Grahm's Meat-Cook

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Fallout 76 public event
Grahm's Meat-Cook
Location	The Forest (south of Vault 76, northwest of moonshiner's shack)
Rewards	500 XP 1 legendary item 40-80 3 Treasury Notes 1-3 Legendary cores See table
Related quests	Primal Cuts
Technical
Editor ID	E02A_Meat_BBQ
Form ID	0054B3FA

The following is based on Fallout 76 seasonal content.

“Help Grahm host a clean, delicious, and lively cookout.”

Event: Grahm's Meat-Cook is a seasonal public event in Fallout 76, introduced in the Nuclear Winter update. It is part of the Meat Week community event. It starts at the top of every hour (at XX:00). The event restarts if the previous hour's instance was not completed.

Grahm is still available as a vendor while the event is ongoing. Some of the outfit pieces he can randomly award when the quest is completed might be available for purchase from his vendor inventory instead.

Availability

Start	End
August 1, 2019	August 8, 2019
September 26, 2019	October 3, 2019
August 20, 2020	August 26, 2020
September 22, 2020	September 28, 2020
August 17, 2021	August 23, 2021
April 26, 2022	April 29, 2022
August 16, 2022	August 30, 2022
August 29, 2023	September 12, 2023
May 21, 2024	June 4, 2024

Quick walkthrough

Event: Grahm's Meat-Cook
Talk to Grahm for instructions.
Run a successful cookout by continuously performing the necessary tasks.
Reward: Varies depending on results of cookout.

Detailed walkthrough

When the Vault Dwellers arrive at Grahm's cookout spot, he will ask for their help in running the festivities. It may be found northwest of the moonshiner's shack, and south of Vault 76. The billboard outside of Vault 76 on the cliffside can still be seen from the spot.

To properly celebrate Meat Week, the players must perform a number of tasks in order to maintain a success meter displayed in the top right corner of the UI. The more filled the meter is, the better the rewards given at the end of the event. Chally the moo-moo is not for eating.

Tasks

To contribute to the progress bar, the player can perform several specific tasks in and around the cookout grounds:

• Continuously turn one of the three cooking spits located on the north end of the grounds
  • +0.08% per second progress per meat spit being turned and an additional +0.08% bonus progress if all meat spits are being turned (doubling the contribution).
• Continuously play the drums located on a small raised stage on the southern end.
  • +0.08% per second progress per instrument played and an additional +0.08% bonus progress if all instruments are being played (doubling the contribution).
  • Although not immediately reflected by the UI, both of the continuous tasks contribute toward the progress bar during the "wait for the cookout to begin" stage.
• Collect critter chunks by killing and looting the various critters, such as chickens, rabbits, squirrels and opossums, around the grounds, then depositing the chunks into the "snack cart" (a shopping cart occupied by a carcass of an opossum) on the eastern side of the grounds.
  • +1.6% progess for every critter chunk donated.
• Collect greens from verdant green plants located in the foliage surrounding the grounds, then depositing them into the cooler on the eastern side of the grounds, adjacent to the snack cart.
  • +1.6% progess for every greens donated.
• Donate five wood scraps onto the pile of kindling at the center of the campsite. This can be repeated after a short delay from the last time it was activated.
  • +0.32% progress for every 5 wood added. 30 second cooldown on wood donations. Wood must be on you, not in your stash/scrap box.
• Donate Chally's feed to Chally's feed pile. It may be crafted on the spot at the cooking station in the center of the campsite.
  • +2% progress for every Chally's Greens added. 30 second cooldown. These may be cooked in advance.
  • The recipe may only be purchased from Grahm during Meat Week (he still acts as a vendor), however the item is not instanced per player - meaning another player can beat the rest to it.
  • Chally the moo-moo may be milked while at the campsite, but is added to the "recent loot" loot, which prevents farming.
• Clean up rotten leftovers and "stinky piles" around the grounds, represented by small greyish piles of brahmin skulls or dung piles respectively. Sometimes, Grahm will comment when Chally leaves a "stinky pile" so it can be cleaned up quickly.
  • 19 Rotten Leftovers food piles spawn at the start of the event and don't respawn.
  • Maximum of 3 Poo piles spawn every 30 seconds.
• Extinguish the brush fires near Grahm's grills, signified by blackened patches of grass on fire.
  • Maximum of 10 fires spawn every 30 seconds.

