Sour Essence

Sour Essence

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

Sour Essence is extracted from sour foods. It is used as a reagent for potions brewed through cooking alchemy.

Acquisition

As availability of Sour Essence in the Marketplace varies, it is recommended to gather sour ingredients by foraging, fishing or farming. These ingredients can then be prepared to produce the essence.

Image	Raw Material/Ingredient	Sour Essence Yield	Other Yielded Ingredients	Notes
	Raw Hammerhead Shark	1	5 x Filleted Fish and 25% chance of Fish Oil	Hammerheads require a minimum of Level 60 in Fishing.
	Tomato	1	3 x Chopped Vegetables and 1 x Diced Fruit	Tomatoes are foraged from Verdant Valley (Level 10 Foraging) or the Living Forest (Level 70 Foraging). They can be grown from Tomato Seeds at Level 12 Farming.
	Pineapple	2	2 x Diced Fruit and 2 x Sweet Essence	Pineapples are foraged from Verdant Valley with Level 10 Foraging.
	Lotus Flower	6	1 x Chopped Vegetables and 6 x Spicy Essence	Lotus flowers are foraged from the Living Forest (Level 70 Foraging).
	Glow Spore Shroom	2	2 x Bitter Essence	These mushrooms are foraged from the Fungal Grotto (Level 20 Foraging).

This essence may be earned in combat:

	Source	Quantity	Rarity	Leagues
	Master Chicken's Kitchen	5–500	66%	All
	Limpe K. Limpe	5–500	66%	All

Uses

Sour essence can be used to craft a substance known as Corrupted Substrate which is involved in Jewelry augmentation.

Item Created		Category	Lvl. Req.	XP	Materials
	100x Corrupted Substrate	Jewelry	10	1030	100 10 1

In cooking alchemy, Sour Essence is used to make the following potions:

• Deep Fry
• Empowered Gathering
• Fishing (Enchantment)
• Fishing Magnetism
• Inferno
• Intuition
• Naturalist
• Oil Spill
• Pyromancy