Cooking

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The Cooking skill is used to prepare raw food materials for a number of reasons, including the restoring of Hitpoints and the temporary boosting of skill levels.

There are many different types of food in RuneScape, each healing a different amount of Hitpoints. However, as with all skills, players must reach certain levels to cook certain foods. Cooking is also a very popular skill to raise, as many players like to sell food they have cooked to other players. This can give great profit, as many players are willing to purchase food already cooked. Cooking also has a larger variety of training options than any other skill. The current minimum to be ranked on the hiscores in Cooking is 47 and 75,501 experience (16th August).

Contents 1 How to cook 2 Items needed 3 Cookables 3.1 Meat 3.2 Fish 3.3 Snails 3.4 Bread 3.5 Pies 3.6 Stew 3.7 Pizza 3.8 Cake 3.9 Potato Toppings 3.10 Baked Potato 3.11 Dairy 3.12 Wine 3.13 Hot drinks 4 Brewing 5 Gnome Cooking 6 Training 6.1 Level advancement 6.2 Tips 6.2.1 Sell and buy, or just trade 6.2.2 Cook in the correct environment 6.2.2.1 Free-to-Play 6.2.2.2 Members only 7 Cooking Gauntlets 8 Power Cooking 9 Temporary boosts 10 Trivia 11 99 Cooking 12 References

[edit] How to cook

Players can cook in different ways. They can cook their food on a fire, a spit or they can cook their food on a range. Ranges are labeled on the map as a cooking pan () icon. It is important to note that only meat, fish,and tea can be cooked on a fire.

To cook, players have to use their food with a range or a fire. If they have more than one food item of the same kind in their inventory, a menu will ask them how many items they want to cook.

[edit] Items needed

There are many items that players need in order to cook food, such as water or flour. Listed below are the items needed to cook certain kinds of food.

• Fish-(raw lobster,raw trout etc.)
• Flour - (Held in a pot)
• Water - (Held in a bucket, bowl, vial or jug)
• Meat - (Raw meat, Raw Rat Meat, Raw bear meat, Raw chicken)
• Vegetables - (Potatoes,Cabbages,Grain)
• Fruits - (Cooking apple,Grapes,Banana,Redberries)
• Bowl
• Bucket
• Cake tin
• Jug
• Pie dish
• Pot
• Knife

[edit] Cookables

[edit] Meat

Players can obtain meat from killing chickens, cows, bears, and giant rats. When a player cooks raw chicken, the name becomes cooked chicken. However, when a player cooks raw beef, raw bear meat, or raw rat meat, the name becomes cooked meat for all three kinds. If you use the meat on the fire after it is already cooked, you will burn it, and it will say, "You deliberately burn the nicely cooked meat."

Image	Name	Level	Experience	Heals	Notes
	Cooked meat	1	30	3	Any players can cook raw beef, raw bear meat, or raw rat meat.
	Cooked chicken	1	30	3	Any players can cook raw chicken.
	Cooked rabbit	1	30	5	Members can find rabbits on Miscellania, Isafdar, and Relleka. They may be also be bought from Charter ship shops. Rabbits can be cooked on a fire.
	Sinew	1	10	Cannot be consumed	Players can make sinews by selecting the Make Sinew option on the screen that appears when trying to cook meat. Its use is to spin it into crossbow strings.
	Roasted bird meat	11	62	6	Members can hunt birds and cook the meat on a spit.
	Roasted rabbit	16	72	7	Members can find rabbits on Miscellania, Isafdar, and Relleka. They may be also be bought from Charter ship shops. Roasted rabbits can be made with an Iron spit and a fire.
	Spider on stick	16	80	7-10	Members can roast spiders on a skewer stick by cutting a thatching spar with a machete from the Tai Bwo Wannai Cleanup minigame, then using the stick with a spider carcass. An arrow shaft may also be used, but cannot be re-used like a skewer stick.
	Crab meat	21	100	10	Members can get Crab meat from the Mogre Camp after completing Recipe for Disaster (Pirate Pete) quest.
	Roasted beast meat	21	82	8	Members can hunt kebbits and cook the meat on a spit.
	Cooked chompy	30	140	10	Members can hunt Chompy birds and cook the meat on a spit.
	Cooked jubbly	41	160	15	Members can hunt Jubbly birds and cook the meat on a spit after completing Recipe for Disaster (Skrach Uglogwee) quest.
	Oomlie wrap	50	30	14	Members can find Oomlie birds in the Kharazi Jungle after starting Legends Quest. Players must wrap Raw oomlies with a Palm Leaf before cooking the meat or else they will burn it.
	Ugthanki meat	58	40	3	Members can cook Ugthanki meat

