Ironman Guide/Cooking

Cooking is most often trained by ironmen alongside Fishing, both to maximise efficiency of resources and for food.

Early levels can be skipped by completing quests that grant Cooking experience. Completing Gertrude's Cat and Cook's Assistant as well as the Mountain Dwarf and Goblin generals subquests of Recipe for Disaster will grant a total of 3,825 Cooking experience, which will get the player up to level 18.

Cooking food can sometimes result in burnt food, depending on the recipe, facility, and Cooking level, rewarding no experience. Therefore, players should seek to lower the burn rate, where possible. This is especially important for ironmen, since burning also results in lost food.

• Cooking with cooking ranges reduces the chance of burning certain foods, compared to a fire, and should be used whenever possible.
• After the completion of Cook's Assistant, players gain access to the cooking range in Lumbridge Castle, which differs from normal cooking ranges, reducing the burn chance for many other foods and recipes.
• After completing the easy Kourend & Kebos Diary, players can cook in the Hosidius Kitchen, which provides a 5% decreased chance to burn food.
• One of the rewards of completing Family Crest is a pair of gauntlets, which decreases the odds of burning some fish and meat recipes when equipped.

Cooking at specific ranges (such as Lumbridge or Hosidius) necessitates banking, rather than cooking and dropping items, which can reduce experience rates. Players should consider their current burn chance and food requirements when training.

To start off, the player can buy raw sardines from a fishing shop in Gerrant's Fishy Business. in Port Sarim, Lovecraft's Tackle in Witchaven, or Ishmael's Fish He Sells in the Ruins of Unkah and cook them on a fire.

Continue by catching and cooking raw trout and salmon until at least level 58 Fishing for later Fishing training. The best place to fish is in Shilo Village, which has bank nearby and the fish can be later cooked in the Rogues' Den or in the Hosidius kitchen. Another option is to fish in Barbarian Village, which has an everlasting fire near the fishing spots, however players will need to cook the fish on the spot and drop them.

Starting at level 28, players can harvest raw sweetcorn from sweetcorn plants in Kastori and cook them on one of the two nearby ovens. Alternatively, the nearby Tool Leprechaun can note raw sweetcorn for future training. This method provides up to 70,000 experience per hour at level 54.

Alternatively and more efficiently, sweetcorn can be grown in allotment patches using the Farming skill and collected during herb runs.

Starting at level 40, players with 33 Construction (boostable) can build an oak larder, which provides an infinite amount of cooking materials to bake cakes. It is very click intensive, however 500 cakes can be cooked per hour. They can be cooked using a range in the player-owned house, or one right outside the portal such as in Rimmington or Hosidius. This provides 50,000 experience per hour at level 40 and 70,000 experience per hour at level 60. While using the larder, the number keys can be held down while clicking once per tick to retrieve the supplies quickly.

To stock up on food, from level 65 Fishing onwards raw karambwans can be caught and cooked after completion of Tai Bwo Wannai Trio yielding karambwans, a food that heals 18 hitpoints per item and can be used for combo-eating.

Raw karambwans can also be bought from Tiadeche's Karambwan Stall and either cooked on a player-made fire and dropped, or banked using either Rionasta's parcel service (Trading sticks acquired by selling opal, jade, and topaz mined from Gem rocks) or a Fish barrel and a nearby teleport such as the Brimhaven player-owned house teleport. Buying karambwan from this shop requires full completion of Tai Bwo Wannai Trio quest.

At level 65, players can make servery pineapple pizzas in the Mess. This method does not require any supplies and can yield around 150,000–200,000 experience per hour depending on efficiency, however this is very click-intensive. Hop worlds after serving each load to maximise experience gain.

Jugs of wine can become the best experience at level 68. Grapes are best obtained from Zulrah or Vorkath, however they can be purchased from the Culinaromancer's Chest, or grown with Grape seeds at the Vinery in Hosidius.

Jugs of water can be obtained by buying empty jug packs from the Culinaromancer's Chest and using Humidify to fill them with water. Players stop creating jugs of bad wine when they reach 68 Cooking.

Fish can be bought from Frankie's Fishing Emporium and run to the range west of the shop. Cooking raw bass and raw swordfish provides ~100,000 experience per hour. Banking the cooked food lowers this rate significantly. Players can sell the fish at the general store in between Frankie's Fishing Emporium and the range to the west of it, to lower the amount of money spent.

Players wanting to level Fishing can challenge Tempoross for passive Cooking experience, in addition to a wide array of fish from the reward pool.

3-tick Barbarian Fishing with a knife (eating roe/caviar) will provide passive Cooking experience, however none will be obtained if dropping the fish. If fishing for food instead (such as karambwans or minnow), cooking fish obtained will easily grant the player more than enough Cooking experience.

Players can purchase and cook raw fish from Flosi Dalksson's raw fish shop in Jatizso. This method requires completion of The Fremennik Trials. The method also requires the player to have at least 18 Cooking, some cash and some logs the player can firemake. Here players can buy raw cod, raw salmon, raw tuna and raw lobsters. Players can start cooking raw cod from level 18 Cooking and work their way up to better fish. The advantage of this shop is that it is very close to a bank so the player can simply bank the fish.

Fishing and dissecting sacred eels will provide approximately 20,000 Cooking experience per hour. This often is used as it is somewhat AFK and can provide Zulrah's Scales.

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