Shish Kabob

[la merde]

Seriously, does anyone like them? For me it is impossible to make them on a menu. All this stuff you can put on the stick and in addition you must look extremely carefully at how much is needed of each ingredient - because you can not make two of the same kind at the same time.

It is very hard - any hints? Especially the last point. From my point of view you have to look at the order very carefully and "plan" were to put the ingredients. This will take lots of time.

[Bitt]

There might be better ways but this works well enough for me (for 4-star Shish-Kabob at least, didn't get to try 5-star yet).

Only ingredients of which you need two or more can cause a bad order, so you spot those and use other ingredients (ideally: ONE other, easier to keep track of what was used up that way) to separate them, best by creating "blocks" that are safe and can be combo'd quickly. Before or after that you add the remaining ones.

These examples should cover most patterns for 4-star recipies:

Order: 2xA, 2xB, 1xC, 1xD, 2xE -> Combo: C-D-(ADE)-(ADE)
Order: 1xA, 3xB, 3xC, 1xD -> Combo: A-D-(BC)-(BC)-(BC)
Order: 1xA, 4xB, 1xC, 1xD, 1xE -> Combo: (BA)-(BC)-(BD)-(BE)
Order: 1xA, 2xB, 2xC, 3xD -> Combo: (BAB)-(DCDCD)
Order: 2xA, 1xB, 1xC, 1xD, 1xE, 3xF -> Combo: (FAFAF)-B-C-D
Order: 1xA, 1xB, 1xC, 1xD, 1xE, 1xF, 2xG -> Combo: (GFG)-A-B-C-D-E

Of course it's also a matter of practice that you keep track which ingredients you already used up, to find the corresponding keys quickly, etc..

[Tim]

They are one of my least used foods in the game other than ay...my nemisis, POTATOOOOOO. Really, it's all with the remembering the stages. 2 tomatos +1 meat for example = tomato, meat, tomato. Skillful, diffucult, not so rewarding ;3

[chaotic_iak]

Here's my strategy, which hopefully is easy enough. At least it's easy enough for me that I occasionally include kabob in my menu, since it has Health Nuts.

The 24 recipes in the game are divided into several categories based on how many times each ingredient is needed. In the following, different letters denote different ingredients.

• 4A+2B+1C+1D: ABABACAD (Chicken Kabob (6))
  
• 4A+1B+1C+1D+1E: ABACADAE (Onion Kabob (7), Pineapple Kabob (12))
  
• 3A+3B+1C+1D: ABABABCD (Meaty Kabob (2), Pepper Kabob (3), Red Kabob (4), Yellow Kabob (16), Odessa Kabob (22))
  
• 3A+2B+2C+1D: ABCABCAD (Tangy Kabob (9), Juicy Kabob (10))
  
• 3A+2B+1C+1D+1E: ABABACDE (Squash Kabob (15), Tomato Kabob (24))
  
• 2A+2B+2C+2D: ABCDABCD (Green Kabob (21), Kabob Special (23))
  
• 2A+2B+2C+1D+1E: ABCABCDE (Classic Kabob (1), Kabobber (5), Tower Kabob (8), Hawaiian Kabob (11), Crazy Kabob (17), Veggie Kabob (19))
  
• 2A+2B+1C+1D+1E+1F: ABABCDEF (Kabomber (13), American Kabob (20))
  
• 2A+1B+1C+1D+1E+1F+1G: ABACDEFG (Kabob Sampler (14), Kabob Platter (18))

Essentially, you have two strategies:
- If an ingredient is needed 4 times, use it every other time.
- Otherwise, use all that appear multiple times alternately, starting with those with 3 if any, and finish off with the 1s. (The last case is a special case; you separate the double ingredient with another.)

Among ingredients appearing the same number of times, read it from the front. For example, Meaty Kabob says "(1) Tomato, (3) Meat, (3) Chicken, (1) Green Pepper"; this means 3A+3B+1C+1D strategy, where A is Meat, B is Chicken, C is Tomato, and D is Green Pepper.

[la merde]

Thank you for your effort describing this so detailed. I will try my best to understand.

... I feel so dump to not understand this. :( ^^

[Glamboro]

I did practice mode for this food once.

Decided it is NOT worth the effort lol.

[Tim]

Also, what's the price of it's INSANE diffuculty? Like not even 20 wing wangs!

[FRoOTy]

I'm at over 7,500 customers served and shish kabob is the only thing I haven't purchased.

[Songbird]

It's actually pretty simple and easy to think about if you simply just use the ingredients you need more than one of first and the ones you need only one of last.

Easy way to never screw up an order:

1) The first ingredient should always be the one you need the most of.
2) Always use ingredients you need more than one more of before ingredients you need exactly one of, unless you'd be placing the same one twice in a row.

This takes care of every possible mistake you could make without having to think ahead about what you're doing. You only have to worry about the ingredient you're currently placing. Kebobs actually have one of the easiest key layouts to memorize, too. (Everything is by the first letter except chicken which is K for every recipe in the game that uses it... compare that to onions, garlic, butter, and tomatoes jumping all over the damn keyboard.)