RuneWeb - Cooking Guide

Cooking Guide

by Dxgr8ter, Baakalor1, FireballX301, NickBmxGuy and Geo1988

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Meats
Bread
Pies
Stew and Curry
Pizzas
Cakes
Wine
Vegetables
Dairy
Brews
Special Foods
Gnome Foods and Drinks
Cooking Tips
Extra Cooking Info
Cooking EXP Quest Rewards

Cooking is one of the most popular skills in RuneScape, and allows you to provide yourself with food for Quests and Combat (both training and PKing). Food heals a number of hit points when eaten, and while most foods heal a fixed amount, some vary in the amount they heal. Certain foods also compromise a number of 'bites', each of which heal a set amount.

To make food with the Cooking skill, players use a raw ingredient (or sometimes a mixture of raw ingredients) with a fire (usually made with the Firemaking skill) or a range (found inside buildings around RuneScape) and if they are successful, they will receive the cooked food. If they aren't successful, they will receive burned food. This is useless and should be dropped. The higher a player's Cooking level is, the less chance they have of burning ingredients, but some ingredients can always be burned.

As you continue to cook and gain levels you will be able to cook more interesting foods which heal an increasing amount of hitpoints.

Meats

Yes, fish is meat. All items listed here can be cooked on either a fire or range, and have no intermediary steps.

Meat	Name	Cooking Level	Hp healed	Exp gain
	Anchovies	1	1	30
	Cooked Beef/Chicken/Bear	1	3	30
	Cooked Beef/Chicken	1	1	30
	Cooked Rabbit	1	5	30
	Shrimp	1	1	30
	Karambwanji	1	3	10
	Karambwan	1	18	80
	Herring	5	5	50
	Mackerel	10	6	60
	Thin Snail	12	5-9	65
	Trout	15	7	70
	Lean Snail	17	5-9	74
	Cod	18	7	75
	Pike	20	8	80
	Crab Meat	21	10(5x2)	100
	Fat Snail	22	5-9	85
	Salmon	25	9	90
	Eel	28	6-10	95
	Tuna	30	10	100
	Chompy	30	10	100
	Rainbow Fish	35	11	110
	Lobster	40	12	120
	Jubbly	41	15	160
	Bass	43	13	130
	Swordfish	45	14	140
	Lava Eel	53	14	140
	Monkfish	62	16	150
	Shark	80	20	210
	Sea Turtle	82	21	212
	Manta Ray	91	22	216

Cooking Gauntlets

Upon completing the Family Crest Quest, you can choose to have Cooking Gauntlet's as a reward. When worn, these Gauntlet's will help you successfully cook lobster, swordfish, and shark more often. When you reach a certain level, you will never ever again burn certain fish. This level varies for all fish, as well as if you wearing gauntlets. The table below gives information on burning some high level fish.

Fish	Level to Cook	Level to Stop Burning	Level to Stop Burning (w/ gauntlets)
Lobster	40	74	68
Monkfish	62	92	92
Swordfish	45	86	81
Shark	80	99	94

Even with Cooking Gauntlets and level 99 Cooking, both Sea Turtle and Manta Ray can be burnt.

Sinew

Sinew is required for crossbow strings (see Crafting Guide for spinning). To make sinew, you need to use a raw meat (beef, chicken, bear, etc.) over a range. You can then choose the option to make it into a sinew. This can be done at any level.

How to make Non-meat

Flour is a necessary base for a great deal of foods.

To get flour you will need some wheat and a pot. You can pick wheat at many locations including fields east of Draynor Village and north of Ardougne. Pots can be bought at any general store. Take your wheat to a windmill and use the wheat on the hopper at the top floor, then collect your flour in a pot at the bottom. Each pot will only hold one load of ground wheat.

To make dough you will have to add water to flour. To get the water use a bucket or a jug on a sink or fountain. Add the water to the flour and you will have dough. Select the appropriate dough for your purpose, whether it's bread dough, pastry dough, or a pizza base.

Bread

Bread is one of the base foods of runescape, and not entirely that useful. You can make standard bread as a relatively useless food, or pita bread for an Ughtanki kebab.

When making your dough (see making dough) select pitta dough and then cook it on a stove or fire to get pitta bread. Making sure you have your knife in your inventory, use the cooked Ugthanki meat (from al Kharid desert), tomato and onion with the bowl to get a kebab mix. Use the kebab mix with the pitta bread to get a Ugthanki Kebab.