Every fire not extinguished and every leftover food or poo pile not cleaned up casues a .02% drain on progress every second. If left unattended, this can cause a 0.48% drain every second.

Progress bar

Numerical values reflect the progress added by each action. Once accounted for, a small animation of Grahm cooking will play. Players need to achieve at least 50% progress to pass the event if the timer expires, which provides the baseline performance. Reaching 75% will grant good performance rewards and 100% will instantly complete the event with the best rewards. To recap, actions that progress are:

• Donate Chally's feed: +2% every 30 seconds.
• Deposit greens: +1.60% per item, no cooldown.
• Deposit critter chunks: +1.60% per item, no cooldown.
• Donate wood: +0.32% progress every 30 seconds.
• Turn meat spits: +0.08% per tick or +0.16% (if all are in use).
• Play musical instruments: +0.08% per tick or +0.16% (if all are in use).

The most time-effective way to contribute are critter chunks, as the critters can be targeted in VATS and consistently drop the chunks, and just 10 are enough to add 16% to the bar. The least effective ways are Chally's feed and wood donations, due to their 30 second timer. In that same amount of time, a single drum or meat spit adds 2.4%, while a fully occupied stage or spit platform would add 14.4% (as the contribution is doubled if all spots are occupied).

Numerical values reflect the progress subtracted per tick, per active item.

• Rotten leftovers (max 19, don't respawn): -0.02% per tick each; spawns anywhere around Grahm's kitchen (2500 unit radius)
• Stinky piles (max 3, respawn every 30 seconds): -0.02% per tick each.
• Brush fires (max 10, respawn every 30 seconds): -0.02% per tick each.

Prime meat

If the player has recently completed the Primal Cuts event, they can deposit their prime meat in the large cooking cauldron, the adjacent open grills or the spit-roasting yao guai at the center of the Meat-Cook area. Prime meat may only be donated in stacks of five, and only three times per Meat Cook.

In addition to filling the progress bar, each stack of meat will be exchanged for five Legendary scrip, for a total of 15 . Additionally, each stack of prime meat donated will buff the player with an increasing degree of meat sweats, the effects of which are as follows:

Donation	Effect	Bonus ( 15 min)
5 (one stack)	Mild meat sweats	· Taking damage may result in gaseous discharge  · Hunger does not decay
10 (two stacks)	Meat sweats	· Taking damage may result in gaseous discharge  · Hunger does not decay  · +15 maximum HP
15 (three stacks)	Strong meat sweats	· Taking damage may result in gaseous discharge  · Hunger does not decay  · +30 maximum HP  · +5% bonus XP

The Strong Meat sweats effect prevents players from exchanging Prime meat to Legendary scrip, essentially limiting the conversion rate even if they can join the event twice in short succession (e.g. by connecting to a different server). It also prevents the exchange if the player quits the session before the effect wears off and logs in shortly before the event starts again.

Completion

Once the timer runs out, or if the meter is completely maxed, the event will conclude. The event rewards are given depending on how high the meter is at the time of completion. The better the meter was, the better the rewards and Grahm's thoughts on it.

Past the first objective, the event is considered "bad performance." Past the second, the event is considered "good performance." At the meter's maximum, the event is considered "best performance." If the meter is below the first objective upon the timer expiring, the event fails and no rewards are distributed.

Grahm has dynamic dialogue dependent on how well the event went. The commentary ranges from sad disappointment (if the event ends in failure), all the way to joyful praise and singing should the event finish perfectly.

Rewards

Each reward in the "Meat Week item" list has a 1/48 or a 2.08% chance to be rewarded.

