Characters can come across cooking pots in camps and kitchens, and may feel a need to check just what’s cooking inside them and whether it’s good to eat.

1. Leftovers from many different meals, an assortment of previously cooked meats and vegetables that is lacking any texture but filling.
2. Mutton stew with cabbages and leeks. Filling but so overcooked it is tasteless.
3. Nothing but herbs and greens.
4. Pungent broth made solely of garlic and onions.
5. Scraps and offcuts of now-soft leather in boiling water.
6. Severed fingers and ears from a number of different species in a weak broth.
7. Sludgy mess of vegetables that are no longer identifiable.
8. Smelly broth of fish heads and bones.
9. Tasteless mush of grey lumps of indeterminate origin.
10. Tasty and perfectly spiced stew made from rat meat.