Main page/Guides/Ironman & Hardcore/Skilling Guides/ Cooking

This is the Ironman/ Hardcore Ironman Cooking Guide, the guide for regular players is found Here.

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

Training Up

Training up Cooking is very slow paced as you get little experience compared to other skills. The only thing you need to do is use a fish on a range. The table below shows the cooking exp of each fish.

Fish	Name	Experience Gained	Experience With Brawling Gloves	Hardcore Experience	Hardcore With Brawling Gloves
	Shrimps	16	32	7	14
	Anchovies	16	32	7	14
	Sardine	66	132	28	56
	Herring	133	266	57	114
	Mackerel	165	330	70	140
	Cod	208	416	89	178
	Pike	208	416	89	178
	Trout	208	416	89	178
	Salmon	269	538	115	230
	Tuna	340	680	145	291
	Lobster	525	1,050	225	450
	Bass	608	1,216	260	520
	Karambwan	2,666	5,332	1,142	2,284
	Swordfish	673	1,346	288	576
	Sea Turtle	1,219	2,438	522	1,044
	Shark	1,051	2,102	450	900
	Manta Ray	1,350	2,700	578	1,156
	Rocktail	1,700	3,400	728	1,456

Acquiring Supplies

As an Ironman there is only one way of acquiring your cooking supplies and that is by Fishing them on your own. This guide may help you with this: Fishing.

Where to Cook

There are three cooking ranges that are worth using here at Grinderscape.

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 but is still not the best area to cook.

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
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.
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 Sortition reward.
	Cooking Gauntlets	Decreases the chance of burning food, also stops burning for most fish.	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.