Free-to-play Cooking training

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Cooking is an easy skill to train, even in F2P worlds, because of availability of fish everywhere and large amount of experience that cooking yields over a relatively short amount of time. Also, power levelling is efficient and cooking only incurs a low level of cash loss. All players are recommended to complete Cook's Assistant as it opens up access to a new range in Lumbridge, which is close to a bank and reduces the chance of burning the food.

Contents 1 Cooking level table 2 Training routes 2.1 Training with Fishing 2.1.1 Level 1 2.1.2 Level 15 2.1.3 Level 30 2.1.4 Level 40 2.1.5 Level 50 2.1.6 An alternate method to level 2.2 Training via Cooking guild 2.2.1 Level 32 2.2.2 Level 35 2.3 Training with complex food 2.3.1 Level 10 2.3.2 Level 20 2.3.3 Level 25 2.3.4 Level 32 2.3.5 Level 35 2.3.6 Level 45 2.3.7 Level 55 3 Tips 3.1 Sell and buy, or just trade 3.2 Cost Control 4 Hot spots

[edit] Cooking level table

This is a cropped table indicating what can be achieved starting at certain levels. It only covers items efficient for training cooking.

Minimum level	Achievement	Experience	Notes
1	Shrimps, Meat, Crayfish, Chicken	30	All these items are easily obtainable by fishing or killing beginner monsters. You can also pick up meat in the cow field in Lumbridge where many people train and leave meat lying around.
15	Trout	70	Trout can be multi-purposed; they can serve as mid-level food, healing 7 hitpoints each, or as power levelling items. You can also pick up Trout from many power-fishers at the river near Barbarian Village.
20	Pike	80	Pike are generally harder to fish, expensive, and yield a low amount of experience; thus it is not recommended to train on them.
30	Salmon	90	Salmon can be used for food, heal 9 hitpoints each, or sold for 83 coins each. They are mainly obtained by lure fishing above level 30 fishing. You can also pick up Salmon from many power-fishers at the river near Barbarian Village.
30	Apple pie	130	Apple pie can be made as mid-high level food, healing 7 hitpoints twice each, although, 32 cooking is needed to enter the cooking guild to make these pies in bulk.
30	Tuna	100	Tuna can be used as mid-level food, healing 10 hitpoints each. They are very popular for training cooking since power-fishers often drop them ready to be picked up and cooked, creating a free source to train cooking quickly. Cooked tuna also has a constant demand and can be sold for 109 coins each, slightly lower than the raw counterpart.
32	Cooking Guild	N/A	The Cooking Guild is a good place to train cooking by making jugs of wine and apple pies, as it provides materials sufficient to make them.
35	Pizza	143	Cooked pizza can be used as mid-high level food, healing 7 hitpoints twice each. Cooked pizzas should not be sold, but kept for adding toppings later on.
35	Jug of wine	200	Jug of wine can be used as mid-high level food, healing 11 hitpoints each, but cause the attack stat to decrease. It is ideal for ranged or magic training, but should not sold because making jugs of wine is slow and they don't sell for very high prices.
40	Lobster	120	Lobsters can be cooked as mid-high level food, healing 12 hitpoints each. Cooked lobster can be sold for 362 coins, slightly lower than the raw counterpart.
45	Swordfish	140	Swordfish can be cooked as high-level food, giving the highest healing rate for F2P players, healing 14 hitpoints per click. As with all fish it can be consumed in one bite. Although the difference between price of raw and cooked swordfish is small, cooking swordfish would incur major loss due to low success rate when cooking the fish.
45	Meat pizza	143+25	Meat pizzas, which heal 8 hitpoints twice, can be made merely by adding cooked meat on plain pizza. Raw meat is easily obtainable from killing giant rats, cows and bears, and buying the plain pizzas would still make a profit.
55	Anchovy pizza	143+39	Anchovy pizzas, which heal 9 hitpoints twice, are made merely by adding cooking anchovies on plain pizza, making it heal the most overall in F2P worlds, although eating twice consumes some time. Anchovy pizza can be sold for 1,785 coins. You can also make a profit by mass-buying plain cooked pizzas from G.E and adding Anchovy onto the pizzas and selling back them to the G.E.( see Cooking money making guide.