All bread is made from bread dough, from flour.

Bread	Name	Cooking Level	Hp healed	Exp gain
	Bread	1	4	40

Pies

All pies require a base of pastry dough, from flour.

Every pie is made the same way, the only difference is in one of the reagents. Select your pastry dough and use it with a pie dish. (See Below for list of Reagents)

Pie	Name	Cooking Level	Hp Healed	Exp Gain	Effects
	Redberry Pie	10	2x6	78	N/A
	Meat Pie	20	2x8	104	N/A
	Mud Pie	29	N/A	128	Slows Foe*
	Apple Pie	30	2x10	130	N/A
	Garden Pie	34	2x6	128	+3 Farming
	Fish Pie	47	2x6	163	+3 Fishing
	Admiral Pie	70	2x8	210	+5 Fishing
	Wild Pie	85	2x11	240	+5 Slayer / +4 Range
	Summer Pie	95	2x11	260	+5 Agility

Reagents:

Pie	Reagent(s)
Redberry Pie	Redberries
Meat Pie	Cooked Meat
Mud Pie*	Water, Clay, and Compost
Apple Pie	Cooking Apple
Garden Pie	Cabbage, Onion, and a Tomato
Fish Pie	Cod, Trout, and a Potato
Admiral Pie	Tuna, Salmon, and a Potato
Wild Pie	Raw Rabbit Meat, Raw Bear Meat, and Raw Chompy Meat
Summer Pie	Cooking Apple, Strawberry, and a Watermelon

*This pie may be equipped in order to throw at your foes in the Wilderness, which halves their energy.

Stew/Curry

To make stew, fill a Bowl(general store) with water from a sink or fountain then add a potato. Then add some cooked meat and cook on a stove or fire to get a stew.

You may upgrade your stew to curry by using some spice on the cooked stew. (Spice can be obtained from the spice merchant in East Ardougne)

Stew	Name	Cooking Level	Hp healed	Exp gain
	Stew	25	11	117
	Curry	60	19	280

Evil Dave's Evil Stew of DOOM (Spicy Stew)

During the Recipe for Disaster Quest, you will find yourself having to make some evil, spicy stew for Evil Dave. Since the stew 'varies', it is not included in the table; however, information on the stew can be found in the Evil Dave Subquest.

Pizzas

All pizzas are made from pizza bases, from flour. The more advanced pizzas are simply adding a reagent on top of a plain pizza.

TO make a plain pizza, first use a tomato on the pizza base. Then use the cheese on the base. Cook the raw pizza on a stove or fire to get a plain pizza.

Tomatoes and cheese can be purchased at the food store at Port Sarim and also spawn at a house in Rimmington and at the wilderness bandits camp.

Cook some meat (any meat will do) and use the meat on a plain pizza to get a meat pizza
Cook some anchovies and use the cooked anchovies on a plain pizza to get an anchovy pizza.
Use a knife on a pineapple to dice it. Use the pineapple pieces on a plain pizza to get a pineapple pizza.
(You can get pineapples off trees on Brimhaven or at food stores inside the Grand Tree and the Tree Gnome Village.)

Pizza	Name	Cooking Level	Hp healed	Exp gain
	Plain Pizza	35	5x2(10)	143
	Meat Pizza	45	7x2(14)	169
	Anchovy Pizza	55	8x2(16)	182
	Pineapple Pizza	65	10x2(20)	195

Cakes

To make a cake, collect the reagents of flour, an egg, milk, and a cake tin.

Eggs can be collected from any chicken pens such as the ones in Lumbridge and Falador. To get a bucket with a dairy cow. When you have all three ingredients in you inventory use one with the cake tin and the rest will automatically fill into the tin. Use the uncooked cake with a stove or fire to get a Cake.

Use a Chocolate bar on a Cake to get a Chocolate Cake. (chocolate bars respawn in the Cooking Guild and can be purchased from the food store at Port Sarim.)

To make a Fish Cake, you must collect breadcrumbs, ground codfish, ground kelp, and ground giant crab meat, and put them in a cake tin. Then you must cook the tin on a range, and you will have Fish Cake.

