WELCOME TO THE ULTIMATE COOKING GUIDE FOR RUNESCAPE! IF YOU READ THIS GUIDE, ALL YOUR PROBLEMS WILL BE ANSWERED :)

Cooking is one of the prime activites in RuneScape and is used mainly to restore health points lost in combat, but also is an active trade item.

Cooking an item is quite simple. Simply click your mouse (either button) on an item in your inventory and then point at a range (stove) or a fire to "use" it with that item. And just like cooks in real life, not everything turns out well. You can burn items you're trying to cook making them unusable, but you'll find that also like real life, your cooking becomes more successful as you gain experience (points) in your cooking skill and you'll burn fewer items.

Cooking on a fire can also help build your Firemaking and Woodcutting skills. Using a hatchet, cut a tree for wood, then "use" a tinderbox to light a fire.

Fish are the most common item cooked, since all that's required is some raw fish and a range or fire. There is no preparation to cooking fish. All the various fish and the cooking levels required to prepare them are found in the Fishing Guide's Fishing Table along with the cooking skill gained from cooking them. Some cooked fish (mainly lobsters) can also be "certed" or converted to certificates worth five fish each which helps when trading or selling large quantities.

The next most popular cooking items are pies and pastries. These all require a dough of some sort, usually made from flour and water. Simply obtain some flour and water (see chart below) and "use" one with the other. A menu will appear on the screen asking you what type of dough you want to make. Simply click on the type dough and it will then appear in your inventory, ready for further preparations.

All bread and pastry items must be cooked on a range, while meat, stew, and curry can be prepared on a fire as well as a range.

Once your cooking experience reaches Level 32, you will be eligible to join the Cooks' Guild. See our Cooks' Guild Guide for further information on what's available to Guild members at the Guildhouse on the west side of Varrock.

If you're a RuneScape member, there are also some special menus and food items you can make from the Gnome Cookbook. The cookbook as well as some of the more exotic ingredients are available at the Gnome Stronghold and featured in our upcoming Guide To Gnome Cooking.



 

RuneScape Receipes

Member's Only Items Shown In Yellow
  Item Cooking
XP Gained		 Cooking
Lvl.Required		 Hitpoints
Healed
Cooked Meat 30 1 3
  • First, you need to get meat, which comes from chickens, rats, giant rats, bears or Cows.
  • To cook it, either find a range or build a fire. "Use" the meat on the stove or fire.
Bread 40 1 4
  • First, you need water: make or buy a jug, the "use" it with a fountain, sink, well, etc.
  • Next you need flour. Get or make a pot, then go to a Windmill, and get some wheat from the nearby field. Go to the top floor of the windmill and "use" the wheat with the mill. Pull the lever and down it goes! No one can steal your wheat, so you can do this as many times as you want, supposing you have enough pots.
  • "Use" the flour with the water and select "bread dough" when the menu appears.
  • Cook the dough on a range ONLY by "using" the dough with the range.
Redberry Pie 60 10 6
Meat Pie 80 20 8
Apple Pie 100 30 10
  • Get flour and water as described in Bread.
  • When you mix the flour and water, select "Pie Dough" from the menu.
  • Get a pie pan and "use" the pie dough with it.
  • Add any topping: meat, redberries or apples with the pie.
  • Cook the pie on a range.

Note: Pies can be eaten in two bites with half the hit points healed each

Stew 90 25 9
  • Get (or make) a bowl and fill it with water.
  • Get a potato.
  • Get some Cooked Meat (see meat).
  • "Use" the potatoes with the water- then it becomes an Incomplete Stew.
  • "Use" the Incomplete Stew with the meat- it then becomes Uncooked Stew.
  • Cook the Uncooked Stew on a range or fire.
Curry 125 60 19
  • Get (or make) a bowl and fill it with water.
  • Get a potato.
  • Get some Cooked Meat (see meat).
  • "Use" the potatoes with the water.
  • "Use" with the meat.
  • "Use" with spices.
  • Cook on a range or fire.
Plain Pizza 110 35 10
Meat Pizza 140 45 14
Anchovy Pizza 140 55 16
Pineapple Pizza 110 65 20
  • Get flour and water as described in Bread.
  • When you mix the flour and water, select "Pizza Dough" from the menu.
  • "Use" the tomato with the pizza dough
  • "Use" the cheese with the incomplete pizza.
  • Cook the pizza on a range ONLY.
  • Add cooked meat, cooked anchovies or pineapple

Notes: You will not get full experience points (-30) if you do not cook your own meat or anchovies. Plain pizzas are eaten in one bite, while all other pizzas can be eaten in two bites with half the hit points healed each.

