eliminated was green grapes + apples + everything, but I thought it much more sensible to try green grapes with apple juice to start, for apple juice has been used in less recipes than apple AND the fact that it is a drink seemed to imply juices instead of solids (and I have been informed that apples don't blend very well to make a juice [at least that's what jillion tells me!]).

The recipe is conveniently split into two sections - a green and a yellow-ish one. The green grapes make the green and the apple juice makes the other. I have always wondered why the apple juice picture has such a dark orange liquid in it - it seems to me that apple juice is much more the color that it is in Grapplesnap. Maybe it depends on the manufacturer...

As for the beans, one can clearly see baked beans in the container once the recipe is made in WW. Perhaps Ganz is referring to "snap beans" with the title, although they aren't really the same thing as baked... I would have preferred "snap peas" in here instead, the bowl of which would compliment the red in the final recipe.

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Springerle Drizz was the second of the April 16th set to be solved. I had high hopes for these ingredients, but they turned out to be rather disappointing...

At first I was really into the idea of ginger ale, even though it doesn't seem sensible because of the picture. The reason for expecting that particular drink is the name: "Springerle Drizz" and "ginger ale" have quite a few corresponding letters. If only I was a master chef outside of WW - then maybe I would have known that "Springerle" is an entirely real word (a type of molded cookie)! I thank sydney88 for pointing this out to me BEFORE the recipe was solved, which quickly stopped my attempts with ginger ale.

But I would have liked ginger ale in comparison to the actual ingredients.

I suppose that salad makes the most sense - the "cabbage" leaves are probably created by the leafy salad. I am awfully glad that cabbage is still not used in any secret recipes!! Salad helps to give the recipe a spring feel.

I think there are so many ways that Ganz could have created the "drizz" - the raindrop cookies that are the main focus of the recipe. WHY use blueberries? Just because they are blue? And then this recipe just does not seem like a bread recipe whatsoever because it revolves around a liquid idea and bread seems like the farthest thing from liquid in my mind. I reluctantly say that those are bread and blueberry cookies in there.... quite boring and rather frustrating, but I did not choose them.

Based on these, I am looking forward to see where the other recipes of the set will fall as far as creativity and sensibility - the two above seem to be complete opposites in those fields.

-April 2009

*Follow-up on Poppaballoo!*


I know many of you may be expecting a tremendous, in-depth follow-up for this recipe, but I am sad to say that I don't have as much information to offer as I would like. Most of the reasons eggs, ginger ale, and strawberry yogurt fit so well into this recipe (to me) are not understood even by myself!

I laid out my cut-out pictures of the W Shop foods once again after this recipe was solved and I was struck by a problem when I put the ingredients to Poppaballoo down with the ingredients of the rest of its set - although I desperately wanted to take out one of these ingredients and stick in hot chocolate or chocolate milk in its place, I was unable to do so! Every time I mixed in a new ingredient and took one out, the recipe did not feel complete to me and positively wrong. I myself feel like Poppaballoo NEEDS a chocolate ingredient in it, and because of that eggs, ginger ale, and strawberry yogurt together doesn't feel finished, but there is no other combination of ingredients I can put together to satisfy myself that they could make Poppaballoo. This particular combination, although I may not like it, is too perfect to dispute and I do not understand why....

The reasoning for these ingredients seems to be a bit obscure and hidden. Possibly the easiest ingredient to explain is ginger ale. If a hot air balloon is to fly, I suppose it needs something to lighten it and lift it off the ground to soar in the sky, and since there is no "hot air" in the W Shop, I guess ginger ale is the next best thing () - it is effervescent and can account for the bubbles filling the top of the balloon (actually, I will forever feel that a mistake was made by whomever decided to not use HOT CHOCOLATE which is perfect in every way for this recipe!!! Why make a balloon with hot air when you can make it out of hot chocolate? Ingenious!). Ginger ale also can be found in the name of the recipe - the "pop" part. I noticed this a long time ago, and although I failed to believe Poppaballoo would contain orange pop, lollipop, ice pop, or popcorn, I DID consider cream soda, cola, and ginger ale because all could be classified as "pop" without having the letters in their names.

