Cooking

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This article is about the cooking skill. For information on training cooking, see Cooking training (F2P) (P2P).

The official world for Community Cooking Training is world 99 (P2P).

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Cooking
Release date	4 January 2001 (Update)
Members	No
Type	Artisan
Statistics
Minimum level to be ranked	15 (as of 16 Apr 2024)
Players with 99	254,483 (as of 16 Apr 2024)
Players with 120	18,191 (as of 16 Apr 2024)
Players with 200M XP	6,313 (as of 16 Apr 2024)

Cooking is an artisan skill that is used to cook raw food for a number of reasons, including restoring life points and the temporary boosting of skill levels. There are many different types of food in RuneScape, each healing a certain amount of life points. However, as with all skills, players must reach certain levels to cook various types of foods. Cooking can often generate a small profit as many players are willing to purchase food already cooked, especially those who cannot actually prepare higher level foods. Cooking also has a larger variety of training options than any other skill.

Cooking level up (1-49)

The sound that plays after gaining a Cooking level.

Cooking level up (50-99)

The sound that plays after gaining a Cooking level.

How to cook

A player cooking food on a fire

Cooking is known as one of the fastest skills to train in RuneScape, as players can cook in many different ways and have the option to buy their raw food items from the Grand Exchange.

Generally a player who is 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 labelled on the map using this icon. ()

There are other assorted things that a player can cook on, such as sulphur vents, permanent campfires as 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.

The Make-X interface

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, the Make-X interface will appear, and the number of items to cook can be chosen using the slider on this interface. By default, the maximum possible number of items will be cooked.

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.
• 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

Main article: Burnt food

As players train Cooking, they will periodically and randomly fail to cook something properly. The result is a burnt version of the item that the player was attempting to cook. As an example, if a player tries to cook a raw shark and burns it they will obtain the item 'burnt shark.' The same holds true for items such as burnt cake, burnt meat, and burnt fish, where the item name holds the general form 'burnt [item].'

As you increase your Cooking level beyond what is required for that particular food, you will gradually burn less. With many raw items, and especially lower- to mid-level items, you will eventually stop burning some types of food entirely, but will often need an extensive amount of training to reach the appropriate zero-burn level. An example being raw monkfish, which is accessed at Cooking level 62 does not reach zero-burn until level 92, 30 levels higher. Other than increasing your Cooking level, there are several methods of decreasing the chance of burning.

Burnt food items are completely worthless in game terms, and cannot be sold on the Grand Exchange. They are tradeable, but retain their uselessness and the minimum trade value of 1gp each. An update to the shops system guaranteed that any item sold was worth at least 1 gold piece, so players can now offload their burnt food at the general store for 1 coin each, which is generally minuscule compared to the amount it can cost a player to purchase the raw food item.

There is, however, an intermittent player-to-player direct trade economy for burnt food (along with crushed gems and various otherwise "worthless" items). This is primarily an outgrowth of the invention skills' disassemble function: players will gather and break down vast troves of low grade & otherwise junky items in order to accrue materials such as simple components, which are needed in large quantities for invention item fabrication & usage. Due to this emergent demand, coupled with some eccentric wealthy players deciding to collect junk items, burnt food can often be found trading on offer at a price point around 200-300gp per item.

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, raw potatoes)
• Fruits - (Cooking apples, grapes, bananas, redberries, tomatoes)
• Cheese
• Bowl
• Bucket
• Cake tin
• Jug
• Pie dish
• Pot
• Knife

Types of food

Meat

Players can obtain basic meat from killing chickens, cows, bears, yaks, and giant rats. While raw chicken, which then becomes cooked chicken looks a little different, the item uses are identical (e.g., stew.) When a player cooks raw beef, raw bear meat, or raw rat meat, they all three become simply cooked meat. If meat is used on the fire after it is already cooked, it will become burnt and a message will say, "You deliberately burn the nicely cooked meat." This yields no Cooking experience.

