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 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 burn rate 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.

Cooking Locations

 

Island	Location	Level Required	Wood Required
Remer Island	Harith	1	1 wood per fish
Serpenthelm Island	Burning Beach
Webbers Island	Web Haven
Skull Island	Toothen
Calmere Island	Sheppards Hut
The Outlands	OL 16 and OL 37	1	No wood needed
Exrollia	Wingmere	20	1 wood per fish
Elven Island	Penteza	20	3 wood per 4 fish
Kanzo	Croy	50	4 wood per 5 fish
Anasco Island	Thabis (after completing [Repair the smokehouse] quest.)	80	1 coal per fish

 

Cauldrons and Tinderboxes

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.

Image	Tinderbox	Cooking Level Required	Timer Reduction
	Tinderbox	1	0%
	Sturdy Tinderbox	1	0%
	Wrapped Tinderbox	1	2%
	Bone Tinderbox	75	5%
	Skeletal Tinderbox	75	6%

 

Image	Cauldron	Cooking Level Required	Timer Reduction
	Bronze	1	2%
	Sturdy	1	2%
	Silver	40	8%
	Iron	10	4%
	Steel	25	6%
	Silver	40	8%
	Christmas Cauldron Added Christmas 2018	50	10%
	Gold	55	10%
	Witch Cauldron Added Halloween 2011	60	11%
	Platina	70	12%
	Bone Added Halloween 2011	75	12%
	Skeletal Added Halloween 2019	75	15%
	Syriet	85	14%
	Obsidian	100	16%
	Puranium	120	19%
	Tiromyth	140	30%

 

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 level 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.

Baking cupcakes can be done on Birthday Town in Celebration Island. It is open on Syrnia's birthday, requires 1 grain, takes 30 seconds giving 5 exp and heals 5hp.

Baking carrot cake can be done on Cottontail Village in Celebration Island. It is open on Easter, requires 1 grain, takes 30 seconds giving 7 exp and heals 7hp. 

Baking pumpkin pie can be done on Haunted Sepulcrum in Celebration Island. It is open on Halloween, requires 1 grain and 1 pumpkin, takes 30 seconds giving X exp and heals 17hp. 

Image	Name	Level Required	Ingredients Required	Health Recovered	Location	EXP
	Bread	1	1 Grain	3	Stanro & Thabis	12
	Cake	100	1 Grain + 1 Plum	21	Thabis	50
	Cupcake	1	1 Grain	5	Birthday Town	5
	Carrot Cake	1	1 Grain	7	Cottontail Village	7
	Pumpkin Pie	1	1 Grain + 1 Pumpkin	17	Haunted Sepulcrum	17?
	Apple Pie	1	1 Grain + 1 Apple	20	Tinsel Town	20?

 

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 schedule at Thabis).

 

Cooked Food

Click here to see a list of all cooked food.