Cooking

“Cook your raw catch over the fire. A good meal heals and sharpens you; a careless one burns.”

Every skill uses the same XP table: 951,207,314 XP for level 99. Past 99 the XP keeps counting.

How it works

Pick a recipe. Every key press or click moves it along by one input; when it has the inputs it needs, the materials are used up and you get the product and the XP. The materials have to stay in your bank until then. Compare recipes by XP per input: that is your XP rate, however fast you go.

The Agility perk Careful Hands can save the materials of a finished recipe (up to 35% of the time).

Recipes

Level	Makes	Materials	Inputs	XP	XP / input
1	Bread	Bread Dough	2	190	95
1	Bread Dough	Pot of Flour	1	40	40
1	Soda Ash	Seaweed	2	100	50
1	Cooked Chicken	Raw Chicken	2	194	97
1	Cooked Meat	Raw Beef	2	194	97
1	Cooked Shrimp	Raw Shrimp	2	194	97
1	Pot of Flour	Wheat	1	40	40
1	Pastry Dough	Pot of Flour	1	40	40
1	Plague-Touched Shrimp	Cooked ShrimpPlague EssenceNature Rune	3	50	16.7
5	Baked Potato	Potato	2	190	95
5	Cooked Bird Meat	Raw Bird Meat	2	210	105
5	Sinew	Raw Bird Meat	2	60	30
9	Cooked Cabbage	Cabbage	2	194	97
10	Cooked Trout	Raw Trout	3	454	151.3
13	Cooked Sweetcorn	Sweetcorn	3	405	135
15	Plague-Touched Trout	Cooked TroutPlague Essence ×2Nature Rune ×2	4	120	30
19	Dwarven Stout	Wheat ×2Beer Glass	3	400	133.3
20	Meat Pie	Pastry DoughCooked Meat	3	400	133.3
20	Stew	Cooked MeatPotato	3	400	133.3
24	Slice of Watermelon	Watermelon	4	525	131.3
25	Cooked Salmon	Raw Salmon	4	620	155
30	Garden Pie	Pastry DoughTomatoOnionCabbage	4	510	127.5
30	Plague-Touched Salmon	Cooked SalmonPlague Essence ×3Nature Rune ×3	5	250	50
35	Cooked Tuna	Raw Tuna	5	790	158
35	Plague-Touched Tuna	Cooked TunaPlague Essence ×3Nature Rune ×3	5	320	64
36	Apple Pie	Pastry DoughApple	5	605	121
40	Cooked Lobster	Raw Lobster	6	960	160
40	Plague-Touched Lobster	Cooked LobsterPlague Essence ×4Nature Rune ×4	6	400	66.7
44	Fruit Flatbread	Bread DoughPapayaStrawberryCoconut	5	585	117
47	Fish Pie	Pastry DoughCooked TroutPotato	5	600	120
50	Plague-Touched Swordfish	Cooked SwordfishPlague Essence ×5Nature Rune ×5	7	600	85.7
55	Curry	StewCurry Leaf ×3	6	700	116.7
60	Cooked Swordfish	Raw Swordfish	7	1,155	165
62	Cooked Monkfish	Raw Monkfish	7	1,180	168.6
62	Plague-Touched Monkfish	Cooked MonkfishPlague Essence ×5Nature Rune ×5	7	700	100
65	Harvest Flatbread	Bread DoughTomatoOnionCabbage	6	755	125.8
70	Admiral Pie	Pastry DoughCooked SalmonCooked SwordfishPotato	7	910	130
75	Fruit Basket	StrawberryApplePapayaWatermelon	7	1,010	144.3
80	Cooked Shark	Raw Shark	8	1,363	170.4
80	Garden Feast	Cooked ChickenPotatoSweetcornCabbage	8	1,225	153.1
80	Plague-Touched Shark	Cooked SharkPlague Essence ×6Nature Rune ×6	8	1,200	150
85	Peach Cobbler	Peach ×2Pastry Dough	8	1,360	170

Burning

Cooking over heat can burn (prep work like flour or dough never does). At a recipe's own level the chance is 45%; it shrinks with every level above that and is gone 15 levels past it. A better cooking station cuts what is left. A burn still gives you the XP; the food comes out burnt.

Stations are bought once and the best one you own is always used.

Fuel

Anything cooked over the fire (the "Cooked ..." foods) needs logs. Pick a log; each one lasts a number of finished cooks. Run out and the lowest log in your bank is used next. Pies, bread and the like need no fuel.

Log	Cooks per log
Oak Log	8
Willow Log	14
Maple Log	22
Yew Log	34
Magic Log	50
Elder Log	75

Cooked food heals in combat and gives skilling buffs; see Food.

Fastest XP

The most XP per input at every level, worked out from the numbers above. XP per input only: it ignores what the materials cost and where they come from.

Levels	Best	XP per input
1–4	Cooked Chicken	97
5–9	Cooked Bird Meat	105
10–24	Cooked Trout	151.3
25–34	Cooked Salmon	155
35–39	Cooked Tuna	158
40–59	Cooked Lobster	160
60–61	Cooked Swordfish	165
62–79	Cooked Monkfish	168.6
80–99	Cooked Shark	170.4