Introduction

Cooking can be a very useful skill at times, such as in the middle of the wilderness with nothing but a range and some raw food. Cooking allows you to create your own HP and energy source, without the cost. All you need is a range or a fire, the skill level, and a raw food.

Healing

After you have cooked food you can eat it. Eating food heals your hitpoints level and therefore prevents you from dying. The following table shows you how many hitpoints each form of food restores for you:

Food Name	HP Restore	Cooking Level Req.	Image
Anchovies	1	1
Meat	3	1
Shrimp	3	1
Chicken	3	1
Bread	4	1
Sardine	4	1
Karambwanji*	3	1
Karambwan*	18	1
Ugthanki Kebab*	19	1
Herring	5	5
Makerel*	6	10
Redberry Pie	6	10
Thin Snail*	5-7	12
Trout	7	15
Jungle Spider*	7-10	16
Lean Snail*	6-8	17
Cod*	7	18
Pike	8	20
Meat Pie	8	20
Nettle Tea*	3	20
Sweetcorn*	2-10	28
Fat Snail*	7-9	22
Salmon	9	25
Stew	9	25
Eel*	6-10	28
Tuna	10	30
Apple Pie	10	30
Chompy*	10	30
Pizza	11	35
Wine	11	35
Cave Eel*	-	38
Lobster	12	40
Cake	12	40
Bass*	13	43
Swordfish	14	45
Meat Pizza	14	45
Chocolate Cake	15	50
Lava Eel*	-	53
Anchovy Pizza	16	55
Pita Bread*	-	58
Curry*	19	60
Monkfish*	16	62
Pineapple Pizza*	20	65
Shark*	20	80
Sea Turtle*	21	82
Manta Ray*	22	91

Items with a star* are members’ only.

Cooking Experience and Recipes

Here is a thin table showing cooking experience:

Items marked with a star* are members’ only.

How to brew Ales:

1. Get two buckets of water, and add them to a vat.
2. Get two handfuls of barley malt (barley that has been used with a range), and add them to the vat.
3. Add the main ingredient (stated in table).
4. Add a pot of ale yeast (available at local brewers’ shops).

How to brew Cider:

1. Add four buckets of apple mush to an empty vat (use four apples with cider press, use buckets with apple mush).
2. Add a pot of ale yeast (available at local brewers’ shops).

How to make Bread:

1. Pick wheat to get grain, and get a pot for every piece of grain that you wish to turn into flour
2. Take it to the windmill northwest of Lumbridge, or the cooks guild.
3. Go to the top floor of the windmill and use the grain with the hopper then operate the hopper.
   Repeat for every grain you have (do not put in more than one grain before you operate it).

4. Go to the first floor of the windmill and put each flour in a pot.
5. Buy a bucket or jug, and fill it with water from a sink or fountain.
6. Mix the flour and water to make some bread dough.
7. Cook the dough by using it with a stove.

How to make Pies:

1. Mix flour and water to make some pastry dough.
2. Place the dough in an empty pie dish.
3. Use your choice of filling with the empty pie. (redberry, apple or meat)
4. Cook the pie by using it with a stove.

How to make Fish:

1. To cook fish you need to use your choice of fish with a fire or stove to cook it. (To find out how to catch fish please see our fishing section.)

How to make Cakes:

1. Mix flour, eggs, milk together in a cake tin.
2. Cook the cake by using it with a stove.
3. Buy some chocolate and add it to the cake. (optional). Chocolate is also available in the Cooking Guild.

How to make Stew:

1. Obtain a bowl, and fill it with water from a sink or fountain.
2. Pick a potato and place it in the bowl.
3. Cook some meat and place it in the bowl.
4. Cook the stew by using it with a stove or fire.

How to make Curry:

1. Make some uncooked stew(see stew description).
2. Before cooking the stew add some spices.
3. Cook the curry by using it with a stove or fire.

How to make Wine:

1. Fill a jug with water.
2. Use grapes with the jug of water.
3. Wait until the wine ferments.
4. Wine will ferment when left in your inventory or the bank.

How to make Pizza:

1. Mix flour and water to make a pizza base.
2. Buy a tomato and add it to the pizza.
3. Buy some cheese and add it to the pizza.
4. Cook the pizza by using it with a stove.
5. Add your choice of topping to the pizza.

How to make Ugthanki Kebabs:

1. Cook raw Ugthanki meat.
2. Get knife, bowl, tomato and onion.
3. Use onion and tomato on bowl to get onion & tomato mix.
4. Add cooked ugthanki meat with the mixture.
5. Get flour and water, make pitta dough.
6. Cook the Pitta dough.
7. Use pitta bread on kebab mix to finish kebab.

