Phil's RS classic cooking guide

The original guide can be found at http://www.maddogcarter.com/runescape/index.html. Many thanks for letting me reproduce it here!

• Recipes
• Cooking-related skills guide
• Places to work on your cooking skill
• Experience chart
• All food that you cook
• Fish and Crustaceans
• Foods you have to buy
• Foods you can't eat
• Items used in cooking and fishing

Recipes (top)

Flour, Dough and Bread (top)

You will need to be able to make dough to make bread, pies, and pizzas.

1. Pick some wheat to get grain, and get a pot for every grain you have.
2. Go to the windmill northwest of Lumbridge, or, if you can get in, go to the cooks guild.
3. Go to the top floor of the windmill and use the grain with the hopper, then operate the hopper. Repeat for every grain you have (do not put more than one grain on the hopper before you operate it).
4. Go to the first floor of the windmill and put each flour in a pot. If you don't put the flour in a pot, it will disappear after about four minutes.
5. To make dough, fill a jug or bucket with water and use the water with the flour.
6. Select bread, pastry, or pizza dough, depending on what you are going to make. If you are making bread, cook the dough on a stove.

Redberry, Meat, and Apple Pie (top)

1. Make pastry dough.
2. Get a pie dish and put the dough in the pie dish.
3. Get your filling (redberries, cooked meat, or cooking apple), and put it in the pie.
4. Cook the pie on a stove. If you burn the pie, you can reuse the pie dish by emptying it.

You need a cooking level of 10 to make redberry pie. Redberries are found southeast of Varrock. Meat pie requires a cooking level of 20, and apple pie is level 30. However, cooking apples are found only in the cook's guild, which requires level 32 to get in. You need a crafting level of 3 to make a pie dish.

Stew and Curry (top)

1. Get a bowl and put water in it.
2. Put a potato (available in some farm fields) and cooked meat in the bowl.
3. To make curry (members only), buy or steal spice from the spice stall, and add it to the uncooked stew.
4. Cook the stew on a stove or a fire. If you burn the stew, you can empty the bowl and reuse it.

You need a cooking level of 25 to make stew, and 60 to make curry. You need level 5 crafting if you want to make the bowl (or get it from the cooks guild), and a thieving level of 65 to steal the curry from the spices stall in Ardougne (it costs 230gp if you don't steal it).

Pizza (Plain, Meat, Anchovy), and Pineapple (top)

1. Make pizza dough. You can also buy pizza dough for 4 gp in the bandits village in the wilderness.
2. Buy a tomato and cheese at the food store in Port Sarim, or get them in the house in Draynor Village, or the bandits village. Put the tomato on the pizza, then the cheese. Cook the pizza on a stove.
3. If your cooking level is high enough, you can add a topping. Note that the hard part of making pizza is cooking the pizza, and you cannot ruin the pizza by adding a topping. You can add cooked meat, cooked anchovies, or a pineapple slice (members only).

Plain pizza requires a skill level of 35, meat pizza is level 45, and anchovy pizza is level 55. Anchovies require level 15 fishing to catch (with a net in the ocean). To make pineapple pizza (level 65, members only), pick a pineapple (in the jungle on Karamja Island) and cut it with a knife. You will get four pinapple rings, which you can put on four cooked pizzas.

Wine (top)

1. Fill a jug with water. You can't use a bucket to make wine.
2. Get some grapes from the cooks guild and use them with the water. You will have either regular wine or bad wine. You can still drink the bad wine but it will not restore hit points. The only way to reuse your jug if you make bad wine is to drink the bad wine.

Wine requires a cooking level of 35, and you need a chef's hat to get grapes from the cook's guild. This is the only food that you can make entirely from items available in the cooks guild, so it is a good way to build up your cooking level once you have reached level 35.

Cake (Plain and Chocolate) (top)

1. Get a cake tin from the cooks guild and a bucket.
2. Make flour.
3. Get an egg from a chicken farm, and put milk in your bucket.
4. Mix the egg, flour, and milk into the cake tin.
5. Cook the cake on a stove. After the cake is cooked, it is no longer in the cake tin, so you can reuse the tin for the next cake. Be sure your inventory has room for both the cake and tin, or you will drop the cake.
6. If your cooking level is high enough, you can add chocolate to the cake (available in the cooks guild or food store).

