An Anniversary Tribute to Webkinz World's Greatest Secret Recipes

[monkeecj]

An Anniversary Tribute to Webkinz World’s
Greatest Secret Recipes



An important anniversary on August 9th, 2009 has prompted me to write up this anniversary tribute to Webkinz World’s most influential secret recipes. They are the recipes that have altered the Recipez section in such a way that they will never be forgotten. If I think of one of these recipes, I flash back to a time when recipe-solving was at its climax on this wonderful website; the entire section was like a large, joyous family that worked through the tough times together with passion and pride in order to reach that point when a recipe would be solved, and when the ingredients to one of these great things were discovered, everyone knew about it! There was laughter, there was cheering, there was a huge sense of accomplishment and pride that was all so powerful even though it could only be viewed through the text on the screen... Remembering that era is like a brilliant dream where everything was utopian and nothing could possibly go awry.

These recipes shaped that era into its pulchritudinous form.

The anniversary I am celebrating by typing this larger follow-up-like writing is the day I solved Floridisa. It is difficult for me to imagine (like it usually is for many people on an anniversary) how time has passed so quickly! It is astonishing to think that a whole year has gone by since I solved my first secret recipe!! I recall the shock and delight of that powerful moment when Floridisa showed up on my stove and I vow never to forget it. That one moment has changed my entire WI and Webkinz World life forever more... Without recipe-solving my existence on this website is almost meaningless; it is what keeps me coming back every day. Floridisa started it all and I am proud to celebrate an entire year of working with my friends/family in the Recipez section.

I hope that those not as familiar with our endeavors in the Recipez section will use this writing as a way to understand all we have done and possibly entice them to discover more about the magic that takes place here. For those that are regulars in this section, I wish them to remember with me these unforgettable times and share the joy in reminiscing about those historic foods that once gave us an even greater amount of happiness. In addition to each follow-up I have included some pictures and some fun information about each recipe, including quotations from the day the recipe was solved (some meaningful, fun, or just funny). I hope it to be an enjoyable experience for all!

I realize that there is quite a bit of writing below - I am terribly good at creating desultory ramblings. Maybe read through the thoughts on one recipe per day for the next week or so...?

Without further introduction, I give you the most influential secret recipes of all time!



#1 – Bluchetta Grillon


Introduced: May 29th, 2008

Solved: August 28th, 2008 (2 months, 30 days)

Time Unsolved Rank (shortest to longest): 32/50

Ingredients: Bread + Ramen Noodles + Pineapple (Sandwich Maker)


Top 10 in the “Favorite Recipe” thread? Yes!

Quotations from the day it was solved:

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Well, I'll be!!! I can see the bread but the other two...oh well. It just goes to show that Ganz wants us to work HARD to get those solutions! Isn't that something!

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its really ugly! but awesome at the same time

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Congrats for solving the recipe:

Have a few things to say here, hope you don't mind:


1. Ramen Noodles was an ingredient used in only one other recipe

2. And thank you for solving this : Those dreaded Ramen Noodles are finally off my back after
many months!!!

Although it wasn’t around for too long, Bluchetta Grillon was one of the most important recipes in Webkinz World history to me personally, likely because it was present as I started to become a regular in the Recipez section. As I look at the picture of Bluchetta Grillon, I mentally travel back to that era mentioned above when the amount of wonder in this section was overflowing.

The set of recipes that Bluchetta Grillon came out with were the first to really possess that quality of having ingredients that were perfect yet strange simultaneously; the tradition would continue through all of the following recipe sets, but I don’t believe it was present before the May 29th, 2008 set. When I think of Bluchetta Grillon, I think of hot dog almost as quickly as I think of the actual ingredients. Oh, how long some of us thought hot dog was definitely in that recipe! One of hptigerlily’s first projects, I remember her diligently working on hot dog on both the stove and sandwich maker in an attempt to solve it. The appliance was another big issue at one point - I remember that we used to lean back and forth between stove and sandwich maker for this recipe and Spinneretti. hptigerlily wrote once: “The problem I have is that I keep jumping from the sandwich maker to the stove. Either Spinneretti or Bluchetta Grillon are probably not on the stove. BUT WHICH ONE????” If Spinneretti was more like a sandwich maker recipe, Bluchetta Grillon could have easily been on the stove.

The first comments on the Bluchetta Grillon thread focus mostly on the name (tomato for the “bruschetta” reference, and many were very adamant about having blueberries or blueberry cheesecake because of the “Blu…”) and the flower underneath (sunflower seeds, mushrooms, eggs, marshmallows, and anything else white were all suggested). As it turns out, the name meant nothing (although it did confuse many into trying out combinations on the stove [“Grill on”]) and the flower was not a part of the recipe at all unless the ramen noodles bowl has something to do with the shading on the petals... except that last part was just a crazy idea from my follow-up on this recipe. In fact, this was the first recipe for which I wrote a follow-up!! Hence it is also the shortest and least-intricate of all of my follow-ups. You can read the follow-up here: http://www.webkinzinsider.com/forum/...recipe-332439/

By the way, the last quotation I listed above was from AChip, and we all were feeling the same way about ramen noodles – we knew they were going to be in a secret recipe sometime because they had only been used once at the time (Banattle Dome). I don’t think any of us guessed the recipe that would eventually use them would be Bluchetta Grillon! However, I feel compassion for AChip because she did eliminate ramen noodles completely with everything on the stove and sandwich maker both BEFORE this recipe was released...

As I write up this tribute, I am wondering what quality or qualities make a recipe memorable, influential, or famous. At this beginning stage, my first idea is that it is the difficulty to solve, the frustration it gives us all when it is still at large. Perhaps it is that and also the contrast between that frustration and the joy felt once the recipe is finally solved. Bluchetta Grillon certainly was difficult, frustrating, and sometimes annoying during the nearly three months it was unsolved. From appliance toss-ups to “obvious” ingredients that weren’t included in the recipe, it really gave us a struggle. If it hadn’t been solved so abruptly one day by a newer member of the website, I think that it would have likely gone unsolved for a much longer amount of time. You certainly wouldn’t have found me putting ramen noodles and pineapple in my sandwich maker!!!

Although it was frustrating at once, I feel this is one of Webkinz World’s most wonderful recipes, besides being one that so greatly shaped the Recipez section for the future (notice we all seemed to like it on the “Favorite Recipe” thread!). However, of all the recipes listed in this thread, I have this one as the first because I feel it was the least influential of the eight. Hopefully I have prepared my writing so the significance will increase as this thread continues.

The Bluchetta Grillon thread is located here: http://www.webkinzinsider.com/forum/...rified-309713/

The Front Page news article about this recipe’s solve is located here: http://www.webkinzinsider.com/forum/...solves-380843/



#2 – Spinneretti



Introduced: May 29th, 2008

Solved: September 13th, 2008 (3 months, 15 days)

Time Unsolved Rank (shortest to longest): 34/50

Ingredients: Waffles + Pumpkin + Green Grapes (Stove)


Top 10 in the “Favorite Recipe” thread? No

Quotations from the day it was solved:

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AZUZZA ROCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THANK YOU FOR SOLVING THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now to go throw a tantrum because there ISN'T ANY SPAGHETTI IN IT!!!!!!!!!!!