Cake 120 40 12
Chocolate Cake 120 50 15
  • Get some flour (see bread), but no water this time.
  • Get some eggs.
  • Get some milk.
  • Get a cake tin.
  • "Use" the flour with the cake tin, then the eggs, then the milk.
  • Cook the stove on a range ONLY.

Note: Cakes can be eaten in three bites with one third the hit points healed each

Wine 110 35 11
  • Get a jug and fill it with water.
  • Get some grapes
  • "Use" the grapes with the water.
Image Ugthanki Kebab 120 58 19
Ugthanki mix
  • Have knife, bowl, onion, tomato, raw ugthanki meat, flour, and water in inventory.
  • Use onion with bowl.
  • Use tomato with the same bowl.
  • Now cook the ugthanki meat either on a fire or on a range.
  • Use the cooked Ugthanki meat with the tomato and onion mix.
Pitta Dough
  • Use flour with water.
  • Cook the pitta dough on a range sigh no fires.
  • Use Pitta Dough with Ugthanki Mix to get the Ugthanki Kebab.

 

Cooking Ingredients, Utensils, And
Some Non-Cooking Food Items

Member's Only Items Shown In Yellow
  Item Price Where Found
Apple 1 gp Yanille food store/Cooks Guild
Banana Free/ 3 gp Karamja Island/food shop in Port Sarim/dropped by some monsters. heals 3 points.
Bowl 4 gp Yanille food store/ crafted by player
Bucket 3 gp/Free general store/spawns in Zanaris
Cabbage Free/ 3gp Farms/food shop in Port Sarim/Draynor Manor/Saradomin Monastery.
Cake tin 10 gp/Free Yanille food store/crafted by player/Cooks' Guild
Cheese Free Aggie’s Dye shop in Draynor village/food shop in Port Sarim/bandit's camp in wilderness
Chocolate 10 gp/Free Yanille food store/spawns in Zanaris, Cooks' Guild
Egg Free Gather by "using" a bucket with a chicken/entrance to Zanaris
Flour 10 gp Yanille food store/general store
Garlic Free house in Draynor Manor. Although a food item, not used in cooking, just with vampires.
Grapes Free Inside cooking guild
Jug 1 gp Yanille food store
Kebab 1gp/3gp/Free Al Kharid/ General store/Entrana IslandNote: heals a random amount of health, sometimes takes away points, but won't kill you.
Milk Free "Use" a jug with a cow
Onion Free Behind Fred the farmers house/ in front of Melzars Maze
Pie Tin 3 gp Yanille food store/ crafted by player
Pineapple Free Jungle south of Brimhaven on Karamja Island
Pot 1 gp Yanille food store/ general store/crafted by players
Potato 1 gp/Free Yanille food store/ general store/farmer fields near Draynor Manor
Red berries Free South of Varrock, east mines
Spices 230 gp/Free You can buy or steal from spice stall in East Ardougne (requires level 65 thief)
Spinich Wrap Free Dropped by several monsters, including Ice Giants
Tomato Free/ 3gp Aggie’s Dye shop in Draynor village/food shop in Port Sarim/bandit's camp in wilderness
Image Ugthanki Meat Free Killing Ugthanki Camel in the Shantay Desert.
Water Free "Use" a jug or bucket with sink, well, or fountain.
Wheat Free By Fred the farmers house/ By Draynor village/ North of Ardougne/Zanaris
Wine Free You can make or is also dropped by several monsters including Lesser Demons and Ice Giants. Heals 6 health, but takes 3 from attack, which is cumulative, so drinking two wines will give you 12 health, but remove 6 attack.