[edit] Fish

Fish are the most common food to cook in RuneScape, due to the availability. They heal a great amount of Hitpoints and are the recommended food to eat when in combat. Fish can be easily obtained by Fishing or bought in large amounts from other players.

Image	Name	Level	Experience	Heals	Notes
	Shrimp	1	30	3	Created by cooking raw shrimp.
	Karambwanji	1	10	3	Members can create karambwanji by cooking raw karambwanji.
	Sardine	1	40	3	Created by cooking raw sardine.
	Anchovies	1	30	1	Created by cooking raw anchovies.
	Karambwan	1	80	18	Members can create karambwan by cooking raw karambwan twice; once and it'll poison instead.
	Herring	5	50	5	Created by cooking raw herring.
	Mackerel	10	60	6	Members can create mackerel by cooking raw mackerel.
	Trout	15	70	7	Created by cooking raw trout.
	Cod	18	75	7	Members can create cod by cooking raw cod.
	Pike	20	80	8	Created by cooking raw pike.
	Salmon	25	90	9	Created by cooking raw salmon.
	Slimy eel	28	95	7-9	Members can create by cooking raw slimy eel.
	Tuna	30	100	10	Created by cooking raw tuna.
	Rainbow fish	35	110	11	Members can create by cooking raw rainbow fish.
	Cave eel	38	115	8-10	Members can create by cooking raw cave eel.
	Lobster	40	120	12	Created by cooking raw lobster.
	Bass	43	130	13	Members can create bass by cooking raw bass.
	Swordfish	45	140	14	Created by cooking raw swordfish.
	Lava Eel	53	30	9-11	Members can create by cooking raw lava eel after completing Hero's Quest.
	Monkfish	62	150	16	Members can create monkfish by cooking raw monkfish. Requires Swan Song quest.
	Shark	80	210	20	Members can create shark by cooking raw shark.
	Sea turtle	82	212	21	Members can create sea turtle by cooking raw sea turtle.
	Manta ray	91	216	22	Members can create manta ray by cooking raw manta ray. (Manta ray heals more hitpoints in one bite than any other food, excluding Tuna Potato, which heals the same amount.)

[edit] Snails

Members can also cook snail meat, obtained by killing snails in the Mort Myre swamp and Haunted Forest, southeast of the Slayer master Mazchna (both areas are in Morytania). The Priest in Peril quest has to be finished to access both areas. There are more snails in the eastern part of the swamp than in the Haunted Forest. Once a player has found a snail, they can then kill it, pick up the raw snail meat, and then cook it.

Image	Name	Level	Experience	Heals
	Thin snail	12	70	5 to 7
	Lean snail	17	80	6 to 8
	Fat snail	22	95	7 to 9

[edit] Bread

To make bread, players need to first make flour, which is then used with a jug of water or a bucket of water to make the dough. The dough can only be cooked on a range, not on a fire. When the dough is baked, it becomes bread.

Image	Name	Level	Experience	Total healing	Notes
	Bread	1	40	5	Mix water in some flour and create bread dough, then cook it on a range.
	Pitta bread	58	40	Cannot be consumed	This dough is members only. It is used to make ugthanki kebabs.