Item	Level	Stops burning at level	Experience (Bonfire)	Heals	Notes
Cooked meat	1	34	30	200	Any player can cook raw beef, raw bear meat, raw yak meat, or raw rat meat.
Cooked chicken	1	34	30	200	Any player can cook raw chicken.
Ugthanki meat	1	Never	40	200	Members item used to make kebabs, when cooked it becomes ugthanki meat.
Cooked rabbit	1	34	30	200	Members can find rabbits on Miscellania, Isafdar, and Rellekka. They may be also be bought from charter ship shops. Cooked rabbit is the result of directly using the raw rabbit on a fire.
Roast bird meat	11	99	62	200	Members can obtain bird meat via hunting, and may prepare it on an iron spit. It should be noted, however, that raw bird meat is much more expensive than its cooked version as it is used in the creation of spirit terrorbird pouches.
Bacon	14	49	68	300	Members can obtain raw bacon from pigs in Eli Bacon's cellar after completing Bringing Home the Bacon.
Roast rabbit	16	99	72	320	Members can find rabbits on Miscellania, Isafdar, and Rellekka. They may be also be bought from charter ship shops. Roasted rabbits can only be made by first using an iron spit on the raw rabbit then cooking it on a fire (not compatible with a range).
Spider on stick	16	48	80	400	Although the term 'meat' is used loosely, Members can roast spiders on a skewer stick by cutting a thatching spar (light, medium, or dense) with a machete from the Tai Bwo Wannai Cleanup minigame, then using the 'stick' with a spider carcass. An arrow shaft may also be used, but cannot be re-used like a skewer stick can once the spider has been eaten.
Spider on shaft		48
Cooked crab meat	21	62	100	420	Members can get crab meat from the Mogre Camp found during Recipe for Disaster (Pirate Pete) quest, after reaching the point where they can actually access the crabs. Simply kill the crab for meat.
Roast beast meat	21	99	82	420	Members can obtain raw beast meat through the Hunter skill. Hunting kebbits produces this type of meat. It must be cooked on a spit.
Bacon stack	24	49	88	500	Members can obtain raw bacon from pigs in Eli Bacon's cellar after completing Bringing Home the Bacon. To get a raw bacon stack, 2 pieces of raw bacon must be combined.
Cooked chompy	30	99	140	750	Members can obtain raw chompy meat by killing chompy birds. Although often referred to as 'hunting chompies,' it is unrelated to the Hunter skill. Players must complete Big Chompy Bird Hunting to be able to 'hunt' these birds. Chompy meat can be both cooked on a fire and roasted on a spit.
Bacon pile	34	49	108	700	Members can obtain raw bacon from pigs in Eli Bacon's cellar after completing Bringing Home the Bacon. To get a raw bacon pile, 2 bacon stacks must be combined (4 pieces of raw bacon).
Cooked jubbly	41	N/A	160	820	Members can obtain raw jubbly meat by killing jubbly birds. Although often referred to as 'hunting jubblies,' it is unrelated to the Hunter skill. Players must complete Recipe for Disaster (Skrach Uglogwee) quest to be able to 'hunt' these birds. The meat is roasted on a spit once obtained.
Bacon heap	44	49	135	900	Members can obtain raw bacon from pigs in Eli Bacon's cellar after completing Bringing Home the Bacon. To get a raw bacon heap, 2 bacon piles must be combined (8 pieces of raw bacon).
Cooked oomlie wrap	50	40 (range) 44 (bonfire)	110	1125	Members can find oomlie birds in the Kharazi Jungle after starting Legends' Quest. Simply kill the oomlie bird to obtain the meat. Players must wrap raw oomlies with a palm leaf before cooking the meat or else it will become burnt.
Bacon mound	54	49	158	1100	Members can obtain raw bacon from pigs in Eli Bacon's cellar after completing Bringing Home the Bacon. To get a raw bacon mound, 2 bacon heaps must be combined (16 pieces of raw bacon).
Cooked pekin	91	?	30	200	Obtained as a drop from Pekin on Waiko.

Fish

Fish are the most common food to cook due to the ease of gathering them. Fish can be easily obtained through the Fishing skill, or bought in large amounts from other players and the Grand Exchange.

