Pay-to-play Cooking training

This guide aims to assist players in training Cooking by using the most effective methods available. The Grand Exchange prices of items will fluctuate, so check the prices before buying and selling supplies in large quantities.

From level 1 to 30, 1-tick cook raw karambwan into poison karambwan. Karambwan can be cooked without tick delay by holding down 1 and rapidly using raw karambwan on a fire or range. This method costs money, but the overall loss will be relatively small as reaching level 30 would take less than ten minutes.

Note that cooking poison karambwan does not have any requirements, unlike cooked karambwan.

168 successfully cooked poison karambwan are required to reach level 30. Players are advised to buy at least 500 raw karambwan, as the burn rate is high at lower levels. Assuming all 500 raw karambwan are used to reach level 30, this would result in a loss of −114,000. If the player is not going to use tick manipulation, it is recommended to cook other fish (see below) as this is cheaper and it would offer similar experience rates.

Alternatively, cook various fish for early experience. This is slower than cooking poison karambwan, but cheaper and less click-intensive.

The fish needed for each level range are shown in the table below. Buy roughly 2.5 times more raw fish than the amount of successfully cooked fish needed, as the burn rate is fairly high at lower levels.

Completion of the quest Tai Bwo Wannai Trio is required to successfully cook karambwan.

1-tick cooking karambwan provides the fastest Cooking experience. Karambwan can be cooked without tick delay by holding down 1 or space and rapidly using raw karambwan on a fire or range. This requires a lot of click accuracy and can be difficult to do consistently for long periods of time. Without tick manipulation this method offers much lower experience rates and is only recommended as a cheap low-effort alternative.

Using one of the cooking locations right next to a bank offers the fastest experience rates for 1-ticking karambwan. These are located in Rogues' Den, Myths' Guild, and in the inner part of Mor Ul Rek. The Hosidius kitchen is not recommended for 1-ticking due to the increased distance to the bank, which will result in around 10–20% lower experience rates and make mistakes much more likely. Cooking gauntlets do not affect the burn rate for karambwan.

Without tick manipulation the Hosidius kitchen is the best option up to level 96. The lower burn rate outweighs the faster cooking rate of Rogues' Den when not using tick manipulation, since the longer banking time will have less effect on experience rates at a lower cooking speed compared to 1-ticking. Completing the elite Kourend & Kebos Diary at level 79 is recommended for further decreased burn rates. At level 96, use one of the cooking locations right next to a bank for faster experience rates.

The experience rates for 1-ticking assume using the Rogues' Den fire and cooking 5,000 karambwan per hour. At maximum efficiency, it is possible to cook up to 5,470 karambwan per hour. The AFK rates assume cooking 1,385 karambwan per hour at the Hosidius kitchen up to level 96 and 1,435 karambwan per hour in the Rogues' Den afterwards.

The below table shows the profit from level 30 to 99. The numbers for 1-ticking assume using the Rogues' Den fire, and the numbers for AFK assume using the Hosidius kitchen up to level 96 and the Rogues' Den fire afterwards.

Completion of the quest Lunar Diplomacy is required to cast Bake Pie.

Baking pies using the Bake Pie spell offers relatively fast experience at a low amount of effort. It also offers passive Magic experience, which can be useful for some players. This method can be expensive due to the low supply of uncooked pies, however. Some options may also not be viable due to low trading volumes.

Bake Pie is cast at a rate of once per 3 ticks instead of the 4 ticks on a range, yielding 33.33% faster cooking speeds. Additionally, the pies never burn. An inventory of 27 pies takes 81 ticks (48.6 seconds) to cook.

The experience rates in the table below assume players bake 1,885 pies per hour, which would also give 113,100 passive Magic experience per hour. The costs assume the player is wearing items that provide unlimited water and fire runes, such as a steam battlestaff.

Making jugs of wine offers fast experience, though requires more attention than cooking fish or casting Bake Pie.

Jugs of wine are made by combining grapes with jugs of water to make unfermented wines. After finishing an inventory, deposit the unfermented wines into the bank and continue by making another inventory. After 12 seconds pass without creating an unfermented wine, all unfermented wines in the player's bank and inventory will ferment into jugs of wine, giving 200 experience each. Players do not have to wait for the wines to ferment while making them.