[edit] Pies

Pies require two bites to be fully consumed, thus giving players a bit more health than other foods. For example, when a player eats a redberry pie, they will only eat one half of it. The other half will stay in the dish which can be consumed later. To make pie, players need to mix flour and water together and then make some pastry dough. Players then need to use the dough with a pie dish. Then, the player can put in extra ingredients to make them heal more, such as meat to make a meat pie. When they are finished putting in the ingredients, the pie can then be baked.

Image	Name	Level	Experience	Total healing	Notes
	Redberry pie	10	78	10 in two bites	Redberries are needed to make this pie. Redberries can be bought from Port Sarim's food store, or they can be picked up from their respawns south of Varrock. Members can grow their own.
	Meat pie	20	110	12 in two bites	Cooked meat is needed to make this pie. Meat is dropped by killing Bears, Cows, Chickens, and Giant rats.
	Mud pie	29	128	Cannot be consumed	This pie is members only. Compost, water, and clay are needed to make this pie. It can be tossed at players when it is cooked. When tossed, the target loses half of his/her run energy.
	Apple pie	30	130	14 in two bites	Apples are needed to make this pie. Free players can only get apples from the cooking guild, while members can buy apples from Frenita's Cookery Shop in Yanille, grow their own apples, or take one from the table in the farming shop north of Ardougne.
	Garden pie	34	128	12 in two bites	This pie is members only. Tomatoes, onions, and cabbage are needed to make this pie. These items can be grown by players, or picked from farms around Lumbridge and Draynor Village. Each bite of this pie raises farming 3 temporarily.
	Fish pie	47	164	12 in two bites	This pie is members only. Trout, cod, and potatoes are needed to make this pie. The fish can be fished and the potatoes can be grown or picked from farms around Lumbridge and Draynor Village. Each bite of this pie raises fishing 3 temporarily.
	Admiral pie	70	210	16 in two bites	This pie is members only. Salmon, tuna, and potatoes are needed to make this pie. The fish can be fished and the potatoes can be grown or picked from farms around Lumbridge and Draynor Village. Each bite of this pie raises fishing 5 temporarily.
	Wild pie	85	240	22 in two bites	This pie is members only. Raw bear meat, raw chompy meat, and raw rabbit meat is needed to make this pie. Raw bear meat can be obtained by killing bears, raw chompy meat can be obtained by killing a chompy (see the Big Chompy Bird Hunting quest), and raw rabbit meat can be obtained by killing rabbits. Each bite of this pie raises Slayer by 5 temporarily and raises Ranged by 4 temporarily.
	Summer pie	95	260	22 in two bites	This pie is members only. Strawberries, watermelons, and apples are needed to make this pie. All of these items can be grown by players. Apples can also be taken from the cooking guild. Each bite restores 10% of your run energy and increases Agility by 5 temporarily.

[edit] Stew

To make stew, players need a bowl and some cooked meat or cooked chicken. Next, the bowl has to be filled with water. Potatoes are needed next. They can be found around the farms near Draynor Village and Lumbridge or members can grow potatoes themselves. Members can also buy potatoes from Hudo's Grand Tree Groceries in the Grand Tree or from Frenita's Cookery Shop in Yanille. Players then have to add the cooked meat and potatoes to the bowl of water and then cook the bowl to make stew.

Image	Name	Level	Experience	Total healing	Notes
	Stew	25	117	11	To make Stew you must put cooked meat and a raw potato in a Bowl of water.
	Spicy stew	25	117	11	This stew is members only. However, players need to complete Evil Dave's part of the Recipe for Disaster quest. To make this stew, players need to add several spices to a regular stew. Each spice affects a different set of skills, raising or lowering them, although certain spices show a correlation to the group of skills they change. For more information see temporary boosts.
	Curry	60	280	19	This stew is members only. To make curry, players need to use either spice or add three curry leaves (grown using the farming skill) before cooking the stew. Spices can be bought or stolen using the Thieving skill in Ardougne's market or bought from the Culinareomancer's Chest.