Image	Name	Level	Stops burning at level	Experience (Bonfire)	Heals	GE price (raw)	GE price (cooked)	GP/XP (no Burn)	Notes
	Crayfish	1	34	30 (33)	200	520	133	−11.73	Created by cooking raw crayfish.
	Shrimps	1	34	30 (33)	200	610	262	−10.55	Created by cooking raw shrimps.
	Karambwanji	1	28	10	200	Untradeable	Untradeable	Untradeable	Members can create karambwanji by cooking raw karambwanji. (Related to the Tai Bwo Wannai Trio quest.)
	Sardine	1	38	40 (44)	200	356	100	−5.82	Created by cooking raw sardine.
	Anchovies	1	34	30	200	489	351	−4.6	Created by cooking raw anchovies.
	Poison karambwan	1	20	80	-50	8,004	Untradeable	−100.05	Members can create poison karambwan by cooking raw karambwan. (Can only be made before completing Tai Bwo Wannai Trio.)
	Herring	5	41	50 (55)	200	319	177	−2.58	Created by cooking raw herring.
	Mackerel	10	45	60 (66)	250	411	128	−4.29	Members can create mackerel by cooking raw mackerel.
	Trout	15	50	70 (77)	375	511	418	−1.21	Created by cooking raw trout.
	Cod	18	52	75	450	1,020	1,153	1.77	Members can create cod by cooking raw cod.
	Pike	20	53	80	400	523	125	−4.98	Created by cooking raw pike.
	Salmon	25	58	90 (99)	625	402	93	−3.12	Created by cooking raw salmon.
	Slimy eel	28	58	95	700	967	232	−7.74	Members can create by cooking raw slimy eel.
	Tuna	30	65	100 (110)	750	251	239	−0.11	Created by cooking raw tuna.
	Karambwan	30	Never	190	750	8,004	3,695	−22.68	Members can create by cooking raw karambwan. (Must talk to Tiadeche after Tai Bwo Wannai Trio to learn how.)
	Rainbow fish	35	60	110	875	1,174	380	−7.22	Members can create by cooking raw rainbow fish.
	Cave eel	38	74	115	950	2,851	269	−22.45	Members can create by cooking raw cave eel.
	Lobster	40	74 (73**) (64*)	120 (132)	1200	308	192	−0.88	Created by cooking raw lobster.
	Bass	43	79	130	1300	2,820	248	−19.78	Members can create bass by cooking raw bass. Big bass cannot be cooked.
	Swordfish	45	86 (80*)	140 (154)	1400	278	138	−0.91	Created by cooking raw swordfish.
	Desert sole	52	83*	142.5	1450	522	88	−3.05	Created by cooking Raw desert sole. Can only be caught in Menaphos.
	Lava eel	53	53	30	1060	Untradeable	Untradeable	Untradeable	Members can catch and cook raw lava eel after completing Heroes' Quest. Difficult to obtain in large amounts.
	Catfish	60	89	145	1500	271	199	−0.5	Created by cooking Raw catfish. Can only be caught in Menaphos.
	Monkfish	62	92 (87*)	150 (165)	1600	1,749	307	−8.74	Members can create monkfish by cooking raw monkfish. Fishing them requires completing Swan Song. They can be cooked without doing the quest.
	Beltfish	72	Unknown (90*)	165	1650	648	155	−2.99	Created by cooking Raw beltfish. Can only be caught in Menaphos.
	Green blubber jellyfish	72	Unknown(87*)	165	500	2,832	3,383	3.34
	Shark	80	Never (94*)	210 (231)	2000	495	395	−0.43	Members can create shark by cooking raw shark.
	Sea turtle	82	Never	212	2050	893	402	−2.32	Members can create sea turtle by cooking raw sea turtle which can be obtained from the Fishing Trawler minigame or caught at the Deep Sea Fishing hub.
	Great white shark	84	Never (94)	212 (236)	2100	905	649	−1.08	Members can create great white shark by cooking raw great white shark. They can be caught at any shark fishing spot after claiming the prawn perk from the Aquarium in your Player-owned house.
	Great maki	84	Never (94)	150	2100	905 + 101	1,923	6.11	Members can create great maki by combining raw great white shark and seaweed, after unlocking the sushi perk from the Aquarium. When eaten, alongside the healing, the player regains 1% of their prayer every two seconds for up to 5%. Players cannot eat a second great maki until the first one's prayer restore effect wears off.
	Cavefish	88	Never (94*)	214 (235)	2200	608	520	−0.37	Members can create cavefish by cooking raw cavefish. Eating cavefish boosts a random combat skill by 2 levels.
	Great gunkan	91	Never	180	1500 (2850 in total)	905 + 4,203	8,410	18.34	Members can create great gunkan by combining raw great white shark and kelp, after unlocking the sushi perk from the Aquarium. When eaten, it heals 1500 life points instantly, and then continues to heal 150 life points per second for 9 seconds, for a total of 2850 life points.
	Fish oil	91	91	120	Not edible	Untradeable	Untradeable		Obtained by cooking either 9 raw tarpon, 6 raw seerfish, or 3 raw sillago, obtained in The Arc. They can then be sold for 9 to 11 chimes, depending on a player's upgrades in the region.
	Manta ray	91	Never	216	2275	850	804	−0.21	Members can create manta rays by cooking raw manta rays which can be obtained through the Fishing Trawler minigame or caught at the Deep Sea Fishing hub.
	Rocktail	93	Never (94*)	225 (250.8)	2300	1,101	774	−1.3	Members can create rocktail by cooking a raw rocktail. Eating rocktail can boost your life points by up to 100 above maximum. This effect does not stack with the effect of saradomin brew or Oo'glog spa pools.
	Rocktail soup	93	93	500	2500	Untradeable	18,026		Members can create rocktail soup by combining a rocktail with spices after unlocking the recipe from the Player-owned port minigame. Eating rocktail soup can boost your life points by up to 15% above maximum. This effect does not stack with the effect of saradomin brew or Oo'glog spa pools.
	Arc gumbo	94	Never	130	2225	Untradeable	Untradeable		Members can create Arc gumbo by combining a tortle shell bowl, a bundle of bamboo, a rumberry, fish oil, and sea salt. It can then be cooked and sold for a base of 65 chimes on Waiko. Due to the difficulty of creating an Arc gumbo, it is recommended not to eat it.
	Tiger shark	95	Never (99*)	230	2375	Untradeable	Untradeable		Members can catch up to one Tiger shark during a Fishing Trawler attempt, though they are not guaranteed.
	Blue blubber jellyfish	95	Never (97)	235	750 × 3 bites	11,945	10,727	−5.18
	Wobbegong oil	96	96	240	Not edible	Untradeable	Untradeable		Can be obtained by cooking two raw wobbegong, obtained in The Arc. It can then be sold for 12 chimes on Waiko.
	Shark soup	96	96	240	2350	Untradeable	Untradeable		Members can create Shark soup by combining a shiny tortle shell bowl, a bundle of bamboo, sliced mushrooms, wobbegong oil, and alaea sea salt. It can then be cooked and sold for a base of 85 chimes on Waiko. Due to the difficulty of creating an Shark soup, it is recommended not to eat it.
	Sailfish	99	Never(99*)	270 (297)	2400	6,613	2,105	−16.7
	Sailfish soup	99	99	600	2600	Untradeable	25,649

*Numbers in parentheses indicate the level at which fish will no longer burn while wearing cooking gauntlets. This only affects lobster, swordfish, monkfish, shark, cavefish, rocktail, tiger shark and sailfish.

**Note that lobsters will not burn on the Lumbridge range at level 73 Cooking, as opposed to 74 while using a normal range.

Primal

High Level cooking items made primarily from dinosaur meat

Image	Name	Level	Experience	Heals	GE price
	Primal starter	99	800	2300	178,323
	Primal main course	99	800	2300	336,649
	Primal dessert	99	800	2300	9,945
	Primal feast	115*	1000	10000	Untradeable

*To achieve 115 cooking Level player with 98+ cooking must consume extreme cooking potion.

Snails

A sub-type of meat, snails can only be cooked by Members. Raw snail meat is obtained by killing snails in the Mort Myre swamp and the neighbouring Haunted Woods, Near the village of Canifis in Morytania. There are more snails in the eastern and southern parts of the swamp than in the Haunted Forest, especially the area known as the winding path. Once a player has found a snail, simply kill it and take the meat for cooking. There is usually plenty of trees around the areas you find the snails you can use to quickly cut down and cook the snails, making them a great food when you're out adventuring and need extra food.

Image	Name	Level	Stops burning at level	Experience	Heals
	Thin snail meat	12	47	70	300
	Lean snail meat	17	50	80	425
	Fat snail meat	22	56	95	550

Bread

Bread making is done by simply combining a pot of flour with either a jug of water or a bucket of water. When someone does this, they will be prompted with the option to make several different types of dough. Select the desired type, then quantity, to make the actual dough. Not all types of dough are able to be directly cooked, but those that are can only be cooked on a range, not on a fire made via the Firemaking skill. Once cooked on the range, regular bread is complete. Other types of dough, such as pitta bread and pastry dough have further steps until completion.

Image	Name	Level	Stops burning at level	Experience	Total healing	Notes
	Bread	1	37	40	200	Mix water in some flour and create bread dough, then cook it on a range.
	Pitta bread	58	37	40	Cannot be consumed as is.	This dough is members only. It is used to make ugthanki kebabs.

