Pay-to-play Cooking training

See also: Free-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.

Levels	Food to cook	Experience per item	Approximate XP/Hour	Number needed until next step	Notes	Aprroximate profit/loss during this step
1 - 15	Various	Various, see Cooking	N/A	N/A	At this level, just cook anything readily available. Efficiency is not important because the first 10 levels are quickly gained. Good examples include chicken, meat*, bread, shrimp, anchovies, or herring. Undead chickens give the same exp but are MUCH cheaper.	Very little
15-30	Assorted Fish	Various	25k-50k	N/A	Cook fish such as trout, cod, pike and salmon. These are easily obtainable with the Fishing skill.	Very little
28+	Sweetcorn	104	130k	25	Cook Sweetcorn grown from Farming, or buy some from the Grand Exchange.
30+	Tuna	100	125k	2,604	You do lose some money if you buy these from the GE, rather than fishing them yourselves. Alternatively, players may wish to cook apple pies, although this method may be more time-consuming than tuna. Some players may choose to continue cooking sweetcorn as it yields 4% more experience.
60+	Lobsters	120	150k	22,313	Either buy raw lobsters from other players, or fish for them. Players stop burning lobsters at level 74 (or level 68 with cooking gauntlets).
84+	Monkfish	150	190k	15,967	Either buy raw monkfish from other players or fish them, given that players have completed the Swan Song quest. Players stop burning monkfish at level 90 with cooking gauntlets.	minus some as burning occurs infrequently before level 90, but this is still a faster and usually cheaper method than lobsters or swordfish. Always check GE prices before buying in bulk (applies to all cooking)
92-94	Sharks	210	263k	6,797	Either buy raw sharks from other players, or fish for cooking. Players stop burning sharks at level 94 with cooking gauntlets. Without the cooking gauntlets however, even at level 99, players will still burn sharks.	(minus a little because you will burn maybe 1 in 50 before level 94)
94-99	Rocktail	225	285k	22,622	Either buy raw rocktail from other players or the grand exchange, or fish for cooking. Players stop burning rocktails at level 94 with cooking gauntlets. Without the cooking gauntlets however, even at level 99, players will still burn rocktails.	Always use Cooking Gauntlets or the burns cost too much.

With cooking urns:

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

Levels	Items to make	Approximate XP/Hour	Number needed until next step	Notes	Money needed until next step
1 - 10	Various	N/A	N/A	At this level, just cook anything readily available. Efficiency is not important because the first 10 levels are quickly gained. Good examples include chicken, meat*, bread, shrimp, anchovies, or herring. Undead chickens give the same exp but are MUCH cheaper.	N/A
10 - 30	Assorted Fish	30k-60k	N/A	Cook fish such as trout, cod, pike and salmon. These are easily obtainable with the Fishing skill.	N/A
28+	Sweetcorn	160k	?	Cook Sweetcorn grown from Farming, or buy some from the Grand Exchange.	N/A
30+	Tuna	115k	2,368	You do lose some money if you buy these from the GE, rather than fishing them yourselves. Alternatively, players may wish to cook apple pies, although this method may be more time-consuming than tuna.	?
60+	Lobster	180k	22,078 (from here to monkfish)	Either buy raw lobsters from other players, or fish for them. Players stop burning lobsters at level 74 (or level 68 with cooking gauntlets).	14,516
74+	Swordfish	195k	10,610	Either buy raw swordfish from other players or fish for them. At this level with cooking gauntlets you will still burn about 2 fish per inventory so there is a cost for the increased xp rate.	?
84+	Monkfish	210k	14,516	Either buy raw monkfish from other players or fish them, given that players have completed the Swan Song quest. Players stop burning monkfish at level 90 with cooking gauntlets.	?
90+	Sharks	325k	32,258	Either buy raw sharks from other players, or fish for cooking. Players stop burning sharks at level 94 with cooking gauntlets. Without the cooking gauntlets however, even at level 99, players will still burn sharks.	?