I think eggs fit very well as an ingredient here - they make up the clouds. A search for recipes with clouds was conducted the other day, and (note: Fried Callistorm does contain both eggs in the recipe and clouds in the picture) I noticed that no other really had clouds with a shape so similar to that of the eggs. I think that was a fine choice on Chef Gazpacho's part - a big portion of a hot air balloon ride will be made up of a recognition of the numerous clouds floating by. I think an ingredient to make up these cumulus objects was absolutely necessary. Also, the picture of eggs is so full of a variety of colors that it does a good job of being the "basket" (it was also noticed that eggs may be related to baskets for other reasons).

Finally, the strawberry yogurt is the hardest to explain of the three ingredients. I think the recipe needed some substance in the middle - the balloon thus far only contains ginger ale. The strawberry yogurt provides the support and the structure to the recipe. A long long time ago I noticed that the strings have a glowing pick color to them and I often thought that the recipe would have to contain something pink to account for this feature - I was correct, at least, on that part.

Poppaballoo proved to be a difficult recipe to solve, and I congratulate AChip on the wonderful job. This recipe may be the most confusing recipe ever solved to be so complete and so empty at the same time. But nevertheless it is beautiful, and I am glad we all (especially sydney88 ) can now enjoy it.

-February 2009

*Follow-up on Twistifish Fondue, Fixichini, and Pearlipat!*


Since all three of the recipes above use pretty self-explanatory ingredients and all are new and not-well-known, I have decided to put all three into a single follow-up.

Twistifish Fondue: This recipe was the first of Chef Gazpacho's newest set to be solved - about 10 hours after its release. The ingredients in this are so obvious I feel strange even writing a follow-up on it!

The fishsticks are right in the name; no other information really needs to be given. The cheeses must be the "fondue" part of the recipe... it easily looks like that fondue pot is full of cheese. Finally, the pretzel is the "twist" in the name and are the noticable pretzels in the picture. One thing I might add about the pretzel, though, is that I am wondering whether that plaid mat the recipe is sitting on is a reference to pretzel - Fixichini has one that is very similar and that recipe also contains pretzel!

Fixichini: The ingredients in this recipe are much less blatant than those of Twistifish Fondue, but there still isn't much to mention.

The macaroni & cheese seems to be the base ingredient here, which makes sense seeing the name is reminiscent of "fettucini" which is a pasta. The orange tools may be a comparison to the orange color of the macaroni & cheese too, and it looks to me like there are numerous noodle shapes throughout the mixture. The peanuts could be a reference to "nuts and bolts" (which was mentioned by hptigerlily who solved this recipe) which would go along with the theme. Otherwise, I don't see peanuts in any way in the picture of the recipe. Pretzel stumps me here... unless it is the plaid mat which was mentioned in the Twistifish Fondue Follow-up above. Otherwise, I have yet to discover why pretzel is in this recipe (maybe Ganz just wanted to use it so they could repeat an ingredient in this set of recipes).

Pearlipat: Another recipe with very simple and obvious ingredients, I was very disappointed to see how to make it once it was solved.

The fishsticks must be used to give that sea/fish aura to the recipe and give it the clam shape. The color of the fishsticks plate and the clam are slightly similar as well. The pear, I reluctantly say, is the "pear" in the name of the recipe and also makes the pearl - you can see two leaves emerging from the bottom of the pearl that clearly are a reference to the two distinctive leaves on the top of the pear. The salad makes up the insides of the clam - the leaves and the tomatoes and mushrooms.

With these three recipes above using such strangely obvious ingredients, I am not very pleased with the creativity of this newest set!

-February 2009

*Follow-up on Symphoscone!*


After more than 10 months of being an infamous unsolved recipe, Symphoscone has finally been solved. And by me, no less! This was my third solved recipe.

These three ingredients seem to be in perfect harmony with both the recipe and Symphoscone's set of recipes. Something about waffles, white rice, and fudge just fits wonderfully into this recipe, in my mind. I just got out my little cut-out pictures of all the W Shop foods and I laid Symphoscone's ingredients in place along with the other 12 from Berribrite Blast, Magimmery Mist, Slimescraper, and Monstrosoupy, and there was an aura surrounding the whole thing that made me feel like those ingredients fit flawlessly in with the others already solved.

Anyway, enough with the psychological standpoint here...