Bad performance	Good performance	Best performance
300 XP 40 3 Treasury Notes Beer/alcohol (1) Beer Blackwater Brew New River Red Ale Oak Holler Lager Old Possum Pickaxe Pilsner Cooked meat (1) Baked bloatfly Bloodbug steak Cooked softshell meat Deathclaw steak Grilled radroach Grilled radstag Mole rat chunks Mutt chops Radscorpion steak Ribeye steak Roasted mirelurk meat Stingwing filet Yao guai ribs Meat Week default reward (1) Plan: Beer steins display case (if plan not already learned) Plan: Meat Week souvenir beer stein (if plan not already learned) Meat Week item (34.0%) (1) Bloody chef hat Bloody chef outfit Chally the moo-moo mask Chally the moo-moo outfit Grill master's hat Plan: Bloody curtain door Plan: Bloody rug Plan: Brahmin grill Plan: Cattle flour billboards Plan: Chally the moo-moo backpack Plan: Decoy ducks Plan: Flamer Plan: Fossilized megalonyx left arm Plan: Fossilized megalonyx left leg Plan: Fossilized megalonyx right arm Plan: Fossilized megalonyx right leg Plan: Fossilized megalonyx skull Plan: Fossilized megalonyx torso Plan: Grocery cart grill Plan: Ground meat plushie Plan: Meat cleaver Plan: Meat tenderizer Plan: Meat week flag Plan: Megalonyx display rack Plan: Mutant hound diagram Plan: Nuka shank knife Plan: Pepper Shaker Plan: Peppered tenderizer mod Plan: Peppino Pig plushie Plan: Plastic fruit bowl Plan: Plastic fruit wreath Plan: Punty Pig plushie Plan: Rib plushie Plan: Rotted ground meat plushie Plan: Rotted rib plushie Plan: Rotted steak plushie Plan: Salty tenderizer mod Plan: Shishkebab Plan: Spicy tenderizer mod Plan: Steak plushie Plan: Super mutant diagram Plan: Swarm of flies Plan: Taxidermy mutant hound Plan: Wasteland hunter backpack Plan: Weenie wagon Plan: Wilber McPigg plushie Recipe: Tato salad The Tenderizer (1) Meat cleaver	300 XP 40 3 Treasury Notes 1-2 Legendary core Stimpak (1) Stimpak Stimpak: Super Beer/alcohol (1) Beer Blackwater Brew New River Red Ale Oak Holler Lager Old Possum Pickaxe Pilsner Cooked meat (1) Baked bloatfly Bloodbug steak Cooked softshell meat Deathclaw steak Grilled radroach Grilled radstag Mole rat chunks Mutt chops Radscorpion steak Ribeye steak Roasted mirelurk meat Stingwing filet Yao guai ribs Meat Week default reward (1) Plan: Beer steins display case (if plan not already learned) Plan: Meat Week souvenir beer stein (if plan not already learned) Meat Week item (67.0%) (1) Bloody chef hat Bloody chef outfit Chally the moo-moo mask Chally the moo-moo outfit Grill master's hat Plan: Bloody curtain door Plan: Bloody rug Plan: Brahmin grill Plan: Cattle flour billboards Plan: Chally the moo-moo backpack Plan: Decoy ducks Plan: Flamer Plan: Fossilized megalonyx left arm Plan: Fossilized megalonyx left leg Plan: Fossilized megalonyx right arm Plan: Fossilized megalonyx right leg Plan: Fossilized megalonyx skull Plan: Fossilized megalonyx torso Plan: Grocery cart grill Plan: Ground meat plushie Plan: Meat cleaver Plan: Meat tenderizer Plan: Meat week flag Plan: Megalonyx display rack Plan: Mutant hound diagram Plan: Nuka shank knife Plan: Pepper Shaker Plan: Peppered tenderizer mod Plan: Peppino Pig plushie Plan: Plastic fruit bowl Plan: Plastic fruit wreath Plan: Punty Pig plushie Plan: Rib plushie Plan: Rotted ground meat plushie Plan: Rotted rib plushie Plan: Rotted steak plushie Plan: Salty tenderizer mod Plan: Shishkebab Plan: Spicy tenderizer mod Plan: Steak plushie Plan: Super mutant diagram Plan: Swarm of flies Plan: Taxidermy mutant hound Plan: Wasteland hunter backpack Plan: Weenie wagon Plan: Wilber McPigg plushie Recipe: Tato salad The Tenderizer (2) Meat cleaver	500 XP 60 3 Treasury Notes 1-3 Legendary