Pies

Pies are a food that a player must eat in two bites. Similar to pizzas, a player will eat only half of the pie at once, and garner the full benefits related to the pie (a player does not need to eat the whole pie to gain relevant stat boosts). After eating the first half of the pie, the player will obtain the aptly named 'half-pie,' which, once consumed, will revert back to an empty pie dish. Pies allows more life point replenishing power to be crammed into less inventory space, and are often used to give players a bit more health per inventory. For example, when a player eats the first half a meat pie, they will gain 200 Life Points (LP). The other half will stay in the dish, which can be consumed later for an additional 200 LP. Stat boosting pies work the same way, however, the separate boosts do not stack.

To make pies, players firstly need to mix a Pot of flour and Water together and select make Pastry dough. Players then use the Pastry dough with an empty Pie dish, to create a Pie shell. It should be noted that as it is, pie shells are fairly valuable and well sought after. Once the player has obtained the pie shell, the player just needs to add the appropriate fillings to make the uncooked pie they are after which then needs to be cooked. Where the individual ingredients are edible, the player may add the pie shell, or part pie, to the ingredients to avoid accidentally eating them.

A pie may be cooked on a range as well as by the bake pie spell in the Lunar Spellbook with no chance of burning. Burnt pies need not be discarded as they can be emptied, and the pie dish can be reused. Once cooked, the pie is complete, but players should be aware that if they accidentally eat half of it, there is a very low chance of selling the resulting half-pie.

Image	Name	Level	Experience	Total Healing and Effects	Notes
	Redberry pie	10	78	200 in two bites of 100	Redberries are the ingredient needed to make this pie. Redberries can be bought from Port Sarim's food store or from Beefy Bill north of Lumbridge, or they can be picked up from their respawns south of Varrock. Members can grow their own Redberry bushes through Farming. Due to an update, they now respawn in Draynor, for slightly added convenience.
	Meat pie	20	110	400 in two bites of 200	The ingredient to make this pie is cooked meat, which is dropped by killing Bears, Cows, Chickens, and Giant rats and then cooked.
	Mud pie	29	128	Cannot be consumed; is a ranged weapon	This pie is members only. The ingredients are: 1 Compost, 1 Bucket of water (must be a bucket), and 1 Clay. It can be tossed at players when it is cooked. When tossed, the target loses half of their run energy.
	Apple pie	30	130	600 in two bites of 300	The ingredient to make this pie is one cooking apple. Free players can find these within the cooking guild or buy them from other players. Members have a multitude more options, such as speciality shops or growing their own apples.
	Garden pie	34	138	850 in two bites of 425 Boosts Farming: +3	This pie is members only. It uses three ingredients: 1 Tomato, 1 Onion, and 1 Cabbage, to be added in that order. These items can be grown by players, or found around Lumbridge and Draynor Village. Each bite of this pie provides a temporary farming boost of +3.
	Fish pie	47	164	940 in two bites of 470 Boosts Fishing: +3	This pie is members only. It uses three ingredients: 1 Cooked trout, 1 Cooked cod, and 1 Raw potato. The fish are obtained through the fishing skill, and potatoes can be grown or picked from various farms around Lumbridge and Draynor Village where they will respawn. Each bite of this pie provides a temporary fishing boost of +3.
	Admiral pie	70	210	1400 in two bites of 700 Boosts Fishing: +5	This pie is members only. It uses three ingredients: 1 Cooked salmon, 1 Cooked tuna, and 1 Raw potato. The fish are obtained through the fishing skill, and potatoes can be grown or picked from various farms around Lumbridge and Draynor Village. Each bite of this pie provides a temporary fishing boost of +5.
	Pork pie	74	210	1080 in one bite Farming: +5 Summoning: +5	This pie is members only. The ingredients for this pie are 3 cooked bacon. Raw bacon can be acquired by killing the pigs in Eli Bacon's cellar after completing Bringing Home the Bacon. This pie is devoured in only one bite, unlike other pies, and the dish is not returned.
	Wild pie	85	240	1700 in two bites of 850 Boosts Slayer: +5 Boosts Ranged: +4	This pie is members only. It uses three ingredients: 1 Raw bear meat, 1 Raw chompy meat, and 1 Raw rabbit meat. Bear meat is a 100% drop of bears, Chompy meat is obtained by 'hunting' chompies (see the Big Chompy Bird Hunting quest/guide), Rabbit meat is a 100% drop of from rabbits/hares. Each bite of this pie provides a temporary boost in both Slayer (+5) and Ranged (+4).
	Wilder pie	90	250	2200 in two bites of 1100 Boosts Slayer: +6 nondecaying for 6 minutes Boosts Ranged: +5	This pie is members only. It uses four ingredients: 1 Raw bear meat, 1 Raw chompy meat, 1 Raw rabbit meat, and 1 crushed dragonstone. Bear meat is a 100% drop of bears, Chompy meat is obtained by 'hunting' chompies (see the Big Chompy Bird Hunting quest/guide), Rabbit meat is a 100% drop of from rabbits/hares, Crushed dragonstone is obtained by crushing a dragonstone. Each bite of this pie provides a temporary boost in both Slayer (+6) and Ranged (+5).
	Summer pie	95	260	1900 in two bites of 950 Special Effect:10% run restore Boosts Agility: +5	This pie is members only. It uses three ingredients: 1 Strawberry, 1 Watermelon, and 1 Apple. These items are mainly produced via the farming skill. Apples have various places to be obtained at, see above. Each bite of this pie restores 10% of the players run energy and provides a temporary agility increase of +5.

Stew

To make stew, players will need a bowl and some cooked meat or cooked chicken. The bowl has to be filled with Water, from any water source other than a well. The potatoes or cooked meat can be added next, in any order. Gathering and cooking meat is discussed above. Potatoes are found in various locations, generally in the fields around Lumbridge and Draynor where they grow. Members have additional ways of obtaining potatoes, including the Farming skill and various shops, especially the grocery shops in the Grand Tree and Yanille. If a member is attempting to make curry, the curry leaves or spice must be added before cooking the stew. Once all the ingredients have been added to the bowl, cook the stew on a range or a fire.