I can see why Symphoscone would include waffles, white rice, and fudge. The most obvious (obviously) are the waffles. I solved Symphoscone while eliminating waffles on the stove - that was the ingredient that I knew just HAD to be in there, once I had eliminated bread. There needed to be an ingredient that was "scone-like," referencing the name. Something floury that had real substance to it. Waffles were the perfect fit. Something I saw with waffles a long time ago was the similarity between the angle to the plate of the bottom waffle compared to the angle to the plate that Symphoscone is. They are a close match. Because of this, I had waffles listed on this thread as a Symphoscone comparison for quite some time. Yet another hint that waffles should be in this is found in the striking similarity between the color of the flowers and the waffles.

Another ingredient that had been on this thread for a while was the white rice. There is a funny reason behind that - white rice seems to be the odd ingredient when you create the recipe in WW, but I thought it made sense before the recipe is solved. Notice the two lines sticking out of the right side of the piano, right in front of the flowers? I saw this a long time ago and it reminded me of the chopsticks in the white rice - it looked as if the chopsticks were sticking under the piano. As it turns out, those "chopsticks" are actually music notes on the plate, separate from the rest of the recipe!

I think the combination of white rice and fudge for this recipe is essential to make the black, or in this case brown, and white keys of the piano. The fudge's purpose is most likely to be the black keys and it also shows up in the main body of the piano as those chocolate spots. What many members thought were the chocolate chips in the W Shop's cookies turned out to be spots of fudge. An interesting feature about the fudge is that it too sits at that familiar angle we notice on the waffles and Symphoscone!

These ingredients are just perfect for me, and I'm glad that I had the opportunity to be the first person ever (well, documented at least) to create a Symphoscone. Even though I lost a lot of credit for being the first to solve it, and although I went through a lot of suffering on the day it was solved, I will ALWAYS love this recipe - it is absolutely stunning, one of Ganz's best.

sydney88's tag on that thread wrote "a pianist will solve it." She was correct!

-February 2009

*Follow-up on Rextexmex*


This recipe is the latest recipe to be solved. It was created less than two days after Ainbowray Canape. Like some recipes, the ingredients just seem to work perfectly to me, but to others it seems like there is no reason for them to be in the recipe. Sometimes you just need to have observed how Ganz creates recipes for long enough that you can understand their processes.

The obvious ingredient here is definitely nacho chips. This ingredient was suggested right when the recipe came out because of the name. This is one time when the name may have counted for something. Including the "texmex" in the name reminded everyone of tacos and nacho chips. Since tacos were eliminated from this recipe when they were used in Megachinewich, nacho chips were the only alternative if that theory was to be right. Also, the nacho chips are the same golden color as the top of the recipe.

The chicken nuggets are one of those ingredients that seems right but you can't explain how. When sydney88 and I were working on the boost values for this, we both looked at the highest-boosting and said right away that there should be chicken nuggets out of all of them. I am not sure what it is about chicken nuggets that just works. I also believe that those are golden pieces of chicken sitting on the top of the recipe.

Coconut is the odd ingredient out here. I again don't know why, but it just seems to fit nicely. Perhaps the jewels are made out of coconuts? Anything is possible...

I am very happy with this recipe. The ingredients turned out nicely, and I had a chance to be incorporated in the action of solving it. Chef Gazpacho has outdone himself with this latest set!

-December 2008

*Follow-up on Ainbowray Canape*


This recipe was solved only a few hours after Cogitaticake. I think this recipe is very easy to explain and is also a very simple recipe itself. Personally, I would have liked Ganz to have been a little more creative when creating the ingredients for this one.

All three ingredients seem obvious. The one most obvious to me is blueberries. Many members (including myself) had contemplated right when this recipe came out that it should have ingredients that included colors in the names. I agreed, and all throughout the time before this recipe was solved, I told myself that I thought that blueberries was the only ingredient I would bet on being in this recipe. Blueberries fit perfectly with a rainbow.

The other two seem just as easy. The cherries are definitely known for their vibrant red color. Red is one of the most obvious colors in the rainbows Ganz put in the recipe, so it seems fitting to have a red ingredient. Webkinz crackers have to be making up the rainbows themselves. As someone mentioned, the rainbows remind us of the webkinz crackers spilling out of the box how they are arranged on the plate.

A very simple recipe, I think. And a fun one too that will surely please if sent as a gift. But still, a little boring to me.

-December 2008

*Follow-up on Cogitaticake*


This recipe was one of the latest recipes to be solved, and, for a change, it was solved by me!