[edit] Pizza

Many players like to use pizzas to heal themselves as they heal large amounts of Hitpoints. Like pies, pizzas are consumed in two bites, so that players can eat one half and save the other half for when it's needed. To make a pizza, mix flour with water and make a pizza base. Add a tomato and a slice of cheese on the base. Both a tomato and a slice of cheese can be taken from Aggie the Witch's house in Draynor Village, north of the bank; and also in the Bandit Camp in the Wilderness. They can also be bought from the food store in Port Sarim. When the tomato and cheese are added to the pizza base, the pizza must be baked. It is possible to add various toppings to the pizza after baking it.

Image	Name	Level	Experience	Total healing	Notes
	Plain pizza	35	143	14	This is a pizza with only tomatoes and cheese.
	Meat pizza	45	169	16	This is a pizza with meat added on it. To make a meat pizza, players need to kill a bear, cow, chicken, or giant rat, cook the meat they drop, then use it on the pizza. Meat includes the meat from cows, chickens, rats, and bears as they are all the same.
	Anchovy pizza	55	182	18	This is a pizza with anchovies added on it. To make an anchovy pizza, players need to fish some anchovies, cook them, and then add them to the pizza.
	Pineapple pizza	65	195	22	This pizza is members only. To make a pineapple pizza, players need a pineapple, which can be obtained by killing the monsters on Karamja, picked from pineapple plants on Karamja or Ape Atoll, or bought from Hudo's Grand Tree Groceries and Funch's Fine Groceries. The pineapple can be cut into chunks or slices with a knife.

[edit] Cake

Cakes require three bites to be fully consumed, so if a player clicks on a cake, they will still have two other pieces left. To make a cake, players need flour, an egg, milk, and a cake tin. Eggs are found near the chicken coops around Lumbridge, while milk can be obtained by milking dairy cows with a bucket. Dairy cows are found near the level 2 cows around Lumbridge, and also on a farm south of Falador, which also houses a churn. When all of these items are placed in the cake tin, the cake can be cooked on a range.

Image	Name	Level	Experience	Total healing	Notes
	Cooked fishcake	31	100	11	This cake is members only. To make it, players have to have completed section one of the Recipe for Disaster quest. The ingredients needed to make this cake are: ground cod, ground kelp, ground giant crab, and breadcrumbs. To make these items ground, use them with a pestle and mortar.
	Cake	40	180	12
	Chocolate cake	50	210	15	To make this cake, a chocolate bar has to be added. Chocolate bars can be taken from their respawn in the cooking guild or bought from Port Sarim's food store or Hudo's Grand Tree Groceries. One slice of this cake can also be bought from the cook in Ardougne market (or stolen).

[edit] Potato Toppings

Potato Toppings are members only.

Image	Name	Level	Experience	Total healing	Notes
	Spicy sauce	9	25	2	Use Gnome spice and garlic on a bowl
	Chilli con carne	11	55	5	Use spicy sauce with cooked meat
	Scrambled egg	13	50	5	Use an egg with a bowl. Use the bowl with a range
	Egg and tomato	23	50	8	Use a scrambled egg with a tomato
	Fried onions	42	60	5	Cook an onion with a bowl.
	Fried mushrooms	46	60	5	Cook a mushroom with a bowl.
	Mushroom and onion	57	120	11	Fried mushroom and fried onion
	Tuna and corn	67	204	13	Use cooked sweetcorn with a bowl and tuna

[edit] Baked Potato

Baking potatoes are members only.

Image	Name	Level	Experience	Total healing	Notes
	Potato (not baked)	1	0	1	When you eat it raw, it will say that it is nasty.
	Baked potato	7	15	4	Players can only cook a potato on a range, otherwise it will burn.
	Potato with butter	39	95.5	14	Use a baked potato with a Pat of butter.
	Chilli potato	41	165.5	14	Use a Potato with butter with a Chilli con carne topping (see above).
	Potato with cheese	47	199.5	16	Use a Potato with butter with Cheese.
	Egg potato	51	195.5	16	Use a Potato with butter with an Egg and tomato topping (see above).
	Mushroom and onion potato	64	270.5	20	Use a Potato with butter with a Mushroom and onion topping (see above)
	Tuna potato	68	309.5	22	Use a Potato with butter with a Tuna and corn topping (see above)

[edit] Dairy

Dairy products can only be made on Members' worlds with a Dairy churn. A Dairy churn is found on the farm south of Falador and at several other locations.