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I can't believe it! by using monkeecj's idea, i was correct in one of the things i suggested!! i thought that the butter on top of the waffles was a close match for this recipe, and i was CORRECT! i can't believe it! i went back and looked at this, and totally saw it and FLIPPED OUT. thank you monkeecj, thank you azuzza, thank you Microsoft for your paint program!!

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Yay! Now we can make it for Halloween!!

Spinneretti sticks in my mind as one of the recipes that changed my recipe-solving days the most because of the amount of agony it caused me in several ways.

Firstly, of all the regular secret recipes I have ever seen in Webkinz World, this may have had the least amount of “obvious” ingredients from looking at the picture alone. Back when I was very new to the Recipez section, I did a LOT of analyzing of the pictures of recipes. I used all of the very basic programming I had available (Paint, Microsoft Word, etc.) to slap pictures of recipes and ingredients on blank white backgrounds simply so I could stare at them for hours on end! The idea of comparing pictures of ingredients to the pictures of recipes sparked the idea for my first thread in the Recipez section (All W Shop Foods and Unsolved Recipe Pictures in One Convenient Place!) which still continues to evoke thoughts to this day. You can see the thread here: http://www.webkinzinsider.com/forum/...recipe-332439/

Using the above methods, Spinneretti gave me perpetual headaches. I couldn’t get past the fact that the graphic is completely black and yellow and the W Shop gives us black and yellow ingredients in short supply – Hmm... papaya, cola, the apple juice container... Nothing that shares color similarities really makes much sense, although that is all I had to go by, so I tried combinations like papaya + cola + everything else all the time anyway.

Besides the colors, the picture is annoyingly simple too – we see a spider that appears to be made of raisins on top of a yellow substance that looks like a liquid or has a creamy consistency. That yellow goo is surrounded by some weird brown lines, and all is on a simple, yellow-black plate.

The analysis of this picture brings me to another point that will surely be beaten to death once I reach the seventh recipe in this thread (don’t peek at what it is if you haven’t already!!) – the images that were provided by WI’s staff on the first post of the recipe threads were at one time UNBELIEVABLY small!! One would have difficulty seeing any details at all in the images of recipes which led to strange assumptions, wacky theories, and outrageous combinations. One might think, for example, that the base of Spinneretti looks like some festooned pretzels off of the picture that was given to us at the time, and that would lead to dozens of failed pretzel combinations. However, the “Congratulations” picture shows us that it doesn’t look too much at all like pretzels. The larger image when made on the stove also reveals to us the delicate framework INSIDE the outer brown shell which, let me tell you, was never seen by anyone (no matter their eyesight!) with that small picture. Maybe waffles would have been tried more often than they were if we could have seen the details; too bad that the only way to see the larger picture (back then, that is – ClaraZ25 now posts huge pictures of unsolved recipes for us that were never available before) was to make the recipe, and by then you wouldn’t need to see it!

I remember a specific instance when I stared and stared, eyes bulging, at the Spinneretti picture and as the frustration was building, I jumped out of my seat in fury and stormed away for several hours so I wouldn’t have to look at that picture anymore – it was mind-bendingly tough and more than once made me feel like I was never going to solve a recipe.

What was probably the most truculent of all Spinneretti’s qualities was the name – HOW COULD THEY NOT USE SPAGHETTI AS AN INGREDIENT?!?!?! The first quotation above is from carmel_mom, who I think was hit the hardest of everyone by Ganz insolently excluding spaghetti from the ingredients (she also included a wall bash smiley in the message I quoted after the last sentence). Working for days with the second-most-expensive ingredient in the W Shop and getting no results is nothing less than painful. She helped organize an amalgamation of members, that I was a part of, which eliminated spaghetti completely on the stove for this recipe. I literally brought my KC bank down to zero working through what was one of my first recipe tasks. When spaghetti was through, it was shocking to us that we hadn’t made the recipe, and the truth that Ganz didn’t put spaghetti in a recipe called “Spinneretti” felt dreadful.

When we had finished spaghetti we all were terribly sick of the recipe (if we hadn’t already been before) and several people mentioned pumpkin as the next way to go. I personally said, “What I suddenly thought we should do is eliminate pumpkin from the stove. That would be the second obvious ingredient for Ganz to use, I think. If anyone wants to do this, I'll start you out: pumpkin + strawberry yogurt + everything else = NOTHING on the stove” and then sort of ditched everyone to try for Symphoscone instead because I was less than sure after our spaghetti incident that pumpkin would turn out any better! Several members had deep regrets later that we hadn’t followed through with pumpkin when it ended up actually being an ingredient!

Ironically enough, Spinneretti is one of the recipes I have come closest to solving without actually solving: back a month before the recipe was solved, I was eliminating green grapes with every other ingredient on the stove for Gladdugrumble. It was the first time I had undertaken an elimination all by myself. I started with almost all of the W Shops left to try with green grapes, and was able to do full combinations until only 20 ingredients were left. I had planned to try those last 20 ingredients on the day Gladdugrumble was solved, but the solving of Gladdugrumble prevented me from trying them – after seeing that the recipe I was hoping for was solved, I saw no need to continue on and finish up the elimination. What a huge mistake that was, for BOTH waffles and pumpkin were left to try with green grapes!! If I had finished off green grapes on the stove (which could easily have been done within the day), I would have solved Spinneretti without a doubt!

However, isn’t it a terrible habit to get into, saying “What if?” all the time...?

Read the follow-up on this recipe here: http://www.webkinzinsider.com/forum/...recipe-332439/

The Spinneretti thread is located here: http://www.webkinzinsider.com/forum/...rified-309718/

The Front Page news article about this recipe’s solve is located here: http://www.webkinzinsider.com/forum/...solves-391193/



#3 – Monstrosoupy



Introduced: March 20th, 2008

Solved: October 16th, 2008 (6 months, 26 days)

Time Unsolved Rank (shortest to longest): 42/50

Ingredients: Pickles + Mushrooms + Raisins (Stove)


Top 10 in the “Favorite Recipe” thread? No

Quotations from the day it was solved:

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They are putting pickles in everything these days!!

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Personally, besides the pickles, the other two ingredients are just wierd!
Recipes like this just make me want to give up trying....it is all too random! bah humbug!

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I'm just learning my way around the forums, and I haven't spent much time in the food section. Sounds like that's the place to be!

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I just can't believe that the ingredients are what they are. The picture had no indication of what the ingredients were. I wonder if the other unsolved recipes that were released at the same time are the same??? It is a mystery.