Image	Name	Level	Experience	Total healing	Notes
	Stew	25	117	500	To make Stew, players must put cooked meat and a raw potato in a Bowl of water.
	Spicy stew	25	117	500	This stew is members only. However, players need to complete Evil Dave's part of the Recipe for Disaster quest. To make this stew, players need to add several spices to a regular stew. Each spice affects a different set of skills, raising or lowering them, although certain spices show a correlation to the group of skills they change. For more information see Temporary Boosts.
	Curry	60	280	1500	This stew is members only. To make curry, players need to use either spice or add three curry leaves (grown using the farming skill) before cooking the stew. 'Spice' can be bought or stolen using the Thieving skill in Ardougne's market or bought from the Culinaromancer's Chest.
	Juju gumbo	68	256	2750	Heals 2250 life points instantly and heals 50 additional life points every second for 10 seconds (for a total of 500).

Pizza

Pizza is a very popular food choice for players who regularly engage in combat, as they heal large amounts of Life points. Pizzas are a very famous choice for players training the Slayer skill not only because of the amount of life points they heal but because, like pies, they are consumed in two bites. Players can eat one half and save the other half for when it is needed, essentially stacking two food items in one inventory spot. To make a pizza, mix flour and water, selecting the pizza base dough type. Once you have the pizza base, add a Tomato and a Piece of Cheese to make a Plain Pizza. Both a tomato and a slice of cheese can be taken from Aggie the Witch's house in Draynor Village north of the bank; however, this method is very time consuming. It can also be obtained in the Bandit Camp (Wilderness). They can also be bought from the food store in Port Sarim and the Culinaromancer's Chest. After obtaining a plain pizza, the pizza must be baked. After baking, It is possible to add various toppings to the pizza, which is a popular money-making method despite offering relatively low experience for simply topping the pizza. If using a cooking urn, the urn does not gain experience for adding toppings to the pizza. Pizzas are very useful for skills such as agility where the player takes constant damage.

Image	Name	Level	Experience	Exp from adding final ingredient	Total healing	Notes
	Plain pizza	35	143	-	874 in two bites of 437	The plain pizza is made by adding 1 Tomato and 1 Piece of Cheese to a Pizza Base, then baking it.
	Meat pizza	45	169	26	1124 in two bites of 562	This pizza is made by adding Cooked Meat to the Plain Pizza after it has been baked. The appropriate meats are Chicken, Cow, Bear or Rat meat.
	Anchovy pizza	55	182	39	1374 in two bites of 687	This pizza is made by adding Cooked Anchovies to the Plain Pizza after it has been baked. Anchovies can be gathered by fishing or can be purchased in bulk by trading. Cook the anchovies before adding them to the pizza if they are raw.
	Pineapple pizza	65	195	52	1624 in two bites of 812	This pizza is members only. This pizza is made by adding pineapple chunks or rings to the plain pizza after it has been baked. Pineapple chunks or rings are made by using a knife on a pineapple and selecting the pineapple chunks or pineapple rings option. For information on where to obtain pineapples, see that article.
	Banana pizza	85	232	89	1800 in two bites of 900	This pizza is members only. This pizza is made by adding cooked chicken, nuts, a curry leaf, and a sliced banana to a plain pizza after it has been baked.

Cake

Cakes are mildly complicated to make, and use several items at once making their assembly rather slow. One slice of cake does not generate a large restoration on its own. Once complete, cakes are eaten in three bites. Eating one or two pieces of a cake will result in either a 2/3 cake or 1/3 cake. The 1/3 and 2/3 cake items cannot be used on one another to reassemble a full cake. The total value of the LP they restore is divided equally among the 3 parts. To actually make a cake, players need a pot of flour, an egg, a bucket of milk, and a cake tin. Eggs are found near the chicken coops around Lumbridge, while milk can be obtained by milking dairy cows into buckets. Dairy cows are found near the combat level 2 cows around Lumbridge, and also on a farm south of Falador, which also houses a churn. When all four items are present, using one on one of the others will combine all four into the cake tin at once. This must then be cooked on a range, and cannot be cooked on a fire. Please note that unlike pies the cake becomes separated from the cake tin when cooked, therefore players cannot cook a full inventory of 28 at once. 14 uncooked cakes will result in 14 cakes as well as 14 cake tins in your inventory. After being cooked, a Cake can be embellished with chocolate by using a Chocolate Bar, or Chocolate Dust to the cake. If using a cooking urn, the urn does not gain experience for adding chocolate to the cake.

