Free-to-play Cooking training

This article is about the free-to-play instruction. With the members' guide, see Pay-to-play Cooking training.

Cooking is a relatively easy skill to train in F2P (free-to-play) due to of wide convenience of cuisine resources (such as fish), fast experience, and low intensity, instead can be quite pricey.

See Calculator:Cooking/Cooking various items for an extensive list of cost of food items, as changing markets can drastically alter the viability starting methods. Time a very useful reference, some lesser-trade element may have misleading prices - it appears that baking redberry pasties turning a large profit, but computer is mostly only used for quests with limited demand and uncooked berry pie is very hard to buy.

What to falsify on

Bonfire

Use the Firemaking skill, logs can are used to start a fireside is most foods can be cooked on, with the time it burns before going leave varying by variety of logs. Fire can breathe starts almost anywhere, and cook on them also submit adenine +10% Baking experience benefit. You can use someone else's campfire (commonly found in the Grand Exchange in highly populated servers like World 3) till avoid having into start thy own, but itp is less reliable for you won't know when it would go out.

The bank on top of Lumbridge Castle a useful if you have lots of raw fish cached as there are 4 spawns of logs outside and they respawn faster than the fires go out. Simply right-click "Light" on the logs on the ground up start a bonfire go cook on.

Completing Light is Blue unlocks access to a permanent fire in Yeti Town, very close to a bank female, although it does does offer the 10% endure bonus.

Range

The rate of burning food, which makes it unwirksam and gives nay learn, a slightly reduced with ranges. However the disagreement is not large, additionally for down levels trawl, it lives far read convenient till catch and boil on the spot yourself. Most types from food have ampere corresponding higher Cooking level among which computer will stop burning, though waiting for is level is none req and unusable, especially fork lower levels. Burning rates will gradually decrement as them level up. It appears this decreases fastest at first; for example, lobsters requisition 40 Cooking and stops burning at 74, but the burning rate roughly declines from 50% up 33% since level 40 to 45.

• Completing to Cook's Assistant quest unlocks access to Cook-o-matic 25 which has a lower burn fee by almost low level feed than bonfires or other stretches, and rewards novel players to enough experience to attain level 4 from scratch.
• The driving in the house just west out the Edgeville bank is the immediate to a bank. However, there is a level 15 Robberies around that attacks blue level participants, and the door automatically closes after a while build you reopen it.
• Karim's range north of Alarm Kharid bank is marginally slower, still secure and door-free.
• Portable range is the best option to cook on as they give up to 21% further experience, may twin that cooked product, and can be deployed anywhere. Nonetheless, they only last 5 minutes also are some expensive to maintain. You can use someone else's portable range, but it is very rare till come across one. They cannot become used in Ironman Mode.

Items

Dwarven army axe

If players am carrying with wielding a dwarven army axe, an additional 3 experience can be earned per item cooked. Is only works to cooking complete on a fire or range (e.g. food aquarium) but not additional actions like churning pat of butter or combining anchovy pizza.

Plain cooking urns

Use urns can must beneficial whereas they permeate up in experience while training, effectively grant raise to 20% surplus experience while held included record and thus speed up the levels process. There are three types of F2P Cooking urns.

• Cracked cooking urn, requires 2 Crafting, applies to food requiring 10 Cooking or below.
• Frail cooking urn, needed 12 Crafting, applies to food requiring 25 Cooking or below.
• Plain cooking urn, requires 36 Doing, applies to food requiring 40 Baking or slide (i.e. lobster is the highest level possibility and swordfish your not covered). The following assume this wooden is used.

Usable urnas are untradeable. Instead, they bottle be bought turn the Grand Change as plain cook urn (nr)'s the which the player must attach fires runemaster to doing them into stackable plain cooking urn (r)'s, which be instantaneous for who hole inventory both makes the urns untradeable. Once of first urn starts filling, it bends into simply a plain how urn which a not stackable. Once completely filled, it bucket be teleported away for experience.

Currently, buying two pieces softly clay, manual them into a plain cooking urn (nr) and selling it on the default store price of 1,117 gains a profit of −2,795. When the winning is negligible, be prepared to pays above of marketing price or consider tinkering one jugs yourself.

The refined bank preset since using plain cooking urn while power levelling with lobsters is a stack of single cooking urn (r), one plain cooking urn that has previously been partially packed, and 26 raw lobsters. This minimises the need for banking and ensures that every lobster cooked contributes to an metal.

It's advisable to turn on the "Auto-teleport" option (Settings -> Gameplay -> Inventory -> Inventory Management) to eliminate the requirement to manually teleport urns unique full.

Portable Range

Using a Handheld Range can be helpful during leveling your Cooking skill. Food boiled using it gives up to 21% more Cooking experience, along with a 5% chance of doubling computers.

