Bitter Essence

Bitter Essence

Vendor Value	50
Cooking
Difficulty	1
Size	1
Tooltip
Essence extracted from bitter foods. Used in alchemy.

Bitter Essence is extracted from bitter ingredients. It is used as an reagent for potions brewed through cooking alchemy.

Acquisition

Although this essence is periodically available in the Marketplace, it is generally prepared from foraged, crafted or farmed ingredients.

Image	Raw Material/Ingredient	Bitter Essence Yield	Other Yielded Ingredients	Notes
	Mushroom	1		The mushroom is foraged from the Fungal Grotto (Foraging Level 20) or Haunted Woods (Level 60). It can also be grown from Mushroom Spores with Farming Level 17.
	Glow Spore Shroom	2	2 x Sour Essence	The Glow Spore Shroom is foraged from the Fungal Grotto (Foraging Level 20).
	Thorny Root	3	1 x Ground Flour	Thorny roots are foraged from The Tangle (Foraging Level 30) and the Haunted Woods (Level 60).
	Thorny Vine	3	1 x Chopped Vegetables	Thorny vines are foraged from The Tangle (Foraging Level 30) and the Haunted Woods (Level 60).
	Tangle Root	4	2 x Ground Flour	Thorny vines are foraged from The Tangle (Foraging Level 30).
	Mandrake	7	2 x Chopped Vegetables	Mandrakes are foraged from the Haunted Woods (Level 60).
	Seed Oil	2	2 x Spicy Essence	Seed Oil is crafted from seeds at Crafting Level 20.

Uses

Bitter Essence is used in cooking alchemy to make the following potions:

• Deep Fry
• Efficiency
• Empowered Prospecting
• Intuition
• Pungent Bait
• Pyromancy
• Reinforced Line
• Root Digging
• Runecrafting (Enchantment)
• Supercooling