[edit] Training routes

Below are some training routes suitable for different kinds of players.

[edit] Training with Fishing

For players willing to train cooking along with fishing, this route is suitable.

[edit] Level 1

Crayfish and shrimps can be caught without any requirement. Crayfish can be fished much faster, though both of them yield 30 experience per successful cooking. Cooked crayfish and shrimps don't sell much in Grand Exchange, thus they should be used for food only. The best place to net shrimps is Draynor, and the best place to cage crayfish is west of Lumbridge combat hall.

[edit] Level 15

Trouts can be caught in Barbarian village or of Lumbridge, provided 20 fishing . Trouts are very handy and each of them would give 70 experience. Powercookers can even grab dropped raw trouts from powerfishers and cook them.

[edit] Level 30

Tunas can be caught in Musa spot in Karamja, provided 35 fishing is attained. Tuna yields 100 experience each cooking, though catching speed is slow. The dropped raw tunas from powerfishers can be taken to cook. If a player decides to use this method to train cooking, a very busy world should be selected.

[edit] Level 40

Lobsters can be caught in Musa spot in Karamja, provided 40 fishing is attained. Lobster yields 120 experience each cooking, catching speed is comparable to harpooning. There is rarely lobster drop from powerfishers, thus fishing them is better.

[edit] Level 50

Swordfish can be caught in Musa spot in Karamja, provided 50 fishing is attained. Swordfish yields 140 experience each cooking. With the swordfish gloves obtained from the Fist of Guthix minigame, players can earn double the amount of experience in catching a swordfish. However swordfish catching speed is the slowest among all fish, with the fact tunas are often caught when harpooning. Also, a higher cooking level should be attained before starting cooking swordfish, as the burning rate is high among all fish.

[edit] An alternate method to level

This is an alternate method to level cooking without burning fish; however, it will most likely be slower than the method above. It is recommended to use the above method to attain level 50 cooking before beginning.

Image	Fish Type	Start Level	Finishing Level
	Trout	50	59
	Salmon	59	69
	Tuna	69	74
	Lobster	74	86
	Swordfish	86	90

To avoid losing a lot of cash, these kinds of fish can be used for cooking:

1. Shrimps to 33
2. Anchovies to 48
3. Trout to 99

This works because players lose money on the 1000 shrimps needed, but then make that money back with anchovies, then make a three coin profit with trout. Cooked trout sells for 24gp, and raw trout sells for 30gp. This allows one to get to 99 cooking without sacrificing their treasury. Keep in mind that this method is slower than the previous methods.

[edit] Training via Cooking guild

Please notice, 32 cooking is needed to enter the guild. Some equipment should be brought before entering the guild as well.

[edit] Level 32

Although apple pies can be made at level 30 cooking, only the cooking guild has free and fairly abundant resource for mass-making them. One jug, pot, pie dish and three cooking apple respawn are available in guild. Process can be sped up if some jugs, pots are brought prior. Wheat can be harvested in the field north of guild, then made into flour. Collecting flour, water and mixing pastry dough can all be done at ground floor, then cooked at first floor, while the equipments obtained from the first and second floor.

[edit] Level 35

Jugs and Grapes can be taken in the guild, with the jug filling water and grapes squeezed in it, a wine would be fermented. Wine gives the highest cooking experience per success, though grape spawning is slow. Nothing is needed to be brought prior. This method of training is somewhat expensive, but can give up to 2800 experience per inventory (14 grapes/14 jugs).

[edit] Training with complex food

Complex food requires time to make and some base fund, but can be very rewarding. Complex food basically has varied trips, ranging from Draynor to Wilderness.

[edit] Level 10

Redberry pies are the first complex food can be made. As these pies serve no purpose at higher levels, here a quick method would be shown. Redberries can be bought from Beefy Bill site, buckets or jugs bought from general store. Wheat can be harvested near Millie Miller's windmill, and ground inside it. After that pots can be bought to collect the flour. Flour can be stored at Beefy Bill, although he will demand taking 10% of the pots of flour. Buying pot takes some money too, so remember to take some coins. Pie dish is best bought in Grand Exchange. After that, redberry pies can be made in mass.

