Cooking

Cooking is a skill that allows a player to cook raw food into food that you can eat. Cooking goes hand-in-hand with the Fishing skill as the player can cook the fish they obtain shortly after a full inventory is made. If no stove/range is nearby, having an axe and tinderbox on hand can allow the player to cut down a tree and make a fire to cook the fish on. Some ranges, such as the Cook-o-matic 100 in the Lumbridge Castle or the ranges in the Hosidius Kitchen have the unique perk of burning food significantly less often than a normal range. By levelling up Cooking the player is able to cook the more profitable foods such as lobsters, swordfish, monkfish and shark. By eating cooked food you gain lost Hitpoints, which is useful for training your combat skills.

Cooking level-up music (link)

The first music that can be played when levelled up.

Cooking level-up music (link)

The second music that can be played when levelled up.

How to cook[]

Cooking is known as one of the fastest skills to train, as players can cook in many different ways as well as being able to simply buy their raw food items from the Grand Exchange.

Before the Grand Exchange was created, the bulk of players usually fished and then cooked their catches. Generally a player who is manually gathering their raw items will cook their food items on a local campfire created through the Firemaking skill near where they are gathering, or take the items they have obtained to a range and cook there.

Ranges (which provide a lower burn rate) can be easily located and are almost always well labelled on the map as a cooking pan () icon. There are other assorted things that a player can cook on, seen in NPC camps, or on iron Spits. It is important to note that only meat, fish and stew can be cooked on an open fire. Foods like bread, cake, and pie must be cooked on a proper range, Most of these food items will generate an error message if the player attempts to cook it improperly while others, such as raw potatoes, will simply all burn. Raw foods loosely related to the Hunter skill, such as raw beast meat, raw chompy, and rabbit, must be cooked on an iron spit.

To actually cook something, players have to "use" their raw food item on a range or a campfire. If they have more than one food item of the same kind in their inventory, a picture of the food item will appear in the dialogue box. The player can right click on the picture and select how much he/she wants to cook. By default, you cook all the selected raw/uncooked item.

If this is your first time cooking follow these steps for maximum effect:

Cook on the Lumbridge range after completion of Cook's Assistant, as there is a bank directly upstairs and the range offers a lower burn rate than other ranges.
Cooking at the Rogues' Den has a permanent fire and is directly next to a banker (Members only).
If you do not want to spend much money in this skill, you can kill cows and cook the raw meat on the range or a fire.

Burning food[]

Main article: Burnt food

As players train cooking, they will sometimes fail to cook something at random. It is normal when you first begin training this skill to burn nearly anything you put before a fire or range, but as you gain more levels the burn ratio of food decreases until you reach the level where you can no longer burn them. A useful item to equip while training are cooking gauntlets. Wearing these gloves while training cooking will cut down time and money due to less food being burnt. This is useful for food such as sharks where even at 99 you have the chance to burn them; with the cooking gauntlets equipped you will stop burning sharks at level 94. Alternatively, cooking food while wearing a cooking cape will ensure that no food may be burned by the player.

All ranges have a lower burn rate than fires, but the range in Lumbridge castle has an even lower burn rate, however, to use it, you must have completed the Cook's Assistant quest. The nearest bank is the Culinaromancer's Chest in the cellar, which requires the first part of the Recipe for Disaster quest to be completed, or the bank at the top of Lumbridge Castle. This range has a reduced burn rate, however, only works on the following foods:

A table of the levels where cooking food items becomes successful 100% of the time can be found here.

Items needed[]

As Cooking is the skill of turning food from raw to edible, and there is a very wide range of available food types in RuneScape, there are many items that players need in order to cook food. Depending on what you are cooking you will need a variety of items such as water or flour. Listed below are the cardinal cooking items which are used to make the most common types of food.