core Stimpak (1) Stimpak Stimpak: Super Beer/alcohol (1) Beer Blackwater Brew New River Red Ale Oak Holler Lager Old Possum Pickaxe Pilsner Cooked meat (1) Baked bloatfly Bloodbug steak Cooked softshell meat Deathclaw steak Grilled radroach Grilled radstag Mole rat chunks Mutt chops Radscorpion steak Ribeye steak Roasted mirelurk meat Stingwing filet Yao guai ribs Meat Week default reward (1) Plan: Beer steins display case (if plan not already learned) Plan: Meat Week souvenir beer stein (if plan not already learned) Meat Week item (1) Bloody chef hat Bloody chef outfit Chally the moo-moo mask Chally the moo-moo outfit Grill master's hat Plan: Bloody curtain door Plan: Bloody rug Plan: Brahmin grill Plan: Cattle flour billboards Plan: Chally the moo-moo backpack Plan: Decoy ducks Plan: Flamer Plan: Fossilized megalonyx left arm Plan: Fossilized megalonyx left leg Plan: Fossilized megalonyx right arm Plan: Fossilized megalonyx right leg Plan: Fossilized megalonyx skull Plan: Fossilized megalonyx torso Plan: Grocery cart grill Plan: Ground meat plushie Plan: Meat cleaver Plan: Meat tenderizer Plan: Meat week flag Plan: Megalonyx display rack Plan: Mutant hound diagram Plan: Nuka shank knife Plan: Pepper Shaker Plan: Peppered tenderizer mod Plan: Peppino Pig plushie Plan: Plastic fruit bowl Plan: Plastic fruit wreath Plan: Punty Pig plushie Plan: Rib plushie Plan: Rotted ground meat plushie Plan: Rotted rib plushie Plan: Rotted steak plushie Plan: Salty tenderizer mod Plan: Shishkebab Plan: Spicy tenderizer mod Plan: Steak plushie Plan: Super mutant diagram Plan: Swarm of flies Plan: Taxidermy mutant hound Plan: Wasteland hunter backpack Plan: Weenie wagon Plan: Wilber McPigg plushie Recipe: Tato salad The Tenderizer (3) Meat cleaver (1) Tato salad (1) Possible legendary armor or weapon - One star
Bad performance
300 XP 40 3 Treasury Notes Beer/alcohol (1) Beer Blackwater Brew New River Red Ale Oak Holler Lager Old Possum Pickaxe Pilsner Cooked meat (1) Baked bloatfly Bloodbug steak Cooked softshell meat Deathclaw steak Grilled radroach Grilled radstag Mole rat chunks Mutt chops Radscorpion steak Ribeye steak Roasted mirelurk meat Stingwing filet Yao guai ribs Meat Week default reward (1) Plan: Beer steins display case (if plan not already learned) Plan: Meat Week souvenir beer stein (if plan not already learned) Meat Week item (34.0%) (1) Bloody chef hat Bloody chef outfit Chally the moo-moo mask Chally the moo-moo outfit Grill master's hat Plan: Bloody curtain door Plan: Bloody rug Plan: Brahmin grill Plan: Cattle flour billboards Plan: Chally the moo-moo backpack Plan: Decoy ducks Plan: Flamer Plan: Fossilized megalonyx left arm Plan: Fossilized megalonyx left leg Plan: Fossilized megalonyx right arm Plan: Fossilized megalonyx right leg Plan: Fossilized megalonyx skull Plan: Fossilized megalonyx torso Plan: Grocery cart grill Plan: Ground meat plushie Plan: Meat cleaver Plan: Meat tenderizer Plan: Meat week flag Plan: Megalonyx display rack Plan: Mutant hound diagram Plan: Nuka shank knife Plan: Pepper Shaker Plan: Peppered tenderizer mod Plan: Peppino Pig plushie Plan: Plastic fruit bowl Plan: Plastic fruit wreath Plan: Punty Pig plushie Plan: Rib plushie Plan: Rotted ground meat plushie Plan: Rotted rib plushie Plan: Rotted steak plushie Plan: Salty tenderizer mod Plan: Shishkebab Plan: Spicy tenderizer mod Plan: Steak plushie Plan: Super mutant diagram Plan: Swarm of flies Plan: Taxidermy mutant hound Plan: Wasteland hunter backpack Plan: Weenie wagon Plan: Wilber McPigg plushie Recipe: Tato salad The Tenderizer (1) Meat cleaver
Good performance
