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Cooking

Cook fish and meat on a fire or range, from shrimp at level 1 to sharks at 80. Ranges and cooking gauntlets cut burning on the top fish, and jugs of wine are the fastest XP from 35.

Cooking turns raw fish and meat into food that heals you. Use the raw food on a fire or a range and pick how many to cook. Higher-level food heals more, and every food stops burning once your Cooking level is high enough. XP on this page is base XP, before your game mode's rate is applied (see Game Modes).

Fires, Ranges and Burning

You can cook on any fire, including one you light yourself, or on a range. For most food a range is no better than a fire, but it lowers the level at which swordfish and monkfish stop burning. Cooking gauntlets lower it further, but only for lobster, swordfish and monkfish. Buy them from the Task Point Shop for 60 task points (see Task System).

Shark and manta ray never stop burning, even at 99 with gauntlets. Expect to lose a few in every inventory.

The Cooks' Guild, north-west of Varrock, lets you in from Cooking 32 while you wear a chef's hat.

Fish and Meat

Food	Level	XP	Stops burning (fire)	On a range	With gauntlets
Shrimp / anchovies	1	30	34	34	34
Sardine	1	40	38	38	38
Beef, chicken, rat or bear meat	1	30	33	33	33
Herring	5	50	41	41	41
Mackerel	10	60	45	45	45
Trout	15	70	50	50	50
Pike	20	80	54	54	54
Salmon	25	90	58	58	58
Tuna	30	100	64	64	64
Karambwan	30	190	99	99	99
Lobster	40	120	74	74	64
Swordfish	45	140	86	80	80
Monkfish	62	150	92	90	86
Shark	80	210	Never	Never	Never
Manta ray	91	216	Never	Never	Never

Cod and bass can be caught with a big net, but they cannot be cooked at the moment. Sell or bank them instead.

Other Recipes

Recipe	Level	XP	How
Seaweed into soda ash	1	1	Cook seaweed on a fire or range
Redberry pie	10	78	Bake an uncooked berry pie
Cream	21	18	Bucket of milk in a dairy churn
Curry	25	117	Cook an uncooked curry
Jug of wine	35	200	Use grapes on a jug of water
Butter	38	40	Milk or cream in a dairy churn
Cheese	48	64	Milk, cream or butter in a dairy churn

Wine is the fastest Cooking XP from level 35. Using grapes on a jug of water makes the wine on the spot for 200 XP each, with no fire, no burning and no waiting for it to ferment.

Training Route

Levels	What to cook	Base XP each
1–14	Shrimp, anchovies and sardines, herring from 5	30–50
15–29	Trout, then salmon from 25	70–90
30–34	Tuna	100
35–99	Jugs of wine (cheapest XP), or the best fish you can cook	200
40–99 (fish)	Lobster, swordfish from 45, monkfish from 62, sharks from 80	120–210

Fish comes from the Fishing skill: see Gathering Skills. Cooking your own catch is the cheapest way to keep a supply of food for Slayer and bossing.