RuneScape/Skills/Cooking

In RuneScape, cooking a skill used to make food which players can eat food to heal their hitpoints when they are fighting. There are many different tpyes of food in RuneScape, each healing a different amount of HP. However, cooking levels are needed to make the many different kinds of food.

Cooking is also a very popular skill to raise as not only do many players cook food to heal their HP, but they also sell the food they cooked to make a great profit, since almost all players need food.

How To Cook
Players can cook in two different ways. They can cook their food on a fire or they can cook their food on a range. Ranges are labelled on the mini-map as a cooking pan. It is also important to note that only meat, fish, vegetables, and tea can be cooked on a fire.

To cook, players have to use the food with a range or fire. If they have more than one same kind of food in their inventory, then a menu will appear in the chatbox which will ask them how much of the food they want to cook, whether it be one, five, or all.

At a low cooking level, players will burn their food. But as they raise their cooking level, they will burn less often and eventually they will never burn the food again.

Items Needed For Cooking
There are many items that players need to cook, such as water or flour.

Flour
Flour is used to make dough which can then be made to bake pies or bread. However, the process of making flour is fairly long.


 * First of all, grain is needed. Grain fields are around Lumbridge, Varrock, and Draynor Village.


 * Next, a pot is needed. Pots can be bought from all general stores for about 1 gp. Players can also craft pots.


 * Next, the player has to go to a windmill. A windmill is between Lumbridge and Draynor Village and another one is inside the cooking guild. When the player is inside the windmill, they then have to go to the very top floor and put the grain in the hopper. They must then operate the hopper so that the grain slides down the chute. When the player has done this, they have to go down to the first floor and use their pot with the flour they just made.

Water
Water is fairly easy to get.


 * First, either a jug or a bucket is need. Both of these items can be bought from general stores for about 2 gp.


 * Next, a player has to find a sink or a fountain. Places that contain water are labelled on the mini-map as a rain drop. The player then has to use the jug or bucket with the sink or fountain. A bucket can also be used with a well.

Containers
The containers in RuneScape are pots, bowls, pie dishes, and cake tins. All of these items can be crafted, bought from a general store, or obtained from the cooking guild.

Meat
Meat be cooked by using it with a range or fire. Meat is great to cook at a low cooking level. To obtain meat, players can kill chickens, cows, rats, and bears.

Bread

 * Flour (Crush Grain at a windmill and use with Pot to obtain)
 * Water (Use Jug or Bucket with a source of water. A Fountain or a Sink will do)
 * Range

To cook: Use Flour with Water. Choose to make Bread dough, then use the dough with a range

Pies

 * Pie Dish
 * Flour (Crush Grain at a windmill and use with Pot to obtain)
 * Egg
 * Redberries, Apples, or Meat
 * Range

All pies are two bite foods.

Stews

 * Bowl of Water
 * Potato
 * Cooked Meat (cow meat or chicken meat is probably your best bet)
 * Cook on stove or fire.

Pizza

 * Mix Flour with water. (Flour is made by using wheat with a grindstone typically found in a windmill, water can be gained by using a jug with a fountain)
 * Add Tomato
 * Add Cheese
 * Add whatever topping you wish (or leave plain)
 * Cook pizza.

Sidenote: Tomato and cheese can be found for free in Draynor or bought in the cooking shop south of Falador at Port Sarim.

Cakes

 * Mix flour, eggs and milk together in a cake tin. (Flour is made by using wheat on a grindstone at a windmill with a pot, eggs can typically be found at chicken coops and milk from using a bucket with a dairy cow.)


 * Cook on a stove
 * Add chocolate (only if you have the required cooking level to make chocolate cake)

Wine

 * Jug of water
 * Grapes

Use the grapes with water and wait until it ferments (this is achieved by leaving it in your inventory or bank for a set peroid of time)

Hot Drinks
Nettle Tea


 * Bowl of water
 * Nettles

Add the nettles to the bowl and cook on a stove or fire. Use said bowl with a cup, you may choose to add milk.

Brewing
Ales


 * Two buckets of water
 * Two Barley Malt
 * Main ingredient (Varies depending on the type of ale you want from; Apple mush, Hammerstone hops, Asgarnian hops, harralander and so on. Quanity also varies.)
 * Pot of Yale Yeast.

You need to put the buckets of water in an empty VAT followed by the barley malt and then the main ingredient and finally the yeast which has to be bought from local brewers.

Note: The process of fermenting can take up to a full day so if you plan to brew ales be prepared by having something else to do while you wait or just come back in a few days time.

Vegetables
Vegetables basically consist of a baked potato with a topping of some kind. The toppings must be made separately and then added to the potato. The better toppings require high farming levels or lots of money to obtain.

Potato: grow using the farming skill or pick on any NPC farm and bake on a range (NOT a fire).

Toppings:


 * These count as foods on their own but it is better to add them to baked potatoes for better healing.


 * Always add butter first and then add whatever topping you wish to use.


 * Dairy products: Milk a diary cow and use the bucket of milk on a churn, these can be found at most of the RuneScape farms. Milk can be churned into cream, butter, or cheese. Cream can be churned into butter or cheese and butter can be churned into cheese if you make a mistake with selecting what you want.


 * Tomato and Scrambled Eggs: Add an egg to a bowl with a knife in your inventory, then cook the bowl of eggs on a range/fire. Add a tomato to a bowl with a knife in your inventory. Use the bowl of tomatoes with the bowl of scrambled eggs.


 * Mushroom and Onions: Add an onion to one bowl and a bittercap mushroom to another while having a knife in your inventory. Cook both of the bowls on a range/fire. Use the bowl of onions on the bowl of mushrooms.


 * Tuna and Sweetcown: Add a cooked tuna to a bowl, then add cooked sweetcorn.

Required Levels
"Members Only" Foods in Bold.

Meats
See the Fishing Manual.

Vegetables
For directions on making, see the "vegetables" section in the Items Necessary category.