300 XP 40 3 Treasury Notes 1-2 Legendary core Stimpak (1) Stimpak Stimpak: Super Beer/alcohol (1) Beer Blackwater Brew New River Red Ale Oak Holler Lager Old Possum Pickaxe Pilsner Cooked meat (1) Baked bloatfly Bloodbug steak Cooked softshell meat Deathclaw steak Grilled radroach Grilled radstag Mole rat chunks Mutt chops Radscorpion steak Ribeye steak Roasted mirelurk meat Stingwing filet Yao guai ribs Meat Week default reward (1) Plan: Beer steins display case (if plan not already learned) Plan: Meat Week souvenir beer stein (if plan not already learned) Meat Week item (67.0%) (1) Bloody chef hat Bloody chef outfit Chally the moo-moo mask Chally the moo-moo outfit Grill master's hat Plan: Bloody curtain door Plan: Bloody rug Plan: Brahmin grill Plan: Cattle flour billboards Plan: Chally the moo-moo backpack Plan: Decoy ducks Plan: Flamer Plan: Fossilized megalonyx left arm Plan: Fossilized megalonyx left leg Plan: Fossilized megalonyx right arm Plan: Fossilized megalonyx right leg Plan: Fossilized megalonyx skull Plan: Fossilized megalonyx torso Plan: Grocery cart grill Plan: Ground meat plushie Plan: Meat cleaver Plan: Meat tenderizer Plan: Meat week flag Plan: Megalonyx display rack Plan: Mutant hound diagram Plan: Nuka shank knife Plan: Pepper Shaker Plan: Peppered tenderizer mod Plan: Peppino Pig plushie Plan: Plastic fruit bowl Plan: Plastic fruit wreath Plan: Punty Pig plushie Plan: Rib plushie Plan: Rotted ground meat plushie Plan: Rotted rib plushie Plan: Rotted steak plushie Plan: Salty tenderizer mod Plan: Shishkebab Plan: Spicy tenderizer mod Plan: Steak plushie Plan: Super mutant diagram Plan: Swarm of flies Plan: Taxidermy mutant hound Plan: Wasteland hunter backpack Plan: Weenie wagon Plan: Wilber McPigg plushie Recipe: Tato salad The Tenderizer (2) Meat cleaver
Best performance
300 XP 40 3 Treasury Notes 1-3 Legendary core Stimpak (1) Stimpak Stimpak: Super Beer/alcohol (1) Beer Blackwater Brew New River Red Ale Oak Holler Lager Old Possum Pickaxe Pilsner Cooked meat (1) Baked bloatfly Bloodbug steak Cooked softshell meat Deathclaw steak Grilled radroach Grilled radstag Mole rat chunks Mutt chops Radscorpion steak Ribeye steak Roasted mirelurk meat Stingwing filet Yao guai ribs Meat Week default reward (1) Plan: Beer steins display case (if plan not already learned) Plan: Meat Week souvenir beer stein (if plan not already learned) Meat Week item (1) Bloody chef hat Bloody chef outfit Chally the moo-moo mask Chally the moo-moo outfit Grill master's hat Plan: Bloody curtain door Plan: Bloody rug Plan: Brahmin grill Plan: Cattle flour billboards Plan: Chally the moo-moo backpack Plan: Decoy ducks Plan: Flamer Plan: Fossilized megalonyx left arm Plan: Fossilized megalonyx left leg Plan: Fossilized megalonyx right arm Plan: Fossilized megalonyx right leg Plan: Fossilized megalonyx skull Plan: Fossilized megalonyx torso Plan: Grocery cart grill Plan: Ground meat plushie Plan: Meat cleaver Plan: Meat tenderizer Plan: Meat week flag Plan: Megalonyx display rack Plan: Mutant hound diagram Plan: Nuka shank knife Plan: Pepper Shaker Plan: Peppered tenderizer mod Plan: Peppino Pig plushie Plan: Plastic fruit bowl Plan: Plastic fruit wreath Plan: Punty Pig plushie Plan: Rib plushie Plan: Rotted ground meat plushie Plan: Rotted rib plushie Plan: Rotted steak plushie Plan: Salty tenderizer mod Plan: Shishkebab Plan: Spicy tenderizer mod Plan: Steak plushie Plan: Super mutant diagram Plan: Swarm of flies Plan: Taxidermy mutant hound Plan: Wasteland hunter backpack Plan: Weenie wagon Plan: Wilber McPigg plushie Recipe: Tato salad The Tenderizer (3) Meat cleaver (1) Tato salad (1) Possible legendary armor or weapon - One star

