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.

Fastest Experience - Uncooked Curry
If players want to spend money to level up quickly, then an good way is cooking Curry. While making curry is very slow, cooking uncooked curry which are bought directly from the Grand Exchange is one of the fastest - or THE fastest - cooking xp available starting at level 60. It yields as much as 280 cooking xp (the highest one-step-cooking xp item), it burns much less often than other food, and stops burning at level 74 cooking. Note: Cooking Curry is only fast experience when you can actually buy uncooked curry, NOT when you buy ingredients and make it from scratch! The fact that all other cooking steps reward no or little exp makes cooking the last step so rewarding in exp, thus earning you about five times the exp you would acquire if you were to cook it from scratch, not to mention the time to acquire the materials.

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.

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.

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.

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 create a fire to cook the fish right there if you have a tinderbox and hatchet, as there are several trees next to the bank and north of the fishing spots. 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.

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

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