Image	Name	Level	Experience	Heals	Notes
	Pot of cream	21	23	1	Use a Bucket of milk on a Dairy churn to create it.
	Pat of butter	28	40	Can’t be consumed.	Use a Bucket of milk on a Dairy churn to create it.
	Cheese	48	64	2	Use a Bucket of milk on a Dairy churn to create it.

[edit] Wine

Wine is made from a jug of water and a bunch of grapes. Grapes can be found in the cooking guild, or stolen from the Wine Stall in Draynor Village (Level 22 Thieving required, Members Only). A jug can be found on the top floor of the cooking guild. Use the grapes with the jug of water to make unfermented wine. About 10 seconds later, the wine will ferment and either be drinkable, or go bad.

Image	Name	Level	Experience	Total healing	Notes
	Wine	35	200	11	Lowers attack when drunk.
	Bad wine	35	0	0	Lowers attack when drunk.

[edit] Hot drinks

The only hot drink is nettle tea, which is members only. To make nettle tea, players need first a bowl of water. Next, nettles are needed. Nettles are located near the prison along the road between the Wizard's Tower and Draynor Village, southeast of the slayer master in Canifis, or next to the yew trees in Edgeville. It is important to note that nettles will hurt players when they pick them up, so they have to wear gloves. The nettles have to be used with the bowl of water to make nettle-water. The nettle-water next has to be boiled on a range to turn it into nettle tea. The tea can then be placed into an empty cup. Empty cups can be bought or stolen from the tea stall in Varrock or by speaking to Brother Galahad, located east of the coal trucks. Also, if a player wants to add milk to their tea, they can obtain some milk in a bucket and use it with the tea. Adding milk is optional.

Image	Name	Level	Experience	Total healing	Notes
	Nettle tea	20	52	3	This tea is members only.

[edit] Brewing

Brewing is much more complicated and time consuming than other foods, but the results are quite useful, for most of them boost assorted stats. You need 2 bundles of barley malt (made by cooking barley on a cooking range), a pot of ale yeast (bought from NPC near vat, you'll need an Amulet of Ghostspeak for the one located in Port Phasmatys), 2 buckets of water and an ingredient that varies depending on what you want to make. Head to the brewery in either Keldagrim or Port Phasmatys, and pour your 2 buckets in the tub. Add the barley malt, then your ingredients and finally the ale yeast. Next, wait for a while, as much as an entire day in some cases. Once it's matured, turn the tap to fill the barrel next to the vat (make sure the barrel is empty first!), then use beer glasses on the barrel. You get 8 glasses of beer each time you brew.

Making Cider is completely different however. You need a massive 16 cooking apples, a pot of ale yeast, and 4 empty buckets. Head to the brewery and put four of the apples in the nearby cider barrel. Your character will do a nice dance and squish the apples to a pulp, making a bucket of apple mush. Once you have 4, add them, then the ale yeast into the fermenting vat and wait.

Occasionally, you will make bad ale, wasting all that time. You can also sometimes make matured ale, shown by a (m) next to the drink. Matured ale is slightly stronger than normal ale. Also, if you add "The stuff" bought from Honest Jimmy just before adding ale yeast, the chances of getting mature ale is increased.

