Cooking/Training

This guide only contains instructions for the base game, and does not take

Throne of the Herald options into consideration

This article is about training the Cooking skill. For the skill itself, see Cooking.

Training

Cook the highest level fish available until you unlock the Furnace and Pot recipes. Then cook the highest level baked good (furnace) or soup (pot) available. Use Farming to maintain the Allotments required for these recipes.

Upgrade the Cooking Fire, Furnace, and Pot to the highest possible level at all times. The lowest requirements for the Furnace and Pot are:

Furnace: Level 15, Level 15, 500 Normal Logs, 500 Bronze Bar
Pot: Level 25, 400 Bronze Bar

Passive cooking will not slow down or speed up training; passive cooking is strictly for gaining more food while cooking. Passive cooking can be used as a way to cook off small amounts of excess fish or allotments for eating or selling, but in general, as it does not provide Skill XP or item Mastery XP, it can be ignored.

Using Cooking Gloves will increase your chances of successfully cooking, which will increase the rate of training while at low mastery levels by making sure you are more consistently gaining experience.

Alternatively, you can benefit from the lower success chance at low mastery levels by using the Pig and Mole Synergy to generate a high level of Coal Ore. Using this synergy for as long as necessary is highly recommended as the coal output far exceeds that of Mining, and the extremely high XP rates for cooking with the Furnace and Pot make the loss of experience from failed cooks not as painful as it would be on other skills.

Boosters

XP

The following things can be used to increase the amount of Cooking XP received.

