Cooking

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Cooking is a traditional skill with the primary purpose of keeping you alive. It is easily the most efficient way to gain health or boost other skills, and can also be fun and profitable along the way. The higher your cooking skill, the better food you can cook which, in turn, restores more health. The higher your cooking level, the less likely you are too burn your food. There are a number of ways to cook food. You can use a range, fire, or an iron spit if you are a member. Fires can be used to cook only meat, fish, and teas. Cooking currently has over 50,000 players who has 99.

Meat

You can get meat by killing chickens, cows, bears, and giant rats. If you have a cooked piece of meat, you can cook it again and it will burn. Below is a list of different kinds of meat and how much it heals your health.

Name	Level	Experience	Heals	Extra
Cooked meat	1	30	3	Good Starting food
Cooked Rabbit	1	30	5	Get from Hunting
Cooked chicken	1	30	3	Good Starting food
Sinew	1	10	Cannot be eaten	Used as Crossbow String
Roasted bird meat	11	62	6	Get from Hunting
Roasted Rabbit	16	72.5	7	Get from Hunting
Cooked Skewered Spider	16	80	7-10	Used during a Quest
Roasted Beast Meat	21	82	8	Get from Hunting

Fish

You can get raw fish by fishing.

Name	Level	Experience	Heals
Shrimp	1	30	3
Karambwanji	1	10	3
Sardine	1	40	3
Anchovies	1	30	1
Karambwan	1	80	Poisons 5
Herring	5	50	5
Mackerel	10	60	6
Trout	15	70	7
Cod	18	75	7
Pike	20	80	8
Salmon	25	90	9
Tuna	30	100	10
Karambwan	30	190	18
Rainbow fish	35	110	11
Lobster	40	120	12
Bass	43	130	13
Swordfish	45	140	14
Lava Eel	53	30	14
Monkfish	62	150	16
Shark	80	210	20
Sea Turtle	82	212	21
Manta Ray	91	216	22

Snails

Members can get snails by using the slayer skill. Once they find and kill the snail, they can then pick it up and cook it.

Name	Level	Experience	Heals
Thin Snail	12	70	5 to 7
Lean Snail	17	80	6 to 8
Fat Snail	22	95	7 to 9

Pie

Oh pies. These are delicious and very helpful ingame. Here is how to make a pie:

1.Mix flour and water to make pastry dough

2.Place dough in an empty pie dish

3.Fill “Empty Pie” with your choice of filling depending on what pie you are cooking*

4.Cook the pie with fillings (i.e. redberries, meat, mud, etc.) on a Range.

Here are the second ingredients for pies:

Redberry pies call for redberries which can be found at the port sarim food shop, or you could grow them using the Farming Skill

Meat pies require cooked meat from a cow, bear, chicken, rat, or rabbit

Mud pies require mud. You can make mud by mixing compost water and clay.

Apple pies require a cooking apple

Garden pies requires a tomato, cabbage, and onion

Fish pies require cod, trout, and a raw potato

Admiral pies require tuna, salmon, and raw potato

Wild pies require raw bear meat, raw rabbit meat, and raw chompy meat

Summer pies require a strawberry, a watermelon, and an apple. See Farming Skill from strawberries and watermelons.

Name	Level	Experience	Total healing	Bonuses
Redberry Pie	10	78	10 in two bites	N/A
Meat Pie	20	110	12 in two bites	N/A
Mud Pie	29	128	Cannot be eaten	Throw at enemies to reduce their energy
Apple Pie	30	130	14 in two bites	N/A
Garden Pie	34	128	12 in two bites	+3 Farming
Fish Pie	47	164	12 in two bites	+3 Fishing
Admiral Pie	70	210	16 in two bites	+5 Fishing
Wild Pie	85	240	22 in two bites	+4 Range and +5 Slayer
Summer Pie	95	260	22 in two bites	Heals 10% Energy and +5 Agility

Stew

How to make stews:

1.Get a bowl and fill it with water from a source

2.Get cooked meat and a potato and add them to the water.

3.(only if you are making curry) Add spice to the mix or you can add 3 curry leaves from the farming skill.

4.Bake the mix

Image	Name	Level	Experience	Heals
	Stew	25	117	11
File:Spicy stew.gif	Spicy Stew	25	117	11
	Curry	60	280	19

Bread

Ah yes bread. Here is how to make bread:

1.Get flour and water

2.Mix the flour and water and you will get bread dough

3.Bake “bread dough” on a range

Image	Name	Level	Experience	Heals
	Bread	1	40	5
	Pitta Bread	58	40	Cannot be eaten

Pizza

How to make a pizza:

1.Mix flour and water and click pizza base

2.Use a tomato and a slice of cheese on the pizza base.

3.Add any toppings wanted

4.Bake

Name	Level	Experience	Total healing
Plain Pizza	35	143	14
Meat Pizza	45	169	16
Anchovy Pizza	55	182	18
Pineapple Pizza	65	195	22

Pizza is like pies in that pizza is eaten in two bites.

Cake

How to make a Cake:

1.Get an egg, milk, some flour, and a cake tin

2.Click on either the egg, milk or flour (it does not matter which) and then click on the cake tin

3.Bake the mix

4.(Only for Chocolate Cakes) Add chocolate dust to the finished cake. This adds 30 xp

Name	Level	Experience	Heals
Cooked Fishcake	31	100	11
Cake	40	180	12
Chocolate Cake	50	210	15

Cakes are eaten in 3 bites to eat the cake fully.