Image	Name	Level	Experience	Total healing	Notes
	Cider	14	182	2	See instructions for making above. Increases farming level by 1, decreases attack and strength by 2.
	Dwarven stout	19	215	1	Uses 4 Hammerstone hops as ingredient. Increases Smithing and Mining by 1, decreases Attack, Strength and Defence by 7.
	Asgarnian ale	24	248	2	Uses 4 Asgarnian hops as ingredient, increases strength level by 2, decreases Attack by 4.
	Greenman's ale	29	281	1	Uses 4 Harralander as ingredient. Increases Herblore level by 1, decreases Attack by 4.
	Wizard's mind bomb	34	314	1	Uses 4 Yanillian hops as ingredient. Increases magic level by 2 or 3, decreases Attack by 4, decreases Strength and Defence by 3.
	Dragon bitter	39	347	1	Uses 4 Krandorian hops as ingredient. Increases strength by 2, decreases attack by 1.
	Moonlight mead	44	380	5	Uses 4 Bittercap mushrooms.
	Axeman's folly	49	413	1	Uses an oak roots as ingredient, raises woodcutting level by 1, lowers attack and strength by 3.
	Chef's delight	54	446	1	Uses 4 pinches of chocolate dust as ingredient, raises cooking level by 1-5 (see below), lowers attack and strength by 2
	Slayer's respite	59	479	1	Uses 4 Wildblood hops as ingredient, raises slayer level by 1, lowers attack and strength by 2.

• All ales except Moonlight Mead decrease attack, and all ales except Asgarnian Ale and Dragon Bitter decrease strength.

[edit] Gnome Cooking

Main article: Gnome cooking

Gnome cooking plays a big part in the Gnome restaurant minigame. Further information can be found in said article.

Image	Name	Level	Experience	Total healing
	Fruit blast	6	50	9
	Pineapple punch	8	70	9
	Toad crunchies	10	100	8
	Spicy crunchies	12	100	7
	Worm crunchies	14	100	8
	Chocchip crunchies	16	100	7
	Wizard blizzard	18	110	5
	Short green guy (SGG)	20	120	5
	Fruit batta	25	150	11
	Toad batta	26	152	11
	Worm batta	27	154	11
	Vegetable batta	28	156	11
	Cheese and tomato batta	29	158	11
	Worm hole	30	170	12
	Drunk dragon	32	160	5
	Choc saturday	33	170	5
	Vegetable ball	35	175	12
	Blurberry special	37	180	7
	Tangled toad's legs	40	185	15
	Chocolate bomb	42	190	15

[edit] Training

[edit] Level advancement

Levels	Items to make	Notes
1 - 10	Meats, Shrimps/Sardines/Anchovies, or Bread	At this level, just cook anything currently available. Efficiency is not important because the first 10 levels are quickly gained.
10 - 30	Assorted Fish	Cook fishes such as trout, cod, pike and salmon. These are easily obtainable with the Fishing skill.
15 - 99	Trout	Buy raw trout in Grand Exchange then cook and sell back in grand exchange. This way is very popular with players, and so buying trout may take some time. Also, a loss will be made when selling back. However, the loss made is a fraction of that made when training to 99 cooking with most other fish.
30 - 40	Tuna	Raw tuna can often be found in the Karamja general store on f2p worlds, where banking the tuna is inconvenient. With a small startup capital, raw tuna can be bought from the shop, cooked, then sold back. Otherwise, fish for raw tuna on your own to cook. Cooking gauntlets cannot increase the chance of successfully cooking tuna. Or at level 33 you can go into the cooking guild and cook apple pies. The apples are in the cooking guild, and you can get wheat in a field just north of the guild. However, this method is more time-consuming than buying and cooking tuna.
40 - 91	Lobsters	Either buy raw lobsters from other players, or fish for your own to cook. Buying them is more advisable for faster levels, while fishing may be an alternative for poorer players. Players may wish to wait for level 74 or level 68 with cooking gauntlets before starting to cook lobsters, in order not to burn any. You can also, at 66 cooking, wear Cooking gauntlets and cook lobster at the lumbridge cook's range. Players can also trade cooked for raw. About 150k exp/hr by cooking lobsters.
91- 94	Monkfish	Either buy Raw Monkfish from other players or the Grand Exchange, or fish them yourself if you have completed the Swan Song quest. At level 91 you no longer burn monkfish, though unconfirmed reports say otherwise and Cooking Gauntlets make no difference to the amount burnt. About 180k exp/hr by cooking monkfish.
94 - 99	Sharks	Either buy raw sharks from other players, or fish for your own to cook. Buying them is more advisable for faster levels, while fishing may be an alternative for poorer players. Players may wish wait for level 94 (with cooking gauntlets) before starting to cook sharks, in order not to burn any. Players can also trade cooked for raw. About 270k exp/hr with sharks.