• 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

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.

Without cooking gauntlets

Image	Fish	Start Level	Finishing Level	Number Of Fish Required	Cost per Raw Fish (coins)	Total Cost (coins)	Sell For (coins)	Profit/Loss (coins)
File:Trout.PNG	Trout	50	59	2,094
File:Salmon.PNG	Salmon	59	69	4,669
File:Tuna.PNG	Tuna	69	74	4,283
File:Lobster.PNG	Lobster	74	86	20,846
	Swordfish	86	92	20,854
	Monkfish	92	99	43,448
			Total Fish	96,194	Total cost

With cooking gauntlets

Image	Fish	Start Level	Finishing Level	Number Of Fish Required	Cost per Raw Fish (coins)	Total Cost (coins)	Sell For (coins)	Profit/Loss (coins)
File:Trout.PNG	Trout	50	59	2,094
File:Salmon.PNG	Salmon	59	68	3,969
File:Lobster.PNG	Lobster	68	81	13,232
	Swordfish	81	90	22,526
	Monkfish	90	94	17,322
File:Raw Rocktail.PNG	Rocktail	94	99	22,622
			Total Fish	81,765	Total cost

Alternative Method (cooking gauntlets)

Image	Fish	Start Level	Finishing Level	Number Of Fish Required	Cost per Raw Fish (coins)	Total Cost (coins)	Sell For (coins)	Profit/Loss (coins)
	Shark	90	99	36,610

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 high xp/h than monkfish and will probably be more profitable.

Notes

• Another option is to cook Cavefish, which would sometimes make more profit than sharks from 94-99.
• From 94 onwards, Rocktails will burn very rarely. These provide a higher experience rate than sharks, as well as being more profitable than Sharks some of the time.
• If you do not want to do Rocktails from 94-99, as they are fluctuating everyday and may cause loss, you can do Sharks from 94-99.
• Assuming no fish are burned and all fish are sold, the profit for:
  • The no cooking gauntlets method is coins.
  • The cooking gauntlets method is coins.
• A player with 80 cooking and cooking gauntlets will burn fewer than 2% of swordfish on a fire; therefore, it can be to one's advantage to begin cooking swordfish at an earlier level.
• If one cooks using a range rather than a fire, and wears cooking gauntlets, the burn rate of monkfish at level 86 is less than 0.5%, so this may be a cheaper and more efficient method of levelling than swordfish.
• Baking pies with the Bake Pie spell in the Lunar spellbook makes for quick Cooking experience, but is also very costly.

Tips

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.

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.

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Recommended Places to Cook

Some places are more suited for cooking than others. Here are some recommended places.

Pay-to-Play Locations

Location		Information	Additional information	Requirements
Nardah		Quiet desert town with a range by the bank.	They are at the south of the town, with nothing between them. Players can angle the camera to be in sight of both.
Catherby		Just east of the Catherby bank, very close to each other.	This popular spot is nearby the Catherby fishing spots, and directly east of the bank, so food can be easily cooked before banking after being fished. The door can be annoying when it closes.
Cooks' Guild	File:Cooksguild Cookingtraining.png	A bank and a range are right by each other.	A player must have earned Varrock Armour 3 to use the bank located inside the Cooking Guild. In terms of distance from the range to the bank, this spot is the best place to train cooking. Players without access to the bank and range on the ground floor can still use the ranges on the 1st2nd floor[UK] and use the bank to the south-east of the GE, or even use the GE's bank. Although this would be slower, you will still have quick access to the GE to buy more fish.	The Varrock Armour 3 which is quite hard to get.
Fishing Guild		Fish, cook, and bank.	Players can fish, cook, and bank all in one run. However, it is somewhat a long walk from the range to the bank. Therefore if the player is only looking to train cooking, do not use this spot.	Level 68 fishing to enter the guild. 63 with admiral pie.
Lumbridge	File:Lumbridge Cookingtraining.png	Good place to cook if players have started the quest Recipe for Disaster.	The Culinaromancer's Chest in the cellar is 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.	Must have started Recipe for Disaster (Which requires the completion of Cook's Assistant).
The Tree Gnome Stronghold		Useful because players can make Gnome Cocktails, Gnome Foods, and various other dishes.	Hudo and Heckel Funch can supply plenty of cooking ingredients. There is easy access to a bank as well.
Zanaris		A quite nice place to cook in since there's a close bank.	Players can also cook pies in here easily since there's a wheat field and a windmill. Sometimes there are extra Zanaris special events but they don't really come between that often. If players have started the quest Fairytale II - Cure a Queen and are able to use the Fairy ring, they can travel using the code DKR to The Grand Exchange and back to Zanaris.	Completed Lost city.
Neitiznot	File:Neitiznot cooking.PNG	Fremennik Island of Neitiznot with clay oven next to the bank.	You can easily cook at the clay oven and then click the one-click bank.	Requires the player to have started The Fremennik Isles quest.
TzHaar City		Vent right outside Bank (South-east).	The vents throughout the city are able to cook food. Although, the most preferable vent is the one next to the Bank.

