Cooking guide by Quadiam

Introduction

If you enjoy long arduous hours spent around a camp fire with other players, then cooking is for you. Cooking is utilized to turn your raw food into cooked food that can be used. Besides the normal cooking, there is also baking bread. After you've prepared cooked foods or bread, you can eat them in combat to restore health to continue fighting your way to victory.

Getting started

Cooking fish Now that you have decided that you want to cook, its time to learn how. This part is about cooking raw fish or meat, which you can obtain by fishing or monster drops. To cook a raw you need wood and a tinderbox to make a fire to cook it on. The wood can be obtained by [[page woodcutting|woodcutting]]. Usually 1 wood is required for every raw, with a few minor exceptions covered below.

To cook, you have to have the Tinderbox equipped (you can buy one at the Eully market or from player shops.) Tinderboxes can break just like other tools, and there is a chance that you fail to cook your fish and let it burn. Burnt fish are worthless. Burning a fish still provides 1 experience. Be warned that at the start you will burn quite a lot of fish (up to 50%!), but your burnrate will improve by a lot when you level up.

The higher your level, the lower the chance that you will burn a fish. Therefore it can be better not to cook the highest fish that you can cook, but cook fish that you can successfully cook to maximize your experience gains. As you gain levels your base timer will slowly decrease which helps your time per experience ratios. Cooking 10 fish for a total of 40 experience is better than cooking 2 for 30 experience. For every player that shares your cooking fire, 2 seconds are added to your base timer.

Example of timer improvement (sardines)

At level 25 cooking, with 5 other players = 44 seconds
At level 38 cooking, with 5 other players = 41 seconds
At level 69 cooking, with 5 other players = 34 seconds

Example of burn rate improvement (sardines)

At level 23 cooking, 767 successfully cooked and 134 burnt. Burn Rate 17%
At level 26 cooking, 2593 successfully cooked and 407 burnt. Burn Rate 15%
At level 28 cooking, 502 successfully cooked and 63 burnt. Burn Rate 12%
At level 38 cooking, 336 cooked and 9 burnt. Burn Rate 2%

As you level your burn rate will decrease significantly increasing your overall experience gains. Note however, that there is some randomness to burning. Sometimes you will burn more, sometimes less.

Time reduction

To reduce your timer in cooking, you can equip a cauldron. Cauldrons go in the shield slot and reduce your cooking timer. Cauldrons are not a replacement of the tinderbox, which you will still need.

Img	Req level	Item
	1	Tinderbox
	75	Bone tinderbox

Img	Req level	Item
	1	Bronze cauldron
	10	Iron cauldron
	25	Steel cauldron
	40	Silver cauldron
	55	Gold cauldron
	60	Witch cauldron
	70	Platina cauldron
	75	Bone cauldron
	85	Syriet cauldron
	100	Obsidian cauldron
	120	Puranium cauldron
	140	Tiromyth cauldron

Baking

Baking is a special part of the cooking skill where you can make Bread out of your Grain. This can be done at Stanro (Exrollia island). Note though that you will be auto attacked by monsters at Exrollia island. If you have a high enough combat level, this is a very nice way to raise the first two dozens of levels.

You can get the grain by farming grain seeds. The baking timer is always 45 seconds, regardless of your level or other players working at your location. Baking gives you 12xp. This may seem a little low, however, you will never burn bread. You can bake bread at level 1 cooking, and it heals 3hp.

Baking cake (or regular bread) can be done at Thabis on Anasco island. You will need cooking lvl 80 and complete the "Repair the smokehouse" quest. The timer is 60 seconds and you will need 1 grain and 1 plum to bake a cake. Baking cake gives you 50 exp, and cake heals 21 hp.

Smoking

Only you have reached level 80, a new type of cooking becomes available to you. Once you have completed the repair the smokehouse quest, you can smoke any type of fish at the Thabis smokehouse. Smoking requires 1 coal per fish. Important to note is that the types of fish caught at Thabis can only be "cooked" by smoking them at a smokehouse, you cannot cook them with wood at regular cooking locations. Smoking is only available at certain times (opposite of the fishing scedule at Thabis).

Experience table

Img	Req level	Item	Req items	Cooking exp
	1	Bread	x1	12
	1	Carrot cake	x1 x1	7
	1	Cupcake	x1	5
	1	Pumpkin pie	x1 x1	17
	1	Apple pie	x1 x1	20
	1	Cooked Frog	x1	12
	2	Cooked Shrimps	x1	10
	4	Cooked Sardine	x1	14
	5	Cooked Piranha	x1	15
	9	Cooked Herring	x1	17
	10	Cooked Catfish	x1	19
	14	Cooked Mackerel	x1	20
	15	Cooked Queen spider meat	x1	25
	19	Cooked Trout	x1	23
	20	Cooked Cod	x1	30
	20	Cooked Pike	x1	37
	25	Cooked Salmon	x1	40
	30	Cooked Tuna	x1	59
	35	Cooked Giant catfish	x1	63
	40	Cooked Lobster	x1	66
	43	Cooked Bass	x1	150
	45	Cooked Swordfish	x1	280
	50	Cooked Saurus meat	x1	180
	55	Cooked Sturgeon	x1	160
	60	Cooked bone fish	x1	180
	65	Cooked Coral fish	x1	200
	70	Cooked Wolf fish	x1	225
	70	Cooked Platina dragon meat	x1	240
	80	Cooked Shark	x1	400
	85	Cooked Syriet dragon meat	x1	300
	95	Cooked Lantern fish	x1	450
	100	Cooked Obsidian dragon meat	x1	360
	100	Cake	x1 x1	50
	100	Cooked Parrotfish	x1	500
	110	Cooked Lantern squid	x1	500
	115	Cooked Eel	x1	600
	120	Cooked Mystery meat	x1	650
	130	Cooked Snapper	x1	1000
	130	Cooked Octopus	x1	1000
	145	Cooked Salmon shark	x1	1050
	150	Cooked Rockfish	x1	625
	150	Cooked Crab	x1	1100
	165	Cooked Grouper	x1	1500
	170	Cooked Spider crab	x1	725
	190	Cooked Cavefish	x1	900

Cooking locations

Location	Map	Action
Harith	Remer island	Level 1 cooking (1 wpf)
Toothen	Skull island	Level 1 cooking (1 wpf)
Burning beach	Serpenthelm island	Level 1 cooking (1 wpf)
Web haven	Webbers island	Level 1 cooking (1 wpf)
Sheppards hut	Calmere Island	Level 1 cooking (1 wpf)
The Outlands 16	The Outlands	Level 1 cooking (0 wpf - PvP zone)
The Outlands 37	The Outlands	Level 1 cooking (0 wpf - PvP zone)
Wingmere	Exrollia	Level 20 cooking (1 wpf)
Penteza	Elven island	Level 20 cooking (3/4 wpf)
Croy	Kanzo island	Level 50 cooking (4/5 wpf)
Thabis	Anasco island	Level 80 cooking (1 cpf)
Stanro	Exrollia	Bake bread
Thabis	Anasco island	Bake bread
Thabis	Anasco island	Bake cake