[edit] Tips

[edit] Sell and buy, or just trade

Fish play a big role in the cooking market, particularly the high level ones (lobsters, sharks, or monkfish). They make up the bulk of the food market, and with high demands in both raw and cooked forms.

Anchovies, however, are the only fish that you can buy raw, sell cooked, and gain profit. This is due to the fact that people buy cooked anchovies to make anchovy pizza, the highest Free-to-Play food. This is also good because it can be cooked at level 5.

Another good way for training cooking for no loss is to buy raw trout. Usually they sell for around 30gp each, and cooked trout sell for around 30gp each too. This is a good way to gain cooking exp without spending lots of money. However, cooked trout takes a very long time to sell because there isn't a very high demand for them.

When training on lobsters or sharks, players may wish to use the RuneScape food forum to buy raw fish and sell cooked ones.

Note that buying most fish raw from the Grand Exchange and selling the cooked product in the Grand Exchange is no longer profitable due to many players buying mass amounts of fish to get to 99 Cooking. For many fish there is a significant price difference between cooked and raw fish. If players wish to be profitable, they should sell on-demand - e.g. near Bounty Hunter - when many players are buying small amounts of food at above Grand Exchange prices. This, however, is a slow way to sell food. A way to train cooking and gain a profit would be to make foods containing many steps (e.g. Pineapple pizzas, Tuna potatoes). These foods give much more experience than fish when made from scratch, many cannot be burnt (e.g. Tuna potato - tuna is no longer burnt at level 60 Cooking, potatoes are no longer burnt before that. Level 69 Cooking is required to put the ingredients together, and as it requires no more interaction with a range or fire, cannot be burnt), and can be sold for modest profit in the Grand Exchange. The downside to this method is that takes much longer to prepare the ingredients for combining.

[edit] Cook in the correct environment

Some places are more suited for cooking than others. Here are a few.

[edit] Free-to-Play

• Edgeville bank is a popular place to train cooking. There is a range right by the bank in Doris's house. It is also a popular place to train firemaking, which means that there will be plenty of fires around to cook on if the player wishes for faster runs. (Note: the house that contains the range has a door and a gate that automatically close every 5 minutes or so.)

• Lumbridge bank is a good way for new cookers to start the skill. There are 4 log respawn points just outside the bank. Carry a tinderbox when cooking to light the logs. The downside of this site is that you'll lose one inventory slot while training. Another option at Lumbridge would be to use the cooking range at the bottom floor of the building. There is also a fireplace in which you can cook in at the General Store.

• Al Kharid bank is a popular f2p spot to train cooking. A range is right by the bank, providing fast runs to and from the bank.

• Draynor Village This spot is good for cooking fish because of the fishing spot near the bank and many fires. In Ned´s house is also a fireplace where you can cook on .However there aren't any ranges in Draynor Village.

• Grand Exchange As long as there are players making fires in a world (there usually are) this makes a very fast and convenient place to cook. The good thing about this spot is you can buy the raw materials (or sell the cooked materials if needed) while you're there. You can also bank from a distance while you're next to a fire. Players are recommended to search worlds for fires and try worlds with a high player population.

• Barbarian Village fishing spots - many players would rather give away or drop salmons and trouts, while doing power fly-fishing. Its a good idea to bring an axe and a tinderbox, or instead cook fish in Barbarian Village, near Peksa's Helmet Shop. This method is 100% free.