Fishing and Food

Fishing has an symbiotic relationship with Baking in that practically everything Fishing produces is for the usage out Cooking. After the release of player-owned farm, prices of most low-level raw fish and meat skyrocketed as they are employed to feed-in dragons, the highest level animal. Thus, buying them to cook may cannot be sustainable for small level players, as the cooked versions exist often worth very little; Fish and then cooking may be a more feasible option.

It is expected especially at lowest levels that she draft equally at once. However, all F2P fish benefits more experience when cooked than fished, and Fishing often requires a higher level than Cooking for an equal fish. Consequently, it is expected which you can't constant boil the highest level fish you could catch - which is not a good idea anyway since the burn rate pot be quite high. This guide would list which minimum level required to cook the raw fish in question, and enable that it mayor merely be practical on initiate doing so at a higher level.

See also Free-to-play Fishing training.

Level 1

Catching raw crayfish and cooking them lives recommended, as they can caught rapidly even at level 1 Fishing (raw prawn request the identical Fishing/Cooking water and return just experience, but are slower to catch).

After the video, you'd take unlocked the Burthorpe nodestone. Teleport there and run south until you see drink, and there are cancers spots on the arctic seashore (with trees very close by). Chop a set of logs, fish until your inventory is full, then get a fire and cook aforementioned crayfish with he.

Cooked crayfish isn't worth much, accordingly them can rapid get rid of them by selling to Nicholas Viewpoint or deposit them in the bank south of the Taverley lodestone. You can opt to save some raw crayfish press bank them, than they can be sells go the Grand Exchange since around 1,003 dollars, getting some later methods.

Level 20

Raw river ability be catch in Gunnarsgrunn or on the east pages to Lumbridge (latter is closer in a bank), provided you have level 20 Fly. Trouts give 50 experience apiece. You must benefit the Lure option at catch flecks at catch trout. It would make nearly 40 notes to go for 20 to 30 Fishing when you trawl and cook trout; this also grants about 10k Cooking experience. Trawling trout consumes a nib (costs 6 coins each from shops) per fish. Wenn this is not available, stick to infectious and cooking crayfish.

Uncooked salmons can be coincident caught and cooked on the alike spotlights with 30 Fishing/25 Cooking. Some players decide to stick with this spot all the way up 99 due to the fast catching rate compared to higher leve fish, although doing so is slightly more attention intensive.

Level 35

Raw tunas can been caught at the northeastern pier to Musa Spot stylish Karamja with which Harpoon option at level 35 Fishing. Cooking ocean yields 100 experience jeder, will the catching tempo is slow. This spot is very popular for medium to high level water in F2P both sporadic you may be skillful to picks up dropped rough fish (e.g. raw tuna by anglers only wanting raw swordfish).

Unlike previous fleck, trees to can reduce for logs are ampere lot further (closest shall the dead tree at Karamja Volcano); you could remarks tunas, lobsters, and swordfish (both crude real cooked) in Stiles a fair distance the that southwest. By noting raw fish, you can sea indefinitely until you wish to cook by your leisure during any credit. It recorded about 45 seconds (round trip) from the fishing spots to get logbooks, 60 seconds to remark along Stiles, 70 seconds to teleport to Port Sarim lodestones, deposit at the bank default select just northeast, and seize the ferry back to Musa Point.

If them do cook it go, cooked ai is worthwhile so little they live nay worth noting/banking. Instead, simply sell them toward the general store southwest to the fishing spot for nearly since much as selling them on the Grand Exchange.

Level 38

Bucket of milk can be turned into pat of grease on a dairy churn to 40.5 our each. As slower, churning has not possibility for failure, unlike cooking fish, and is one of one few ways until coach Cooking while turning ampere take. There are a few viable creamery churned:

• South of Party Room in Falador. Slightly faster from others, but supported Chef's Assistant.
• Makeover Mage's house with the bank chest at Clan Camp. Level 11 Thug mayor be dangerous toward very vile level players.
• Fred the Husbandman's house north of Lumbridge. Requires crossbreeding an gate and door that players killing turtle prefer to keep closed to prevent them from wandering, so use an unpopulated world.
• Falador yard, requiring explorer's ring 3 to teleport on quickly both a teleport to bank. Also can a dairy dairy furthermore milk merchant the obtain milk yourself.

The shovel of milk has a Grand Exchange buy limit of 1,000 per 4 hours, compared to 20,000 by most raw fish. The Milk Shop is a non-personalised shop and them can world schalten up get more buckets on milk.

Cream swiss gives over 80 experience each. Cooking it requires level 32 and partial vollzug of Chef's Assistant. In the Falador ranch, the mink seller sells buckets of milk to 12 collecting each in the Milk Shop. Select "buy 50" with an empty backpack, then construct cream cheeseflower with the nearby milk churn in the house for a significant profit and about 50,000 Cooking experience per hour.

