OSRS Cooking Training Guide Level 1-99

OSRS is far from being a game that's focused on fighting other players and monsters. The best way to have an easy time in the lands of Gielinor is by being self-sufficient. One of the ways to do that is by simply improving your non-combat skills in the game. Yes - that involves mastering the important art of Cooking.

In OSRS, Cooking is a vital Skill because it lets you cook food that can otherwise provide you with amazing stat bonuses. A lot of people tend to gloss over this Skill because they don't think it does anything worth working for. In reality, though, it's important for some quests and so much more in OSRS.

What is OSRS Cooking?

In OSRS, Cooking is a skill that lets you use raw food. The food you cook can be used to replenish your health but it can also be used to boost stats temporarily. To start Cooking, you'll need the raw materials, and then a place to cook with like a range or fire.

The level of your Cooking Skill will affect the results of the action. For instance, if you have a low Cooking level and cook a high-level meal, the food will often burn and become unusable. Some cooking areas will also affect whether or not you succeed in cooking a specific dish. For instance, the cooking range in Lumbridge Castle or in the Hosidius Kitchen has a lower chance of burning food compared to other ranges.

Cooking works well with other abilities but it's most importantly compatible with Fishing. You can cook the fish you catch. It also works well with Firemaking. As long as you have an axe and a tinderbox, you can cut down a tree, and then make a fire to cook your food in.

As you increase your Cooking level, you're able to cook better and better foods. Becoming a master chef in Gielinor does come with a lot of benefits but to get there, you'll need to devote a lot of your time and effort into raising your Cooking level from level 1 to 99.

Range Locations in OSRS

Free-to-play

• 22 spaces - Al Kharid - Range north of bank.
• 24 spaces - Clan Hall - Oven south of bank.
• 25 spaces - Edgeville - Stove west of bank - there is a gate and a door that periodically shuts.
• 29 spaces - Falador - Range east of the east bank.
• 22 spaces + 2 extra clicks - Lumbridge Castle - Requires completion of Cook's Assistant. Cook-o-matic 100 on the ground floor of the castle. Provides a lower burn chance for certain foods (refer to the list at the top of this page).
• 32 spaces - Juliet's house west of Varrock.
• 118 spaces - In Bandit Camp (Wilderness)

Pay-to-play

• 0 spaces - Myths' Guild - Requires completion of Dragon Slayer II.
• 2 spaces - Cooks' Guild in Varrock - Requires Varrock Hard Diary or 99 Cooking to access the bank.
• 6 spaces - Hosidius Kitchen - Requires 100% Hosidius favour. Clay oven north of bank. Provides a 5% lower burn chance.
• 9 spaces - Nardah - Clay oven just south-east of bank.
• 12 spaces - Fossil Island - Cooking pot north-west of the bank chest.
• 14 spaces - Neitiznot - Requires partial completion of The Fremennik Isles to access. Clay oven north-east of bank.
• 17 spaces - Catherby - Range in building east of bank.
• 19 spaces - Zanaris - Requires completion of The Lost City to access. Range south of bank.
• 18 spaces + 1 extra click - Lumbridge Castle - Requires starting Recipe for Disaster for bank access from the Culinaromancer's Chest. Cook-o-matic 100 on the ground floor of the castle. Provides a lower burn chance for certain foods (refer to the list at the top of this page).

How to Cook in OSRS?

Cooking is widely recognized as one of the fastest skills to train in RuneScape. Players have various methods to train this skill, whether by gathering raw ingredients themselves or by purchasing them from the Grand Exchange. Before the introduction of the Grand Exchange, players primarily engaged in fishing and cooking the catches.

When manually gathering raw materials, they would often cook their food items on a local campfire created through the Firemaking skill or take the materials to a range for cooking.

To cook, you'll need a few important items:

• Fish (raw lobster, raw trout, etc.)
• Flour (held in a pot)
• Water (Held in a bucket, bowl, vial or jug)
• Milk (held in a bucket)
• Meat (raw meat, raw rat meat, raw bear meat, raw yak meat, raw chicken)
• Vegetables (cabbages, grain, onions, potatoes)
• Fruits (cooking apples, grapes, bananas, redberries, tomatoes)
• Cheese
• Bowl
• Bucket
• Cake tin
• Jug
• Pie dish
• Pot
• Knife

Here's some important information about cooking in RuneScape:

Types of Cooking Surfaces

1. Ranges: Ranges provide a lower burn rate and are clearly marked on the map with a cooking pan icon. These are the most common and efficient cooking surfaces.
2. Open Fire: Only meat, fish, and stew can be cooked on an open fire, usually found in NPC camps.
3. Iron Spits: Foods related to the Hunter skill, like raw beast meat, raw chompy, and rabbit, must be cooked on an iron spit.