Image	Name	Level	Experience	Total healing	Notes
	Cooked fishcake	31	100	700	This cake is members only. To make it, players must have completed the Pirate Pete section of the Recipe for Disaster quest. The ingredients needed to make this cake are: ground cod, ground kelp, ground crab meat, and breadcrumbs. To make these items ground, use them with a pestle and mortar.
	Biscuits	32	100	200	These are used in making various cheesecakes. To make biscuits, players must have partially completed Chef's Assistant. The ingredients are: pot of flour and pat of butter.
	Cheesecake	32	170	750 in three bites of 250	In addition to healing, this restores up to 49 prayer points with each bite. To make the basic cheesecake, mix biscuits, cream cheese, and a pot of cream together in a cake tin, which is done all at once.
	Vanilla cheesecake	37	180	900 in three bites of 300	In addition to healing, this restores up to 59 prayer points with each bite. To make the vanilla cheesecake, mix biscuits, vanilla cream cheese, and a pot of cream together in a cake tin, which is done all at once.
	Cake	40	180	999 in three bites of 333	To make the basic cake, mix a pot of flour, an egg and a bucket of milk together in a cake tin, which is done all at once. Then cook the cake by using it on a range, or Evil Dave's Mother's Range. It can also be bought or stolen from the Cook in Ardougne market.
	Chocolate cheesecake	42	190	1,050 in three bites of 350	In addition to healing, this restores up to 69 prayer points with each bite. To make the chocolate cheesecake, mix biscuits, chocolate cream cheese, and a pot of cream together in a cake tin, which is done all at once.
	Strawberry cheesecake	47	200	1,200 in three bites of 400	In addition to healing, this restores up to 79 prayer points with each bite. To make the strawberry cheesecake, mix biscuits, strawberry cream cheese, and a pot of cream together in a cake tin, which is done all at once.
	Chocolate cake	50	210	1248 in three bites of 416	To make this cake, Simply use a chocolate bar or chocolate dust on a basic cake. Chocolate bars can be taken from their respawn in the Cooking guild or bought from Port Sarim's food store, the Culinaromancer's Chest (after starting Recipe for Disaster), or Hudo's Grand Tree Groceries. Chocolate dust is the result of using a Mortar and Pestle, or a knife on a chocolate Bar. One slice of this cake can also be bought or stolen from the Ardougne market.
	Lemon cheesecake	52	210	1,350 in three bites of 450	In addition to healing, this restores up to 89 prayer points with each bite. To make the lemon cheesecake, mix biscuits, cream cheese, pot of cream, and a lemon together in a cake tin, which is done all at once.
	Bacon cheesecake	57	220	1,500 in three bites of 500	In addition to healing, this restores 10% of the player's maximum prayer points with each bite. To make the bacon cheesecake, mix biscuits, cream cheese, pot of cream, and a piece of bacon together in a cake tin, which is done all at once.

Potato toppings

Potato toppings are a members-only type of food and greatly increase the amount which a potato heals. Toppings can all be eaten as is, but restore less than half of what the complete potato/topping combination would restore.

Name	Level	Experience	Total healing	Notes
Spicy sauce	9	25	225	Use Gnome spice and garlic on a bowl. (Note: using garlic on an empty bowl results in a related item, but as it cannot actually be cooked, it has been omitted. Using gnome spice on this item results in spicy sauce.)
Chilli con carne	9	50	275	Use spicy sauce with cooked meat.
Scrambled egg	13	50	325	Use an egg with an empty bowl, then cook it on a range.
Egg and tomato	23	50	575	Use a scrambled egg with a tomato.
Fried onions	42	60	1050	Use an onion on an empty bowl, then cook it on a range.
Fried mushrooms	46	60	1150	Use a bittercap mushroom on an empty bowl, then cook it on a range.
Mushroom and onion	57	120	1425	Combine a fried mushroom with a fried onion.
Tuna and corn	67	204	1675	Use a cooked tuna with an empty bowl, then use a cooked sweetcorn with the bowl of Tuna. You will need a knife in your inventory or tool belt whilst you are adding the ingredients. Tuna and Corn does not need to be cooked, experience is gained during combination of ingredients.

Baked potato

Baked potatoes are available to everyone, however any baked potatoes with toppings are only available to members. To add the topping to a potato, a raw potato must be cooked. Once cooked, add a pat of butter to the baked potato. This makes a buttered potato. Add the topping of your choice to a buttered potato to make a very potent healing item. The tuna and sweetcorn potato is one of the 10 best food items in the game, healing 2125 life points in one bite. These items sell for a very high price, as they entail a large amount of work to create and heal so many life points. Note that experience here denotes total experience gained for making each item from the raw ingredients. For information on the experience gained at each step, see the respective item's page.

Name	Level	Experience	Total healing	Notes
Baked potato	7	15	200	Players must cook a potato on a range, otherwise it will burn.
Potato with butter	39	95.5	975	Use a Pat of butter on a baked potato.
Chilli potato	41	165.5	1250	Combine a potato with butter with a Chilli con carne topping (see above).
Potato with cheese	47	199.5	1175	Combine a potato with butter with a piece of Cheese.
Egg potato	51	195.5	1375	Combine a potato with butter with an Egg and tomato topping (see above).
Mushroom potato	64	270.5	2000	Combine a potato with butter with a Mushroom and onion topping (see above)
Tuna potato	68	310.5	2125	Combine a potato with butter with a Tuna and corn topping (see above)

Dairy

Dairy products can be made with a Dairy churn. A Dairy churn is found on the farm south of Falador, the cooking guild just south of the Grand Exchange and at several other locations. Churning is a time-consuming work so the player should consider other methods for training. Also, as the bucket and dairy item are both retained, all things made at the churn can only be made in sets of 14, along with 14 empty buckets. The buckets do get automatically dropped if the player's inventory is full, so 28 can be churned in one go, if the player does not mind the loss of the buckets.

Image	Name	Level	Experience	Heals	Notes
	Pot of cream	21	18	10	Use a Bucket of milk on a dairy churn to create it.
	Cream cheese	32	80	200	Use a Bucket of milk on a dairy churn to create it. Must partially complete Chef's Assistant to create.
	Pat of butter	38	40	Can’t be consumed.	Use a Bucket of milk or a Pot of cream on a dairy churn to create it. Experience listed is that received for starting from a Bucket of milk.
	Cheese wheel	48	64	200 per cheese	Use a Bucket of milk, a Pot of cream or a Pat of butter on a dairy churn to create it. Experience listed is that received for starting from a Bucket of milk.

Wine

Wine is made from a jug of water and a bunch of grapes. Grapes can be found in the Cooking guild, In the Phoenix Gang's hideout, as a common drop from Guards, or members can steal them from Fortunato's Fine Wine in Draynor Village at level 22 Thieving; members who have completed a portion of Recipe for Disaster can obtain grapes from the Culinaromancer's chest. Members cannot grow grapes with the Farming skill. Jugs can be found in a large variety of places, including a spawn point on the top floor of the Cooking Guild. Simply use grapes on the jug of water to make Unfermented Wine. Approximately ten seconds later, the wine will ferment and either be drinkable, or go bad. Wine gives 200 experience for a good jug, and none for a bad jug. If you make the maximum amount of jugs in one trip (14) successfully, you will get 2800 experience.