Source	Type	XP Boost	Other Modifiers
Burning Coals	Agility Obstacle 3	+3% Cooking Skill XP	-6% Damage To All Monsters -3% Cooking Interval +5% chance to successfully Cook an item.
Pit Jump	Agility Obstacle 3	+3% Global Skill XP	-4% Agility Skill XP
Tree Climb	Agility Obstacle 5	+4% Global Skill XP	-10% Ammo Preservation -10% Chance to Preserve Resources in Skills -10% Rune Preservation +3% Global Mastery XP
A Lovely Jog	Agility Obstacle 8	+5% Global Skill XP	-6% Global Mastery XP
Vale	Constellation	+8% Cooking Skill XP	-5% Cooking Interval +8% Chance to Double Items in Cooking +5% chance to Preserve Food when eaten +5% Food Healing Value +8% Global Accuracy +5% Lifesteal +8% Cooking Mastery XP +8% Hitpoints Skill XP
Skillers Boots	Item (Boots)	+2% Non-Combat Skill XP
Cape of Completion	Item (Cape)	+5% Global Skill XP	Bypass Slayer Area item requirements -20% Agility Obstacle Build Costs -50% Prayer Point Cost for Prayers (Prayer Point cost cannot go below 1) -0.5s Thieving Interval -0.5s Crafting Interval -15% Woodcutting Interval -15% Cooking Interval -50% Coal Costs for Smithing -15% Township Building Cost x2 Items received from Fishing x2 Items received from Fletching x2 Items received from Herblore +5 Additional Runes of the same type in Runecrafting +50% Ammo Preservation +1 to base drop quantity of Stardust and Golden Stardust from Astrology +1 Coal Ore per Ore Mined. (Item doubling does not apply) +100% chance to receive Ash per burn in Firemaking +2% Global Perfect Cook chance. +100% chance to successfully Cook an item. +15% Chance to Double Items in Runecrafting +5% Damage To Slayer Tasks +25% Farming Yield +100% chance to receive coal when burning logs in Firemaking +10% GP From Agility +100% GP From Thieving +10 Flat HP Regen +25% Mastery Pool XP Cap Rune providing items provide 2x as many runes +20% Chance to Preserve Resources in Summoning +25% Flat Slayer Area Effect Negation +10% Chance to preserve Summoning Charges +10 Base Quantity for Summoning Tablet Creation +150 Stealth while Thieving
Firemaking Skillcape	Item (Cape)	+5% Global Skill XP	+100% chance to receive Ash per burn in Firemaking +100% chance to receive coal when burning logs in Firemaking
Maximum Skillcape	Item (Cape)	+5% Global Skill XP	Bypass Slayer Area item requirements -20% Agility Obstacle Build Costs -50% Prayer Point Cost for Prayers (Prayer Point cost cannot go below 1) -0.5s Thieving Interval -0.5s Crafting Interval -15% Woodcutting Interval -15% Cooking Interval -50% Coal Costs for Smithing -15% Township Building Cost x2 Items received from Fishing x2 Items received from Fletching x2 Items received from Herblore +5 Additional Runes of the same type in Runecrafting +50% Ammo Preservation +1 to base drop quantity of Stardust and Golden Stardust from Astrology +1 Coal Ore per Ore Mined. (Item doubling does not apply) +100% chance to receive Ash per burn in Firemaking +2% Global Perfect Cook chance. +100% chance to successfully Cook an item. +15% Chance to Double Items in Runecrafting +5% Damage To Slayer Tasks +25% Farming Yield +100% chance to receive coal when burning logs in Firemaking +10% GP From Agility +100% GP From Thieving +10 Flat HP Regen Rune providing items provide 2x as many runes +20% Chance to Preserve Resources in Summoning +25% Flat Slayer Area Effect Negation +10% Chance to preserve Summoning Charges +10 Base Quantity for Summoning Tablet Creation +150 Stealth while Thieving
Superior Cape of Completion	Item (Cape)	+8% Global Skill XP	Bypass All Slayer Area item requirements -30% Agility Obstacle Build Costs -20% Agility Pillar build costs -75% Prayer Point Cost for Prayers (Prayer Point cost cannot go below 1) -0.8s Thieving Interval -0.8s Crafting Interval -20% Woodcutting Interval -25% Cooking Interval -10% Summoning Interval -10% Astrology Interval -75% Coal Costs for Smithing -20% Township Building Cost x2 Items received from Fishing x2 Items received from Fletching x2 Items received from Herblore +8 Additional Runes of the same type in Runecrafting +75% Ammo Preservation +2 to base drop quantity of Stardust and Golden Stardust from Astrology +1 Bolts produced per action in Fletching +2 Coal Ore per Ore Mined. (Item doubling does not apply) +50% Chance to gain +1 additional bar in Smithing (Cannot be doubled) +100% Chance to gain +1 additional resource in Fishing. Cannot be doubled +100% Chance to gain +1 additional resource in Fletching. Cannot be doubled +15% Chance to gain +1 additional resource in Crafting. Cannot be doubled +100% Chance to gain +1 additional resource in Herblore. Cannot be doubled +20% chance for double harvest +100% chance to receive Ash per burn in Firemaking +100% chance to receive Charcoal per burn in Firemaking +4% Global Perfect Cook chance. +100% chance to successfully Cook an item. +20% chance to avoid the stun interval and stun damage in Thieving when pickpocket attempt fails +25% Chance to Double Items in Runecrafting +1% chance to find a Lost Chest while Fishing (This is separate to the Special Fishing Chance) +5% chance