Monstrosoupy was likely considered at one point as elusive as Yummytummy Tumbler itself. Being unsolved for one of the longest amounts of time of all secret recipes, its gloominess was constantly menacing over our shoulders. Every single time I make this recipe in Webkinz World, I get goose bumps and can hardly believe that I have actually just made it on my stove – if I had done that back before October 2008, it would have been the most astonishing thing imaginable, and the realization that I am actually making Monstrosoupy never ceases to surprise me.

I don’t remember spending much time working on Monstrosoupy combos (except for a period just before its solve when I organized pumpkin eliminations) or posting in the Monstrosoupy thread, yet I probably feel more nostalgic about this recipe than I do about any other recipes in this thread. When I read the word “Monstrosoupy,” I remember a certain moment walking around in the fresh summer breeze of 2008 and mentally flipping through all of the unsolved recipes and their possible ingredients. Something about Monstrosoupy always made me stop longer to think about it than any of the other recipes... Perhaps because I didn’t have such a definite answer for it. There is nothing in the picture or the name that gives us a specific ingredient to try; we are simply, vaguely left to decide what ingredients could give a recipe that sense of “monstrosity” and put them together in a way that would be just perfect. Unfortunately, Ganz seemed to have kept us off the trail by using ingredients that were monstrous only if thought deeply about. On that particular summer day, I remember blabbing to a family member that was less than half listening all of my ideas for Monstrosoupy, frequently mentioning sushi, shrimp, chicken noodle soup, pineapple, bottled water... None of which were correct.

Monstrosoupy was not unlike an adventure. On that summer day, I almost felt a thrill brainstorming those possible ingredients. It was that sense of excitement that came along with a real-life mystery that I had the opportunity to solve if only I put my mind to it. I would sort through my ideas, and then jump at the next chance to try them out on my stove. One of my problems at the time was that I didn’t really know how to sort through these ideas properly, which led to scattered attempts of ingredient + ingredient + ingredient instead of the more sensible eliminations with “everything else.” There was a lot of energy and potential, but not much chance for success, being unused to the more intense processes that are performed in the Recipez section. But I could hope, and I did with great intensity.

I swear I am getting a chill of nostalgia mixed with a crazy collaboration of emotions simply by writing down these memories. I don’t know how I possibly have such a passionate connection to Monstrosoupy when I don’t really find it a “better” recipe than any other in Webkinz World... Although I admit it must be one of the most intriguing ones. I suppose it is simply the thrill of mystery that connects me to it.

Quite the different memory is the one of the day Monstrosoupy was solved, which can be described fully in one word – “chaos.” It is amazing how quickly circumstances can change in the Recipez section – I left very early that morning from my computer and didn’t return until mid-afternoon (approximately three o’clock). What was coincidental is that I had that strange feeling that a recipe was going to be solved soon as I left for home... That’s not the only time I have felt in such a unique way that a recipe would be solved, and I know others have had similar occurrences. I am pretty certain I told AChip in a PM the morning Bluchetta Grillon was solved that I thought a recipe was about to be solved, and I believe she agreed... (sometimes it can be fun to be superstitious, or at least act it )

Upon returning that afternoon, I casually looked at the latest happenings in the Recipez section as usual, and was shocked to find several threads announcing a clue for a “Spooky Soup” in the Kinzville Times. I knew immediately it was Monstrosoupy, which filed me with shock, excitement, dread, remorse, frustration, and happiness in an overwhelming simultaneous mixture. I had a quick moment of fear that maybe it had already been solved while I was absent, but a glance at the title of the Monstrosoupy thread kept my spirits up as I saw no indicative “SOLVED AND VERIFIED” marking. Hurriedly and clumsily, I logged into Webkinz World so I could see the article about the “Spooky Soup” myself. A jillion ideas raced through my head as I pondered ingredients that could have been “made from something else” and ones that you would want to “make room for.” As I waited for My Room to load, I decided to peek at the Monstrosoupy thread to see the brainstorms of others in what must have been their shock too. After clicking on the thread, my heart sunk as I saw the post exclaiming “It’s Pickles, Raisins and Mushrooms!!!!!!!!” As I found out, the recipe was solved at around one o’clock that afternoon, but no administrators had been logged on to change the title of the thread until after three o’clock. I was one of many that were unable to log on to Webkinz World until well after the recipe was solved, although my reason was because I simply wasn’t present at the time – others had the unfortunate experience of not having an Asian Account and were unable to log into Webkinz World even hours after Asian Accounts had been up and running after a site maintenance that day that had added the clue to Monstrosoupy to the Newzpaper.

A member voiced their frustration later to me: “Ganz released a hint for monstrosoupy. It turns out it is pickles, raisins, and mushrooms. And before I could even try any combos someone with an asian account solved it. I STILL can’t even get into my account to verify with my own eyes that it works.” I do think it was unfair for Ganz not to let all accounts back into Webkinz World after the site maintenance at the same time – those that were around to try combinations had to sit and wait while others were able to test out possibilities.

However, I for one am grateful that someone as kind and courteous as cocoabean was the person to solve the recipe. Even if she hadn’t been in the Recipez section much before her solve, she undoubtedly made up for it afterwards by being one of the most hard-working members ever in eliminating blender combinations. I know we are all grateful for the amount of work she has put into being one of our “family” members in the Recipez section and I am so glad that she had the opportunity to solve her very own secret recipe.

Recipe-solvers have always been troubled by Ganz releasing hints in the Newzpaper (or elsewhere – one secret recipe, Fluffed Snuglapuffin, is the only recipe that was never discovered by a Webkinz World user: Plumpy openly announced all three ingredients in one of her articles before WI’s recipe-solvers had a chance to figure it out!) about the ingredients to unsolved recipes. As many times as complaints that we are unable to figure out the recipe are voiced, we never mean to say that we give up and hope Ganz will just publicize the ingredients. We take so much pride in our hard work that attempts to discover those three foods that will magically create the recipe, and for all of the labor to be disposed of immediately when the ingredients are revealed by the company that put them into existence is hurtful. No matter how long it takes us, we are dedicated into discovering those ingredients and enjoy our mission in a way that outsiders wouldn’t fully understand. I can’t help but wonder how long it would have taken us to figure out this difficult but captivating secret recipe if we had had the opportunity to solve it without any hints from Ganz... How little events in life can twist massive conclusions into existence.

Read the follow-up on this recipe here: http://www.webkinzinsider.com/forum/...recipe-332439/

The Monstrosoupy thread is located here: http://www.webkinzinsider.com/forum/...rified-250437/

The Front Page news article about this recipe’s solve is located here: http://www.webkinzinsider.com/forum/...solves-409706/




#4 – Chortletorte



Introduced: October 31st, 2007

Solved: July 14th, 2008 (8 months, 14 days)

Time Unsolved Rank (shortest to longest): 45/50

Ingredients: Carrot Cake + Pink Lemonade + Coconut (Stove)


Top 10 in the “Favorite Recipe” thread? Yes!

