Cooking


 * Help needed on brewing, pictures, exp, and hp healed on cider.

The cooking skill is used to make food, which can be eaten to heal a player's hitpoints.

There are many different types of food in RuneScape, each healing a different amount of hitpoints. However, as with all skills, players must reach certain levels to cook certain foods. Cooking is also a very popular skill to raise, as many players like to sell food they have cooked to other players. This can give a great profit, as many players are willing to purchase food already cooked.

How to cook
Players can cook in two different ways. They can cook their food on a fire or they can cook their food on a range. Ranges are labelled on the map as a cooking pan  icon. It is also important to note that only meat, fish, vegetables, and tea can be cooked on a fire.

To cook, players have to use their food with a range or fire. If they have more than one same kind of food in their inventory, then a menu will appear in the chatbox which will ask them the amount of the food they want to cook. This is known as 'cook x'; the 'x' being the number of food the player wants cooked.

At a low cooking level, players will burn much of their food. But as they raise their cooking level, they will burn less often and eventually never burn again.

Items needed
There are many items that players need in order to cook food, such as water or flour. Listed below are the items needed to cook certain foods.


 * Flour - (Held in a pot)
 * Water - (Held in a pot, bowl or jug)
 * Meat - (Raw Meat,Raw Rat Meat,Raw Bear Meat)
 * Vegetables - (Potatoes,Cabbages,Grain)
 * Fruits - (Apple,Grapes,Banana)
 * Bowl
 * Bucket
 * Cake tin
 * Jug
 * Pie dish
 * Pot

Meats
Players can obtain meat from killing chickens, cows, bears, and rats. When a player cooks raw chicken, the name becomes cooked chicken. However, when a player cooks raw beef, raw bear meat, or raw rat meat, the name becomes cooked meat for the three meats. If you use the meat on the fire after it's already cooked it'll say, "You delibrately Burnt the fine meat."

Fish
Fish are the most common food to cook in Runescape, due to the avaliability. They heal a great amount of hitpoints and are the recommended food to eat when in combat. All a player has to do is fish and then cook what they catch on either a fire or on a range.

Snails
Members can also cook snail meat from Mort Myre swamp and in the Haunted Forest, southest of the slayer master Mazchna. The Priest in Peril quest has to be finished to access both areas, as well as Nature Spirit to access the swamp. There are more snails in the eastern part of the swamp than in the Haunted Forest. Once a player has found a snail, they can then kill it, pick up the snail meat, and then cook it.

Bread
To make bread, players need to first make flour, which is explained above. When they've made flour, they must then use it with a jug of water or a bucket of water. When they use water with flour, they will make the dough. The dough can only be cooked on a range, not on a fire. When the dough is done being baked, it will become bread.

Pie
Pies require two bites to be fully eaten, thus giving players a bit more health than other foods. For example, when a player eats a redberry pie, they will only eat one half of it. The other half will stay in the dish which can be eaten later. To make pie, players need to mix flour and water together and then make some pastry dough. Players then need to use the dough with a pie dish. Then, the player can put in extra ingredients to make them heal more, such as meat to make a meat pie. When they are finished putting in the ingredients, the pie can then be baked.

Stew
To make stew, players need a bowl and some cooked meat or cooked chicken. Next, the bowl has to be filled with water. Potatoes are needed next. They can be found around the farms near Draynor Village and Lumbridge or members can grow potatoes themselves. Members can also buy potatoes from Hudo's Grand Tree Groceries in the Grand Tree or from Frenita's Cookery Shop in Yanille. Players then have to add the cooked meat and potatoes to the bowl of water and then cook the bowl to make stew.

Pizza
Many players like to use pizzas to heal themselves as they can heal quite alot of HP. Also, like pie, they require players to take two bites, allowing them to eat one half and save the other half for when it's needed. To make a pizza, mix flour with water and make a pizza base. Players then need to add a tomato and a slice of cheese on the base. Both a tomato and a slice of cheese can be taken from their respawn in Draynor Village in Aggie the Witch's house, north of the bank. They can also be bought from the food store in Port Sarim. When the tomato and slice of cheese is added to the pizza base, the pizza can then be baked. Players can also add things on their pizza after they have finished baking it.

Cake
Cakes require three bites to be fully eaten, so if a player clicks on a cake, they will still have two other pieces left. To make a cake, players need flour, an egg, milk, and a cake tin. Eggs are near the chicken coops around Lumbridge, while milk can be obtained by milking dairy cows with a bucket. Dairy cows are around Lumbridge near the level 2 cows. When all of these items are placed in the cake tin, the cake can then be cooked on a range.

Wine
To make wine, a jug of water and grapes are needed. Grapes can be found in the cooking guild. Use the grapes with the jug of water to make unfermented wine. About 10 seconds later, the wine will ferment and either be drinkable, or go bad.

