Donut County

Donut County

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Secret Soup

Secret Soup

Make Chef's secret soup recipe.

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How to unlock the Secret Soup achievement in Donut County - Definitive Guide

On the Cat Soup level, once you get inside the restaurant you need to make the secret soup for the blue bird to drink.

The recipe in the Trashopedia for secret soup is:
"2 shakes salt, 3 shakes pepper."

Start by swallowing the three empty tin cans that are on the restaurant floor to get them out of the way. When you pull the cord on the right of the screen, water will be poured into the cooking pot which will be transferred to your hole when you move over to the stove. Once you have the hot water, a cupboard will open and a some salt and pepper shakers will be on rotation. Each ingredient will be added when you move your hole over to it, so wait for the salt (white) to be at the front of the cupboard and collect a shake.

The first shake will cause a cockroach to appear. You must avoid these as they will spoil your soup and force you to start from scratch. To avoid the cockroach, simply make small circular movements near the stove and you shouldn't have any trouble. The second shake of salt will cause a second cockroach to appear which can easily be dealt with in the same way, just make sure you stick to the left of the screen near the stove. Now you need to get 3 shakes of pepper (black) and an extra cockroach will appear after each shake. Do the exact same thing as you did for the salt until your soup turns orange and then move over to the blue bird on the right of the screen. The bird will become tearful due to how tasty the soup is and the achievement will unlock.

It's worth noting to always stick the the left of the screen, as the blue bird will drink whatever is in your hole and either force you to start over, or progress you to the next part of the level.

Do not worry if you missed this during your initial playthrough as level select is available once you complete the game.
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18 Dec 2018 18:32

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It's also worth noting that the order doesn't seem to matter, so I did salt-pepper-salt-pepper-pepper to save myself waiting a few extra rotations and that unlocked the achievement.
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By maxen on 01 Jan 2019 23:02
This one feels impossible. I tried doing salt and pepper first, before adding the liquid so that no cockroaches came. They didn't come, but no achieve pop adding the liquid last.
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By skittlebiz on 22 Jan 2021 00:08
Ok, I retried this doing liquid, then salt and pepper, and just popped it. Get the liquid, and you just have to keep going around and around to avoid the roaches. I got liquid, then pepper-salt-pepper-salt-pepper. And the soup turned DARK orange. You will know you have it when the liquid darkens after the final shake of pepper. You also don't have to remain under the shakers the whole time they are dispensing - keep moving away from the roaches. At least for me, a little shake will do. Once the liquid darkens, then feed to the bird. It'll cry a little, then achieve should pop.
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By skittlebiz on 22 Jan 2021 00:18
You can get multiple shakes per rotation by pulling back when it shakes then going back in for additional shake. I think I even got three shakes from one shaker in a single rotation. Unfortunately I found this out by over spicing my recipe when it happened accidentally.
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By planchetflaw on 22 Jan 2021 01:02
Yeah. Just want to point out this is much easier if you fill up from the pot, wait for pepper to spin by, get 3 pours of pepper, which will generate 3 roaches and then just dodge them til you can get the 2 pours of salt and head right for the bird. Got it my first time doing it that way.
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By MightySleigher on 23 Jan 2021 01:00
Thanks for the tip MightySleigher, I got it first try using that method.
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By Iceman2pnt0 on 23 Jan 2021 08:46
+1 for your method MightySleigher
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By HopKnyfe on 26 Jan 2021 03:04
To cheese it a little, move up to the shaker and get it to trigger, move right back, and move up to trigger it again. If you hear the ssssshh noise twice, it counted twice. Works best before center where your first one is late enough to definitely trigger and you have enough time for your second one.
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By DoesntRemindM3 on 26 Jan 2021 09:31
Thanks for guide, worked a treat 😄👍🏻
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By JAM5TON on 17 Mar 2021 19:35
a thing to note: you don't need to follow the recipe exactly. as long as you have 2 salt shakes and 3 pepper shakes.