Fish - (Raw lobster, raw trout, etc.)
Flour - (Held in a pot)
Water - (Held in a bucket, bowl, vial or jug)
Milk - (Held in a bucket)
Meat - (Raw meat, raw rat meat, raw bear meat, raw yak meat, raw chicken)
Vegetables - (Cabbages, grain, onions, potatoes)
Fruits - (Cooking apples, grapes, bananas, redberries, tomatoes)
Cheese
Bowl
Bucket
Cake tin
Jug
Pie dish
Pot
Knife

Types of food[]

Meat[]

Name	Level	XP	Healing
Cooked meat	1	30	3
Cooked chicken	1	30	3
Cooked rabbit	1	30	5
Roast bird meat	11	60	6
Roast rabbit	16	70	7
Cooked crab meat	21	100	10

Fish[]

Name	Level	XP	Heals
Raw shrimps	1	30	3
Raw karambwanji	1	10	-
Raw sardine	1	40	4
Raw anchovies	1	30	1
Raw karambwan (poison)	1	80	-5
Raw herring	5	50	5
Raw mackerel	10	60	6
Raw trout	15	70	7
Raw cod	18	75	7
Raw pike	20	80	8
Raw salmon	25	90	9
Raw slimy eel	28	95	6-10
Raw tuna	30	100	10
Raw karambwan (cooked)	30	190	18
Raw rainbow fish	35	110	11
Raw cave eel	38	115	7-11
Raw lobster	40	120	12
Raw bass	43	130	13
Raw swordfish	45	140	14
Raw lava eel	53	30	14
Raw monkfish	62	150	16
Sacred eel	72	109-124	-
Raw shark	80	210	20
Raw sea turtle	82	211.3	21
Raw anglerfish	84	230	3-22
Raw dark crab	90	215	22
Raw manta ray	91	216.2	22

Pies[]

Name	Level	XP	Healing	Effect
Redberry pie	10	78	10	None
Meat pie	20	104	12	None
Mud pie	29	128	0	Tossed at enemies.
Apple pie	30	130	14	None
Garden pie	34	128	12	+3 Farming
Fish pie	47	164	12	+3 Fishing
Botanical pie	52	180	12	+4 Herblore
Admiral pie	70	210	16	+5 Fishing
Wild pie	85	240	22	+4 Ranged, +5 Slayer
Summer pie	95	260	22	+5 Agility

Pizza[]

Name	Level	XP	Healing
Plain pizza	35	143	14
Meat pizza	45	169	16
Anchovy pizza	55	182	18
Pineapple pizza	65	195	22

Potatoes[]

Name	Level	XP	Healing
Baked potato	7	15	4
Potato with butter	39	40	14
Chilli Potato	41	15	14
Potato with cheese	47	40	16
Egg potato	51	45	16
Tuna potato	68	309.5	22

Cake[]

Name	Level	XP	Healing
Cooked fishcake	31	100	11
Cake	40	180	12
Chocolate cake	50	210	15

Drinks[]

Picture	Name	Level	XP	Healing
	Jug of wine	35	200	11
	Wine of zamorak	65	200	N/A

Note that every wine made resets the twelve second fermentation of the previously made wines, resulting in an enormous experience drop if a series of inventories are made fast enough. While being one of the fastest methods for reaching 99 cooking (yielding 400k+ EXP/hour if done optimally), it is also the most costly. There is virtually no profit made as opposed to the more traditional fish cooking. This method is also accessible to free-to-play.

Other[]

Picture	Name	Level	XP	Healing
	Sweetcorn	28	104	10% of maximum

Brewing[]

Main article: Brewing

Brewing involves the fermenting of raw ingredients into ales or cider. Brewing may be considered quite useful since most of the ales boost certain stats. This can also make a number of ales valuable. It is, however, quite a slow process and so is not a viable means of training. The products are not useful for healing unlike most areas of cooking. There are two types of brew that can be made - ales and cider.

To brew ales, you have to use the fermenting vats located in either of the breweries in either Keldagrim or Port Phasmatys. Each place has only one vat, in which one ale can be brewed at a time. To start brewing ale, 2 buckets of water, 2 lots of Barley malt, the main ale ingredient, and a pot of ale yeast must be added to the fermenting vat (in that order). The main ingredient is specific to the type of ale being brewed. Once the ale yeast is added, the ale will begin fermenting. This will usually take one to two days to brew. Once it is done brewing, you can turn the valve between the vat and the attached barrel to move brewed ale to the barrel, and then collect the ale in Beer glasses or calquat kegs. The barrel will produce 8 doses of the ale. Ale in calquat kegs are in most cases considerably more valuable.