Quotations from the day it was solved:

A Visitor Message I left for AChip:

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Hi! If you are still doing carrot cake, will you try carrot cake + waffles soon? I would love for that one to be completed.

Which she responded with:

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Hey there!! I guess I won't need to try that combo with waffles, I solved Chortletorte just a little while ago, it's on the stove with Carrot Cake, Coconut, and Pink Lemonade

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My WORD AChip!!! You did it for the SIXTH TIME!! You are A-MAZING!!! Thank you Justin for posting the solution and AChip for your absolute dedication to the craft! Your name is going to be synonamous with CHEF GAZPACHO!!

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Achip always does it before i do... LOL!! All hail Achip!!

Gorgeous. Astoundingly gorgeous. Is there any English word that describes Chortletorte better than “gorgeous?” A simple word, but it’s a simple recipe too, yet it is beautiful beyond belief. A vivacious plate of dazzling effervescence which is positively gorgeous – that is Chortletorte. And to top it all off, it was also an infamous unsolved recipe for one of the longest amounts of time of any that have ever been created! Chortletorte was actually the recipe that inspired the making of this thread – I spoke to 000000005 one day about the anniversary of Chortletorte’s solve and I wrote him a large paragraph about memories from when Chortletorte was an unsolved recipe. The wording was really inspiring and I had such a wonderful moment reminiscing on his profile that I decided it would be a fantastic idea to give everyone in the Recipez section this opportunity to think back to these recipes that “have an aura that makes them so different from other ones.”

It was thrilling to eliminate combinations for Chortletorte because of the slim chance that if you happened to pick the right combination, that stunning picture would show up on your screen! Who wouldn’t want to have that beautiful plate of vivid bubbles in the middle of their Webkinz World window? To this day I always enjoy putting carrot cake, coconut, and pink lemonade into my stove, anticipating the picture that is about to pop up... And when the metal cover is removed... “Voila!” It’s Chortletorte!! It may be several minutes before I decide to “x” out of the screen once the recipe has shown up, because I can’t help but love to look at it.

Yes, the above may seem like a bit of an exaggeration, but I truly do think Chortletorte is one of Webkinz World’s most beautiful recipes, if not THE most beautiful. Of course, I say the same thing about Symphoscone, but that is a different sort of beauty: the pulchritude I see in Symphoscone isn’t fairly compared to that of Chortletorte because it is seen, if I may be so poetic, with my heart instead of my eyes. I have a very special connection to Symphoscone that will be discussed more later in this thread.

And it’s so bright too! Those bubbles are so full of life that they do seem to glow. LOL I should just end this section now: “So it’s the most gorgeous recipe ever – make yourself a Chortletorte today!”

But then there’s the other side that is not often discussed – the way it used to drive people crazy as an unsolved recipe!

It used to have its picture sitting alongside the images of all of the recipes in this thread, and it caused a lot of madness in WI members because it was not only the most beautiful of them all, but because it gave either no clues at all or too many, depending on the opinion of the viewer. A plate of multi-colored bubbles that are of a variety of different hues doesn’t yield any obvious ingredients. The base of the recipe sits on a simple metal tray which also doesn’t give any hints (Oh, how clever I think Ganz is for putting Chortletorte on a shiny metal tray!! It is sleek, elegant, stylish, and it fits PERFECTLY with the recipe without taking anything from it! Thumbs up to Ganz on this one’s graphic all around!!!). So where to start?

I had a huge section of a Paint page (or Microsoft Word or whatever program I was using) filled from edge to edge with possible ingredients to Chortletorte based on color similarities: For the orange and blue I had both waffles and cornflake cereal down as possibilities because they happen to match both very well simultaneously because of their plates. The yellow was both similar to the color of the carrot cake frosting (HA! I got that one!!) and the center of the peppermints; the variety in these comparisons would become overwhelming because they ran the gamut of W Shop foods. The pink bubbles matched pretty well that ever-annoying color on the bottom of the eggs plate (which will probably drive me crazy someday if it is in another recipe like Abracaldo Dabra). The purple ones seemed to be close to the baked beans can, and those bright green ones not only had the color of, but also had the shape of green grapes.

So that left me with a huge array of ingredients that seemed impossible to put together in a sensible form – What? Am I supposed to stick baked beans, peppermints, and cornflake cereal together in the stove? Yuck!! There had to be a better way to make the recipe than that. How could the gorgeous Chortletorte be created from such a horrid assortment of ingredients?

As it turns out, I was taking the color-matching process way too seriously. In the future, I would learn from that mistake and I now know that it is a silly error to try matching every detail in a recipe to a food, especially in the sets that have been added to Webkinz World lately. Being more flexible about comparisons is always the best move, but it’s not a bad idea to see how some of the aspects of the recipe compare to food.

The brilliant AChip teamed up with WI member sambellarose to create the idea of eliminating carrot cake with every other ingredient on the stove. I admire that simplistic, organized approach to creating the recipe while it was long before the amount of order that can be found in the section now. Back then, carrot cake hadn’t been used in any secret recipes and it was the most expensive ingredient in the W Shop – there had to be SOMETHING to make with it. A bright, colorful bubble-cake was the best place to try out the hefty ingredient. In addition, this was a primitive boost-value-based solve, as the entire idea of carrot cake sparked when it was discovered Chortletorte had a hunger boost of sixteen points (nothing compared to the boosts of today, but it seemed substantial at the time). AChip was nice enough to recall working on Chortletorte for this thread:


“Chortletorte… I really can't remember how many different combos I tried! I was so excited about this recipe because I thought it was definitely the prettiest of them all and wanted to solve this one probably more than any other recipe, except the dreaded YTT which in comparison to Chortletore does not even compare. I'm almost positive that when the boosts were revealed that is when I started diving into carrot cake. I do know that someone else was working carrot cake also… I had no clue as to what the second ingredient would be, so it was just going through a process of elimination. I believe that I did go away for a little while and when I returned it was still not solved and not long after that is when I came across the three correct ingredients. It was very frustrating working on this recipe as I wanted it so badly, and once I started working carrot cake it was eating my KinzCash like no other, but in the end when I did make it all that KinzCash used was well worth it. And I believe I did a lot of carrot cake combos… at least it felt like it!“


Luckily we had AChip on the team to be able to decipher those correct three ingredients and solve the recipe that for so long had baffled us all. Coconut and pink lemonade mixed together to create bright, round bubbles in a wonderful variety of hues... Genius!

And forever gorgeous too.

The Chortletorte thread is located here: http://www.webkinzinsider.com/forum/...rified-109556/

The Front Page news article about this recipe’s solve is located here: http://www.webkinzinsider.com/forum/...solved-344096/




#5 – Epochiquox Glimmer



Introduced: June 3rd, 2007

Solved: June 21st, 2008 (1 year, 18 days)

Time Unsolved Rank (shortest to longest): 50/50 (currently the longest a solved recipe has gone unsolved!)