[edit] Level 20

Meat pies can be made, with method similar to redberry pies, except cows can be killed at the old Gnomecopter site and baked for quick storage.

[edit] Level 25

Stews can be made, by picking potatos in a field west of Lumbridge, and killing cows for their beef. Bowls can be taken from kitchen of Lumbridge cook, or just bought from Grand Exchange.

[edit] Level 32

Please refer to Training via cooking guild/Level 32.

[edit] Level 35

Plain pizza can be made. Plain pizza is composed of tomato, cheese and pizza base, which pizza base can be made in cooking guild or bought from Fat Tony in Bandit Camp (Wilderness) for 4 coins each. The Bounty hunter bank is the closest bank to Fat Tony. To ensure quick buying of pizza bases, exactly 112 coins can be brought to buy exactly 28 pizza bases, and immediately move to and from the bank. Cheese and tomato can be taken from Aggie's house or Fat Tony's house, but both of them have disadvantages. Draynor lacks a support of cooking ranges, and Fat Tony is in Level 23 Wilderness, which might be dangerous as revenants often patrol in the camp.

[edit] Level 45

Meat pizza can be made. Please notice making a meat pizza out of plain pizza and cooked meat is always a success. Please refer to previous parts for making the respective ingredients.

[edit] Level 55

Anchovy pizza can be made. Making an anchovy pizza out of plain pizza and anchovies is always a success. Raw anchovies can be fished at fishing tutor, in Al Kharid and in Draynor.

[edit] Tips

[edit] Sell and buy, or just trade

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

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. These foods give much more experience than fish when made from scratch, many 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] Cost Control

Anchovies are one of the few fish that players 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. A cooked anchovy can also be used in creating an impling jar which can be used in member's world to catch an impling. 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 is not a high demand for them.

However, in exchange for the low cost, these methods provide very slow experience rates. At higher levels, players may wish to move on to higher-level foods that give better experience.

All in all, cooking is not a very good money-making skill, and it should be warned that it is not a very useful skill to train unless you are trying to boost your overall skill level for the high scores or get a skill cape.

[edit] Hot spots

Some places are more suited for cooking than others. Here are some recommended places.

Location		Distance from range	Optimal food	Notes
Edgeville bank		Very short	Lured fish	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		Very short-Short	Lured, netted and crayfish	Either the 4 log respawn points just outside the bank, or the cooking range in the kitchen in Lumbridge castle can be used for cooking, which the latter boasts lower chance of burning food, although Cook's Assistant is required for access. Players can cook trouts, pikes and salmons by their ways from River Lum to the bank.
Al Kharid bank		Very short	Power levelling	Although the range is nearest to bank among everywhere in F2P world, fishing spot is rather remote. However, this hot spot has no doors or anything that could block you, which can reduce time taken to cook an inventory. This place is recommended for powercookers who already have all the necessary food.
Draynor Village		Long	Shrimp and anchovies	Though the nearest range is in Draynor mansion, the shrimps and anchovies can be cooked on fires made by firemakers. Free supply of tinderbox can be obtained from Wise old man's house.
Grand Exchange		Medium - Very short	Power levelling	Grand Exchange is a popular place to train firemaking, and materials can be bought and sold freely. A busy world is recommended for training cooking at Grand Exchange.
Barbarian Village fishing spots		Medium	Lured fish	Players may stay at the fishing spots and make fire by themselves to cook their food, or non-stop fire in Peksa's shop, long hall are available to cook the food.
Musa spot		Very long	Tuna	Musa spot is the most popular place for F2P players to catch tunas, swordfish and lobsters, which is a major source of cooking experience. Fire can either be manually made by cut logs and tinderbox, or waiting others to make one. In busy worlds, fires are usually lit by other players. The cooked fish generally have lower value and not recommended to be sold to general store. They can be banked in Draynor bank, or sold at Grand Exchange, or used as some reliable food. Explorer's ring 3 shortens time travelling between Draynor bank and Musa spot, also with advantage of saving 30 coins for sailing, although cooking experience is slightly lowered. This method is not recommended.

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