Cooking Guide

Contents

Introduction
Burning
Cooking Methods
Fish
Meat
Vegetables
Pastry and Dough
Drinks and Beverages
Cakes
Gnome Cooking
Cooking Guild
Other Details



Introduction

Cooking is a very large skill, allowing you to cook everything from the fish you catch in the rivers, to brewing with the barley you grew in your farming patch. You can use the food you prepare to heal yourself during battle, increase your stats to do something you were unable to do before, or even deliver it to people for money.


Burning

Some methods arent very reliable, and could easily result in the food you are cooking being burnt to a crisp. If this happens then the food you have prepared will be ruined, and there is no way of getting it back. You will also recieve no experience. The higher your cooking level the less likely you will be to burn something.


Cooking Methods

There are several methods of cooking your food, that allow you, through their diversity, to cook food almost everywhere you go.

This table shows the main methods of cooking:

Method	Can be used to cook	Chance of burning/ruining
Range	All foods (with the exception of some specialised ones)	Low
Fire	Basic foods (fish, meat, ect.)	High
Ogre Spit	Chompy Jubbly Hunting meats	Medium
Iron Spit	Chompy Hunting meats	High
Dairy Churn	Milk Cream Butter Cheese	High
Brewing Vat	All ales and beers	Medium Low if you add 'the stuff' (Trouble Brewing)
Cocktail Shaker	All gnome cocktails	None
Gnome Range	All gnome foods	None

Fish

You can cook the fish that you catch with the fishing skill. The harder the fish is to catch, the higher cooking level you need to catch it. All fish can be cooked on a range or a fire.

This shows the levels and experience for cooking fish.

Fish	Level	Experience Gained	Heals
Shrimps	1	30	3
Anchovies	1	30	1
Sardines	1	40	4
Karambwanji	1	10	3
Herring	5	50	5
Mackerel	10	60	6
Trout	15	70	7
Cod	18	75	7
Pike	20	80	8
Salmon	25	90	9
Slimy Eel	28	95	6 to 10
Tuna	35	100	10
Rainbow Fish	35	110	11
Cave Eel	38	115	7 to 11
Lobster	40	120	12
Bass	43	130	13
Swordfish	45	140	14
Monkfish	62	150	16
Karambwan	30	190	18
Shark	80	210	20
Sea Turtle	82	211.3	21
Manta Ray	91	216.3	22

Meat

Lots of monsters around RuneScape drop meat when you kill them. You can cook this meat and eat it to regain health like other foods. Most meat can be cooked on a range, but some pieces need to be spit roasted.

This shows the levels you need to cook the meat and the experience you recieve.

Meat	Level	Experience Gained	Heals
Chicken	1	30	3
Meat	1	30	3
Cooked Rabbit	1	30	5
Thin Snail	12	70	5 to 7
Roasted Rabbit*	16	72	7
Jungle Spider	16	80	7 to 10
Lean Snail	17	80	6 to 8
Roasted Beast Meat*	21	82	8
Crab Meat	21	100	10 (5 bites of 2 each)
Fat Snail	22	95	7 to 9
Chompy*	30	140	10
Jubbly*	41	160	15

*Can only be cooked on a spit roast


Vegetables

You can cook some of the vegetables that you either grow with the farming skill, or pick from a field. With these you can make a whole range of different dishes.

All dishes require a bowl, and most require a knife.

As well as the main vegetables, there are also some other ingredients that you must add, which require a bit of preparation in themselves.

Minced Meat
Made by using meat on a bowl with a knife in your inventory.

Uncooked Scrambled Egg
Made by using an egg on a bowl.

Chopped Tomato
Made by using a tomato on a bowl with a knife in your inventory.

Chopped Tuna
Made by using tuna on a bowl with a knife in your inventory.

Chopped Garlic
Made by using garlic on a bowl with a knife in your inventory.

Sliced Mushroom
Made by using a bittercape mushroom on a bowl with a knife in your inventory.

Here are the main vegetables and dishes you can cook.