Ingredients: Blueberries + Papaya + Raisins (Blender)


Top 10 in the “Favorite Recipe” thread? Yes! In fact, this recipe WON the title of “Favorite recipe” after being voted on by numerous members from inside and outside the Recipez section!!

Quotations from the day it was solved:

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Wow! Congratulations, AChip! This one has been driving us all crazy! You rock!

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way to go achip!!!! you totally rock!!!!!! i tip my hat for the time it takes to figure these receipes out and the kc it takes buying items and making gak till you hit the right combo of items.

congrats!!!!!!

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It's so pretty, I don't think I could feed it to my pet it's so pretty!

The solving of Epochiquox Glimmer was likely one of the most relieving feats ever accomplished in the Recipez section and will probably only be trumped by the solving of Yummytummy Tumbler itself. In fact, there seem to be a lot of comparisons between Epochiquox Glimmer (which currently holds the record for longest time a solved recipe was unsolved) and Yummytummy Tumbler (which will break said record when it is solved). An amazing moment was created when a recipe that had been unsolved for over a year finally had its three ingredients discovered – it must have seemed like anything was possible, that our ventures would all turn out for the better in due time.

It was the mid-June solve of this recipe that likely prompted my complete involvement in the processes of the Recipez section. I still have saved a Private Message from June 21st, 2008, addressed to AChip, which includes these phrases:

“I just about had a heart attack when I saw you had solved Epochiquox Glimmer, I was so surprised. That was an amazing feat. Congratulations. We're glad to get that one off of our chests.”

(I wonder now how I could have thought of myself as a part of this “we” when I knew almost nothing about recipe-solving compared to the gurus that were currently there.)

“But how do you do it? I wish I could put all my thoughts together in one place and solve a recipe...

...I tried to get back into solving some more yesterday, but got very angry at it. I started off interested in Bluchetta Grillon, but later tried Spinneretti. I thought that every combination I tried was so good and well-thought-out that I should have solved it. I came up with some crazy schemes, and ended up wasting a bunch of KC...

...I still say that if I could solve just one, it would be the best achievement of my Webkinz career and would honor it forever.”

It is such an astonishingly unique feeling looking back at the words I wrote more than a year ago. I don’t think that I could have ever imagined being one of WI’s top chefs, or that I could have known what kind of hardships, struggles, but also pure JOY that I would experience in the future because of my endeavors in the Recipez section. Perhaps this recipe started it all...

Sadly, I don’t remember the day Epochiquox Glimmer was solved like I wish I did. In fact, the whole memory of this recipe is rather blurry; I do remember seeing its picture all over, staring at it just like any of the others, but I don’t quite recall exactly what I was thinking or how the recipe made me feel. It is for that reason that I am going to let the two members that worked the hardest on getting this recipe solved remind us all of Epochiquox Glimmer’s past:

One of the Recipez section’s most wonderful “family” members in the past, carmel_mom worked hard to organize elimination attempts and put a lot of thoughts out in the open for all members to ponder. She recalls working on Epochiquox Glimmer as the following:


“As far as Epochiquox Glimmer, it was a lot like Yummytummy Tumbler is now. We KNEW it was a drink. I seem to recall we'd eliminated liquids but not fruits, so we started combining fruits. Everyone figured there was blueberries in it in some form - either as blueberries or blueberry cheesecake. I thought blueberries OR raisins. With as clear as it seemed, though, my money was on blueberries. AChip hit on the correct combination. I would NEVER have thought blueberries AND raisins. Working together, we had narrowed it down, somebody just needed to hit the right combo...

It didn't seem as difficult as Yummytummy Tumbler is. We had a good color to work with so we seemed to know which direction to go. We didn't even have the health/hunger/happiness boosts at the time. It was with Epochiquox Glimmer that I first formed my hypothesis about blender recipes - that they are mostly liquid based.”


I do not blame carmel_mom for testing out blueberries and raisins separately instead of together – Ganz often includes in their recipes (with many exceptions, but this is the most general formula) one ingredient that really makes sense or that has enough substance to make a strong base for the other two ingredients, a second ingredient that one can think about and say “I kind of see why that is a decent ingredient..” or that it is possible to connect to the recipe in a rather strange way but not an obvious one, and a third ingredient that doesn’t make much sense at all or is very difficult to explain. It just isn’t their style to put two really good ingredients together in one recipe. The main feature in Epochiquox Glimmer is the purplish liquid dripping through and collecting in that hourglass-shaped container. An ingredient that could cause the purple-blue liquid is blueberries. An ingredient that could cause the purple-blue liquid is raisins. Either sound like they should work, but it is just too good to be true to think that BOTH would be included.

But it seems AChip was able to get past that thought before anyone else and she was successful in being the first known member to create Epochiquox Glimmer. This amazing Master Chef recalls:


“When I first saw this recipe I just loved it, I thought it was so pretty. I did not work on this one right away as I was doing very well on the stove at the time. When I did decide to work on this recipe the first ingredient I picked was blueberries - I thought for sure it had to be in there because of the color… I got lucky off the bat with picking blueberries. I can't remember how many combos I did with blueberries before I decided to go back and read the posts on what people were brainstorming as to what Epochiquox Glimmer could mean. I remember reading a post by carmel_mom mentioning raisins; I seriously can't remember if I tried raisins right then, but that is how it was solved. I was so happy to solve this recipe. I really felt happy, but also sad for carmel_mom… I give her credit for this solve also because it was from her post that led me to solving this recipe.“


It seems like another great example of how the Recipez section is more like a family than just a sub-division of the forum on Webkinz Insider. Unfortunately, I am unable to give readers of this thread any more information to help them understand the past of this recipe. Hopefully the addition of two primary sources from members who REALLY experienced it is enough to make us imagine what it was like to have this other Yummytummy Tumbler of the time at large.

It’s such a shame that Epochiquox Glimmer has been compared to Yummytummy Tumbler so many times in the above – if I was that recipe, I would be horribly insulted! As far as aesthetics go, it is very easy to tell that the beautiful Epochiquox Glimmer and the disgusting, paint-textured, pink-brown, chunky Yummytummy Tumbler cannot even be compared.

The Epochiquox Glimmer thread is located here: http://www.webkinzinsider.com/forum/...erified-11235/

The Front Page news article about this recipe’s solve is located here: http://www.webkinzinsider.com/forum/...limmer-325471/




#6 – Symphoscone



Introduced: March 20th, 2008

Solved: January 31st, 2009 (10 months, 11 days)

Time Unsolved Rank (shortest to longest): 47/50

Ingredients: Waffles + Fudge + White Rice (Stove)


Top 10 in the “Favorite Recipe” thread? Yes! This recipe placed second in that thread out of all of Webkinz World’s secret recipes!! Also, this is by FAR my absolute favorite recipe ever!!!

