 This is the regular Cooking guide, the guide for ironman / hardcore ironman players can be found here.

Cooking is an artisan skill that allows a player to cook raw food into food that you can eat to heal lost Hitpoints. Cooking goes hand in hand with the Fishing skill. By levelling up Cooking you are able to cook higher level food which will heal more Hitpoints.

Cooking is very straight forward. The only thing you need to do is use a food on a range. The only problem with cooking is that it is very slow paced as you get little experience compared to other skills.

Cooking Calculator

Cooking Calculator:

Your Cooking Level
Your Cooking XP
Target Level
Target XP
Bonuses	Regular Donator Totem Super Donator Totem Extreme Donator Totem Cooking Brawlers 1st-5th Bonus Days Advanced Knowledge Aura 25% Skilling Hour Prestige 20 Chef's Hat Chef's Apron

Shrimp
Anchovies
Sardine
Herring
Mackerel
Cod
Pike
Trout
Salmon
Tuna
Lobster
Bass
Karambwan
Swordfish
Shark
Sea Turtle
Anglerfish
Manta Ray
Rocktail

Experience Table

The table below shows the cooking exp of each food item.

Name	Level Required	Experience Gained
Shrimps	1	24
Anchovies	1	24
Sardine	1	99
Herring	5	199
Mackerel	10	247
Cod	18	312
Trout	20	312
Pike	20	367
Salmon	25	404
Tuna	30	510
Lobster	40	787
Karambwan	40	4.000
Bass	40	912
Swordfish	45	1.010
Shark	80	1.577
Sea Turtle	82	1.828
Anglerfish	84	4.841
Manta Ray	91	2.025
Rocktail	92	2.550

All though Karambwans give more experience than all other food, they can only be fished in the wilderness which makes acquiring them very difficult.

Where to Cook

Cooking can only be done on Cooking Ranges, there are only three Cooking Ranges that are close enough to a bank to be worth using here at Etherum.

These Cooking Ranges are located at:

Catherby

One is located in Catherby, which is the furthest from the bank out of the 3 suggested. However, is close to the teleport.

Donator Zone

Another range is located in the Donator Zone (only available for in-game donators). This is much closer to the bank than Catherby and other players are often nearby which could help pass time if you want to converse with them.

Cooking Guild

The best area to train Cooking is located south west of the Grand Exchange, this is the Cooking Guild. It is incredibly close to the bank.

Useful Items and Boosts

Picture	Item/Boost	Effect	How to Obtain
	Knowledge Effect	All experience gained will be increased by: 75% for 10 minutes for normal donators 100% for 20 minutes for super donators 110% for 40 minutes for extreme donators	Go to the Donator Zone, in the building to the west of the bank and click on the Defence Totem (Knowledge effect).
	Bonus Experience	All experience gained will be multiplied by 3 until the bonus experience runs out.	Logging in every day grants 200k Bonus Exp. Every 10th vote streak rewards you with 500k Bonus Exp. Purchase 1m Bonus Exp for 5k premium points.
N/A	Monthly Bonus	All experience gained is multiplied by 1.1 Voting during this time adds an additional 1.25 multiplier.	Play during the 1st to the 5th of every month.
	Brawling Gloves (Cooking)	Doubles all cooking experience gained.	Dropped by all Revenants. Received as a Voting Sortition Reward. Bought from the skilling point store. At random from a Brawler Chest.
	Cooking Gauntlets	Decreases the chance of burning food.	Bought from the agility ticket shop.
	Cooking Skillcape	Provides 25% chance to cook two raw fish at the same time.	Bought from the Wise Old Man (after 99 cooking)
	Chef's hat	Provides 50% more experience gained	Purchased from Voting store.
	White apron	Provides 25% more experience gained and boosts cooking speed by 1 tick.	Purchased from Voting store.
	Completionest Cape	5% experience boost	Obtained from the Wise Old Man after completing 122/125 tasks and getting 99 in every skill.
	Golden Chef's hat	Provides 50% more experience gained and doesn't degrade.	Purchased from Prestige shop.
	Golden apron	Provides 25% more experience gained, boosts cooking speed by 1 tick and doesn't degrade.	Purchased from Prestige shop.

Cooking Gauntlets vs. Brawling Gloves (Cooking)

When you have both the Cooking Gauntlets and the Brawling Gloves (Cooking), it is tough to decide which one you should be using, as they both have useful benefits.

If you are going purely for fast experience, Brawling Gloves (Cooking) would be a better option. Even though you will be burning fish, the bonus experience you get from the Brawling Gloves is more than enough make up for this loss.

However, if you just want a nice supply of food. You'll be better off using Cooking Gauntlets.

The Skill Cape

If you reach level 99 in Cooking, you can talk to the Wise Old Man at home to obtain the Skill cape. He is located at home, in the building north of the bank.

The skillcape costs 30 million coins and comes with a matching hood. Both the Cooking cape and hood give +9 bonus to all defense stats.

If you reach 200m experience in the Cooking skill you will also unlock the ability to buy the Master Cooking Cape. It is exactly the same as the normal Skill cape. However, you can adjust the trim colour to whatever you like. This master skillcape costs 80 million coins.