Grapes are added to jugs of water once per 2 ticks. However, with only 14 wines produced per inventory and with twice the creation speed, jugs of wine require more attention and banking than fish; one inventory of wines is created in 16.8 seconds, whereas an inventory of fish takes 67.2 seconds to cook.

Below level 68, a jug of bad wine can be produced for 0 experience, with the failure chance scaling with level. If below level 68, only make enough wines to get to their next cooking level (and a few extra to account for failures), then pause for 12 seconds to let the wines ferment and gain the level.

Players can gain up to 490,000 experience per hour from level 68 onwards.

Jugs of wine required: 62,147

• Experience required: 12,429,399
• 15 per jug of water
• 64 per grapes
• 3 value per Jug of wine
• −76 cost per wine
• −0.38 cost per XP
• −4,723,172 cost from level 68-99
• −186,200 cost per hour (at 490,000 experience rate)
• Experience per hour: from 470,000 to 490,000
• Time spent: 25 hours, 30 minutes

Cooking various fish is a cheap or profitable low-effort alternative to the faster methods. Cooking an inventory of fish takes around 1 minute and 14 seconds in the Hosidius Kitchen, including banking.

The cooking gauntlets from the Family Crest quest reduce the burn rate for lobsters, swordfish, monkfish, sharks, and anglerfish when worn. Having the gauntlets is required for optimal rates when cooking these fish. Expect much lower rates without the gauntlets.

Completing the easy Kourend & Kebos Diary grants access to the cooking ranges in the Hosidius Kitchen. They provide a 5% increased chance of successfully cooking food over standard cooking ranges. This is increased to 10% after completing the elite Kourend & Kebos Diary, which requires level 84 Cooking (boostable). Cooking fish in the Hosidius Kitchen offers comparable or slightly higher experience rates than at the ranges in Myths' Guild or Mor Ul Rek because of the increased cooked rate, despite the ranges being slightly further away from a bank. The Hosidius ranges remain comparable or better until level 93, after which it becomes faster to cook anglerfish on a normal range.

The fish and experience needed for each level range are shown in the table below. The experience rates assume 1,365 fish cooked per hour in the Hosidius Kitchen, or 1,435 fish cooked per hour in Myths' Guild or Mor Ul Rek. The rates assume wearing the cooking gauntlets (where applicable) and using the Hosidius kitchen unless noted otherwise. Cooking in the Hosidius kitchens assumes completion of the elite Kourend & Kebos Diary from level 79 Cooking onwards (with a +5 boost to level 84). Experience and profit rates take the burn rates into account. The actual amounts of raw fish needed can vary depending on luck, so slightly more or less fish may be needed. Swordfish and monkfish offer very similar rates for levels 68–80, so choose whichever is more profitable.

Cooking most foods takes four game ticks, and 28 can be cooked per inventory. Therefore, a full inventory takes 112 ticks or 67.2 seconds, making Cooking one of the least attentive skills in the game.

Assuming no banking and no food burned, a player could theoretically cook up to 1,500 raw foods per hour; however, factoring in bank-time, players can expect to cook between 1,300 and 1,400. The following table compares the different cooking locations by their bank proximity and corresponding items cooked per hour. The table assumes the bank distance is ran, no food is burnt, and that banking takes 3 seconds (5 ticks).

*Running takes 0.5 ticks per square. A bank 4 tiles away will require you to traverse 8 tiles (there and back), so crossing 8 tiles at 2 tiles per tick will take 4 ticks.

To find the exact number of ticks to cook one inventory at any given location, players can first use the formula , where refers to the minimum ticks taken to cook and bank, and refers to the number of tiles the cooking source is from the bank. If run is enabled, divide (tiles) by 2 and round up. Players can translate this into seconds by multiplying it by , the number of seconds per tick.

Players can then find out how many items they can cook in an hour by taking the number of ticks and putting it into the formula . Here, refers to the number of seconds in an hour, refers to the number of seconds it takes to do one inventory, and refers to the number of inventory spaces the player has. Players should round down to the nearest whole number.

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