Baked Potato

Baked potatoes are a members only food. To make baked potatoes, cook a potato on a range only. If cooked on anything else, it will burn. To make alternate types of baked potatoes, add the desired ingredient.

Name	Level	Experience	Heals
Baked Potato	7	15	4
Potato with Butter	39	95.5	14
Chilli Potato	41	165.5	14
Potato with Cheese	47	199.5	16
Egg Potato	51	195.5	16
Mushroom and Onion Potato	64	270.5	20
Tuna Sweetcorn Potato	68	309.5	22

Wine

How to make wine:

1. Obtain a jug of water (use any jug with a fountain).

2. Add some grapes

3. You will get unfermented wine which will ferment in about 10 seconds

Image	Name	Level	Experience	Heals
	Wine	35	200	11
	Bad wine	35	0	0

Tea

How to make Tea

1.Get a bowl and fill it with water

2.Wearing gloves pick some nettles and use the with the water

3.Boil the “nettle water” on a range or fire

4.Use the bowl of nettle tea with a cup

Picture	Name	Cooking Level	Cooking Experience	Healing*
	Nettle Tea	20	52	3

Brewing

Brewing takes longer than any other type of cooking and involves much more ingredients. Brewing is also a members only skill.

To brew, you need 2 bundles of barley malt, a pot of ale yeast, 2 buckets of water and an ingredient that varies depending on what you want to make. Head to the brewery in either Keldagrim or Port Phasmatys, and pour your 2 buckets in the tub. Add the barley malt, then your ingredients and finally the ale yeast. Next, wait for a while, as much as an entire day in some cases. Once it's matured, turn the tap to fill the barrel next to the vat (make sure the barrel is empty first), then use beer glasses on the barrel and you'll get 8 beers for each barrel.

To make cider, you need 16 cooking apples, a pot of ale yeast, and 4 empty buckets. Head to the brewery and put four of the apples in the nearby cider barrel. Your character will squish the apples, making a bucket of apple mush. Once you have 4, add them, then the ale yeast into the fermenting vat and wait.

While brewing ales, you can brew a "matured" ale which is slightly more stronger than normal and is indicated by a (m) next to the name.

Most ales can temporarily raise or lower some of your stats, with matured ales raising them by one more than normal. Unfortunately, the positive effects of ales do not stack, however the negative effects do, so for example drinking 2 dwarven stouts in quick succession will only raise your mining and smithing levels by 1, but will lower your attack by 8, and your strength and defense by 6.

Name	Level	Experience	Heals	Effect
Cider	14	182	2	+1 Farming. -3 Attack & Strength
Dwarven stout	19	215	1	+1 Mining & Smithing. -4 Attack. -3 Strength & Defense
Asgarnian ale	24	248	2	+2 Strength. -4 Attack
Greenman's ale	29	281	1	+1 Herblore. -4 Attack. -3 Strength & Defense
Wizard's mind bomb	34	314	1	+2/3 Magic (depending on your current level). -4 Attack. -3 Strength & Defense
Dragon bitter	39	347	1	+2 Strength. -2 Attack
Moonlight mead	44	380	5	None
Axeman's folly	49	413	1	+1 Woodcutting. -3 Attack & Strength
Chef's delight	54	446	1	+3 Cooking
Slayer's respite	59	479	1	+1 Slayer. -3 Attack & Strength

Gnome Cooking

Gnome cooking is used mostly in the Gnome Restaurant minigame although the food still heals you.

Name	Level	Experience	Heals
Fruit Blast	6	50	9
Pineapple Punch	8	70	9
Toad Crunchies	10	100	8
Spicy Crunchies	12	100	7
Worm Crunchies	14	100	8
Chocchip Crunchies	16	100	7
Wizard Blizzard	18	110	5
Short Green Guy (SGG)	20	120	5
Fruit Batta	25	150	11
Toad Batta	26	152	11
Worm Batta	27	154	11
Vegetable Batta	28	156	11
Cheese and Tomato Batta	29	158	11
Worm Hole	30	170	12
Drunk Dragon	32	160	5
Choc Saturday	33	170	5
Vegetable Ball	35	175	12
Blurberry Special	37	180	7
Tangled Toad's Legs	40	185	15
Chocolate Bomb	42	190	15

Cooking Gauntlets

Cooking gauntlets are steel gauntlets charged to burn less foods when worn. Steel gauntlet is a reward from the quest Family Crest. To change a steel gauntlet into a cooking gauntlet, talk to Caleb in Catherby. The gauntlets will help burn less tunas, lobsters, swordfishes, monkfishes, and sharks.

These are the approximate levels that will enable you to stop burning a fish:

Name	No gauntlets	With Gauntlets
Raw Tuna	65	N/A
Raw Lobster	74	68
Raw Swordfish	86	81
Raw Monkfish	92	90
Raw Shark	N/A	94

From my experience, raw monkfish stops burning at 90 cooking. I burned 2 monkfishes per inventory at average at 89 cooking but I didn't burn a single one from 90-94 cooking.

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