You need a cooking level of 40 to make plain cake, and 50 for chocolate cake.

Cooking-related skills guide (top)

Below is a list of skills you might need to help you cook food in RuneScape, and how high a skill level you would want. Of course higher is always better.

• Cooking skill (level 55, or 80 for members version)
• Fishing skill (level 50, or 76 for members version)
• Woodcutting and firemaking skills (level 50 is good)
• Crafting skill (level 7)
• Fighting skills (doesn't matter much)
• Herblaw skill (members only) (level 25)
• Thieving skill (members only) (level 65)

Cooking skill (top)

The most obvious skill to have, this skill determines what kind of foods you can cook. You will also burn food less with a higher cooking level. Anchovy pizza requires the highest cooking skill level in the free version: 55. In the members version the hardest food to cook is shark (level 80). If your cooking level is high enough, you will stop burning some foods entirely. To complete the witch's quest, you need burnt meat. If you want to burn meat but your cooking level is too high, use cooked meat with a fire or stove a second time. This doesn't work with any other foods.

To raise your cooking level, if you haven't done it already, do the cook's quest. You start the quest by talking to the cook in Lumbridge Castle. You have to find a few items for him so he can bake a cake. The quest gives you 300 experience points, which will make you level 4 cooking if you have no cooking experience.

Fishing skill (top)

You need this skill to (you guessed it) go fishing at the river or ocean. In general, fish that require a higher fishing level to catch also require a higher cooking level. The most difficult fish to catch is the swordfish, at level 50. You can find places to go fishing by looking at the RuneScape map. You have to go to certain locations and use the right kind of fishing equipment to catch a particular fish. See the fishing guide for details on how to catch fish. To get your fishing level up, you have to start by using a net from the fishing store in Port Sarim with saltwater fish.

Woodcutting and firemaking skills (top)

You will need some skill in woodcutting and firemaking in order to make a fire within a reasonable amount of time. This is useful if you are cooking chickens on a farm and don't want to walk to a stove to cook your meat. To make a fire you will need an axe (not battle axe) and a tinder box. Tinder boxes are available for 1 gp from most (or all) general stores, and bronze axes are available from Bob's Axes in Lumbridge for 17 gp, or from a general store. If you have a better axe (mithril, adamantite, etc.), your wood cutting level will go up much faster, because it will be easier to cut down trees.

In the pay-to-play version, there are several types of trees you can cut down in addition to normal trees: Oak (woodcutting level 15), Willow (level 30), Maple (level 45), Yew (level 60), and Magic (level 75). I doubt they are very useful for making fires though (they're used for fletching).

To make a fire, chop a tree until you get wood. Drop the wood, and use a tinderbox with the logs until you make a fire.

Crafting skill (top)

If your cooking level is between 10 and 32, you may find that you want to make a pie or some stew, but you can't get a pie dish or bowl. If you want a reliable source of these items and can't get into the cooks guild yet, you can make them yourself. (Pie dishes are also available in the Varrock palace kitchen.) The highest crafting skill level you will need for cooking is 7. You can also get crafting skill by doing the sheep shearer quest (talk to a chicken farmer northwest of Lumbridge to start) and the goblin diplomacy quest (talk to the bartender in Port Sarim).

1. Mine some clay at the site north of Rimmington, the underground dwarven mine, or west of Varrock. (You only need a mining level of 1). If you don't know how, follow these steps:
   • Get a pickaxe (available free in Barbarian Village and in Rimmington).
   • Find some rocks and right click to prospect them. Prospect different rocks until you find clay.
   • Then, left click on the rocks to mine the clay.
2. Use a jug or bucket of water with the clay to make soft clay.
3. Find the potter's wheel and pottery oven in Barbarian Village. Put the soft clay on the potter's wheel and make your item. Put it in the pottery oven to finish. The item you're making sometimes cracks, but usually doesn't, even if you have a low crafting skill.

You need a crafting skill level of 1 to make a pot, 3 for a pie dish, and 7 for a bowl.