Quotations from the day it was solved: N/A


(As a preface, I will say that I am placing this recipe so far up on the list of most influential recipes because without a doubt it changed my life in the Recipez section more than any other secret recipe. In addition, it affected the Recipez section in positive ways from teaching us more about how to choose ingredients to eliminate [which any solved recipe does in some way] and how to go about the process of solving the recipe so ideas cannot be stolen and dreams crushed... although I had to be the pioneer on that last point and was forced to experience that lesson the tough, arduous way......)

My beloved Symphoscone has one of the most contradictory pasts: On one hand it is, in my opinion, the most beautiful, picturesque, gorgeous, stunning, all-around incredible recipe ever created. Being a pianist myself, I can’t help but love its shape – the beautiful curves of the piano, the perfectly-rectangular keys, the sweeping black staff across the edge of the plate. On the other hand, it connects me to the worst event in the history of my membership on Webkinz Insider. I am going to avoid mentioning that unspeakable night (when I was the first person to solve Symphoscone) as much as I possibly can. As you can see above, I have not included any quotations from that tragic night (although “N/A” doesn’t really suit the circumstance because there ARE quotations; I just don’t wish them to be included...) as I don’t think any of the comments are less than upsetting and they would force me to remember an evening about which I would prefer to stay away from reminiscing.

Symphoscone’s entire past is filled with this argument between beauty, and disgust; love, and hate. Only five secret recipes ever created were unsolved (or still unsolved) for longer than Symphoscone; its more than ten months as a stickied thread in the Recipez section undoubtedly caused plenty of frustration for members. A project that continued for months was the elimination of cookies on the stove as a possible ingredient. It is amazing the number of people that were utterly convinced that cookies were an ingredient in the recipe! The second comment on the Symphoscone thread (which is memorable to me because I viewed that first page so many times in my recipe-solving career) says: “So we start with cookies ... and the options are endless...” A “WikiAnswers” page also once asked what the ingredients to Symphoscone were, and someone had responded “Jelly, Cookies, Burger” which confused more than one member into thinking it was valid when a test on the stove revealed the lie it truly was.

I have never been more dedicated in a recipe-solving attempt than I was for Symphoscone. I have spent hours upon hours simply THINKING of what could possibly go in these recipes and my favorite of them all occupied more of my time than any of the others. I had a passionate feeling that there had to be a starchy ingredient in the recipe in order to make it a “scone,” and that was the basis for the majority of my elimination attempts – all I had to do was decide on the correct starch, eliminate it with all possible combinations, and then Symphoscone would show up on my screen. However, it is not as simple a task as it may sound – it takes days and days of eliminations to get rid of a single ingredient, and that is if one knows completely what they are doing and spends an enormous portion of their time logged into Webkinz World. I was usually busy enough around the time I was working on Symphoscone to have more to do than sit down and eliminate combinations all day, so it took me several weeks to eliminate my first ingredient completely on the stove – bread. I had chosen bread because it was simple, elegant, and seemed like a very good starting point if I was going to eliminate all the starches. In addition, Ganz seems to love using bread in recipes, and it almost seemed like they needed to quit using it in the sandwich maker and more on the stove. I recall working on bread as very easy-going; something about its simplistic style made me feel comfortable buying thousands of it, as opposed to something like nacho chips or baked beans which I would have difficulty looking at for an extended period of time.

Eventually, I was able to eliminate every possible combination of bread on the stove, which effectively eliminated it for Symphoscone – I knew by then that it was not in the recipe. This realization surprised me a bit, and had me wondering what direction to take next. Solving recipes can be difficult on the mind because of the heaps of doubt that build up as nothing but gunk or gak turns up on one’s stove or blender. A person begins to wonder very quickly if they have made the right decision in attempting this combination, and they start to question every singular move that is made – maybe I made a mistake when buying those ingredients (followed by double or triple-checking lists, items in the dock, etc.)? Perhaps I should be trying apple juice instead of apple? Maybe Ganz DID repeat an ingredient in this set of recipes and my exclusion of the other twelve items is going to keep me from solving the recipe? It isn’t difficult at all to think TOO much about these problems.

I chose waffles as the next ingredient I was going to eliminate, and soon enough was as sure as I could possibly be that THIS was the correct ingredient to try. Waffles fit perfectly in the role of being a piano and had the starch quality that I was looking for in my main ingredient. I found several similarities between the picture of the waffles and Symphoscone’s image, including that strikingly similar angle on the front waffle that mimics perfectly the angle at which Symphoscone sits on its plate. I set out to work on waffles with high hopes, but never too high that I would be disgustingly disappointed if they didn’t turn out as I had planned.

About twenty-five or so ingredients were eliminated with waffles by the time I made it to white rice. Instead of my usual methods for elimination (boost values often, alphabetical listings for ease in the process) I had a list of ingredients that I felt really could work in the recipe and kept it in a neat pile with my other papers, crossing out each ingredient as I tried it with waffles and everything else in the W Shop. On the date of January 31st, 2009 I had both white rice and fudge included in this list and was planning to eliminate them soon, although not immediately. However, what prompted me to try out white rice that night was the sale – the W Shop had white rice on sale that day (it possibly could have ended that night so I wouldn’t want to turn down the offer) which would have saved me quite a few dollars in my elimination, and I have always liked to take advantage of saving as much KinzCash as possible. So I bought my waffles, my white rice, and every other food not eliminated yet, and stuck them into my stove one at a time, and after I put fudge in, hit “Cook,” minimized my screen, and brought it back up again...

I made Symphoscone.

And it nearly made me fall out of my chair. It was more than a “dream-come-true” – it was what I had been waiting such a long time for, what I had dedicated my time to, and what I had hoped for with all my being, and it had been made a reality right before my eyes. A thousand thoughts swirled through my head and my eyes were wide with shock still, even several seconds after it had showed up, and I just couldn’t believe my heartfelt reverie was in all actuality sitting in front of my face. Once I had taken in the reality of the moment, I let out a scream that brought a family member to the room thinking I must be in some terrible pain or on the verge of death, and I quickly shooed them off with assurance that I was fine.

Afterwards, I simply smiled. It was wonderful to have something so magnificent to smile about.

And again Symphoscone’s persistence of being too fantastic to conquer completely, its insistence that it must both be beautiful but menacing in some way simultaneously, brought about a terrible frown that same night that was even more powerful and true than the smile that I had joyously put on only hours earlier. I never was able to solve Symphoscone the way a recipe should be solved; I didn’t get the opportunity to experience the solve the way every person who solves a recipe should be able to experience it. A majority of members will never know that I was the one who worked so hard in getting that recipe available to everyone so we could all rejoice at it showing up on our Webkinz World stoves; they will never know my hard work, perseverance, or dedication.

But I know. And those that are important to me know. And that’s all that really matters.

Read the follow-up on this recipe here: http://www.webkinzinsider.com/forum/...recipe-332439/




#7 – Gladdugrumble



Introduced: August 5th, 2007

Solved: August 14th, 2008 (1 year, 9 days)

Time Unsolved Rank (shortest to longest): 49/50

Ingredients: Cornflake Cereal + Honey + Root Beer (Stove)


Top 10 in the “Favorite Recipe” thread? No!!!

