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- For the combat skill, see Ranged.
A range
A Stove
A Range or a Cooking range is an object used primarily to cook food via the Cooking skill. To cook raw food, simply 'use' it on the range. Any food can be cooked on a range, except for special cases that need to be cooked on a fire using an iron spit. Players can also burn seaweed on a range to turn it into soda ash.
All ranges have lower burn rate than fires, and the range in Lumbridge Castle has an even lower burn rate. However, this does not eliminate the player's risk of burning food, until the player has reached the necessary cooking level not to burn.
There are many other cooking areas that may be used as ranges, but do not have the name of "range". For example, the sulphur vents in the TzHaar City can be used as a range. Members may also build a variety of ranges, ovens and stoves in the kitchen of their house.
A stove has a long unfixed problem, that is a player would cook the food at the coal gate rather than on the cooking pen. This is not a glitch but a thinking problem.
Locations
Ranges are located in many other places than the areas mentioned above. They are marked on a player's minimap by the Range icon. Notable ranges are listed here.
Free-to-play
- Kitchen in Lumbridge Castle - must first complete Cook's Assistant quest
- Upstairs in Cook's Guild - must be above Cooking level 32
- Kitchen of Varrock Castle
- Just south of the western bank in Varrock
- Juliet's house, south of the Grand Exchange
- Several houses south of the Party Room (surrounding the central fountain) in Falador
- Al Kharid, south of the furnace
- Port Sarim, south of Grum's Gold Exchange - useful if returning from Karamja to bank high level fish like lobsters and swordfish in Draynor Village on F2P worlds
- Rimmington, in the house north of the witch's cauldron
- Draynor Manor, although very rarely used and almost inaccessible
- Bandit camp (wilderness), very inconvenient unless the player is making pizza.
Pay-to-play
- The house just east of the bank in Catherby - this is useful when fishing at the nearby fishing spots
- Caleb's House, north-east of bank in Catherby
- The House just south of the anvils in Seer's Village
- Kitchen of Sinclair Mansion
- The first level of the Cook's Guild, if you have completed the hard level of difficulty for the Varrock Achievement Diary tasks
- Directly south of the bank in Zanaris
- The kitchen of a player's house, where members can build one of a variety of cooking devices, depending on their Construction level
- A fire in the Rogues' Den directly next to a bank
- Nardah Clay oven, Closest proper range to a bank.
Lumbridge Castle range
The Lumbridge Castle range
The range in Lumbridge Castle has an even lower burn rate, but players need to complete Cook's Assistant quest in order to use it. It is interestingly enough called the Cook O Matic-100.
The nearest banks are the Culinaromancer's chest in the cellar (which requires the first part of the Recipe for Disaster quest to be completed) and at the top of Lumbridge Castle.
Sulphur vents
Sulphur vents are small, round holes in volcanic rock from which hot sulphur and gases rise. They are found only in the TzHaar City. They are used to cook food on. One is located relatively close to the bank, making cooking fast.
They can also be used as a safe spot to range or mage a monster from.
Tips on leveling Cooking
For players training on cooking with low cooking level, ranges can come in handy, especially the ranges within meat sources, such as cows and chickens. Many players collect raw chickens left behind by other players who kill chickens to collect feathers.
Cooking gauntlets are a pair of members only gloves, available after completing the Family Crest quest. While wearing the gauntlet the player will have a reduced risk of burning lobsters, swordfish, and sharks on ranges and fires, and reduce the level required not to burn them.
A good place to level cooking is in the Champion's Guild. Players can easily kill chickens, cook them, then sell them to the General store upstairs.
If players have been collecting food or buying it from the Grand Exchange, a common location to quickly cook a large number of items is in Al Kharid, just south of the furnace. As this has one of the closest banks to a range, players can move quickly between the range and the bank. Even with an Agility level of 1 (typical for F2P), players can travel in run-mode between the two spots and recover their energy while cooking or exchanging the items in the bank, assuming they are wearing no armour or otherwise light clothing.
Alternatively, if you have completed As a First Resort... the cooking fire in front of Chargurr is fairly close to a bank and there are no doors to hinder fast cooking experience.
Members can also go to the Rogue's Den, as a permanent fire is just 1-5 steps away.