In the pay-to-play version, you can make a beer glass with level 5 crafting, and then fill the glass in the barrels of beer across the street from Seer's village bank.

Fighting skills (top)

You will need some amount of skill in attacking monsters to get raw meat, although any newbie can easily kill a few chickens (level 3). Other animals that have meat are giant rats and cows (both level 8), and bears (level 24). If you have high fighting skills, you can sell food in dungeons and the wilderness, where people are most likely to need food.

Herblaw skill (members only) (top)

You need a herblaw skill level of 25 to mix oil to make an oily fishing rod, used to catch lava eels. You need a level of 50 to make a fishing potion out of Avantoe and Snape Grass. The potion boosts your fishing skill by 3 temporarily (I think).

Thieving skill (members only) (top)

You need a thieving skill of at least 65 to steal the curry from the spices stall in Ardougne (it costs 230gp if you don't steal it).

Mining/Smithing skills (top)

You only need this skill for cooking if you want to make a hatchet for cutting wood (or to make weapons and armor for fighting those chickens). You can't use a battle axe for cutting wood. If you want a mithril, adamantite, or rune woodcutting axe, you have to make it or buy it from another player. All hatchets require one bar of metal to make. See a table of the skill levels you need to make hatchets.

Places to work on your cooking skill (top)

Chicken farms (top)

Lumbridge Castle (top)

Cooks guild (top)

Karamja dock (top)

Bandits village (top)

Experience chart (top)

Every time you sucessfully cook food or catch a fish, you get experience points (xp) in cooking or fishing. Experience gained for successfully cooking food or fishing is listed below. No extra experience is given for putting chocolate on a cake, or for putting toppings on a pizza. Experience listed is experience for cooking the pizza plus cooking the meat or anchovies. Finishing the cooks quest gives 300xp for cooking. The Sea Slug quest (members only) gives about 15,000 xp fishing.

Foods with gray background are in members version only. Mackerel, cod, and bass are caught with a big net, which means you can catch up to five at a time. Experience listed is for one fish.

Cooking experience (top)

Fishing experience (top)

Experience needed for each level (top)

XP for level 100 has been confirmed, since Everdred reached level 99 in woodcutting. Note that in the screenshot above, it says "Next level at: 14391160." However, on the top score list for magic, Bluerose13x has over 15,000,000 xp for magic, but she is still level 99. Apparently, it's not possible to go over level 99. For predictions of experience values for levels over 100 (if Andrew ever allows them), see the experience formula. Thanks to SlowByte for the following table.

All food that you cook (top)

Notes: A value with (x2) or (x3) is how many times you can use the food before it is gone.
hp = hit points, str = strength, def = defence, att = attack

Buying and selling prices are for the general store. Buying price is with only one item in stock; selling price is with no items in stock.

Meat and stew can be cooked on either a fire or a stove. Bread, pies, pizzas, and cake can only be cooked on a stove. Foods with gray background are in members version only.

Cooking level	Food	Effects	How to obtain	Buying price	Selling price
1	Cooked Meat	+3 hp	Cook meat from a cow, chicken, giant rat, or bear. Raw meat can be bought in the food store. Cooked meat is found in Barbarian Village.	5gp	1gp
1	Bread	+4 hp	Make.	15gp	4gp
10	Redberry Pie	+3(x2) hp	Make.	15gp	4gp
20	Meat Pie	+4(x2) hp	Make.	19gp	6gp
25	Stew	+9 hp	Make.	25gp	8gp
30	Apple Pie	+5(x2) hp	Make.	38gp	12gp
35	Pizza	+10 hp	Make.
35	Wine	+11 hp -3 att	Make. (Used to be in halves; 1/2 jug is +5 hp -1 att but now you drink the whole jug at once.)	0gp	0gp
35	Bad wine	-3 att	This is what you get if you try to make wine and fail. You can still drink it if you want to.	0gp	0gp
40	Cake	+4(x3) hp	Make.	63gp	20gp
45	Meat Pizza	+7(x2) hp	Make.	63gp	20gp
50	Chocolate Cake	+5(x3) hp	Make.	88gp	28gp
55	Anchovy Pizza	+8(x2) hp	Make.
60	Curry	+19 hp	Make.
65	Pineapple pizza	+10(x2) hp	Make.

