Main page/Skill guides/Regular mode/Cooking

What is cooking?

Cooking is a skill that allows you to use raw food to be made edible, healing hitpoints when eaten. To do this, the player must use a raw, cookable food on a range or fire. Cooking goes hand in hand with the Fishing skill.

Cooking places

There are a few cooking locations near to a bank.

Catherby

Karamja

Members Zones

Run to the north east in both zones to reach the cooking range.

Cooking guild

You need level 32 cooking to get access to the guild, and make sure to wear chef's hat or a cooking related item.

Edgeville

You will find the cooking range north of Edgeville's bank. To get to Edgeville, just use the command ::home.

Cooking master

The cooking master can be found at the cooking guild. He's able to give you skilling tasks to obtain cooking points or money (you will also get participation points when you finish your task). In addition, he can give you the skilling cape when you reached level 99 cooking. Finally you can view his shop where you can spend your cooking points.

Experience table

Name	Image	Level	Experience gained with regular mode	Experience gained with classic mode
Shrimps		1	870	261
Sardine		1	1160	377
Anchovies		1	870	261
Herring		5	1450	464
Mackerel		10	1740	551
Trout		15	2030	667
Cod		18	2175	696
Pike		20	2320	754
Salmon		25	2610	841
Slimy eel		28	2755	899
Tuna		30	2900	957
Rainbow Fish		35	3190	1,044
Cave eel		38	3335	1,073
Lobster		40	3480	1,131
Bass		43	3770	1,218
Swordfish		45	4060	1,334
Lava eel		53	870	261
Monkfish		62	4350	1,421
Karambwan		1		1,798
(Big) Shark		80	6090	2,001
Sea turtle		82	6119	2,001
Anglerfish		84	6670	2,175
Dark crab		90	6235	2,030
Manta ray		91	6264	2,059

1-99 walktrough

This is the suggested method for 1-99 cooking:

Name	Image	Levels
Shrimps		1-10
Mackerel		10-30
Tuna		30-40
Lobster		40-62
Monkfish		62-80
Sharks		80-91
Dark crab		91-99

Note: this table is based on xp rates and how hard it is to catch all fish.

When you burn food and you need more raw food, it also possible to buy some kinds of raw fish at fisherman Harry.

Useful items and boosts

Hourly bonus skill

The hourly bonus skill gives you 50% more cooking xp for 1 hour. Quest tab > the "i" icon to see what the current hourly bonus skill is. Refresh the page to be sure you have the right one.

Watch the order of the hourly bonus skills to see when cooking is the hourly bonus skill.

Item/Boost	Image	Effect	How to obtain?
Voting		Gives you 25% more cooking xp for 1 hour	When you redeem your vote, you will get a boost xp for 1 hour. See here how to vote
Cooking cape		Gives you 10% more cooking xp and you won't burn food anymore when wearing the cape	Buy it from the cooking master
Cooking hood		Gives you 5% more cooking xp	Buy it from the cooking master
Cooking gauntlets		The cooking gauntlets give you less chance to burn food	Get it from the triva or buy from players
Golden Chef's hat/Chef's hat		Gives you 5% more cooking xp and gives access to cooking guild	Buy from the cooking master at the cooking guild
Apron/Gold apron/White apron		Gives you 5% more cooking xp and 5% less chance to burn food	Get it from the cooking master at the cooking guild