When I solved this recipe, I was going by the newly-found boosts. After feeding my pet a Cogitaticake I discovered it boosted 24 or more for hunger, 11 for health, and 11 for happiness. That makes it the 1st healthiest solved recipe to date, 3rd highest boosting in hunger, and 3rd highest boosting for happiness. If you want an all-around great recipe to feed your pet when they are low on any of those three, this is definitely the recipe you want to feed them. I would say it is almost the perfect WW recipe!

Anyway, after discovering the boosts, I decided I thought for sure there was carrot cake. It sounds similar (the recipe ends in "-cake" anyway) and it seems like it would fit nicely in here. The ribbon around the diplomas is the same color as the carrots on the carrot cake too. Carrot cake boosts 10 for hunger and 5 for health (healthiest ingredient) which made it perfect to fit by the boosts. I tried several combinations before finally landing on the one with spaghetti and french fries.

The other two ingredients are definitely viewable in this recipe. The spaghetti is easily the tassle. I think that was creative on Ganz's part. The french fries make up the diplomas because of the color. They are nearly that same color as Floridisa is, so I should have realized they were in there!

Overall, besides the fact that I solved this one, I absolutely LOVE this recipe because it is so interesting to look at and then also has some of the greatest boost values of all time. Chef Gazpacho did an excellent job with this one, and I think everyone needs to go out and make some Cogitaticakes!

-December 2008

*Follow-up on Megachinewich*


This is the latest recipe to be solved. It was released on Wednesday, November 12th and solved one week later on the 19th. Since it was solved so quickly, not only was I not able to obtain a picture of it unsolved (hence the "Congratulations" screen containing the picture), but I also did not have too much time to let it soak in and find some good reasoning behind the ingredients.

The obvious ingredient in this one is burger. It has a blatant burger inside of the recipe for one thing, and it also followed with the hunger boosts we had discovered. The whole recipe followed this boost! What we did was found a Megachinewich before it was solved (thank you, KeyLargo!) and fed it to one of our pets to see how high the boost meters were raised. This was to get an idea of what the ingredients could be because the total hunger boost of the ingredients in a recipe often add up close to that of the recipe itself. In this case, the hunger boost was 25 which makes it the second-highest-boosting recipe of all time (first is Nuggetdog Megaroni). It needed some high boosting ingredients and it got them - Burger (10), Hot Dog (7), and Tacos (8 ) = 25! It was right on.

The hot dog and tacos are less easy to explain besides the fact that they fit the boosts. The best answer, perhaps, was given by the solver who stated that they thought a "mega" sandwich would use three sandwiches. They were right. A burger is a sandwich, and a hot dog and tacos can also be considered sandwiches because they have two similar substances on the outside of them and a substance in between. Maybe the Megachinewich was intended to use those three sandwiches.

No matter the reasoning, I can't seem to find the "Machine" reference in these ingredients... oh well. Ganz isn't perfect. :}

-November 2008

*Follow-up on Monstrosoupy*


This is one of the latest recipes to be solved. There are quite a few theories floating around as to why these ingredients work. Many of them I feel think too far into the recipe and need to be a little more general to give a logical and sensible explanation.

First off, notice that the ingredients all have a sense of "monster" in an aura surrounding them. I know when you first look at a box of raisins or a jar full of soaked cucumbers you may not see something scary and menacing, but I like to compare them to something like an apple or strawberry yogurt and then I see a stranger side to them. Mushrooms are a fungus and creep along trees, feeding off the minerals surrounding them but staying stationary - almost like a leech. Pickles are definitely not sweet and have a rough texture and an omininous, green complextion. Raisins are the death of a grape, the skin crinkled and dark and hiding the qualities of which the grape showed off so well. If you put your mind to it, you see the darkness in these cleverly (or completely uncleverly - who knows?) placed ingredients.

If you go by the picture in this, you will find some comparisons. I had both mushrooms and pickles on my comparisons of Monstrosoupy. Mushrooms are almost obviously the tentacle suction cups, while the pickles, as stated by many, seem to be the tentacles themselves, but not in a blatant way. The raisins don't seem to make up a definite part of the picture, but just work well with the recipe itself.

This recipe, yet again, shows that three ingredients, although seemingly placed in a strange fashion, can work together beyond the expectations of the member. I see that these three ingredients fit perfectly in a stove and let you see the Monstrosoupy before you even begin to click "Cook" and await the hidden secrets behind Chef Gazpacho's creations.

-October 2008

*Follow-up on Spinneretti*


This recipe is one of the latest to be solved. There are many, MANY reasons why I think some of the ingredients are in this, but many thoughts are not available to the public at this time.