Image	Name	Level	Experience	Total healing	Notes
	Jug of wine	35	200	700	Lowers attack by two levels when consumed
	Jug of bad wine	35	0	0	Lowers attack by two levels when consumed

Hot drinks

The only hot drink is nettle tea, which is members only. To make nettle tea, players need first a bowl of water. Next, nettles are needed. Nettles are located near the prison along the road between the Wizard's Tower and Draynor Village, south-east of the slayer master in Canifis, or next to the yew trees in Edgeville. It is important to note that nettles will hurt players when they pick them up unless they are wearing leather type gloves (decorative types of gloves do not work.) The nettles have to be used with the bowl of water to make nettle-water. The nettle-water next has to be boiled on a range to turn it into nettle tea. The tea can then be poured into an empty cup. Empty cups can be bought or stolen from the tea stall in Varrock or by speaking to Brother Galahad, located east of the coal trucks. Milk can also be added to the complete tea to convert it to a milky nettle tea.

Image	Name	Level	Experience	Total healing	Notes
	Nettle tea	20	52	30	This tea is members only item.

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 several 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.

Image	Name	Level	Experience	Total healing	Boosts*	Distinct Ingredient	Notes
	Cider (m)	14	182	20	+1 -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	10	+1 +1 -1 -1 -1	4 Hammerstone hops.	Dwarven stout is one of the only smithing boosting items in the game.
	Asgarnian ale (m)	24	248	20	+2 -4	4 Asgarnian hops.	Apparently capable of dissolving gold, handle with care.
	Greenman's ale (m)	29	281	10	+1 -4	4 Clean 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	10	+2/3 -4 -3 -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	10	+2 -1	4 Krandorian hops.	Useful for some complex combat applications.
	Moonlight mead (m)	44	380	440	Heals: 440 LP	4 Bittercap mushrooms.	This ale heals the player instead of affecting stats. This ale's mature version heals 470 LP, and when gathered into a calquat keg this adds to 1,880 LP in one inventory slot. The rumour that this decreases strength is not true.
	Axeman's folly (m)	49	413	10	+1 -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	10	+1-5 -2 -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	10	+1 -2 -2	4 Wildblood hops.	One of very few items which boost slayer.
	Pigswill (m)	64	?	880	+3 +3 -3 -3	4 raw bacon	Requires completion of Bringing Home the Bacon.

* 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 until 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.

Image	Name	Level	Experience	Total healing
	Fruit Blast	6	50	900
	Pineapple Punch	8	70	900
	Toad crunchies	10	100	800
	Spicy crunchies	12	100	700
	Worm crunchies	14	100	800
	Chocchip crunchies	16	100	700
	Wizard Blizzard	18	110	500
	Short Green Guy	20	120	500
	Fruit batta	25	150	1100
	Toad batta	26	152	1100
	Worm batta	27	154	1100
	Vegetable batta	28	156	1100
	Cheese and tomato batta	29	158	1100
	Worm hole	30	170	1200
	Drunk Dragon	32	160	500
	Chocolate Saturday	33	170	500
	Veg ball	35	175	1200
	Blurberry Special	37	180	700
	Tangled toads' legs	40	185	1500
	Chocolate bomb	42	190	1500

Temporary boosts

Main article: Temporary skill boost

Name	Boost	Requirements	Other info
Orange spicy stew	±6 with three spice doses ±3 with 2 spice doses ±1 with a spice dose	Recipe for Disaster: Freeing Evil Dave	Can be boosted or reduced by one to six points randomly. Completion of Evil Dave's Big Day Out is advised for a guaranteed boost of two or higher
Chef's delight	+1-5	None	Increases Cooking level by 1-5 levels when drunk (5% of base cooking level + 1) rounded down.
Chef's delight (m)	+2-6	None	Increases Cooking level by 2-6 levels when drunk (5% of base cooking level + 2) rounded down.
Cooking cape	+1	99	This is redundant for purposes of reducing burn chance as players cannot burn food with the cape equipped.
God banner	+2	God Emissaries - Skilling tasks	Can be activated once a day, for a 30 minute duration.
Advanced pulse core	+7	None	In crowded training areas, you can benefit from other's pulse cores.
Squiffberry	+2	86	Grown by the player in The Arc.
Cooking potion	+3	55	Increases a player's Cooking level by 3 and is made by mixing a cooked swordfish with a Harralander.
Super cooking potion	+5	79	Increases a player's Cooking level by 5 and is made by mixing a cooking potion with a zygomite fruit.
Extreme cooking potion	+1-17	104	Gives a static 1-17 level increase for 6 minutes. It is made by mixing a Super cooking potion (3), primal extract, and beak snot.

Cooking Cape of Accomplishment

The Cooking cape can be bought for 99,000 coins from the Head chef at the Cooks' Guild that is slightly west of Varrock once a player reaches 99 Cooking.

• To purchase a Cooking cape, either a chef's hat or completion of the Varrock hard achievements is required for entry to the Cooks' Guild. Once purchased, the Cooking cape can then be used in place of a chef's hat to enter the guild.

Skilling pet (Ramsay)

Main article: Ramsay

Like all skills, there is a skilling pet obtainable from training this skill. The pet for the Cooking skill is called Ramsay.