Cooking Process

• To cook something, players need to "use" their raw food item on a range or campfire.
• If players have more than one food item of the same kind in their inventory, a picture of the food item will appear in the dialogue box, and they can select how many they want to cook.
• Left-clicking on a range will automatically bring up the cooking interface, allowing players to cook all of the same food items they have.

Maximizing Cooking Efficiency

• After completing the Cook's Assistant quest, players can cook on the Lumbridge Castle range, which offers a lower burn rate. There's also a bank located directly upstairs for convenient access.
• Members can use the permanent fire at the Rogues' Den for cooking, which is right next to a banker.
• After completing the fight caves, you can access Mor-Ul-Rek's bank which has a sulphur vent next to it. You can use that to cook your food without moving.
• You can use the range next to the bank at Myths guild after completing the Dragon Slayer 2 quest.
• You can use the Hosidius Kitchen after getting 100% Hosidius favour. This kitchen offers a unique %5 increase to your cooking chance and this chance becomes 10% with the elite Kourend & Kebos Diary.

Cost-Efficient Cooking

• If players are looking to save money while training their cooking skill, they can kill cows to gather raw meat and cook it on a range or fire.
• After reaching a decent level at cooking you can start cooking karambwans which will profit you. 1 ticking karambwans is also the fastest method of gaining cooking experience.

OSRS Cook's Guild

Once you reach level 32 in Cooking, you can enter the Cook's Guild which is a three-story windmill west of Varrock. Aside from the level requirement, you also need to wear one of the following.

• A chef's hat or golden chef's hat
• Cooking cape or Cooking hood
• Max cape or Max hood
• Varrock armour 3 or 4 (reward from completing the hard or elite Varrock Diary)

Here's what each floor of the guild offers:

1st Floor

• On the first floor, players can meet the Head Chef who provides information about the guild.
• Players with a Cooking level of 99 can purchase the Cooking Cape of Accomplishment from the Head Chef for 99,000 coins.
• Romily Weaklax runs a Pie Shop on this floor and offers tasks to supply a requested number and type of pies for payment.
• There is a sink on this floor for water source and a flour bin next to the sink that can hold up to 30 ground grains, which can be used to fill up to 30 empty pots to create pots of flour.
• A chocolate bar spawn can be found on the northern table.
• Additionally, there is a bank and a range on this floor, accessible to members who have completed the hard Varrock diary or have 99 Cooking. The range remains accessible to members who have unlocked it even after they lose their membership, but the bank does not.

2nd Floor

• The second floor contains two ranges and tables with pie dishes, cake tins, bowls, and two cooking apple spawns.
• There's a churn along the eastern wall that members can use to make cream, butter, and cheese.
• This floor is popular among players for making apple pies, as the guild has all the necessary ingredients and facilities for this task.

3rd Floor

• The third floor features a hopper where players can put grain to make flour by operating the nearby lever. However, if the flour bin on the first floor is full, no more flour can be ground until the bin is partially emptied.
• Tables on this floor contain spawns of grapes, pots, cooking apples, and jugs.
• This floor is mainly used for grinding flour and is also favored by wine makers, as it has spawns for all the necessary items to make wine.
• The Cooks' Guild provides a comprehensive environment for cooking-related activities, making it a hub for both beginner and advanced chefs in the game.

OSRS Cooking Training Level 1-99

Cooking training is relatively easy but it does take a lot of work because of the raw material requirements that you need to meet. For now, let's talk about training your Cooking skill with this F2P training routine.

F2P OSRS Cooking Training

Getting to 99 on a free account is easy but as expected, it can take a relatively long period due to the limited sources available to cook with. This method allows you to level up your Fishing Skill alongside your Cooking Skill so it's going to be nice hitting two birds with one stone.

Without further ado, here's the most optimized path to level 99 cooking.

Level 1: Shrimp

• Shrimp can be caught without any requirements.
• They yield 30 experience per successful cooking.
• You can catch shrimp in Draynor.
• Cooked shrimps can be used as food or sold for a little profit in the Grand Exchange.