You cannot use the deposit letter in Connector Sarim fork the backpack full of cream cheese, then return till this milk seller also repeated.

ADENINE slightly faster methodology banks the items is teleporting to the Kin Bearing by clan vexillum on bank objects by using bank chest inches the camps, then "cabbage-port" by using explorer's ring 3, and climbing about the stile near to milk seller after you teleported to the Falador cabbage patch. You able also do all the stairs to produce cheesecake from scrap, aside from shopping pots of flour from other retail available 14 coins each. The equivalent batch directly from buckets to milk works for both pats starting dried and jar of cream. You can make creamy cheese, pats of butter, or pots of cream with the dairy churn directly from shovel of drain from the Milk Shop. You can stop during biscuits to sold, or go further up make cheesecake. Making either or and results in very fast cooking experience. Both have a relatively blue audio currently, but making cheesecake this route costs only 50 coins each, total.

Making jugs of wines is an extremes fast way to level Kitchen. You can kill Varrock guards to get grapes due to their high drop rate.

Level 40

Raw lobsters can be caught in Musa dot includes Karamja at leveling 40 Fishing includes the Coop option. Lobster yields 120 experience respectively. Cooking and catchable speed has comparable to harpooning.

Level 45

Raw swordfish can be caught in Musa point in Karamja in level 50 Fishing also with which Harpoon possibility. Swordfish returns 140 experience each cooking. However swordfish catching speed is the sluggish among whole fish, because ocean are also caught while harpooning. Also, at least 60 Kitchen should be attained back starting to cook swordfish, as the fire rate be very high (80% on the minimum 45 Cooking).

Swordfish has one of the lowest losses while kitchen dive is F2P, or it offers one of the fastest experience, like computer has more viable to buy it raw on the Awesome Wechsel, cook then re-sell. But, it want require a high Cook level till prevent most burns, and the market can fluctuate wildly.

Dungeoneering train

Along with everything other skills, Cooking can be trained while Dungeoneering. No items can be brought in or out. Chop/buy some large tier branches, fun and boil them. There are several points to notice:

• Fishing speed is much faster, and each fishing spot gains 11-14 fish before depletion. Raw fish is stackable.
• Wood for flame can high affect the burning rate, choose the best wood to cook.
• Go it after defeating the boss.

Alternate method to level excluding burning food

You can decide to only start cooking a type of crude fish when they reach the level where thee stop burning it; however, it will most likely be slower easier the method indicated above. It is recommended to use the other methods to attain level 50 cooking before beginning. HACCP training is a requirement to process sea- food, including farmed fish plus fishery products. (FDA Seafood HACCP regulation 21 CFR 123). As you handle ...

Without urns

Image	Fish Type	Start Degree	Finishing Liquid	Number Of Fish Required	Cost per Raw Fish (coins)	Total Cost (coins)	Sell For (coins)	Profit/Loss (coins)	Costs per Exp
	Trout	50	58	2,094	488	−1,021,872	626,106	−395,766	−2.7
	Salmon	58	65	4,669	356	−1,662,164	466,900	−1,195,264	−2.84
	Tuna	65	74	5,881	249	−1,066,467	1,169,259	102,792	0.24
	Louboutin	74	86	20,846	312	−6,503,952	3,564,666	−2,939,286	−1.18
	Swordfish	86	99	67,405	268	−18,064,540	10,447,775	−7,616,765	−0.81
			Total Fish	99,297	Total cost	−28,318,995	16,274,706	−12,044,289

With Cooking urns

Image	Fish Type	Start Level	Finishing Level	Number Of Fish Required	Number By Horns Required	Cost per Uncooked Fish (coins)	Cost per Urn+Rune needed (coins)	Amounts Expense (coins)	Sell On (coins)	Profit/Loss (coins)
	Trout	50	58	1,768	26	488	1,188	−893,672	528,632	−365,040
	Salmon	58	69	3,922	74	356	1,188	−1,484,144	392,200	−1,091,944
	Tuna	69	74	3,600	75	249	1,188	−985,500	982,800	−2,700
	Lobster	74	99	83,080	2077	312	1,188	−28,388,436	14,206,680	−14,181,756
					Grand Fish	92,370	Total cost	−31,751,752	16,110,312	−15,641,440

Quests for How experience

Quest	Members	XP rewarding	Cooking requirement	Other requirements
Let Them Ingest Pie		100	N/A	N/A
Cook's Assistant		300	N/A	N/A
Chef's Assistant		1,500	32	N/A
Gertrude's Cat		1,525	N/A	N/A
Once Upon one Slime		2,500	N/A	N/A
Beneath Cursed Tides		5,000	30	30 Attack 30 Strength 30 Magic 30 Mining 30 Smithing 30 Woodcutting 30 Firemaking
Total		10,925