Quotations from the day it was solved:

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I am NOT going to comment on "you know what" I will never ever make that darn recipe or look at it ever again. I read posts, very unsettling the ingredients in that recipe. All that KK wasted for absolutely nothing. NOT HAPPY ON THIS END.

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how those ingredients make gladdurumble is beyond me. they don't resemble it, nor are any of their names in it.

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That was a lot of KC and now it is all wasted. I've probably used up 100,000 KC by now on that recipe and it ended up using terrible ingredients. Ughhh!!!!!! How disgusting. I made it twice. The first time just to confirm it, and then the second time I sent it to you as if to say, "Can you believe this load of..." I will avoid ever mentioning it again.

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I almost passed out when I saw that is was solved!

The most horrible, truculent, appalling, unspeakable recipe of all time has its image above. It is likely that if you speak its name in the company of a recipe-solver that was around long enough to remember it and its repulsive nature, you could get a punch in the face. I vowed to AChip that I would never mention its name again for as long as I lived, and unfortunately circumstances such as creating this thread make it difficult to do so. Maybe I should have promised only to mention it when it is truly necessary... Any way it is viewed, I am sorry, AChip, for having to utter its name again. I hope you forgive me, but I still share your opinion of it being the most dreadful secret recipe ever.

Gladdugrumble. The word fills me with disgust, and it all goes back to that horrendous memory of the recipe’s solve which is one of the most awful things that has ever happened to the Recipez section as a whole. On second thought, it isn’t really the solve that was bad, but the truth that the solve brought forward.

And at one point it had so much potential. Back when Gladdugrumble wasn’t a name that would be hurtful to any listener, we all had high hopes for it having the most wonderful ingredients ever and we spent nearly every moment in the Recipez section and in Webkinz World working to make those ingredients known. All it took was a single post by a member who has since not posted again to destroy every bit of hard work we had ever labored and to put a sour expression on each of our faces.

We could just never figure out from what Gladdugrumble was supposed to be made, and we threw thousands of ideas out into the open; each idea was tested and each one failed one after another. Why was it so elusive? Like I hinted at in the Spinneretti section of this thread, the pictures posted on the first post of each unsolved recipe thread were terribly small and caused us never-ending pain as we attempted to figure out the possible ingredients. This is the image that was for so long on the Gladdugrumble thread and was the only graphic we were able to base our attempts on for more than a year’s time:



That single picture above gives me a quick flashback of frustration and a dizzying combination of emotions, none of which are positive. See how different that stupid little thing is compared to the larger picture in WW!?! I have no idea what I’m even looking at in that small picture!!! It looks just like a bowl of spaghetti and meatballs – the “heads” must be made of some meat, and that is definitely spaghetti on the bottom. This idea was so difficult on everyone in the Recipez section, but it was only one of the many that seemed to make so much sense and were destroyed eventually on August 14th. The name convinced many people, including me, that chocolate pudding was an ingredient (and at one point chocolate pudding was not used in ANY recipes in Webkinz World at all, so it seemed like a wonderful possibility. However, during the time span Gladdugrumble was unsolved, two recipes were solved with chocolate pudding as an ingredient – Misrateru Druppling and Slimescraper, both of which were created first by the amazing AChip [remember: if you make a recipe in Webkinz World that includes chocolate pudding, you can thank AChip because she solved every one of them!]) because of the double letter “d”s: Gladdugrumble/Chocolate Pudding. It was a perfectly ingenious idea and something that Ganz would definitely do. It is not as if the recipe’s title needed two “d”s in a row to make sense (for example, Grapplesnap has two “p”s but they are simply part of the word) – the word “glad” only needs one “d” and the second one almost seems repetitive. Of course, chocolate pudding was yet another idea that did not turn out like we had planned.

Some people thought of just adding another type of chocolate (like chocolate bar) to make those hats the two faces are wearing, and it also looks as if the “spaghetti” in the bowl is dripping with chocolate too (that doesn’t sound like it would make me glad to grumble LOL). I remember trying burger because of the spots around the bowl, and popcorn for the sense of a stage. Members attempted combinations of ingredients that had a fork and a spoon in order to get the silverware which supports the curtain. The curtain itself was thought of occasionally as licorice or some other red food. We eliminated green ingredients often to create that green color in the bowl too, including an obsession with broccoli which I would have sworn was in the recipe until AChip eliminated it with every combination on the stove (broccoli has still not been used in a secret recipe to this day). I also worked extensively with green grapes which was mentioned already in the Spinneretti section of this thread, and that ingredient too had not been in a recipe before so it sounded so plausible.

All of these ingredients that we worked diligently with to try for Gladdugrumble came out with nothing, and we eventually discovered why – because Gladdugrumble had the most disappointing three ingredients of any secret recipe ever released. That is when we began to hate it with a passion.

I was extremely excited to be almost complete with green grapes on that August day, and I would have finished them off and solved Spinneretti if I hadn’t noticed a new post on the Gladdugrumble thread. A member who had never posted in the forum before had a little message about how they made Gladdugrumble with cornflakes, honey, and root beer. I stifled a laugh and almost felt badly for this person because they were trying to pass off a lie as the ingredients to a recipe. Before I told them they were incorrect, I decided to verify on my stove “just to make sure,” although I KNEW that I would not make the recipe with those terrible ingredients. So I bought all three, put them in my stove, and waited for the screen to pop up... Then I felt sick with surprise accompanied by a painful ache in my head – it was true!! There was Gladdugrumble on MY stove!!! I had made it and with those digusting three ingredients; how was it possible?!?! I must have been dreaming!! But it was true – Gladdugrumble was made with cornflake cereal, honey, and root beer on the stove, and all those wonderful ideas that everyone had were flushed away forever and all the KinzCash we had used to create the recipe had been wasted as a person new to the website (and who would never return) had just happened to create the recipe accidentally one day. It really was sickening.

We were all shocked to finally realize that the heads were actually two big globs of honey (or at least that’s my side of the argument – don’t comment, sydney88!) and not meatballs, not potatoes, not papayas (that’s what I thought they were in August 2007 when I first viewed the picture!) not any wonderful suggestion we had thought up in the past. If we could have just seen that larger picture, it would have been so much easier to know what to try. It must be admitted that the smaller picture looks almost nothing like honey globs. And then ROOT BEER?! How dare Ganz use a drink (and such a disgusting one at that!) in this recipe that had such high hopes for spaghetti, broccoli, chocolate pudding; all these ingredients with a definite substance, and they decide to make it out of root beer. The realization still hurts to this day. And those spaghetti noodles that were so blatant in that infinitesimal picture don’t look a thing like spaghetti in the larger one. What are they supposed to be, anyway? It looks like Ganz just wanted us to stress out and waste our money on the second-most-expensive ingredient in the W Shop by putting those ridiculous white lines in the middle of the root beer.