Cake	Name	Cooking Level	Hp healed	Exp gain
	Cake	40	12(4x3)	180
	Chocolate Cake	50	15(3x5)	210
	Fish Cake	31	11	100

Wine

Fill a jug with water at a sink or fountain. Use you grapes with the jug of water to make unfermented wine. It will take a while for the wine to ferment and it is a good idea to put the wine in the bank while this happens. (grapes respawn inside the cooking guild)

Wine	Name	Cooking Level	Hp healed	Exp gain
	Wine	35	11	200

Vegetables

Vegetable	Name	Cooking Level	Hp healed	Exp gain
	Baked Potato	7	4	15
	Sweetcorn	21	2-10	104
	Baked potato with butter	39	14	55
	Chili Potato	41	14	165.5*
	Baked potato with cheese	47	16	95
	Egg and Tomato Potato	51	16	195.5*
	Mushroom and Onion Potato	64	20	270.5*
	Tuna and Corn Potato	68	22	309.5*

*The experience gained is based as if everything is being made from scratch (such as butter and cheese and toppings).

Cook vegetables on a fire or range. To make baked potatoes with toppings, use butter, cream with the potato or the other regeants. (See Below for the list of Potato Toppings)

Dish	Name	Cooking Level	Hp healed	Exp gain
	Spicy Sauce	9	2	25
	Chili con Carne*	11	5	55
	Scrambled Egg	13	5	50
	Egg and Tomato*	23	8	50
	Fried Onions	42	5	60
	Fried Mushrooms	46	5	60
	Mushroom and Onion*	57	11	120
	Tuna and Corn*	67	13	204

*These dishes are used as the toppings for the Baked Potatoes.

Dairy Products

Reagent	Product	Production	Hp Healed	Level	Exp Gain
		Milk to cream	1	21	18
		Milk to butter	-	38	40
		Milk to cheese	2	48	54
		Cream to butter	-	38	23
		Cream to cheese	2	48	46
		Butter to cheese	2	48	23

To get yourself some milk, grab a bucket and find a dairy cow. Then go to a churn (located in farming shops and farms) and use the milk with the churn.

Brews

Reagent	Name	Brew	Name	Level	Effects	Exp Gain
	Apple Mush*		Cider	14	+1 Farming	182
	Hammerstone Hop		Dwarven Stout	19	+1 Mining/Smithing	215
	Asgarnian Hop		Asgarnian Ale	24	+2 Strength	248
	Harralander		Greenman's Ale	29	+1 Herblore	281
	Yanillian Hop		Wizard's Mind Bomb	34	+2 Magic	314
	Krandorian Hop		Dragon Bitter	39	+2 Strength	347
	Bittercap Mushroom		Moonlight Mead	44	N/A	380
	Oak Root		Axeman's Folly	49	+1 Woodcutting	413
	Chocolate Dust		Chef's Delight	54	+1 Cooking	446
	Wildblood Hop		Slayer's Respite	59	+1 Slayer	479

*To make Apple Mush, you need to obtain sixteen apples and have four buckets in your inventory. Note:If you have done parts of the Recipe for Disaster quest, you can purchase your cooking apples there. If you have not, you can purchase a few in the food store in Yanille. You may also pick up apple spawns located in the farming shop north of Ardounge, and in the Cooking Guild. When you come to the brewery, there will be Cider-Presses in which you can squash you apples into the mush required to make Cider.

To brew ales, you need to locate one of the two Breweries. One of them is located in West Keldagrim, on the second floor of the bar, and the second one is located down below in the basement of the bar in Port Phasmatys. You need two buckets of water, some barley malt (roast barley on a range), a pot (to contain your ale yeast), and some ale yeast (purchased from Blandebir- Keldagrim and Metarialus- Port Phasmatys). These two fellows are near the Brewery. You also need the reagent, which will determine which type of brew you are going to make.

When you reach the brewery, and have obtained all of the ingredients to start brewing, pour the two buckets of water you have into the empty vat. Next, you need to add two barley malts, and then add the reagent depending on what brew you wish to make. Use your ale yeast on the vat. After you have completed adding all of the ingredients, you need to wait quite a long time for the brew to finish fermenting.