To make cider, you should first take 16 apples and 4 buckets to the cider barrel at one of the breweries in either Keldagrim or Port Phasmatys. 4 cooking apples should be added to and mushed in the barrel. An empty bucket should then be used to collect it in a bucket. Once 4 buckets are filled, add them to the fermenting vat, then add ale yeast into the fermenting vat. It will then start fermenting.

During the brewing process, it is possible for an ale to mature instead of brewing normally, in which case your fermenting vat will produce mature versions of the ales you have brewed, which have stronger effects—it is also possible, however, for an ale to turn bad, in which case the ale in your fermenting vat will become unusable.

All of the brews boost a certain skill, as shown in the table below. Some of the brews have a variable boost amount which is relative to the players level, boosting more as the players level increases.

Name	Level	Experience	Total healing	Boosts	Distinct Ingredient	Notes
Cider (m)	14	182	2	Farming: +1 Strength: -2	See instructions above. 4 buckets of apple mush, 1 ale yeast. No buckets of water, barley malt, or "the stuff"	One of very few items that boost farming.
Dwarven stout (m)	19	215	1	Smithing: +1 Mining: +1 Attack:- 1 Strength: -1 Defence: -1	4 Hammerstone hops	Mature version is very valuable: Dwarven stout is one of the only smithing boosting items in the game.
Asgarnian ale (m)	24	248	2	Strength: +2 Attack: -4	4 Asgarnian hops	Apparently capable of dissolving gold, handle with care.
Greenman's ale (m)	29	281	1	Herblore: +1 Attack: -4	4 Harralander	Mature version is extremely valuable: Provides +2 herblore boost.Recommended to always collect this ale in a calquat keg.
Wizard's mind bomb (m)	34	314	1	Magic: +2/3 Attack: -4 Strength: -3 Defence: -3	4 Yanillian hops	Sometimes shortened to WMB, this item boosts relative to the players magic level. Mages with a magic level lower than 50 get a +2 boost while mages 50 and above gain a +3 boost.
Dragon bitter (m)	39	347	1	Strength: +2 Attack: -1	4 Krandorian hops	Useful for some complex combat applications.
Moonlight mead (m)	44	380	5	Heals 5 hitpoints.	4 Bittercap mushrooms	This ale heals the player instead of affecting stats. This ale's mature version heals 6 hitpoints, and when gathered into a calquat keg this adds to 24 hitpoints in one inventory slot. The rumour that this decreases strength is not true.
Axeman's folly (m)	49	413	1	Woodcutting:+1 Strength: -3	1 Oak roots	This ale's mature version is very valuable: Provides +2 Woodcutting. This ale is a good way for players to make a large amount of money with little effort, as the ingredients are very cheap.
Chef's delight (m)	54	446	1	Cooking: +1-5 Attack: -2 Strength: -2	4 Chocolate dust	This ale's mature version is extremely valuable: Provides +1-5 Cooking and is a preferred alternative to spicy stew.Chef's delight works similar to the wizards mind bomb, providing a boost relative to the players level. Low level players will receive only a partial boost, while players with more experience will receive the full boost. (approximately level 60 for full boost)
Slayer's respite (m)	59	479	1	Slayer: +1 Attack: -2 Strength: -2	4 Wildblood hops.	One of very few items which boost slayer.

For a mature ale: Simply add +1 (or -1) to all stat effects of the basic ale. Example: Slayer's respite (m) Slayer: +2, Attack: -3, Strength: -3.

Gnome cooking[]

Main article: Gnome cooking

Gnome cooking is very complicated, and is best left with its own specially dedicated guide. The gnome foods plays a big part in the Gnome Restaurant minigame, more detailed information can be found in article linked to above but following is a general guide for how a player can get acquainted with gnome cooking.

Although it is complex, somewhat expensive, and requires a wide variety of unusual ingredients, gnome cooking can provide a good avenue to advance cooking from around 10 up to about 30 in good speed. To obtain the cookbook with all the recipes for gnome foods, a player can go to The Grand Tree in the Gnome Stronghold and find the gnome called Aluft Gianne Sr . He is on the west side of the first level up of the grand tree and is dressed as a chef. Talk with him, and offer your assistance to him. He will take you on as a kind of apprentice and tell you some basics, give you the recipe book and a small set of the basic tools you need to create gnome dishes. He will assign you a succession of dishes to prepare. Once you have prepared the dish to his satisfaction he will ask you to make another, then another moving steadily up the chart of assorted gnome foods. If you are using this method to train your cooking up and get an assignment you do not have the correct level to prepare, then you simply need to train till you do. Use the shops and resources in the gnome stronghold to make more gnome foods if you wish, or cook other foods that you may have. For each dish the player can buy supplies from the shop run by a gnome called Hudo who is found by the cooking range nearby Gianne, but ever since the shop stock update this has been severely limited. Players going through the tutorial will start by making crunchies which can stored at a bank in The Grand Tree and later sold on the Grand Exchange. As your skill levels improve you will be able to make battas then eventually bowls. Once you have completed the training exercises he gives you, you can start the minigame, which has several useful rewards.