on my attempt, I put 1 shake of salt and 1 pepper. Hoping that didn't ruin the recipe, I continued until I got the 2 salt and 3 pepper shakes and the achievement unlocked after the the bird shed his tears
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By on 31 Mar 2021 01:35
@NmE War Eagle thanks for the tip
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By Homunculus Fury on 28 Dec 2021 02:57
I had this with only 3 roaches running around. I started with pepper, 2 came up and then salt. Soup turned red and gave it to the bird. Achievement was unlocked
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By LaMaXxXFleey on 26 Mar 2022 22:16
Thankfully managed to get this first try, the roaches are easy enough to dupe but god are they annoying and heart stopping. Thanks for the guide!
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By xuxicroptop on 20 May 2022 16:29
I somehow managed to do this by putting on 3 peppers in one cycle that might be worth noting, it seems that you can stick there while the pepper is pouring before the first cockroach comes and have multiple in one cycle making it a lot easier. I knew initially I had done this as there is one cockroach for each ingredient and 3 had spawned.
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By freezercore on 22 Jan 2021 00:38
Ugh - this achievement was annoying!!

One note I might make is that the number of roaches you have can indicate how many shakes you have gotten. If you have 4 roaches you're short one shake, 6 roaches indicates you got an extra shake which you didn't intend. On my second to last attempt I got an extra shake of pepper trying to escape and that ruined it for me.

Again, annoying achievement!!
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By NmE War Eagle on 21 May 2021 17:39
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Missable (can use level select after beating the game)

Video @ 26:20

Achievement Walkthrough:
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thanks
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By NoobgamerValbo on 30 Mar 2022 20:10
Full game walkthrough ALL achievements / trophies


Missable Achievements / Trophies:
13:43 Pyro (Level: Joshua Tree)
18:17 Music Lover (Level: Gecko Park)
21:14 Gamer (Level: Chicken Barn)
22:57 Egg Breaker (Level: Chicken Barn)
27:15 Secret Soup (Level: Cat Soup)
39:29 Quack Enthusiast
41:35 Bandit Part1 (Level: Biology Lab)
44:12 Bandit Part 2 (Level: Raccoon HQ)
45:24 Disrespecter (Level: Anthropology Lab)
48:47 Flawless (Level: Final Boss)
51:19 Dethroner
52:02 Pilot & Escape (Credits)
53:20 Game Over (Level: Final Boss)
53:52 Nerd
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09 Feb 2021 15:56

I originally thought this trophy to be broken as I made the recipe on the board at least 2 times before deciding that something else must be missing. I believe I found the solution and you all can check it out in the video below.

You basically need the following ingredients. 1 soup, 2 pinches of salt and 3 pinches of pepper. once mixed the soup will glow a bright orange/red and the bird will enjoy it so much it'll actually cry. hope this helped some of you.

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I just figured it out myself and was going to share. Good job with the solution and video!
Are you sure it was enjoyment though? ;p I kind of wondered if it was crying and spasming over the extra salt and pepper making the soup extra spicy and salty. ;p

There's a Trashopedia entry later that confirms the secret soup recipe. I forgot if I swallowed the book beforehand or was it a reward for making the soup?
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By Wayens on 31 Aug 2018 17:09
When making soup, 3 pepper and 2 sugar with no cockroaches.
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15 Feb 2021 19:03

Level: Cat Soup

One of the more complicated and challenging trophies, the Secret Soup is created inside Cat Soup. Clear the area in front of the building, including the cockroaches. Enter the inside section of the kitchen and clear the three cans off the floor. During any replay of the level you can check your Trashopedia (or just follow this guide) to learn that the Secret Soup ingredients are 2 shakes of Salt and 3 shakes of Pepper. This information does not appear in the Trashopedia on the first playthrough until after the level.

What you need to do is open the salt and pepper shaker machine first, dump the green liquid into the hole and then add two shakes of salt and three shakes of pepper without letting any cockroaches get in or getting too close to the bird before the soup is ready. As you add the correct ingredients the soup will change from green to yellow, then to orange and finally to red. Once you have the correct amount of each seasoning, feed it to the bird. He will weep for your culinary technique and you will get the trophy.

The cockroaches will continually try to get in the soup and the bird can drink the soup too early thus ending the section and sending you back outside. If you don’t get it on the first try you will need to quit out of the game and continue at the start of the chapter, or knock it out later in Chapter Select.

Video guide:
 
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A hint in the garbage guide in the cookbook from the appropriate level.

It is necessary to add two pinches of salt and three pinches of pepper to the soup, making sure that cockroaches do not get into it.
The resulting soup will be bright orange.
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28 Aug 2018 19:46

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It is important not only to run away from cockroaches, but also to prevent Crane from drinking the soup ahead of time)
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By Reddragg-On on 31 Aug 2018 12:59