• Karamja fishing spots - These are good places to train both cooking and fishing. Some things you might need though are an axe, fishing equipment (harpoon or lobster cage), and a tinderbox. The reason for an axe and tinderbox is to set a fire to cook the fish. Catch your fish (fill your inventory to save time), light the fire, and cook the fish. When you're done cooking you can go to the general store, sell all your fish and start over. Alternatively, you can use your fish to fight nearby monsters, such as on Crandor, and in the Karamja and TzHaar dungeons.

[edit] Members only

• The Catherby range is just east of the Catherby bank, very close to each other. This place is frequented often, giving lots of chances for interaction. Also, There are fishing spots in catherby, so you can fish for lobsters or sharks, or you can buy them from the people fishing.

• Lumbridge is a good place to cook if you have started the quest Recipe for Disaster. The Culinaromancer's Chest in the cellar is a bank and a food store, which can be used in conjunction with the range in the kitchen, which has a lower burn rate than most ranges, however one must have completed the Cook's Assistant quest to use the range but of course, you would have finished Cooks Assistant if you were to start Recipe For Disaster.

• The Tree Gnome Stronghold is useful because you can make Gnome Cocktails, Gnome Foods, and various other dishes thanks to Hudo and Heckel Funch who supply you with plenty of cooking ingredients. There is easy access to a bank as well.

• The Rogue's Den is one of the more efficient training spots, as a fire is directly in front of Emerald Benedict, the banker, saving valuable time. It is located under the Burthorpe pub. The fire is everlasting, so there is no need to worry about relighting it, saving inventory space. On the downside, the Rogues Den only has a fire as the means to cook, so it is only usable for cooking fish or meat.

• A very good cooking spot is in the Cooking Guild, where a bank and a range are right by each other. However, a player must be wearing Varrock Armour 3 to use this.

• There is also a cooking spot in the Fishing Guild, however it is somewhat a long walk and is not the best training spot.

• There are many other ranges in RuneScape, however those listed above are the most efficient.

[edit] Cooking Gauntlets

Players who complete the Family Crest quest can have their gauntlets made into Cooking gauntlets, which increase the chances of successfully cooking fish by a considerable amount.

Jagex claimed that the Cooking gauntlets give players increased chance of successful treating certain types of fish ,and while wearing these gauntlets players will burn fewer lobsters, swordfish and sharks. However, there are statements based on both statistical and unknown evidence that the gauntlets has their power with other fishes and pies.

[edit] Power Cooking

This is where you don't speak to anyone and have no distractions. This reduces the time to cook things thus gaining your cooking level up faster. However, you have no breaks so it is somewhat hard to keep cooking after a long time. Instead of dropping your burnt food, which takes many clicks, simply bank them. Dropping individual items takes a long time, so it isn't good to do, even if you're not powercooking. After you have cooked everything, just take the burnt items of food out of your bank (noted) and drop them.

[edit] Temporary boosts

• Chef's delight, a type of player-made beer, temporarily increases Cooking level by 1-5 when drunk (20% of your base cooking level).

• Orange Spicy stew raises Cooking level by up to 6 temporarily, but can also have the opposite effect and lower it..

[edit] Trivia

• Before Fishing was added in June 2001, the experience for cooking meat depended on the player's cooking level, namely, 25 + 1.75 * level.
• Before pies were added in March 2001, the amount of healing provided by bread and meat (the only food available at the time) depended on the player's Cooking level.
• Tks was the first player to reach level 99 Cooking and was the first Fishing master as well.
• Cooking tied with Fletching were the first non-combat skills to get 10,000 users with a level of 99.
• Cooking is one of the fastest skills a player can reach level 99 in, only taking two weeks from levels 1-99 (assuming you cook all day and have all the raw food prepared), at around six hours a day.
• There are 20 players with 200,000,000 cooking experience, making cooking the skill with the most players with max experience.

[edit] 99 Cooking

• Once a player has reached level 99 Cooking he/she can buy a Cooking cape of achievement for 99,000 coins from the Head Chef in the Cooks' Guild.

[edit] References

• RuneScape Game Guide
  • Cooking

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