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
Veg ball	35	175	12
Blurberry special	37	180	7
Tangled toad's legs	40	185	15
Chocolate bomb	42	190	15

Temporary boosts[]

Main article: Temporary skill boost

Cooking cape emote — A player wearing a Cooking cape (t) and performing the Skillcape emote

Name	Boost	Level to obtain/use	Notes
Chef's delight	1 to 5	Can be brewed at 54	Boost by 5% of base level + 1
Chef's delight(m)	2 to 6	Can be brewed at 54	Boost by 5% of base level + 2
Orange spicy stew	-5 to +5	25	-5 and +5 are rare
Cooking cape	1	99	Also prevents food from being burnt.

Cooking Cape of Accomplishment[]

You can buy this skillcape from the Head chef at the Cooking Guild that is slightly west of Varrock once you reach 99 Cooking.

A Chef's hat is required for entry to the Cooking Guild. From here, a player must pay 99,000 coins for the cooking cape. If you already have a cooking cape, it can be used in place of a chef's hat for entry to the Cooking Guild.

Quests rewarding Cooking experience[]

Main article: Quest experience rewards

Quest	Experience reward	Cooking req.	Other requirements
Cook's Assistant	300	-	-
Rag and Bone Man	500	-	-
Recipe for Disaster (Dwarf subquest)	1,000	-	-
Recipe for Disaster (Goblin generals subquest)	1,000	-	-
Recipe for Disaster (Pirate Pete subquest)	1,000	31	-
Big Chompy Bird Hunting	1,470	30	5 , 30
Recipe for Disaster (Skrach Uglogwee subquest)	1,500	41	20
Gertrude's Cat	1,525	-	-
Recipe for Disaster (Lumbridge Guide subquest)	2,500	40	-
Heroes' Quest	2,825	53	55 , 53 , 25 , 50
Recipe for Disaster (Sir Amik Varze subquest)	4,000	-	107
Forgettable Tale...	5,000	22	17
Tai Bwo Wannai Trio	5,000	30	15 , 5
Recipe for Disaster (Evil Dave subquest)	7,000	25	-
Recipe for Disaster (Awowogei subquest)	10,000	70	48
Total	44,620

Skill choice[]

Upon completing any of the following quests, players may choose to allocate experience to Cooking. These rewards usually come in the form of items, such as lamps or books, and are independent of any experience rewards directly received for completing the quest.

Quest	Experience reward	Skills available	Skill requirements
Client of Kourend	500 twice	Any	-
Fairytale II - Cure a Queen	2,500	Any skill above 30	49 , 57
A Tail of Two Cats	2,500 twice	Any skill above 30	-
The Great Brain Robbery	5,000	Any skill above 30	16 , 30 , 50
King's Ransom	5,000	Any skill above 50	65
Darkness of Hallowvale	2,000 three times	Any skill above 30	5 , 20 , 22 , 32 , 33 , 40
Curse of the Empty Lord (miniquest)	10,000	Any skill above 50	Some players will need 31
One Small Favour	10,000 twice	Any skill above 30	36 , 25 , 18 , 30
Recipe for Disaster (The final battle)	20,000	Any skill above 50	175 , 48 , 50 , 53 , 53 , 25 , 59 , 40 , 50 , 40 , 40 , 10 , 10 , 36
Total	74,500

v • d • e Skills
Support	Agility • Slayer • Thieving
Gathering	Woodcutting • Mining • Fishing • Hunter • Farming
Combat	Attack • Strength • Hitpoints • Defence • Magic • Ranged • Prayer
Artisan	Firemaking • Fletching • Cooking • Smithing • Runecrafting • Crafting • Herblore • Construction