Free-to-Play Locations

Location		Information	Additional information
Lumbridge bank	File:Lumbridge Cookingtraining.png	A good way for new cookers to start the skill.	There are 4 log respawn points just outside the bank. Equip a Dwarven army axe when cooking to light the logs. Another option at Lumbridge would be to use the cooking range at the bottom floor of the building. Players can also use the cook's range to reduce the chance of burning food. (Takes about 4 seconds longer than Al Kharid's range)
Al Kharid bank		The free-to-play spot to train cooking on a range.	A range is right by the bank, providing fast runs to and from the bank. (23 squares from bank)
Draynor Village		This spot is good for cooking fish because of the fishing spot near the bank and many fires.	People usually train firemaking here because there is a lot of room for starting fires with no interruptions. You can possibly cook on the fires right outside the bank door. In Ned´s house is also a fireplace to cook on. However, there aren't any ranges in Draynor Village.
Grand Exchange	File:Grandexchange Cookingtraining.png	As long as there are players making fires in a world, this makes a very fast and convenient place to cook.	The good thing about this spot is that the raw materials can be bought there; cooked products can also be sold there, if needed. Especially useful for players without a large capital. Players can also bank from a distance while standing next to a fire. As many players choose to train firemaking at the Grand Exchange, searching for worlds with high populations may yield fires with little effort.
Gunnarsgrunn fishing spots		Many players would rather give away or drop salmons and trouts, while doing power fly-fishing.	It's a good idea to bring an axe and a tinderbox, or instead cook fish on a endless fire near Peksa's Helmet Shop. This method is 100% free.
Karamja fishing spots		These are good places to train both cooking and fishing	Some things are needed: a hatchet (or some logs), fishing equipment (harpoon or lobster cage), and a tinderbox. The reason for an hatchet and tinderbox is to set a fire to cook the fish. Catch fish, light a fire, and cook the fish. However, in busy worlds there are usually plenty of fires made by other players. Then players don't have to take their own equipment, which will use up 2 more inventory slots. However, this is not an issue after the release of the toolbelt unless you wish to bring a better hatchet than the only one that could be carried in the toolbelt, the bronze hatchet. When done cooking players can go to the general store, sell all fish and start over. Alternatively, players can eat fish while fighting nearby monsters, such as on Crandor, and in the Karamja and TzHaar city. With the level 3 Explorer's ring, it is feasible to bank in Draynor, thus making a profit, although this is slower exp and players have to walk back to Karamja. Players may also use the deposit box close to the monks of Entrana (though the boat is for members only the box is available even in free worlds), making it faster to deposit their catches.

File:Cornered Banker Rogue's Den.jpg

Players crowd around the banker at Rogue's Den for faster experience.