How to make Oomlie Bird Meat:

1. You can find the Oomlie Birds (lvl 28 - looks like brown chicken) inside Khazari Jungle. Khazari jungle is the area you explore while doing the Legends quest (you can't enter the jungle unless you're doing or did the Legends quest). It's on the most southern part of Karamja Island.
2. Kill an Oomlie Bird. It will drop a Raw Oomlie Meat which looks kinda like a raw chicken.
3. Go to the totem pole (if you did the legends quest - you'll know what is it) which can be found on the western part of the jungle (not on the shore). You should see a big tree near it with the option to shake it.
4. Shake the tree. A leaf will appear on the ground.
5. Use the leaf on the Oomlie Meat to wrap it up.
6. Cook the Oomlie wrap on a fire or range.

Recommended Levelling Guide

1-20
At this level it is best to be self sufficient. Fishing your own fish then cooking them is the easiest method. Head off to Draynor with your net and begin fishing shrimp, when you get a full load light a fire and cook. You can drop them, or bank them, whichever you want. At level 5 you can grab a normal fishing rod and some bait at the Port Sarim Fishing store and begin fishing sardines and then cooking them. At level 10 you'll be able to catch herring, so begin cooking them too. Continue doing this until you reach level 20.

20-40
At level 20 it's time to start fly fishing. Head off with your axe and tinderbox, as well as some feathers and a fly fishing rod. Go over to Barbarian village, Shilo Village, or south of Castle Wars. Start fly fishing them and then cooking them. This will be some of the faster fishing experience in the game, so you should zoom through these levels.

40-90
For the next 50 levels lobsters are the way to go. This experience will be very quick, at about 1k lobsters an hour, which is equal to 120k xp an hour give or take a few. If you are a member it is a must to have cooking gauntlets. They lower the chance of burning, and will be a big help on saving money.

90-99
At 90 you can switch over to sharks, or continue on with lobsters. Shark prices are constantly changing, but if you can be quick to buy, cook, and sell you probably wont lose as much money as you would with lobsters. At 94 you will stop burning sharks with cooking gauntlets. When you reach 99 cooking you will have one of the best looking capes.

Brewing

As well as all other methods of cooking, you can try your hand and brewing! This enables you to make a variety of beverages that have some usefull effects. Take a look at this table for information on these bews:

Name	Main Ingredient	Cooking Level Required	Effect	Experience Per Brew	Image
Cider	Bucket of Apple Mush x 4	14	+1 Farming	182.5
Dwarven Stout	Hammerstone Hop x 4	19	+1 Mining and Smithing, slight combat decrease	215
Asgarnian Ale	Asgarnian Hop x 4	24	+2 Strength, -4 Attack	247.5
Greenman’s Ale	Harralander x 4	29	+1 Herblore, Slight combat decrease	281
Wizard’s Mind Bomb	Yanillian Hop x 4	34	+3 Magic, Slight combat decrease	314
Dragon Bitter	Krandorian Hop x 4	39	+2 Strength, -2 Attack	347.5
Moonlight Mead	Bittercap Mushroom x 4	44	+4 HP	400
Axeman’s Folly	Oak Root x 1	49	+3 Woodcutting, Slight combat decrease	412.5
Chef’s Delight	Chocolate Dust x 4	54	+4 Cooking. Slight combat decrease	446
Slayer’s Respite	Wildblood Hop x 4	59	+1 Slayer, -4 Attack, -4 Strength	479

See Recipes above for information on brewing ales and ciders.

Rogues Den

You must have level 50 thieving and 50 agility to enter Rogues Den!
Rogues den is a members only location. It is located in Burthrope close to the slayer master. Once in Burthrope go into the Toad and Chicken inn. Once inside the pub locate the trapdoor in the back corner of the pub just behind the bar. When you go down the trapdoor you will be in an underground room. In this room you will find a constant fire burning and a bank close by. To access the bank right click Emerald Benedict. You can also crack safes for thieving experience or enter the Rogues maze. You can start the maze by talking to Brian O'Richards. You can also purchase items from Martin Thwait such as lockpics for thieving, and a stethoscope to make cracking safes in the den easier.

FAQ

Q: What is the Cooking Guild?

A: The…well…guild for cooking. Only level 32 chefs may enter here, though, and they must be wearing a chefs’ hat. You will find a flour windmill here, along with chocolate, cake tins, and cooking apples. There is also a Bank inside the Cooking Guild, for those who have completed all the tasks for the Varrock Achievement Diary (members only). This is a very useful place when preparing a snack, as it contains many different ingredient respawns. The Cooking Guild is located just west of Varrock, and it is nonmembers.