to Preserve Food when eaten +5% Chance To Preserve Potion Charge +5% Chance To Preserve Prayer Points +8% Damage To Slayer Tasks +40% Farming Yield +100% chance to receive coal when burning logs in Firemaking +20% GP From Agility +150% GP From Thieving +5% Chance to find gem veins when Mining +15 Flat HP Regen +5% Lifesteal +5% Magic Damage Bonus from Equipment +5% Melee Strength Bonus from Equipment +1 minimum Bird Nest's recieved from Woodcutting +5% of Maximum Hit added to Minimum Hit +5% Ranged Strength Bonus from Equipment +5% Reflect Damage +10% Rune Preservation Rune providing items provide 4x as many runes +25% Chance to Preserve Resources in Summoning +35% Flat Slayer Area Effect Negation +10% Slayer Coins +15% Chance to preserve Summoning Charges +10 Base Quantity for Summoning Tablet Creation +10% Summoning Max Hit +270 Stealth while Thieving
Superior Firemaking Skillcape	Item (Cape)	+8% Global Skill XP	+100% chance to receive Ash per burn in Firemaking +100% chance to receive Charcoal per burn in Firemaking +100% chance to receive coal when burning logs in Firemaking
Superior Max Skillcape	Item (Cape)	+8% Global Skill XP	Bypass All Slayer Area item requirements -30% Agility Obstacle Build Costs -20% Agility Pillar build costs -75% Prayer Point Cost for Prayers (Prayer Point cost cannot go below 1) -0.8s Thieving Interval -0.8s Crafting Interval -20% Woodcutting Interval -25% Cooking Interval -10% Summoning Interval -10% Astrology Interval -75% Coal Costs for Smithing -20% Township Building Cost x2 Items received from Fishing x2 Items received from Fletching x2 Items received from Herblore +8 Additional Runes of the same type in Runecrafting +75% Ammo Preservation +2 to base drop quantity of Stardust and Golden Stardust from Astrology +1 Bolts produced per action in Fletching +2 Coal Ore per Ore Mined. (Item doubling does not apply) +50% Chance to gain +1 additional bar in Smithing (Cannot be doubled) +100% Chance to gain +1 additional resource in Fishing. Cannot be doubled +100% Chance to gain +1 additional resource in Fletching. Cannot be doubled +15% Chance to gain +1 additional resource in Crafting. Cannot be doubled +100% Chance to gain +1 additional resource in Herblore. Cannot be doubled +20% chance for double harvest +100% chance to receive Ash per burn in Firemaking +100% chance to receive Charcoal per burn in Firemaking +4% Global Perfect Cook chance. +100% chance to successfully Cook an item. +20% chance to avoid the stun interval and stun damage in Thieving when pickpocket attempt fails +25% Chance to Double Items in Runecrafting +1% chance to find a Lost Chest while Fishing (This is separate to the Special Fishing Chance) +5% chance to Preserve Food when eaten +5% Chance To Preserve Potion Charge +5% Chance To Preserve Prayer Points +8% Damage To Slayer Tasks +40% Farming Yield +100% chance to receive coal when burning logs in Firemaking +20% GP From Agility +150% GP From Thieving +5% Chance to find gem veins when Mining +15 Flat HP Regen +5% Lifesteal +5% Magic Damage Bonus from Equipment +5% Melee Strength Bonus from Equipment +1 minimum Bird Nest's recieved from Woodcutting +5% of Maximum Hit added to Minimum Hit +5% Ranged Strength Bonus from Equipment +5% Reflect Damage +10% Rune Preservation Rune providing items provide 4x as many runes +25% Chance to Preserve Resources in Summoning +35% Flat Slayer Area Effect Negation +10% Slayer Coins +15% Chance to preserve Summoning Charges +10 Base Quantity for Summoning Tablet Creation +10% Summoning Max Hit +270 Stealth while Thieving
Candelabra (Lit)	Item (Consumable)	+4% Non-Combat Skill XP	-3% Interval for all Non-Combat Skills +4% Global Mastery XP +3% Chance to Preserve Resources in Skills
Chef's Hat	Item (Helmet)	+1% Cooking Skill XP	-0.1s Cooking Interval +1% Cooking Mastery XP
Skillers Hat	Item (Helmet)	+2% Non-Combat Skill XP
Golden Wreath	Item (Helmet, Passive)	+3% Non-Combat Skill XP	+100 GP gained when earning GP, except Alt. Magic and Item Sales +3% Global Mastery XP
Cooking Apron	Item (Platebody)	+1% Cooking Skill XP	+20% Food Healing Value +1% Cooking Mastery XP
Skillers Body	Item (Platebody)	+2% Non-Combat Skill XP
Skillers Leggings	Item (Platelegs)	+2% Non-Combat Skill XP
Ancient Ring of Skills	Item (Ring)	+8% Non-Combat Skill XP
Book of Scholars	Item (Shield, Passive)	+3% Global Skill XP	-15% GP from all sources (Except Item Selling)
Chef's Spoon	Item (Weapon)	+1% Cooking Skill XP	+2% chance to successfully Cook an item. +1% Cooking Mastery XP
Pyro	Pet	+1% Global Skill XP
Magic Cooking Fire	Upgrade	+10% Cooking Skill XP
Mahogany Cooking Fire	Upgrade	+5% Cooking Skill XP
Maple Cooking Fire	Upgrade	+5% Cooking Skill XP
Normal Cooking Fire	Upgrade	+5% Cooking Skill XP
Oak Cooking Fire	Upgrade	+5% Cooking Skill XP
Redwood Cooking Fire	Upgrade	+20% Cooking Skill XP	+3% Perfect Cook chance for items cooked on Cooking Fire
Teak Cooking Fire	Upgrade	+5% Cooking Skill XP
Willow Cooking Fire	Upgrade	+5% Cooking Skill XP
Yew Cooking Fire	Upgrade	+10% Cooking Skill XP