Fish and Crustaceans (top)

This table lists all the fish and crustaceans in RuneScape, and where you catch them. For a map of specific locations where you can fish, see the official RuneScape map. For a list of what kind of fish a particular fishing item can catch, see items used in cooking and fishing. All fish can be cooked on either a fire or stove. To buy the fishing items listed, visit the fishing store in Port Sarim. You can also sell raw fish at the fishing store. Bait is also dropped by farmers, men, thieves, and warriors (and rogues, in the members version). Feathers are dropped by chickens.

In Draynor Village, there is a fish exchange stall where you can trade fish for certificates. Fish can be either raw or cooked, and five fish are traded for each certificate. Certificates are stackable. Lobsters, bass, swordfish, and sharks can be traded with certificates.

Foods with gray background are in members version only. Using a big net, you can catch up to five fish at a time. Big nets can also catch other items such as seaweed and caskets, which give you 1xp fishing.

Cooking level	Fishing level	Fish/Crustacean	Effects	How to obtain
1	1	Shrimp	+3 hp	Catch with net in ocean.
1	5	Sardine	+4 hp	Catch with rod and bait in the ocean.
5	10	Herring	+5 hp	Rod and bait in ocean
28	15	Anchovies	+1 hp	Net in ocean
??	16	Mackerel	+6 hp	Use big net on Catherby shore.
none	??	Oyster	none	Use big net on Catherby shore. You can't eat them but you can sometimes get pearls from them (used to make crossbow bolt tips).
??	24	Cod	+7 hp	Use big net on Catherby shore.
15	25	Trout	+7 hp	Fly fishing in river
20	25	Pike	+7 hp	Rod and bait in river
25	30	Salmon	+9 hp	Fly fishing in river
30	35	Tuna	+10 hp	Harpoon on dock on Karamja Island.
40	40	Lobster	+12 hp	Use lobster pot on dock on Karamja Island. Can be traded for certificates at fish exchange stall in Draynor Village.
42	46	Bass	+13 hp	Use big net on Catherby shore.
45	50	Swordfish	+14 hp	Use harpoon on dock on Karamja Island. Can be traded for certificates at fish exchange stall in Draynor Village.
53	53	Lava Eel	+14 hp	Use oily fishing rod and bait at Zamorak Dungeon lava spot
80	76	Shark	+20 hp	Use harpoon on Catherby shore.
		Piranha (just a joke)		You can't catch these but they are in RuneScape.

Foods you have to buy (top)

The following foods are only available by finding or buying them; you cannot make them.

Food	Effects	How to obtain
Easter egg	+14 hp?	This is a special item in celebration of Easter. You can't get them any more unless you buy one from another player. I don't think they have any use, but you can eat them.
Pumpkin	+14 hp	These are special items, in celebration of Halloween. The only way to get one now is to buy it from another player. They have no use, but you can eat them.
Beer	+1 hp +1 str -2 att	Buy at most taverns (Varrock bar, Port Sarim, Karamja Island) for 2gp, found for free in Barbarian village.
Asgarnian Ale	+1 hp +2 str -3 att	Buy at tavern in Falador for 2gp.
Dwarven Stout	+1 hp +1 mining smithing -3 att def str	Buy at tavern in Falador for 3gp.
Wizard's Mind Bomb	+1 hp +2 magic -2 att def str	Buy at tavern in Falador for 2gp.
Cabbage	+1 hp	Find in farmer's fields, buy at food store for 1gp.
Draynor Manor cabbage	+1 hp +1 def	Found at Draynor Manor. Normal cabbage and Draynor Manor cabbage look the same but stack in two different piles in the bank.
Cheese	+2 hp	Buy at food store for 4gp, or find in a house in Draynor Village. The house is in the courtyard behind Ned.
Tomato	+2 hp	Buy at food store for 4gp, or find in a house in Draynor Village. The house is in the courtyard behind Ned.
Chocolate	+3 hp	Buy at food store for 10gp or find in cooks guild.
Kebab	Random; +2 to +11 hp, Sometimes +2 str def att, sometimes lose hp.	Buy at Kebab store in Al Kharid for 1gp. Made of goblin meat.
Spinach roll	+2 hp, occationally +5 str	Dropped by Moss Giants (1/128 odds). Trailborn the Wizard, who lives in the Wizards Tower, will also give you one (or more) when you are first starting the Delrith quest. See how to get a spinach roll below.
Banana	+2 hp	Buy at food store for 2gp, found in back room of food store, found on banana trees on Karamja Island. You can also obtain bananas with the Bones to Bananas spell (level 15 magic, requires 2 earth, 2 water, 1 nature rune). You can take bananas out of the crate in Port Sarim and sell them to Luthas in Karamja Island instead of having to pick bananas for him.
Half full wine jug	+5 hp -1 att	Wine used to come in halves, but now you drink the whole jug at once. This used to be available in the Chaos Temple, but not any more. The only way to get a half full jug of wine is to buy it from someone else.