The disappointment of the entire recipe is still almost as intense now as it was the nauseating day the recipe was solved accidentally. I’m sorry, AChip, for the number of times I wrote the recipe’s name in the above. I still hate it with a passion and vow to avoid speaking its name again in the future. Hopefully the pain that Gladdugrumble caused, which puts it as one of the most influential recipes of all time, will not be issued by a recipe in the future. I am crossing my fingers that Yummytummy Tumbler won’t make me as ill as its fellow “8/5/07” set recipe did.

The Gladdugrumble thread is located here: http://www.webkinzinsider.com/forum/...erified-44042/

The Front Page news article about this recipe’s solve is located here: http://www.webkinzinsider.com/forum/...solves-370490/




#8 – Yummytummy Tumbler


Introduced: August 5th, 2007

Solved: N/A

Time Unsolved Rank (shortest to longest): 51/50 (It will have the longest interval unsolved once its ingredients are discovered)

Ingredients: N/A

Top 10 in the “Favorite Recipe” thread? No!

Quotations from the day it was solved: N/A


Finally the recipe that has, by a titanic margin, changed the Recipez section more than any recipe that has ever been or, likely, will be in the future: Yummytummy Tumbler. I really don’t have much to say for this final portion of the thread – the ingredients have not been discovered, the day of its solve has not been experienced, we cannot have any reactions to its creation because it has not been created.

Yummytummy Tumbler – the name that is so well-known to every person in the Recipez section and a majority of those outside it. Its title will forever be synonymous with anguish, frustration, and suffering as we have worked so forcefully to solve it and have not been successful for more than two year’s time. We have eliminated almost one third of the W Shop completely in the blender (which is the known appliance) and have very nearly eliminated more than half of the W Shop foods from the recipe after the Yummytummy Tumbler set is eliminated on the blender. At one point, we worked on the idea that no foods would be repeated in a set of recipes and decided to exclude the Yummytummy Tumbler set in those thousands of combinations tried to save time and money, but lately we have been forced to work on eliminating that too because we have run out of ideas.

Yummytummy Tumbler – the recipe that has been simply there for as long as most of us can remember. For the majority of Webkinz Insider’s history this recipe has been posted in the Recipez section as unsolved. I viewed its image back in August 2007 on a website when I first saw how interesting solving recipes could be. Never has there been a recipe that has sat with us for such a long period of time and we have always known, no matter how many sets of recipes have come and gone or no matter the number of difficult solves that have taken place, that Yummytummy Tumbler will be there when we are done, that it is still unsolved and we can still work on it if we have nothing else to do.

Yummytummy Tumbler – that simple and unappealing drink that we have stressed for hours over. Why do we want to solve it so much? Just to get it out of the way, I suppose. AChip inquired today on Yummytummy Tumbler’s anniversary: “Why are we so infatuated with Yummytummy Tumbler? It really is the MOST BORING picture of a recipe out of them all...” It is so ugly, so hideous, yet we work day and night with combinations trying to solve it; we want to make that recipe more than any other despite how much we hate it. A gross obsession to be sure.

And for its two-year anniversary, the Creative Director at Ganz sent us a picture of Yummytummy Tumbler being created on his account to insure us that it is possible to be made. All it did was add to the frustration that we have dedicated our WI time to it and have failed repeatedly, yet it is so simple as “ingredient + ingredient + ingredient” in the blender and it can be made by anyone who knows those three foods that are yearned for by every chef that has been a part of our team.

But we don’t know those three ingredients. 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.

Yummytummy Tumbler – always in the back of my mind. I can’t wait for it to leave.

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Congratulations should be given out to you if you read through all 11,111 words in the above! I hope everyone enjoyed the memories.

Happy Anniversary, Floridisa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Questions, comments, chat, further nostalgia, etc. is all welcome, so please feel free to reminisce!

[monkeecj]

I will be leaving on a trip tomorrow, so I hope that everyone will create a discussion in my absence and I hope SOMEONE comes to wish me a happy anniversary of Floridisa's solve on the 9th.

Have fun reading!

[sydney88]

Great work monkeecj! I only read through YTT's description though, because all the other recipes are before my time here! But I'm sure I'll read through it once YTT is solved.

[monkeecj]

Originally Posted by sydney88

Great work monkeecj! I only read through YTT's description though, because all the other recipes are before my time here! But I'm sure I'll read through it once YTT is solved.

Hey, you totally messed up the process by which you need to view this thread: YTT is the last section and therefore should be the last part read!! And the recipes that you are not familiar with are there so you can become more familiar with them (and that means anyone, including those brand new to the Recipez section)!

But you were here for Monstrosoupy and Symphoscone at least. Did you look at those two yet?

[Tyrannus Rex]

Whoa, cool thread! It must have taken a long time to compile this! By the way, do you know where I can find all the ingredients that have been eliminated from Yummy Tummy Tumbler?

[monkeecj]

Originally Posted by Tyrannus Rex

Whoa, cool thread! It must have taken a long time to compile this! By the way, do you know where I can find all the ingredients that have been eliminated from Yummy Tummy Tumbler?

It sure did take a VERY long time!!

For eliminated YTT ingredients, either check the 4th post of Amneris's "List of Eliminated Recipe Combinations" for the ingredients COMPLETELY eliminated from the recipe, or check the middle of the first post of my thread "All W Shop Foods and Unsolved Recipe Pictures in One Convenient Place" for the foods eliminated if the YTT set of ingredients is NOT in the recipe (see that post for more information).

[sydney88]

Originally Posted by monkeecj

Hey, you totally messed up the process by which you need to view this thread: YTT is the last section and therefore should be the last part read!! And the recipes that you are not familiar with are there so you can become more familiar with them (and that means anyone, including those brand new to the Recipez section)!

But you were here for Monstrosoupy and Symphoscone at least. Did you look at those two yet?

I will read through them...eventually.

I did skim through all of them very quickly....

[000000005]

Good job monkeecj! I read through the whole thing. I really have learned a lot about the recipe section! I guess feel a hideous recipe such as Yummy Tummy Tumbler makes us want to get it out of the way...\

Happy Birthday Floridisa!

[ImTara55]

Wow, this is absolutely astounding! Thank you for putting it together for our members, monkeecj. I look forward to taking a little time each and every day to read more in depth about each and every recipe you have listed!!

[monkeecj]

Originally Posted by sydney88

I will read through them...eventually.

Take as much time as you want with it. In fact, I did suggest to read one every day and I think that's a good idea - there is a lot to read and it would be fun to focus your thoughts on a single recipe each day. I even have links to all of the threads for each recipe, so you can REALLY take the time to focus on only one recipe and it will be plenty.

I didn't even proof-read before I posted because I don't have enough time or patience to read through the sections AGAIN. LOL I have gone through them all two or three times, but none in their final form. Let me know if I have any horrible mistakes.

The quotations for each recipe are fun too - try to guess whom they are from!