Action Time

The following things can be used to reduce the amount of time per action in Cooking.

Source	Type	Action Interval	Other Modifiers
Burning Coals	Agility Obstacle 3	-3% Cooking Interval	-6% Damage To All Monsters +5% chance to successfully Cook an item. +3% Cooking Skill XP
Sweltering Pools	Agility Obstacle 8	-3% Cooking Interval	-20% Chance to Preserve Resources in Skills +10% Auto Eat Efficiency +10% Food Healing Value +3% Cooking Mastery XP
Monkey Trail	Agility Obstacle 12	-5% Cooking Interval	-10% Chance to Preserve Resources in Skills -6% Agility Skill XP +15% Farming Yield +10% Food Healing Value
Freezing Rafting	Agility Obstacle 15	-10% Cooking Interval	-20% Farming Yield +15% Auto Eat Efficiency +3% Auto Eat Threshold
Elite Pillar of Expertise	Agility Pillar	-3% Interval for all Non-Combat Skills	+8% Chance to Double Items Globally +40% GP from all sources (Except Item Selling) +8% Global Mastery XP
Vale	Constellation	-5% Cooking Interval	+8% Chance to Double Items in Cooking +5% chance to Preserve Food when eaten +5% Food Healing Value +8% Global Accuracy +5% Lifesteal +8% Cooking Mastery XP +8% Hitpoints Skill XP +8% Cooking Skill XP
Cape of Completion	Item (Cape)	-15% Cooking Interval	Bypass Slayer Area item requirements -20% Agility Obstacle Build Costs -50% Prayer Point Cost for Prayers (Prayer Point cost cannot go below 1) -0.5s Thieving Interval -0.5s Crafting Interval -15% Woodcutting Interval -50% Coal Costs for Smithing -15% Township Building Cost x2 Items received from Fishing x2 Items received from Fletching x2 Items received from Herblore +5 Additional Runes of the same type in Runecrafting +50% Ammo Preservation +1 to base drop quantity of Stardust and Golden Stardust from Astrology +1 Coal Ore per Ore Mined. (Item doubling does not apply) +100% chance to receive Ash per burn in Firemaking +2% Global Perfect Cook chance. +100% chance to successfully Cook an item. +15% Chance to Double Items in Runecrafting +5% Damage To Slayer Tasks +25% Farming Yield +100% chance to receive coal when burning logs in Firemaking +10% GP From Agility +100% GP From Thieving +5% Global Skill XP +10 Flat HP Regen +25% Mastery Pool XP Cap Rune providing items provide 2x as many runes +20% Chance to Preserve Resources in Summoning +25% Flat Slayer Area Effect Negation +10% Chance to preserve Summoning Charges +10 Base Quantity for Summoning Tablet Creation +150 Stealth while Thieving
Cooking Skillcape	Item (Cape)	-15% Cooking Interval	+2% Global Perfect Cook chance. +100% chance to successfully Cook an item.
Maximum Skillcape	Item (Cape)	-15% Cooking Interval	Bypass Slayer Area item requirements -20% Agility Obstacle Build Costs -50% Prayer Point Cost for Prayers (Prayer Point cost cannot go below 1) -0.5s Thieving Interval -0.5s Crafting Interval -15% Woodcutting Interval -50% Coal Costs for Smithing -15% Township Building Cost x2 Items received from Fishing x2 Items received from Fletching x2 Items received from Herblore +5 Additional Runes of the same type in Runecrafting +50% Ammo Preservation +1 to base drop quantity of Stardust and Golden Stardust from Astrology +1 Coal Ore per Ore Mined. (Item doubling does not apply) +100% chance to receive Ash per burn in Firemaking +2% Global Perfect Cook chance. +100% chance to successfully Cook an item. +15% Chance to Double Items in Runecrafting +5% Damage To Slayer Tasks +25% Farming Yield +100% chance to receive coal when burning logs in Firemaking +10% GP From Agility +100% GP From Thieving +5% Global Skill XP +10 Flat HP Regen Rune providing items provide 2x as many runes +20% Chance to Preserve Resources in Summoning +25% Flat Slayer Area Effect Negation +10% Chance to preserve Summoning Charges +10 Base Quantity for Summoning Tablet Creation +150 Stealth while Thieving