The wait can be up to a full day. Note: If you try to empty your vat too early, you will be presented with a caution message. If you choose to drain your vat before the brew is done maturing, you will have wasted all of your ingredients. After, you have waited patiently for your brew to finish maturing, bring eight empty beer glasses with you to the brewery. Turn the valve near the vat and use your eight beer glasses with the barrel. If you want to minimize the amount of space taken up in your inventory, I suggest that you either buy a calquat keg or grow a calquat tree and hollow out the calquat you pick from it. Calquat kegs hold four doses of brew.

Special Foods:

Oomolie Wrap

Wrap	Name	Cooking Level	Hp healed	Exp gain
	Oomolie Wrap	50	14	30

Go to Khazari Jungle, south of Shilo Village. Once in the jungle, find an Oomolie bird and kill it for their meat. Once you have some raw oomolie, find a leafy palm tree and shake it to obtain a palm leaf. Use the palm leaf on the raw oomolie and use the wrap on stove or fire to get a cooked oomolie wrap.

Ughthanki Kebab

Kebab	Name	Cooking Level	Hp healed	Exp gain
	Ughthanki Kebab	58	19	80

Get a knife, a bowl, a flour pot, a bucket of water, a tomato, and an onion. Mix the flour and water and produce pitta dough. Bake the dough into pitta bread. Kill Ugthanki Camels in the desert beyond the Shanty Pass and collect their raw meat. Cook the meat. Use the cooked Ugthanki meat along with the onion and tomato with the bowl. Use the bowl of kebab mix with the pitta bread to get an Ugthanki Kebab.

Nettle Tea

Tea	Name	Cooking Level	Hp healed	Exp gain
	Nettle Tea	20	3	52

Fill a bowl with water then pick some Nettles (with gloves eqiupped) which can be found east of Draynor Bank near the jail and southwest from Mazchna, the slayer master in Canifis. Use the nettles with the bowl of water to make 'nettle-water'. Heat the nettle-water over a range or fire to get 'nettle tea'. Get an empty tea cup (can be stolen from the Tea Stall southwest of Varrock's west bank) and use the nettle tea with the cup to get Nettle Tea. You may also add a bucket of milk to the tea.

Spider on a Stick

Food	Name	Cooking Level	Hp healed	Exp gain
	Spider on a Stick	16	7-10	80

Head into the jungle, south of Brimhaven, and kill a (level-44) Jungle Spider. Take its carcass and head to the Tai Bwo Wannai Village. Using a machete, cut some of the jungle brush to recieve a thatch. Use your machete on the thatch to carve it into a skewer. Use the skewer on the spider carcass and cook it over a fire.

Gnome Foods and Drinks

Because of the extensiveness of the special gnome foods the specific guide can be located here.

Cooking Tips

One of the best and quickest place to cook for members is on the fire in the Rogue's Den. For free-to-play, the best place to cook is probably going to be from the Edgville Bank, running down to the Range just west of the bank.

Another useful thing to level cooking is the Cooking Guild, located just outside Varrock, to the West, behind Juliet's House. At level 32 Cooking and with a Chef's Hat, you can enter and have access to many foods and Cooking equipment. See the Cooking Guild Guide for more info.

Extra Cooking Info

There are some other, extra things that you should know about while raising cooking:

Cape of Accomplishment

The ultimate reward for getting level 99 Cooking is not only the great ability you will have in the skill, but the Cape of Accomplishment that you will have the oppurtunity to purchase. For more information on Capes of Accomplishment, see the Skill Capes page.

Related Links

The following links may help you with your Cooking.

Cooking EXP Rewards in Quests

The following quests give Cooking EXP Rewards upon completion.

Quest	Exp
Cook's Assistant	300 exp
Rag and Bone Man	500 exp
Goblin Generals subquest (Recipe for Disaster)	1000 exp
Dwarf subquest (Recipe for Disaster)	1000 exp
Pirate Pete subquest (Recipe for Disaster)	1000 exp
Big Chompy Bird Hunting	1470 exp
Skrach Uglogwee subquest (Recipe for Disaster)	1500 exp
Gertrude's Cat	1525 exp
Lumbridge Guide subquest (Recipe for Disaster)	2500 exp
Hero's Quest	2825 exp
Amik Varze subquest (Recipe for Disaster)	4000 exp
Forgettable tale of a Drunken Dwarf	5000 exp
Tai Bwo Wannai Trio	5000 exp
Evil Dave subquest (Recipe for Disaster)	7000 exp
Awowogei subquest: (Recipe for Disaster)	10000 exp