Vegetable/Dish	Level	Ingredients			Experience Gained	Heals
Baked Potato	7	n/a	n/a	n/a	15	4
Spicy Sauce	9	Chopped Garlic	Gnome Spice	n/a	25	2
Chilli Con Carne	11	Minced Meat¹	Spicy Sauce	n/a	15	4
Scrambled Egg	13	Uncooked Scrambled Egg	n/a	n/a	50	5
Egg and Tomato	23	Scrambled Egg	Chopped Tomato	n/a	50	8
Stew	25	Bowl of Water	Potato	Cooked meat	11	117
Buttered Potato	39	Baked Potato	Pat of Butter	n/a	95.5	14
Chilli Potato	41	Buttered Potato	Chilli con Carne	n/a	165.5	14
Fried Onions	42	Onion	n/a	n/a	60	5
Fried Mushrooms	46	Sliced Mushrooms	n/a	n/a	60	5
Cheese Potato	47	Buttered Potato	Cheese	n/a	199.5	16
Egg Potato	51	Buttered Potato	Egg and Tomato	n/a	199.5	16
Mushroom and Onion	57	Fried Onions	Fried Mushrooms	n/a	15	4
Curry	60	Uncooked Stew	3 Curry leaves or Spices	n/a	280	19
Mushroom Potato	64	Buttered Potato	Mushroom and Onion	n/a	270.5	20
Tuna and Corn	67	Chopped Tuna	Sweetcorn	n/a	309.5	22
Tuna Potato	68	Buttered Potato	Tuna and Sweetcorn	n/a	25	2

Pastry and Dough

One of the simplest types of cooking is that of pastry and dough, which you can use to create a wide range of foods from basic bread to a complex summer pie.

To create pastry or dough, use a bucket of water on a pot of flour. A menu will pop up.



Click on the option you wish to create.

Bread



Bread is an incredibly simple food to create, one that you will be shown how to create shortly after you begin the game.
To make bread, use the information above to create bread dough. Then simply use the dough on a range. Bread requires level 1 to create and gives you 40 experience. It heals 5 hp.

Pies

Pies come in a variety of fillings. To create one, you must first use the instructions above to create pastry dough. Then you must use the pastry with a pie dish to create a pie shell. After that all you need to do is add a filling of your choice and bake it on a range.
Each pie must be eaten in 2 bites.

This table shows you the fillings available.

Pie	Level	Ingredients			Experience Gained	Heals
Redberry Pie	10	Redberries	n/a	n/a	78	9
Meat Pie	20	Cooked Meat	n/a	n/a	110	11
Mud Pie*	29	Compost	Bucket of Water	Clay	128	-50% run energy
Apple Pie	30	Cooking apple	n/a	n/a	130	14
Garden Pie	34	Tomato	Onion	Cabbage	138	12
Fish Pie	47	Cooked Trout	Cooked Cod	Potato	164	12
Admiral Pie	70	Cooked Salmon	Cooked Tuna	Potato	210	16
Wild Pie	85	Raw Bear Meat	Raw Chompy	Raw Rabbit	240	22
Summer Pie	95	Strawberry	Watermelon	Cooking Apple	260	22

*Mud pies cannot be eaten. Instead, they can be wielded and thrown at people running away from you in any PvP area. It will massively reduce their run energy.

Pizza

Pizza's have many different toppings you can add to them. To make pizzas, you must first follow the above instructions to make pizza dough. You can then use the dough with some cheese and some tomato to make an uncooked plain pizza. Then add the topping of your choice and cook it over a range.
Pizza's must be eaten in 2 bites.

This table shows the toppings available.

Pizza	Level	Topping	Experience Gained	Heals
Plain Pizza	35	n/a	143	14
Meat Pizza	45	Meat	169	16
Anchovy Pizza	55	Anchovies	182	18
Pineapple Pizza	65	Pinapple Rings/Chunks	188	22

Pitta Bread

This item requires level 58 to make, but once made, can be sold and used at level 1. It is used for making Kebabs.


Drinks and Beverages

There are a number of different drinks you can make throughout Runescape. Most of these dont only heal you, but also have an effect on your stats.

Wine
To make wine, level 35 cooking is required. To make it, take an empty jug, and fill it with water. Then simply add some grapes to it and wait for it to ferment. It will only take a few moments. If it ferments properly, then you will recieve a jug of wine, if not, you will recieve a jug of wine that no longer heals you, and doesnt yeild any experience.

Tea
There are two different types of tea that can be made. One is nettle tea, and the other is tea made in your Player Owned House. Both teas are made similarly, but there are a few differences in equipment used.

Nettle Tea
Take a bowl and fill it with water. Gather some nettles from a nettle patch. These can be found near Canifis, Draynor Jail, and near the yew trees in Edgeville. Make sure you are wearing gloves otherwise you cannot pick them. Then put the nettles in the bowl of water and heat it over a range. If you wish, you can use the bowl of nettle tea with an empty cup, or you could add a bucket of milk to it.