Level 20: Trout

• Trout can be caught at Barbarian Village or Lumbridge with level 20 Fishing.
• Each cooked trout gives 70 experience.
• Consider power-cooking by grabbing dropped raw trout from other powerfishers.
• On populated worlds in Barbarian Village, you may find players giving away free raw trout and salmon.

Level 30: Tuna

• Catch tuna at Musa Point in Karamja by harpooning at level 35 Fishing.
• Tuna yields 100 experience each successful cook.
• The catching speed is slow, but you can take dropped raw tunas from powerfishers to cook.
• Select a busy world, as there's no permanent cooking location, and bring an axe and tinderbox to use on the trees by the dock.

Level 40: Lobsters

• Lobsters can be caught at Musa Point in Karamja at level 40 Fishing.
• Each lobster cooked yields 120 experience.
• The catching speed is comparable to harpooning.
• There are rarely any lobster drops from powerfishers, so fishing them yourself is more efficient.

Level 45/50: Swordfish

• Swordfish can be caught at Musa Point in Karamja once you reach level 50 Fishing.
• Swordfish yields 140 experience each when cooked.
• Swordfish catching speed is the slowest among all free-to-play fish.
• While you can cook swordfish starting at level 45, a higher Cooking level is recommended for more successful cooking attempts, as they are relatively low at lower Cooking levels.

Level 55 and onwards: Anchovy Pizza

• Make anchovy pizza by adding anchovies to plain pizza; it's always a success.
• Raw anchovies can be fished south of Lumbridge, in Al Kharid, and in Draynor.
• Anchovy pizza provides a different cooking experience and a tasty option for players.

P2P OSRS Cooking Training

The process for leveling Cooking on members accounts is a lot easier. You'll be spending considerably less time in training your Cooking Skill. On the other hand, there are fewer opportunities to start training your Fishing Skill along with Cooking too so bear that in mind.

Levels 1–30: Poison Karambwan

From levels 1 to 30, the fastest experience is gained by 1-tick cooking raw karambwan into poison karambwan.

You can cook poison karambwan without tick delay by rapidly using raw karambwan on a fire or range.

This method is fast but costs money, and reaching level 30 takes less than ten minutes.

It's recommended to buy at least 500 raw karambwan due to the high burn rate at lower levels.

Assuming you use all 500 raw karambwan to reach level 30, it will result in a loss of −171,000.

If you're not using tick manipulation, it's more cost-effective to cook other fish (see below) for similar experience rates.

Levels 1–30: Cooking Fish

• Alternatively, you can cook various fish for early experience. This method is slower but more cost-effective and less click-intensive.
• The number of fish needed for each level range is provided in the table below.
• It's recommended to buy about 2.5 times more raw fish than the successfully cooked fish required due to the high burn rate at lower levels.

Below is a table explaining the XP rates of fish in OSRS.

Levels 30–99: Cooked Karambwan

• You must complete the quest Tai Bwo Wannai Trio to cook karambwan successfully.
• For the fastest Cooking experience, 1-tick cooking karambwan is recommended, which requires precise clicks and can be challenging to maintain for long periods.
• You can cook karambwan without tick delay by holding down 2 and rapidly using raw karambwan on a fire or range.
• There are specific locations with nearby banks that offer the fastest experience rates for 1-ticking karambwan. These include Rogues' Den, Myths' Guild, and the inner part of Mor Ul Rek.
• Without tick manipulation, the Hosidius kitchen is the best option up to level 96 due to its lower burn rate, while Rogues' Den offers faster cooking but requires precise 1-ticking.
• Completing the elite Kourend & Kebos Diary at level 79 is recommended for further decreased burn rates.
• At level 96, using one of the cooking locations right next to a bank becomes faster than the Hosidius kitchen.

The table below shows experience rates for both 1-tick cooking and non-1-tick cooking methods, assuming different locations and burn rates.

Best Spots For Cooking Levelling

To better optimize your time, it's also best to look for spots in Gielinor that's best when it comes to Cooking training. Ideally, you'd want cooking places that are near banks or anywhere that you can fish so that you can train without having to move too much. Here are the best spots for leveling in OSRS.

Become The Best Chef in Gielinor

The Cooking Skill in OSRS is arguably one of the best ones to master because of how self-sufficient you become with it. The journey towards cooking and cooking till you get to level 99 is long but the rewards you get at the end of the day are definitely going to be worth it.