How to get a spinach roll from Trailborn the Wizard (top)

You can only get a spinach roll from Trailborn if you haven't finished the Demon Slayer quest yet. If you have, you will need to create a new character if you want a spinach roll. He keeps them in his pockets though, so do you really want to eat one of them?

1. Talk to the gypsy in Varrock and accept the quest she gives you.
2. Talk to Sir Prysin in the palace in Varrock.
3. Find Trailborn in the Wizards Tower south of Draynor Village and tell him you need Sir Prysin's key.
4. Tell him Sir Prysin is one of the king's knights. He will offer you a spinach roll. Say you'd like one.

Repeat steps 3 and 4 as often as you want, as long as you don't continue the quest by telling Trailborn you will get bones for him. They're also dropped by moss giants.

Foods you can't eat (top)

The following foods are either used only in making another food, or are not used at all for cooking.

Foods with gray background are for members only.

Foods used in cooking (top)

Item	Use	How to obtain
Grapes	Use with a jug of water to make wine.	Found in cooks guild.
Cooking apple	Use as filling for a pie.	Found in cooks guild. I've heard that it can be found in a couple other places also (including north of Ardougne).
Potato	Used in stew. Can't be baked alone. Just think - baked potatoes.	Found in certain farmer's fields, buy in food store.
Milk	Used in making cake. Currently can't be used to make any other dairy products. Also used in the cooks quest. (Xeqtonrstyle: in RS2 you can mix chocolate dust with milk. You get chocolate milk, which can be used as a beverage to gain health back.)	Use bucket with a cow.
Eggs	Used in cake. Used in the cooks quest. Can't be cooked by itself.	Found at certain farms.
Water	Jug of water: Used for making wine. Bucket or jug of water: Used for making dough or soft clay for crafting. Bowl of water: Used for making stew.	Use a jug or bowl with a sink or fountain. Use a bucket with a sink, fountain, or well.
Flour	Used with flour to make dough. Used in cake. Used in the cooks quest.	Buy at food store for 10 gp, make from grain.
Redberries	Used in pie. Can't be eaten raw.	Found just south of Varrock, buy in food store.

Foods not used in cooking (top)

Item	Use	How to obtain
Karamja Rum	Used in a quest.	Buy on Karamja Island for 30gp. Banned from the mainland, but there is a way to smuggle some in...
Cavadaberies	Poisonous; can't be used to make poison pie.	Found just south of Varrock.
Garlic	Used for a quest. Can't be used in any food.	Found in Draynor Village, upstairs in one of the buildings.
Onion	Used for a quest. Not used in any food.	Found near some farms.
White berries	Used in herblaw to make defense and super defense potions.	Found in wilderness level 40, near the red dragons.
Mushroom	No use. All mushrooms in the game are poisonous.	Found in forests, but you can't pick them.
Wine of Zamorak	Used in herblaw (members only)	This is the new name of the half wine jug in the Chaos Temple just outside the wilderness on the west side.
Fish food	OK, this doesn't belong on this page but it is a food sort of. You can't use this on the fish in the river or ocean.	Found in Draynor Manor, second floor.
Poison	Can't be used alone or on any foods except fish food.	Found in Draynor Manor, first floor.

