Money making guide/Cooking (F2P)

This page is about making money with the cooking skill. For methods of training this skill, see here. With all these methods, be careful when clicking in your inventory as you could accidentally eat your profits!


 * 60,000 coins per hour
 * 60,000 coins per hour

(depends on G.E. prices)
 * Level 25
 * Making stews is a way to make decent money using Cooking. Once you've finished Cook's Assistant you may use the Lumbridge stove. You can buy bowls form the general store, go to the field just north of the Lumbridge windmill, kill cows and get some meat if you want to make a big batch of stews or to the chicken farm north of Lumbridge castle just for a small batch. After that you can go to the potato field North West of Lumbridge, pick some potatoes then go to a nearby water source (Lumbridge castle) fill up your bowls, add the meat and potatoes then cook them on the stove. They sell for around.
 * Level 30
 * Another method for making money is to make apple pies. To make a apple pie you need: pastry dough, a cooking apple and a pie dish. After making a few (or until your inventory is full) go to the Grand Exchange and sell the apple pies for about 427 gp each.
 * Level 40
 * Money can be gained by making uncooked pizzas. Players are advised to bring 50 coins and travel from the Wilderness Volcano to the Bandit's Camp in the Wilderness. After buying them for 5 each, for a total of 10 (Tony's maximum stock) players can travel back to safe places to make uncooked pizzas with cheese and tomatoes attained through respawn points in Aggie or Tony's house, or buying them at the Grand Exchange. Uncooked pizzas currently sell for coins each. However, the limit of this method is the restock rate of Tony's pizza bases which is very slow, so switching worlds may be necessary. You can also try to buy pizza bases in the Grand Exchange, but you will lose a lot of profit by doing this.
 * Combat 15
 * to
 * Level 40
 * Money can be gained by making uncooked pizzas. Players are advised to bring 50 coins and travel from the Wilderness Volcano to the Bandit's Camp in the Wilderness. After buying them for 5 each, for a total of 10 (Tony's maximum stock) players can travel back to safe places to make uncooked pizzas with cheese and tomatoes attained through respawn points in Aggie or Tony's house, or buying them at the Grand Exchange. Uncooked pizzas currently sell for coins each. However, the limit of this method is the restock rate of Tony's pizza bases which is very slow, so switching worlds may be necessary. You can also try to buy pizza bases in the Grand Exchange, but you will lose a lot of profit by doing this.
 * Combat 15
 * to
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 * Level 45
 * Some money and experience can be gained by cooking pizzas, though it might take a while. Purchase flour, tomatoes, Jugs of water, and Cheese off of the Grand Exchange for 0 coins. Alternately, acquire them on your own using any method you prefer.

Even if a few pizzas are burnt, a profit can still be made as the price of plain pizzas usually compensate for the burning of pizzas. Ordinary pizzas sell for each, with the end profit being 0 coins each per cooked plain pizza.

Adding cooked meat only results in a marginal increase of profit, which is why it is not recommended to upgrade to meat pizzas and sell, as it takes extra time (but can earn 26 experience points more per pizza).

Cheese is nearly impossible to buy on the Grand Exchange and can only be reliably obtained by buying it from the Port Sarim food shop, or from spawns in either Aggie's house in Draynor Village or the Bandit Camp in the Wilderness
 * Level 55 and up
 * A popular money making method is upgrading previously cooked pizzas. At the Grand Exchange, buy plain pizza and anchovies, combine them, and sell the anchovy pizzas back for a profit of coins. This may not seem like much, but considering how little time it takes to add anchovies to one pizza (players can make 14 pizzas in about 30 seconds), you can easily make 0 coins per hour. 39 Cooking experience is also received for every anchovy pizza you upgrade in this way, resulting in around 65,520 experience per hour. However, buying the plain pizzas may present some difficulty as they are in high demand but low supply.
 * Level 58 and up
 * Depending on market conditions, another method of making money is buying unfinished stews and the respective ingredient (potatoes or meat). Stews sell for coins, which means the current profit/loss margin is  coins. The supplies take a while to buy, so you might want to place the order and then wait overnight. Note that profit can still be made at lower levels, especially when using the Lumbridge Castle range.
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 * Level 58 and up
 * Depending on market conditions, another method of making money is buying unfinished stews and the respective ingredient (potatoes or meat). Stews sell for coins, which means the current profit/loss margin is  coins. The supplies take a while to buy, so you might want to place the order and then wait overnight. Note that profit can still be made at lower levels, especially when using the Lumbridge Castle range.
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