Builders Tea
From the shelves and larder of your player owned house, take: a kettle, a cup, a teapot and some tea leaves. Fill the kettle with water and leave it over a range to heat up. Place the tea leaves in the teapot, and add the boiling water from the kettle into it. Then decant the tea into a cup. You may add milk if you wish. This tea will boost your construction skill temporarially, depending on the type of cup and teapot you made your tea in.

Chocolate Milk
To make chocolate milk, take a bar of chocolate, and use it with either a pestle and mortar or a knife to get chocolate dust. Then simply add the dust to a bucket of milk.

Cocktails
For information on how to make cocktails, please see the Gnome Cooking section.

Here are all the basic drinks you can make.

Drink	Level	Stat Change	Experience Gained	Heals
Wine	35	Lowers attack	200	11
Half Wine	This item is discontinued. For more information, see the Discontinued Items guide.			7
Bad Wine	35	Lowers attack	0	18
Nettle Tea	20	None	52	3
Builders Tea	20	+1, 2 or 3 Construction Depends on cup quality	52	3
Chocolate Milk	1	None	0	4

Ales
There are many different types of ale that effect all different skills when drunk. Despite this variety, they are all prepared in much the same way.

To brew ales, you must first locate a fermenting vat. There are only 2, one in Keldagrim, and one in Port Phasmatys.



When you have found one, you must: 1. Add 2 buckets of water into the vat
2. Add 2 barley malt (made by using barley on a range)
3. Add the main ingredient unique to each ale
4. Add a pot of ale yeast (can be bought from the vat tender)

Once you have done this, you will need to wait a few days. This will take different amounts of time depending on the drink you are brewing.

The beer can either not ferment, in which case it is useless, mature, or extra mature. Extra mature ales give better stat bonuses. Once your ale has matured, return and use a beer glass on the vat. Each vat holds 8 beer-glass fulls.

Cider
Cider is brewed slightly differently from the other ales. You do not need the barley malt or the buckets of water, you simply add the main ingredient in straight away.

Here are all the ales available:

Ale	Ingredient	Level	Stat Change	Experience Gained	Heals
Cider	4x Apple Mush	14	+1 Farming -2 Attack -2 Strength	182	1
Dwarven Stout	4x Hammerstone Hop	19	+1 Mining +1 Smithing -2 Attack -2 Strength -2 Defence	215	1
Asgarnian Ale	4x Asgarnian Hops	24	+2 Strength -2 Attack	248	1
Greenman's Ale	4x Harralander	29	+1 Herblore -2 Attack -2 Strength -2 Defence	281	1
Wizard's Mind Bomb	4x Yanillian Hops	34	+2-3 Magic -1 Attack -2 Strength -2 Defence	314	1
Dragon Bitter	4x Krandorian Hops	39	+2 Strength -1 Attack	347	1
Moonlight Mead	4x Bittercap Mushrooms	44	None	380	4
Axeman's Folly	1x Oak Root	49	+1 Woodcutting -2 Attack -2 Strength	413	1
Chef's Delight	4x Chocolate Dust	54	+1-5 Cooking -2 Attack -2 Strength	446	1
Slayer's Respite	4x Wildblood Hops	59	+1 Slayer -2 Attack -2 Strength	479	1

Cakes

If you wish to treat yourself, you can bake a cake to eat.

To make a cake, you must first obtain a pot of flour, an egg and a bucket of milk. You must then use any one of these ingredients on a cake tin, to get a cake mix. You can then place this over a range to cook it. If the cake burns, you can simply empty the cake tin out and start again. If you wish, you can add a bar of chocolate to the cake to get a chocolate cake.

Cake isnt the choice of food for fighting battles, as it takes a while to eat (3 bites), but it is perfect for agility, where you require food that heals a lot, but can be eaten slowly.

Cake	Level	Experience Gained	Heals
Cake	Level	182	12
Chocolate Cake	Level	182	15

Gnome Cooking

The Gnomes have developed their own methods of cooking, using the food that is available to them, and that is to their liking. These ingredients may be rare or unheard of in the rest of RuneScape, but all can be bought from the shops in the Grand Tree.

Meals

The meals are all prepared in a similar way, but have plenty of variation depending on the ingredients added, and the type of tray they were prepared in.

There are 3 different types of meal you can make: Crunchies, which are small biscuit-like snacks, Battas, which are large dish meals, and Bowls, which are large circular filling meals.

To make any of these, first, you must aquire some Giani dough, which you must place in either a crunchie tray, batta tin, or gnomebowl mould, depending on whichever meal you are planning on making. You then have to cook the dough over a gnome range (can be found in the kitchens of the Grand Tree). Once lightly baked, click the 'prepare' option. A menu will come up.