What I can say is that pumpkin was the obvious ingredient in this one. Ganz really likes making "Halloween" recipes by using pumpkin. Some may argue that this isn't really a Halloween recipe, but obviously that was Ganz's intent. The waffles can be found all over this recipe. A poster from back in the beginning of this recipe noted that they thought the butter on the waffle resembled the yellow part of the recipe. The waffles do have a web-like design on them. Whoever at Ganz was making belgian waffles and noted that their cooker left designs similar to a spider web is obviously insane, but I see their point. If you look closely (you'll have to make the recipe to see this - it's clearer in WW) the part that seemed to be like a bagel does look like waffles underneath the transparent outer shell.
Lastly, the green grapes (the ingredient I most obviously hate now that I did so many combos with) are the trickiest to explain. I do have a reason for them that I can't tell anyone, but it is complicated. What I will say is that Ganz probably used them as the spider (to dry as raisins) as someone mentioned. Although (correct me if I'm wrong), green grapes do NOT make dark raisins, but instead golden ones, so if this was Ganz's intent then they are mistaken.

Contrary to popular belief, I found more reason behind this recipe than any of the other ones solved lately, so I think I'm catching on a pattern here. I hope my explanation is good enough for everyone!

-September 2008

*Follow-up on Bluchetta Grillon*


This recipe is one of the newest to be solved. If you are confused about the ingredients, well, so am I. But I'll try to give a bit of an explanation on why they are what they are. The easiest to explain, in my opinion, is ramen noodles. If you look at the white of the flower, you may notice it is the same glossy white color as the bowl for ramen noodles. It also has the same shading to it. That's what Ganz is about many times - adding hints to ingredients in the picture of the recipe (the reason for this thread). The other two are a bit more mysterious. Bread, I could say, may be just because it is a sandwich maker recipe. Or perhaps it is due to the duet of "bread and butter" where this is a butterfly. And maybe, if you look really closely and squint, you may see a similar shape of bread smoothed out on the butterfly. Pineapple may just be there just to top off the other two as a simple fruit. Pineapple is also the yellow color of the flower.

The best thing to notice about this recipe, though, is the fact that all the ingredients, no matter how different, seem to fit together. This may be due to the fact that they are all circling around the same color scheme.

These are my thoughts, but no one may ever know what Ganz was thinking.

-August 2008

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[FIA]

Thread reopened.

[AChip]

Thanks monkeecj, I did not see this thread before, will be very useful. Nice that
everything is in one place to reference to. I'm sure a lot of people will reference
this thread, I know I will.

Thanks again, great idea.

[monkeecj]

Originally Posted by AChip

Thanks monkeecj, I did not see this thread before, will be very useful. Nice that
everything is in one place to reference to. I'm sure a lot of people will reference
this thread, I know I will.

Thanks again, great idea.

Thank you, AChip. I took your advice and asked FIA if she could open it for me. And a public thanks goes out to FIA for doing it.

I hope this will be helpful to some. This way, you need not log into WW to see what the foods look like, and will be able to plot combination ideas from here.

I just need to update the unsolved recipes... Just did it!

[AChip]

I am referring to this thread often . . . thanks again monkeecj!!!

[serinasong]

Hey monkeecj!
Wat up!!
I love this! I never saw it before. You did a good job. Would you like me to add a like from my page to yours? I think that would be really convenient. Let me know, ok?

Yeah, I had to ask FIA to reopen my thread too, she is always very prompt and speedy!

Serina

[monkeecj]

I updated for the new recipes, everyone!

Originally Posted by serinasong

Would you like me to add a like from my page to yours? I think that would be really convenient. Let me know, ok?

That would be great if you want to do that.

[Distractseasily]

Originally Posted by monkeecj

I spent some time copying and pasting pictures of all the W-Shop foods onto Paint and then morphed the pictures together to make a giant collaboration of all the foods. I think this may be useful to those solving recipes (it is for me), so they can take a look at what the food looks like without having to log onto Webkinz World. It helps you to take notice of the color of the foods and the plates/bowls they are on/in so you can compare them to the secret recipes.

I also have some small pictures of the unsolved recipes conveniently in one place.

I hope this helps someone (besides me)!

This is exactly what I was looking for. I got an itch to try some more recipes but was jumping back and forth between stickies. So I decided to scan other threads and I found yours.