Ironman Guide/Cooking
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Cooking is most often trained by ironmen alongside Fishing, both to maximise efficiency of resources and for food.
Early training: Quests
Early levels can be skipped by completing quests that grant Cooking experience. Completing Gertrude's Cat and Cook's Assistant as well as the Mountain Dwarf and Goblin generals subquests of Recipe for Disaster will grant a total of 3,825 Cooking experience, which will get the player up to level 18.
General information and tips
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Cooking food can sometimes result in burnt food, depending on recipe, facility and Cooking level, and will reward no experience. Therefore, players should take advantage of mechanics lowering burn rate. This is especially important for ironmen, since burning also results in lost food.
- Cooking at any cooking range reduces the chance to burn compared to a fire, and should be used whenever possible.
- After the completion of Cook's Assistant, players gain access to the cooking range in Lumbridge Castle, which reduces the burn chance for many recipes.
- After completing the easy Kourend & Kebos Diary, players can cook in the Hosidius Kitchen, which provides a 5% decreased chance to burn food.
- The cooking gauntlets are available after completing Family Crest, which decrease the odds of burning some fish recipes.
Cooking at specific ranges (such as Lumbridge or Hosidius) necessitates banking, rather than cooking and dropping items, which can reduce experience rates. Players should consider their current burn chance and food requirements when training.
Fastest experience
Levels 5–15: Sardines
To start off, the player can buy raw sardines from a fishing shop in Gerrant's Fishy Business. in Port Sarim, or Lovecraft's Tackle in Witchaven and cook them on a fire.
Levels 15–58: Trout and salmon
Continue by catching and cooking raw trout and salmon until at least level 58 Fishing. The best place to fish is in Shilo Village, which has bank nearby and the fish can be later cooked in the Rogues' Den or in the Hosidius kitchen. Another option is to fish in Barbarian Village, which has an everlasting fire near the fishing spots, however players will need to cook the fish on the spot and drop them.
Levels 28–60: Sweetcorn
Starting level 28 players can also cook sweetcorn which can be harvested from sweetcorn plants in Varlamore and cooked at nearby Ranges south of Civitas illa Fortis. This provides up to 70,000 experience per hour at level 60.
Alternatively and more efficiently, sweetcorn can be grown in allotment patches using the Farming skill and collected during herb runs.
Levels 40–60: Cakes
Starting at level 40, players with 33 Construction (boostable) can build an oak larder, which provides an infinite amount of cooking materials to bake cakes. It is very click intensive, however 500 cakes can be cooked per hour. They can be cooked using a range in the player-owned house, or one right outside the portal such as in Rimmington or Hosidius. This provides 50,000 experience per hour at level 40 and 70,000 experience per hour at level 60. While using the larder, the number keys can be held down while clicking once per tick to retrieve the supplies quickly.
Level 60+: Karambwans
To stock up on food, from level 65 Fishing onwards raw karambwans can be caught and cooked after completion of Tai Bwo Wannai Trio yielding karambwans, a food that heals 18 hitpoints per item and can be used for combo-eating.
Raw karambwans can also be bought from Tiadeche's Karambwan Stall and either cooked on a player-made fire and dropped, or banked using either Rionasta's parcel service (Trading sticks acquired by selling opal, jade, and topaz mined from Gem rocks) or a Fish barrel and a nearby teleport such as the Brimhaven player-owned house teleport. Buying karambwan from this shop is one of the fastest ways to source Cooking experience in the game, surpassed only by making wine from grapes dropped from boss encounters such as Zulrah or Vorkath.
Level 65+: Servery pineapple pizzas
At level 65, players can make servery pineapple pizzas in the Mess. This method does not require any supplies and can yield around 150,000–200,000 experience per hour depending on efficiency, however this is very click-intensive. Hop worlds after serving each load to maximise experience gain.
Level 68+: Jugs of wine
Jugs of wine can become the best experience at level 68. Grapes are best obtained from Zulrah or Vorkath, however they can be purchased from the Culinaromancer's Chest.
Jugs of water can be obtained by buying empty jug packs from the Culinaromancer's Chest and using Humidify to fill them with water. Players stop creating jugs of bad wine when they reach 68 Cooking.
Other methods
Frankie's Fishing Emporium
Fish can be bought from Frankie's Fishing Emporium and run to the range west of the shop. Cooking raw bass and raw swordfish provides ~100,000 experience per hour. Banking the cooked food lowers this rate significantly. Players can sell the fish at the general store in between Frankie's Fishing Emporium and the range to the west of it, to lower the amount of money spent.
Tempoross
Players wanting to level Fishing can challenge Tempoross for passive Cooking experience, in addition to a wide array of fish from the reward pool.
Barbarian fishing
3-tick Barbarian Fishing with a knife (eating roe/caviar) will provide passive Cooking experience, however none will be obtained if dropping the fish. If fishing for food instead (such as karambwans or minnow), cooking fish obtained will easily grant the player more than enough Cooking experience.
Buying from the Jatizso Food Shop
Players can purchase and cook raw fish from Flosi Dalksson's raw fish shop in Jatizso. This method requires completion of The Fremennik Trials. The method also requires the player to have at least 18 Cooking, some cash and some logs the player can firemake. Here players can buy raw cod, raw salmon, raw tuna and raw lobsters. Players can start cooking raw cod from level 18 Cooking and work their way up to better fish. The advantage of this shop is that it is very close to a bank so the player can simply bank the fish.
Sacred Eels
Fishing and dissecting sacred eels will provide approximately 20,000 Cooking experience per hour. This often is used as it is somewhat AFK and can provide Zulrah's Scales.
Trouble Brewing
Players with 40 Cooking and the completion of Cabin Fever can access Trouble Brewing. As of 23 May 2024, experience rewards were added for resource gathering within the mini-game.
Chopping Scrapey trees, fletching the logs, and depositing the scrapey bark into the ingredients hopper yields 160 Fletching and 320 Cooking experience per log and does not scale with level. ~180k Cooking xp/hr is attainable on the official Trouble Brewing world, with a bonus ~90k Fletching xp/hr.
If you have a friend or an alt to join the lobby with you, you can reduce the downtime between games to 1 minute and eliminate competition for the trees. Starting games in this way can reach slightly over 200k Cooking xp/hr and 100k Fletching xp/hr.
Although very click intensive, this may be an appealing option for players looking for immediate experience to reach a quest or diary requirement with no time or gold invested in gathering other cooking supplies.
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