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Comment by Faell

The Recipe Rat can be found at the Obsidian Rest (52, 26) in Zaralek Caverns. He is located near the cooking supplies vendor Koslahki hidden inside a crate. He functions similarly to how he did in the vault at Forbidden Reach. You will have to repeatedly click on him in your inventory to receive 30 scraps to combine into the recipe. However, he will disappear from your inventory after about 3 minutes if you do not have any Fine Aged Cheddar. You can pick him up again at the same spot if you lose him.

Comment by Lazey

When you're still on it, finish your old Zskera Vault Recipe Rat negotiations for Torn Recipe Scraps or delete the Rat item. This seems to be the only old Recipe Rat interaction that may block progressing on the new one. I tried with characters who didn't acquire the Ratcipe: Deviously Deviled Eggs or never met the Zskera Vault Recipe Rat and nothing was hidden.
If you haven't yet, learn Dragon Isles Cooking (later, skill 50 will be mandatory to learn the recipe for the soulbound Charitable Cheddar)
Purchase 20x Fine Aged Cheddar (or more, you'll need more for cooking later)
Head to Zaralek Cavern's Obsidian Rest on the Dragon Isles and interact with Squeaking Swiss in a supply crate at /way #2133 52.43 26.82 Squeaking Swiss
(make sure Step 1 & 2 are done, otherwise the cheese won't be visible)
To help people who went there unprepared, on your very first interaction with Squeaking Swiss you will receive 1x Fine Aged Cheddar (flags hidden quest complete) on top of the Recipe Rat that hops into your bags.
As long as you have the Recipe Rat in your bags, it will consume 1x Fine Aged Cheddar every ~3min and scurry away when there's no cheddar left.(unless you've acquired all recipe scraps, Squeaking Swiss will be visible again when you lost the Rat)
Every 5min you can now Grovel before the Recipe Rat (by using the Recipe Rat) to get a random number of Ripped Recipe Scrap.
When you did acquire 30x Ripped Recipe Scrap this way, the rat will eventually escape forever, but you can now Combine Recipe Scraps to get the Ratcipe: Charitable Cheddar.
Learn the recipe, and get all the ingredients needed (which is quite a "ride") to cook 50x Charitable Cheddar.(depending on your cooking skills this will take up to: 50x Fine Aged Cheddar , 20x Spicy Sharp Cheddar , 10x Zocalo Cheddar , 10x Gold Bar)
Travel the world to find Rats (literally critters with "Rat" as their names), target them, and use the Charitable Cheddar to complete your The Gift of Cheese achievement and eventually be rewarded with Roland.
Patch 10.1.5 addition: When you summon Roland on a character with Dragon Isles Cooking skill 50 (and at least one of the recipes unlearned), our befriended Recipe Rat will now train them the recipes for Deviously Deviled Eggs and Charitable Cheddar without needing to locate him again in Zskera Vaults or Zaralek Cavern.

Kudos to Kamboozle for sharing the Squeaking Swiss find on the Secret Finding Discord.

Comment by Sorrowsong

A place to find rats is Brill. The graveyard in town. Hope this helps someone if they can't find any easily. Also, there are a few at Garren's Haunt, which isn't too far from Brill. I want to add that there is something very fun about running through Tirisfal Glades with five fat and happy rats following you.

Comment by Flimaxo

Skirmish Arenas and Proving ground resets the timer on the item, so it can fasten up the progress.

Comment by AlexisJay

This item is used to get The Gift of Cheese which rewards Roland Youtube guide - https://youtu.be/4t074il6Aig

Steps to get Roland:
1. Be sure that you have levelled your dragon isles cooking to at least 50.
2. Go to Miwana in Orgrimmar (coordinates 39,48) or Elaine Trias in Stormwind (coordinates 66,73) and buy 2-3 stacks of Fine Aged Cheddar.
3. Go to the Obsidian Rest in Zaralek Caverns and loot Squeaking Swiss which is found in a crate at coordinates 52,26. It is at the ground floor level and not the first floor.
4. You now have 1 fine aged cheddar and a Recipe Rat. Interact with the rat to grovel at it and it will give you some Ripped Recipe Scrap. Keep interacting with the rat until you have 30 recipe scraps. You can interact with the rat once every 5 minutes. The rat will also consume one fine aged cheddar from your bags every 3 minutes. If you do not have any fine aged cheddar in your bags, the rat will disappear and you will have to go loot the squeaking swiss again.
5. After getting 30 recipe scraps, combine these into the Ratcipe: Charitable Cheddar. Learn it.
6. Buy the ingredients to make 50 Charitable Cheddar from the auction house OR buy the Spicy Sharp Cheddar from Kurd Butterhoof in Highmountain, coordinates 38,78, and Zocalo Cheddar from Corka in Zuldazaar, coordinates 71,29.
7. Travel to Falconhurst in Drustvar and feed the cheese to 50 rats. You can only feed this to critters. You switch on the critter and companions setting from the options menu to see the name plates. Making a macro can help target rats but when you feed rats cheese, they will follow you, so the macro will be useless. Getting into combat will scare away the rats and you can use your macro again (don't worry, the rats will still count for the achievement).
8. Feed 50 rats and you get the achievement and Roland. Gratz!

Comment by SafeCloud

5x Fine Aged Cheddar
Ben Trias
Miwana

2x Spicy Sharp Cheddar
Kurd Butterhoof

1x Zocalo Cheddar
Joon Cloudgazer

1x Gold Bar
Felwood

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Ratcipe: Charitable Cheddar

Item Level 1
Binds when picked up

Use: Teaches you how to cook Charitable Cheddar.
Recipe for 5 servings. Actual number of servings will vary based on cooking skill.
Requires Level 58
Requires Dragon Isles Cooking (50)

Sell Price: 12 50

Ratcipe: Charitable Cheddar

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