Quest stages

Quest stages
Stage	Description	Log Entry	Status
5	Wait for the cookout to begin
10	Help Grahm throw a successful cookout	Grahm the Super Mutant is hosting a cookout. He doesn't have a lot of experience with social gatherings, but I could help him throw a great party by keeping the camp clean, the guests fed, and the mood festive.
30	(Optional) Extinguish the Bush Fires
40	(Optional) Scoop Chally's Stinky Piles
50	(Optional) Clean up Rotten Leftovers

Bugs

• PC Playstation 4 Xbox One The meter may sometimes not display the correct value and appear lower than it actually is.^[patched]
• PC Playstation 4 Xbox One Grahm and Chally might move from their original spots and would not be able to come back.^[patched]
• PC Playstation 4 Xbox One During the initial April 2022 run of this event, Meat-Cook could give only lowest tier rewards, no matter how good the event was. This was later patched.^[patched]

Behind the scenes

• Quest designers Carl McKevitt and Ellys Tan worked on this event.
• Prior to its run on August 17–23, 2021, Chally could not be milked for Chally's milk.
• The festive Hawaiian music that plays around the campgrounds are Kiri Tiki and Tiki Bar, composed by Lionel Wendling.

Gallery

Reward list

Meat Cook campgrounds

Clean up the rotten scraps

Clean up Chally's stinky piles

Extinguish bush fires

Harvest greens

Deposit greens in the cooler

Deposit critter chunks in the snack cart

Donate wood to the firewood stack

Play the chemical and metal barrels

Drumming up excitement

Turn the meat spits

Donate prime meat to Grahm's meat kitchen

Grahm's meat kitchen

Promotional images

A successful Meat Cook

Meat Cook reward variants in the Atomic Shop

References

Events in Fallout 76 Public events A Colossal Problem · Campfire Tales · Distinguished Guests · Encryptid · Eviction Notice · Feed the People · Free Range · Guided Meditation · Heart of the Swamp · Jail Break · Line in the Sand · Lode Baring · Moonshine Jamboree · Most Wanted · One Violent Night · The Path to Enlightenment · Project Paradise · Radiation Rumble · Scorched Earth · Seismic Activity · Spin the Wheel · Swarm of Suitors · Tea Time · Test Your Metal · Tunnel of Love · Uranium Fever · Beasts of Burden · Safe and Sound Seasonal events Fasnacht Day · Grahm's Meat-Cook · Invaders from Beyond · Mischief Night (2024) · Primal Cuts · The Mothman Equinox Events A Real Blast · Always Vigilant · AWOL Armaments · Back on the Beat · Battle Bot · Bots on Parade · Breach and Clear · Census Violence · Collision Course · Death Blossoms · Distant Thunder · Dogwood Die Off · Dropped Connection · Fertile Soil · Fly Swatter · Grafton Day · Horde: (Enemy)(Region) · Irrational Fear · It's a Trap · Leader of the Pack · Manhunt · Monster Mash · Patrol Duty · Powering Up Monongah / Powering Up Poseidon / Powering Up Thunder Mountain · Project Beanstalk · Protest March · Riding Shotgun · Surface to Air · Defend (Workshop) · Retake (Workshop) Cut / Removed A Mine of Her Own · Magnum Opus · Mischief Night (2019) · Race for the Presidency · The Battle that Never Was (Versus) · The Bell Tolls · The Black Box · The Glowing Swamp · The Messenger · Welcoming Committee