Pay-to-play Cooking training

This is a guide which aims to assist players in training Cooking in pay to play by using the most effective and efficient techniques and methods.

Level advancement - Fish
This is a fast, but more expensive way to advance the Cooking skill level. Note that the Money needed until next step column only accounts for the total amount of money that must be invested. It does not account for the money that will be earned back from selling the cooked fish. Fishing them yourself will give a sizable amount of fishing experience, as well as reduce the cost to 0, and profit from selling them.

A side note: A slower, but more reliable way to train cooking is to check out the food chart under the cooking skill page to see what the best food you can cook without burning is, then cook that food. That means there's a certain number of items you must cook, without leaving things to chance or burning.

With cooking urns:

Cooking urns speed up the experience rates. In addition, it takes less supplies to level up.


 * Players willing to spend time training Crafting to be able to use higher-level Urns may find it easier to train Cooking, as the lower number of fish to be cooked can make a big difference in how often a character has to bank while cooking, as well as less fish to catch or buy. This means making a large investment of time in training Crafting, however.


 * Training with meat may be done by going to Neitiznot's Yak Field where people leave the meat on the ground. There is a range and bank near to make easily cooking banking and collecting.

Remember: burning a piece of food does not yield experience, so it is always better to plan on having extra money.

At level 85, some players switch to cooking pies with the lunar spell so that they gain experience comparable to shark or better, but also gain magic experience and spend runes. It requires 65 magic. As the quest Lunar Diplomacy requires 65 magic to complete, skill boosts will not work. Lunar spell cooked pies will never burn.

From level 84 to 90 you will burn approximately 525 Monkfish with cooking gauntlets

From level 90 to 94 you will burn approximately 270 Sharks with cooking gauntlets. Beyond that level you will not burn any.

Combined POH training with a Chef's delight (barrel)
A very useful tip for training AND to save gold is to install a Chef's delight barrel in your POH kitchen along with a range. Mounting an Amulet of glory in your quest hall nearby the kitchen requires 48 construction, and can be used to provide teleports to Edgeville to bank. Teleportation to your POH can be used with a tab, or runes. Using runes requires 40 magic. This helps you burn less food with the cooking level increase, and cook higher level foods.

Steps to train:


 * 1) Pick up food from a bank (raw).
 * 2) Teleport to your house.
 * 3) Grab a beer glass, and fill it with chef's delight from your barrel.
 * 4) Cook the food.
 * 5) Go to your quest hall, and teleport to Edgeville using your Amulet of glory
 * 6) Bank, and repeat.

The total levels used for this method are:
 * 40 Magic (optional to save 3x as much money by using runes instead of teleport tabs)
 * 48 Construction (Optional by buying flatpacks for everything but mounting your uncharged amulet of glory)

You can use cooking gauntlets to further boost your cooking success rate.

Alternatively, you could find a friend who has a larder and a range and continously make cakes inside their POH for free. World 31 (House Parties) often has open houses in yanille, and many of these do have these facilities.

Alternate methods to level
This is an alternate method to level cooking without burning fish; however, it will most likely be slower than the method above. It is recommended to use the above method to attain level 50 cooking before beginning. It is possible to get 1,960 cooking xp with 1 inventory of trout.

Chocolate Cakes
This method is possibly profitable, although it does take some time. Simply buy lots of chocolate bars and cakes, and make the cakes into chocolate cakes. This is rather time consuming, but can make a large profit depending on the price of cakes. You get 30 cooking experience per cake

Gunnarsgrunn Cooking
This method make and loses no money, it can be quite helpful for players with not much money. Since many players power-fish salmon and trout at gunnarsgrunn, you can easily light a fire with the trees nearby and cook all the fish that they drop. After that, drop the cooked fish and pick up the new fish the players have dropped. It can be more effecient if you can get on of the other players to directly trade you the fish. This method is helpful to both players, the fisher gets more experience per hour and the cooker gets a costless way of gaining cooking levels.

Wine
While this method makes you lose a lot of money, it is very fast experience. 14 grapes are used with 14 jugs of water to make 14 unfermented wines which, after 12 seconds, becomes jugs of wine granting 200 xp each, up to 2,800 xp if no jugs of bad wine are made. Wine is made very fast, and ferments in your bank. As wine only requires level 35 cooking to make, it becomes very difficult to fail.

Curry
As an alternative to swordfish, at level 74 you might choose to cook Curry as you will get much more experience, and will not burn any at that level. However this method is also much more expensive. Cooking 6626 Uncooked curry is required to get you to level 84. Cooking Curry gives the most experience in one step, making it faster than any other item that takes 4 ticks to cook, such as rocktail. However wine can be made 4 times faster and is therefore faster experience than curry.

Alternative Method (cooking gauntlets)
You can also cook Sharks as an alternative to Rocktails and Monkfish. At 90 cooking, you will burn roughly 7% of your sharks, which still works out at a higher xp/h rate than monkfish and will probably be more profitable.

Collecting Raw Fish
After finishing the quest Throne of Miscellania you can set up your kingdom to gather raw fish. Your subjects will gather swordfish, tuna, and lobsters if the kingdom is supplied with ample money, and if fishing is made a priority then the amount of raw fish available to be cooked after a few days will help towards levelling your Cooking skill. For more information on managing your kingdom, please refer to the page: Managing Miscellania.

Another great place to get fish is on the west bank of the River Lum next to Gunnarsgrunn, as there are several people that power-fish along the river's bank, and then drop their trout and/or salmon. You can also go to Gunnarsgrunn to cook the fish right in one of the shops. It's a great place to cook as there are very few players cooking there and lots of fishers.

Dairy Churn
As normally unused as it is now, churning cheese wheels is one of the better ways of making cooking experience. First off, it doesn't fail, you cannot burn cheese using a dairy churn, and therefore you would constantly get 64 experience per bucket of milk. Second, each slice of cheese you make gives you an additional 4 experience. Finally, you can get milk from dairy cows scattered all over RuneScape. There are also milkmaid characters near milk cows where milk can be purchased from.

A good place to train with a churn is at the Sinclair Mansion, just north of Seer's Village/Camelot. All you need is 14 buckets, or whatever number you prefer. There's a dairy cow just a few steps south of the churn. Milk the cow, churn the milk, drop the churned product, and then repeat for fast churning exp.

Another good place to train is the farm south of Falador, by cabbage-porting with your Explorers Ring 3 or 4, then bying a full inventory of milk from the nearby milkmaid and churn it in the nearby churn. Then you can teleport, such as using an Amulet of glory or a Ring of kinship, then repeating the process.

Cooking Urns
Cooking urns will significantly increase experience rates per hour.

Dwarven Army Axe
Upon completion of the Troll Warzone, the Dwarven Army Axe provides an extra +3 cooking experience when it is equipped wildst cooking food.

Bonfires
Bonfires are a great way of earning more experience. Cooking on a Bonfire will earn a player 10% more experience. If you use a Dwarven Army Axe at the same time it will add to the experience gained. Keep in note that the bonus from the Dwarven Army Axe is added after the bonfires extra experience. eg. when a lobster is used on a Bonfire it will gain the player 132 experience, the Dwarven Army Axe than adds another 3.3 experience totaling at 135.3 experience.

Recommended Places to Cook
Some places are more suited for cooking than others. Here are some recommended places.