Items used in cooking and fishing (top)

Here is a list of all the items you might need to cook or go fishing. Fishing items are listed at the bottom of the page. The cooks guild is west of Varrock.

Items with gray background are in members version only.

Cooking items (top)

Item	Use	How to obtain
Pot	Used to hold flour.	Buy at general store, found in kitchen at Lumbridge Castle and in the cooks guild. Can be crafted.
Jug	Holding water or wine	Buy at general store, found in kitchen at Lumbridge Castle and in the cooks guild.
Bucket	Holding water or milk	Buy at general store, found in farmer's house between Lumbridge and Varrock.
Pie dish	Holding a pie	Found in cooks guild and in the kitchen of Varrock Palace. Can be crafted.
Bowl	Holding stew	Found in cooks guild. Can be crafted.
Cake tin	Holding a cake until it is baked	Found in cooks guild.
Chef's hat	Needed to get into cooks guild.	Dropped by certain monsters (like the goblins east of Lumbridge), sold by other players. Unfortunately not sold in the clothing store in Varrock.
White apron	Needed to get into the back room of the food store in Port Sarim - you need to do this for a quest or to get free bananas. Also, nothing says "cook" like a chef's hat and apron.	Buy at clothes store in Varrock, found in back room of food store in Port Sarim.
Hatchet/Axe (not Battle Axe)	Used to cut wood for fires. Can also be used as a weapon.	Buy bronze, iron, and steel axes at Bob's Axes in Lumbridge or bronze ax at some general stores. Make any axes by smithing. See a table of hatchets below.
Tinder box	Used to light logs on fire.	Buy at General Store.
Logs	Used to make a fire.	Cut down a tree with a hatchet. Found in a house in Draynor Village.

Fishing items (top)

Item	Use	How to obtain
Net	Used to catch shrimp and anchovies in the ocean.	Buy at fishing store in Port Sarim.
Fishing rod	Used to catch sardines and herring in the ocean, and pike in the river.	Buy at fishing store.
Bait	Used with fishing rod.	Buy at fishing store, dropped by farmers, men, thieves, and warriors (and rogues, in the members version).
Fly fishing rod	Used to catch trout and salmon in the river.	Buy at fishing store.
Feathers	Used with fly fishing rod.	Buy at fishing store, dropped by chickens.
Harpoon	Used to catch tuna, swordfish, and sharks.	Buy at fishing store or found in the fishing guild, in the Master Fisher's house.
Lobster pot	Used to catch lobsters.	Buy at fishing store, or found in the fishing guild, in the Master Fisher's house.
Oily fishing rod	Used to catch lava eels	Talk to the Fishing Merchant in Port Sarim and he'll tell you about the oil. You need lvl 25 herblaw to mix it, and you add it to a regular fishing pole.
Big net	Used to catch mackeral, cod, and bass, from one to five at a time.	Found in the fishing guild, in the Master Fisher's house.

Other items (top)

Item	Use	How to obtain
Pickaxe	Its only uses in cooking are to mine clay for crafting, and to mine metal for making a hatchet.	Buy at Bob's Axes in Lumbridge or underground mining store at dwarven mine. Found in Barbarian Village and Rimmington.
Hammer	Its only use in cooking is to make a hatchet out of a metal bar.	Buy at general store or underground mining store at dwarven mine.

Hatchets/Axes (top)

Metal	Mining level	Smithing level	Aim	Power	How to obtain	Buying price	Selling price
Bronze	1	1	5	6	Bob's Axes in Lumbridge, general store	16	10
Iron	15	15	6	8	Bob's Axes	56	34
Steel	30	31	9	12	Bob's Axes	200	120
Black	N/A	N/A	11	15	Dropped by black demons. Can't cut down trees.	??	??
Mithril	50	51	12	17	Smith or buy from another player.	650	208
Adamantite	70	71	18	24	Smith or buy from another player.	1600	512
Runite	85	86	27	37	Smith or buy from another player.	16,000	5120

Source: RSDemon Online, RSDemon Community