Provided you have the ingredients required, it will show you the available meals. You must then select the one you want, and the ingredients will be added to the meal. You must then bake it once more and finally add the final ingredients to finish it off.

Here are all the meals you can make, along with their ingredients:

Meal	Level	Ingredients					Final Ingredient	Experience Gained	Heals
Toad Crunchies	10	2x Toad Legs	1x Gnome Spice	n/a	n/a	n/a	Equa Leaves	100	9
	12	2x Equa Leaves	1x Gnome Spice	n/a	n/a	n/a	Gnome Spice	100	9
Worm Crunchies	14	1x Equa Leaves	1x Gnome Spice	2x King Worm	n/a	n/a	Gnome Spice	100	9
Choc Chip Crunchies	16	2x Chocolate Bar	1x Gnome Spice	n/a	n/a	n/a	Chocolate Dust	100	9
Fruit Batta	25	1x Orange Chunks	4x Equa Leaves	1x Lime Chunks	1x Pineapple Chunks	n/a	Gnome Spice	150	9
Toad Batta	26	1x Gnome Spice	1x Equa Leaves	1x Cheese	1x Toad Legs	n/a	None	152	9
Worm Batta	27	1x Gnome Spice	1x King Worm	1x Cheese	n/a	n/a	Equa Leaves	154	9
Vegetable Batta	28	2x Tomato	1x Onion	1x Cheese	1x Dwellberries	1x Cabbage	Equa Leaves	156	9
Cheese and Tomato Batta	29	1x Tomato	1x Cheese	n/a	n/a	n/a	Equa Leaves	158	9
Worm Hole	30	4x King Worm	2x Onion	1x Gnome Spice	n/a	n/a	Equa Leaves	170	9
Vegetable Ball	35	2x Onion	2x Potato	1x Gnome Spice	n/a	n/a	Equa Leaves	175	9
Tangled Toads' Legs	40	1x Toad legs	2x Cheese	2x Equa Leaves	1x Gnome Spice	1x Dwellberries	Equa Leaves	185	9
Chocolate Bomb	42	4x Chocolate Bar	1x Equa Leaves	n/a	n/a	n/a	2x Cream Chocolate Dust	154	9

Cocktails

Another thing the gnomes are famous for are their cocktails. These cocktails come in a variety of flavours, and often contain a lot of ingredients.

To make a cocktail, you must first have a cocktail shaker, an empty cocktail glass and a knife. All these can be bought or found in the Grand Tree. You must then get the correct ingredients for the cocktail you wish to make. You have to click on the cocktail shaker and a menu will pop up. Select the cocktail you wish to make and provided you have the right ingredients then you will shake up the first stage of it. You must then add the last few ingredients to complete it.

Here are all the cocktails you can make:

Cocktail	Level	Ingredients			Final Ingredients					Experience Gained	Heals
Fruit Blast	6	1x Pineapple	1x Lemon	1x Orange	n/a	n/a	Sliced Lemon	n/a	n/a	50	9
Pineappple Punch	8	2x Pineapple	1x Lemon	1x Orange	n/a	n/a	Sliced Orange	Lime Chunks	Pineapple Chunks	70	9
Wizard Blizzard	18	2x Vodka	1x Gin	1x Orange	1x Lime	1x Lemon	Sliced Lime	Pineapple Chunks	n/a	110	9
Short Green Guy	20	3x Lime	1x Vodka	n/a	n/a	n/a	Sliced Lime	Equa Leaves	n/a	120	9
Drunk Dragon	32	1x Vodka	1x Gin	1x Dwellberries	n/a	n/a	Pineapple Chunks	Cream	Heat over range	160	9
Chocolate Saturday	33	1x Whisky	1x Equa Leaves	1x Chocolate Bar	1x Milk	n/a	Chocolate Dust	Cream	Heat over range	170	9
Blurberry Special	37	1x Vodka	1x Brandy	1x Orange	1x Gin	2x Lemon	Orange and Lemon Chunks	Equa Leaves	Sliced Lime	170	9

Cooking Guild

For those that have cooking level 32 or above, there is a cooking guild situated near Varrock.



It has all the things needed to get good experience. There is a wheat field round the back for making flour, apples on the tables for making pie, and grapes and jugs for making wine.

For those that have done the Varrock Acheivment Diary on Hard, then there is a bank available.


Other Details

Churning



In most farms, you will find a milk churn. This is for turning milk into other dairy products. With it, you can make cream, butter and cheese.

Cooking Gauntlets

If you have done the Family Crest Quest, then you can obtain cooking gauntlets as a reward. While wearing these, your chance of burning fish will be reduced greatly.