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'sTower and Draynor Village, southeast 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, so they have to wear gloves. 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 placed 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. Also, if a player wants to add milk to their tea, they can obtain some milk in a bucket and use it with the tea. Adding milk is optional.

Brewing
Brewing is much more complicated and time consuming than other foods, but the results are quite useful, for most of them boost assorted stats. You need 4 bundles of barley, a pot of ale yeast, 2 buckets of waters and an ingredient that varies depending on what you want to make. Head to the brewery in either Keldagrim or Port Phasmatys, and pour your 4 buckets in the tub. Add the barley, then your ingredients and finally the ale yeast. Next, wait for awhile, as much as an entire day in some cases. Return and use a beer glass on the tap. Making Cider is completely different however. You need a massive 16 apples, a pot of ale yeast, and 4 empty buckets. Head to the brewery and put four of the apples in the nearby cider barrel. Your character will do a nice dance and squish the apples to a pulp, making a bucket of apple mush. Once you have 4, add them, then the ale yeast into the fermenting vat and wait. Occasionally, you will make bad ale, wasting all that time. You can also sometimes make matured ale, shown by a (m) next to the drink. Matured ale is slightly stronger than normal ale. Also, if you add "The Stuff" bought from Honest Jimmy instead of ale yeast, the chances of getting mature ale is increased.


 * All ales decrease attack, and all ales except Asgarnian Ale decrease strength.

Sell and buy, or just trade
Fish play a big role in the cooking market, particularly the high level ones (lobsters, sharks). They make up the bulk of the food market, and with high demands in both raw and cooked forms.

When training on lobsters or sharks, players may wish to use the RuneScape food forum to buy raw fish and sell cooked ones. Alternatively, they may wish to trade cooked fish for raw ones, one for one. This method saves money and time, because no value is lost between the trades, and cooking materials are easily found.

Cook in the correct environment
Some places are more suited for cooking than others. Here are a few.

The Catherby range is just east of the Catherby bank. This place is frequented often, giving lots of chances for interaction. There are a couple of fishing spots nearby, giving players opportunities to fish and cook at the same time. However, it is a short walk from the bank to the range, and in the long term, the loss in time is significant. Also, the range is located inside a house with a door that auto-closes every few minutes, inconveniencing cooks.

Lumbridge is a good place to cook if you have started Recipe for Disaster. The Culinaromancer's Chest in the cellar can act as a bank and a food store, which can be used in conjunction with the range in the kitchen, which has a lower burn rate than most ranges. Also, the Lumbridge Home Port spell can take players there almost immediately, which is good if you have just gathered special ingredients.

The Tree Gnome Stronghold is useful because you can make Gnome Cocktails, Gnome Foods, and various other dishes thanks to Hudo and Heckel Funch who supply you with plenty of cooking ingredients. There is easy access to a bank and a minigame as well.

The Rogue's Den fires are located at the start of the rogue's den, just below the Burthope pub. This place is only meant for those who wish to powercook. The bank(Emerald Benedict) may just be a step away from the fire, allowing players to cut down on time spent walking. The fires are everlasting, so there is no need to worry about relighting them. On the downside, this place is usually deserted, only used by powercookers. This place has fire as the only means to cook, so it is only usable for cooking fish. Lastly, due to the bank being an NPC, he may wander around from time to time, requiring players to sometimes walk.

Cooking Gauntlets
Players who complete the Family Crest quest can have their gauntlets made into Cooking Gauntlets, which increase the chances of successfully cooking tuna, lobsters, swordfish and sharks by a considerable amount.

Temporary boosts

 * Chef's Delight a type of player-made beer increases cooking by 1-5 temporarily.
 * Spicy stew can be used to raise your cooking level by up to 6 levels, but it can also have the opposite effect and lower it, players will have to complete the recipe for disaster subquest "evil dave" to be able to make this stew, get a normal stew and add coloured spices to it (3 maximum), jagex have confirmed that there is a correlation between the colour of spice used and the skill effected: -

Please note that this is not entirely random, it works as follows.
 * Red spice (combat skills) Attack, Defence, Ranged, Magic, and Strength.
 * Yellow spice (micellaneous) Prayer, Agility, Slayer, and Thieving.
 * Orange spice (skills) Construction, Crafting, Cooking, Runecrafting, Fletching, and Smithing.
 * Brown spice (gathering skills) Fishing, Herblore, Farming, Mining, Firemaking and Woodcutting.

Number of spices used x 2 = amount of stat boost/depletion For example if a player used 3 red spices their red skills may be boosted by 6 or lowered by 6.

Trivia

 * 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.
 * Tks was the first player to reach level 99 cooking.