Monkfish

For the item used in the quest Hunt for Red Raktuber, see Monkfish (Hunt for Red Raktuber).

Monkfish are members-only food that heal 160 Life Points when consumed. During the Swan Song quest, players must fish fresh monkfish, a non-tradeable quest item that heals 10 Life Points when successfully cooked and then consumed.

Members with at least level 62 Fishing can catch raw monkfish, gaining 120 Fishing experience points per fish. Monkfish can be caught with a small fishing net in Piscatoris Fishing Colony; this requires players to have completed Swan Song.

Members can cook the raw monkfish if they have at least level 62 Cooking, and gain 150 experience if they are successful in doing so.

Cooking and burning rates
Failure to cook the raw monkfish will produce burnt monkfish instead. At 71 Cooking, players burn about 1 out of every 4 monkfish (based on a sample size of 364 monkfish: 88 were burned) on a range in the cooking guild. On the same range, and with cooking gauntlets, the rate of burn seems to be reduced by about 1/3rd: 1 out of 6 is burned (54/319). At level 90 Cooking (use a range to stop burning), players burn about 1 out of every 28 monkfish or about 1 out of every 60 with Cooking Gauntlets.

Burning monkfish becomes impossible after level 90 Cooking. It is for this reason that players are advised to use the cook's range in Lumbridge Castle under the level of 85, as this decreases the chance of burning. You could also use the range on Neitiznot, which is closer to a bank and does not require any climbing.

Based on a sample of 1000 raw monkfish cooked, exactly 80 of them were burnt by a player with 84 cooking and cooking gauntlets. That would be a 8% of the monkfish burnt!

Based on a sample of 4000 raw monkfish cooked, exactly 460 of them were burnt by a player starting with 76 cooking and gaining level 80 and cooking gauntlets on the Lumbridge cooking range. That would be a 11.7% of monkfish burnt!

Cooking gauntlets do aid in the cooking success rate of monkfish, but do not affect what level you stop burning them. However, if using Cooking gauntlets and cooking on a range, it is exceedingly rare to burn a monkfish after level 86 cooking, and impossible to burn them on a range while wearing Cooking gauntlets beginning at level 87.

The range in Lumbridge castle reduces the rate of burning all food compared to any other ordinary range or fire.

Comparison with other foods

 * Monkfish are a very popular high level food as they are significantly cheaper than sharks, but heal almost as many Life Points (160 points versus 200).
 * The speed of catching Monkfish in terms of other fish are as followed, Lobster > Monkfish > Shark.
 * Even though monkfish are deep sea fish, they are caught in very shallow water.

Trivia

 * During the Swan song quest, fresh monkfish heal only 10 Life Points when eaten.
 * Lophius piscatorius is the scientific name for Monkfish. Piscatoris Fishing Colony probably got the name for that reason.
 * Raw monkfish (and cooked to some extent too) are popular among item flipping merchants. They are bought in high quantity when the price dips and are sold back after a short amount of time (minimum 4 hrs) for great profit.