Main page/Guides/Skill guides/Cooking

This is the Regular Cooking Guide, the guide for Ironman/ Hardcore Ironman players is 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.

Experience Table

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

Fish	Name	Level Required	Experience Gained	Experience With Brawling Gloves
	Shrimps	1	49	98
	Anchovies	1	49	98
	Sardine	1	199	398
	Herring	10	399	798
	Mackerel	10	495	990
	Cod	15	625	1,250
	Pike	20	625	1,250
	Trout	20	625	1,250
	Salmon	25	808	1,616
	Tuna	30	1,021	2,042
	Lobster	40	1,575	3,150
	Bass	40	1,825	3,650
	Karambwan	40	8,000	16,000
	Swordfish	45	2,020	4,040
	Sea Turtle	82	3,657	7,314
	Shark	80	3,155	6,310
	Manta Ray	91	4,051	8,102
	Rocktail	92	5,101	10,202

Acquiring Supplies

There are three different ways of acquiring your cooking supplies.

• Buying them from other players.
• Fishing them yourself.
• Completing the 'Safety First' task by eating 1,000 sharks. (Can only be done once)

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 Grinderscape.

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.

1-99 Walkthrough

This is the suggested method for 1-99 Cooking:

Please note that the amounts noted are the amount of successfully cooked food. You will probably need more as you will burn some.

Fish	Name	Levels	Amount needed
	Shrimps & Anchovies	1-5	8
	Herring	5-20	11	844,612
	Trout	20-25	6
	Salmon	25-30	7
	Tuna	30-40	24
	Lobster	40-50	41
	Swordfish	50-80	934
	Shark	80-91	1,242
	Manta ray	91-92	152
	Rocktail	92-99	1,278

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

You will need to cook roughly 66,058 Rocktails to achieve 350 million Cooking Experience from level 99.

Useful Items and Boosts

Picture	Item/Boost	Effect	How to Obtain
N/A	Knowledge Totem	All experience gained will be increased for the next 10 minutes for normal donators and 20 minutes for super donators.	Go to the Donator Zone, in the building to the west of the bank and click on the Defence Totem(Knowledge effect).
N/A	Bonus Experience	All experience gained will be multiplied by 3 until the bonus experience runs out.	Logging in everyday grants 200k Bonus Exp. Every 10th vote streak rewards you with 500k Bonus Exp. Purchace 1m Bonus Exp for 5k premium points.
N/A	Monthly Bonus	All experience gained is multiplied by 1.25	Play during the 1st to the 5th of every month.
	Brawling Gloves (Cooking)	Doubles all cooking experience gained.	Dropped by all Revenants. Recieved as a Voting Reward.
	Cooking Gauntlets	Decreases the chance of burning food.	Bought from the agility ticket 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 don't care about experience, or 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 99 cape costs 150K Gp and comes with a matching hood. Both the Cooking cape and hood give +9 bonus to all defense stats.

If you reach 350m 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 cape costs 2.5m Gp.