Quests with a Cooking requirement

• 20 - Ghosts Ahoy
• 22 - Forgettable Tale of a Drunken Dwarf
• 30 - Big Chompy Bird Hunting
• 30 - Tai Bwo Wannai Trio
• 30 - Beneath Cursed Tides
• 30 - Evil Dave's Big Day Out
• 32 - Chef's Assistant
• 35 - Missing My Mummy
• 53 - Heroes' Quest
• 62 - Swan Song
• 70 - Recipe for Disaster

Quests for Cooking experience

Main article: Quest experience rewards § Cooking

Quest	Members	XP reward	Cooking requirement	Other requirements
Let Them Eat Pie		100	N/A	N/A
Cook's Assistant		300	N/A	N/A
Rag and Bone Man		500	N/A	N/A
Recipe for Disaster: Freeing the Goblin Generals		1,000	10	N/A
Recipe for Disaster: Freeing the Mountain Dwarf		1,000	10	N/A
Recipe for Disaster: Freeing Pirate Pete		1,000	31	N/A
Big Chompy Bird Hunting		1,470	30	30 Ranged 5 Fletching
Chef's Assistant		1,500	32	N/A
Recipe for Disaster: Freeing Skrach Uglogwee		1,500	41	20 Firemaking
Gertrude's Cat		1,525	N/A	N/A
Recipe for Disaster: Freeing the Lumbridge Sage		2,500	40	N/A
Once Upon a Slime		2,500	N/A	N/A
Heroes' Quest		3,075	53	53 Fishing 25 Herblore 25 Defence (Black Arm gang only) 50 Mining
Recipe for Disaster: Freeing Sir Amik Varze		4,000	10	N/A
Beneath Cursed Tides		5,000	30	30 Attack 30 Strength 30 Magic 30 Mining 30 Smithing 30 Woodcutting 30 Firemaking
Forgettable Tale of a Drunken Dwarf		5,000	22	17 Farming
Recipe for Disaster: Freeing Evil Dave		7,000	25	N/A
Recipe for Disaster: Freeing King Awowogei		10,000	70	48 Agility
Evil Dave's Big Day Out		20,000	30	30 Agility 30 Herblore 30 Magic
Total		68,970

Achievements

• The Great Gnomish Shake Off ( 10) – Create the listed gnome cocktails.

Update history

This information has been compiled as part of the update history project. Some updates may not be included – see here for how to help out!

• patch 14 December 2020 (Update):
  • Wobbegong oil now counts towards Cooking tasks in Yak Tracks.
  • Great white shark now count for both Fishing and Cooking tasks.

• patch 9 December 2019 (Update):
  • Monkfish now counts towards the cooking task on the Yak Track.

• patch 2 December 2019 (Update):
  • Churns now fill cooking urns as intended.

• patch 11 March 2019 (Update):
  • Butter is now correctly labelled as free-to-play on the Cooking skill guide.

• patch 26 November 2018 (Update):
  • Added banana pizza to the cooking skill guide.

• patch 20 November 2017 (Update):
  • A redundant 'Pie' category has been removed from the Cooking Make-X interface.

• patch 10 April 2017 (Update):
  • A members-only icon has been added to the "stop burning fish using cooking gauntlets" skill guide entries.

• ninja 26 January 2015 (Update):
  • Several cooking animations have been updated, including churning butter, picking wheat, and operating the windmill's hopper.

• patch 18 August 2014 (Update):
  • The Cooking Skill Advance Guide now says to use pitta dough to make pitta bread, instead of bread dough.

• patch 19 May 2014 (Update):
  • Players will no longer be stopped from cooking when they burn food if they have not seen the new burnt food tutorial notifications because they have their guidance system hints turned off.

• patch 12 March 2013 (Update):
  • The Skill Advance Guide for Cooking now lists the rabbit sandwich.

• patch 9 August 2011 (Update):
  • Players can no longer spam-click to cook items faster than the make-x system allows.

• patch 16 February 2010 (Update):
  • Corrected the timing when cooking chompy bird meat on a spit.

• patch 23 September 2009 (Update):
  • Certain gnome cuisine items should now have more flexibility price-wise.

• patch 10 August 2009 (Update):
  • The sound of cookery has been updated.

• patch 16 June 2009 (Update):
  • Resized the pizza and tomato base image in the pizza interface as it didn't fit properly. Yum!

• update 11 June 2001 (Update):
  • Fishing skill added to game.
  • As well as the fish, there are now even more things to cook and eat in RuneScape.

• update 17 March 2001 (Update):
  • Added a variety of new pies to the game.

• update 4 January 2001 (Update):
  • Runescape beta goes live, releasing Cooking into the game.

Trivia

• Due to a update on the 9 August 2011, the cooking time for an inventory was slowed down by 5 ingame ticks.
• Before Fishing was added in June 2001, the experience for cooking meat depended on the player's cooking level, namely, 25 + 1.75 * level.
• Before pies were added in March 2001, the amount of healing provided by bread and meat (the only food available at the time) depended on the player's Cooking level.
• Prior to the removal of random events, in one of Evil Bob's random events, players were teleported to ScapeRune and were forced to uncook fish. However, you did not lose Cooking experience in doing so. If you had cooked food in your inventory, and tried to uncook it, you would say, "I need Uncooking skill of at least 70 to attempt that." Followed by "Wait, I don't even have an Uncooking skill."
• The Cooking noise made when Cooking in RuneScape Classic was a recording of Andrew Gower's mother frying bacon in their kitchen at home.
• Before Cook-X update which took place on 12 September 2005, players had to manually cook every product. At that time there were only around 700 accounts with level 99 Cooking.
• The current minimum requirement to be ranked (at approximately rank 1,269,209) on the HiScores for Cooking is level 15. As of 16 April 2024, there are 254,483 current members that have achieved level 99 in Cooking. There are 18,191 current members that have achieved level 120 in Cooking.

See also

• Cooking in Dungeoneering
• Free-to-play Cooking training, a guide to training Cooking for free-to-play players
• Pay-to-play Cooking training, a guide to training Cooking for pay-to-play players
• Cooking Calculators
• Level-up table
• Food
• Constitution
• Cooking hiscores page on the RuneScape website.
• Quest experience rewards - Cooking