Superior Cape of Completion	Item (Cape)	-25% Cooking Interval	Bypass All Slayer Area item requirements -30% Agility Obstacle Build Costs -20% Agility Pillar build costs -75% Prayer Point Cost for Prayers (Prayer Point cost cannot go below 1) -0.8s Thieving Interval -0.8s Crafting Interval -20% Woodcutting Interval -10% Summoning Interval -10% Astrology Interval -75% Coal Costs for Smithing -20% Township Building Cost x2 Items received from Fishing x2 Items received from Fletching x2 Items received from Herblore +8 Additional Runes of the same type in Runecrafting +75% Ammo Preservation +2 to base drop quantity of Stardust and Golden Stardust from Astrology +1 Bolts produced per action in Fletching +2 Coal Ore per Ore Mined. (Item doubling does not apply) +50% Chance to gain +1 additional bar in Smithing (Cannot be doubled) +100% Chance to gain +1 additional resource in Fishing. Cannot be doubled +100% Chance to gain +1 additional resource in Fletching. Cannot be doubled +15% Chance to gain +1 additional resource in Crafting. Cannot be doubled +100% Chance to gain +1 additional resource in Herblore. Cannot be doubled +20% chance for double harvest +100% chance to receive Ash per burn in Firemaking +100% chance to receive Charcoal per burn in Firemaking +4% Global Perfect Cook chance. +100% chance to successfully Cook an item. +20% chance to avoid the stun interval and stun damage in Thieving when pickpocket attempt fails +25% Chance to Double Items in Runecrafting +1% chance to find a Lost Chest while Fishing (This is separate to the Special Fishing Chance) +5% chance to Preserve Food when eaten +5% Chance To Preserve Potion Charge +5% Chance To Preserve Prayer Points +8% Damage To Slayer Tasks +40% Farming Yield +100% chance to receive coal when burning logs in Firemaking +20% GP From Agility +150% GP From Thieving +5% Chance to find gem veins when Mining +8% Global Skill XP +15 Flat HP Regen +5% Lifesteal +5% Magic Damage Bonus from Equipment +5% Melee Strength Bonus from Equipment +1 minimum Bird Nest's recieved from Woodcutting +5% of Maximum Hit added to Minimum Hit +5% Ranged Strength Bonus from Equipment +5% Reflect Damage +10% Rune Preservation Rune providing items provide 4x as many runes +25% Chance to Preserve Resources in Summoning +35% Flat Slayer Area Effect Negation +10% Slayer Coins +15% Chance to preserve Summoning Charges +10 Base Quantity for Summoning Tablet Creation +10% Summoning Max Hit +270 Stealth while Thieving
Superior Cooking Skillcape	Item (Cape)	-25% Cooking Interval	+4% Global Perfect Cook chance. +100% chance to successfully Cook an item. +5% chance to Preserve Food when eaten
Superior Max Skillcape	Item (Cape)	-25% Cooking Interval	Bypass All Slayer Area item requirements -30% Agility Obstacle Build Costs -20% Agility Pillar build costs -75% Prayer Point Cost for Prayers (Prayer Point cost cannot go below 1) -0.8s Thieving Interval -0.8s Crafting Interval -20% Woodcutting Interval -10% Summoning Interval -10% Astrology Interval -75% Coal Costs for Smithing -20% Township Building Cost x2 Items received from Fishing x2 Items received from Fletching x2 Items received from Herblore +8 Additional Runes of the same type in Runecrafting +75% Ammo Preservation +2 to base drop quantity of Stardust and Golden Stardust from Astrology +1 Bolts produced per action in Fletching +2 Coal Ore per Ore Mined. (Item doubling does not apply) +50% Chance to gain +1 additional bar in Smithing (Cannot be doubled) +100% Chance to gain +1 additional resource in Fishing. Cannot be doubled +100% Chance to gain +1 additional resource in Fletching. Cannot be doubled +15% Chance to gain +1 additional resource in Crafting. Cannot be doubled +100% Chance to gain +1 additional resource in Herblore. Cannot be doubled +20% chance for double harvest +100% chance to receive Ash per burn in Firemaking +100% chance to receive Charcoal per burn in Firemaking +4% Global Perfect Cook chance. +100% chance to successfully Cook an item. +20% chance to avoid the stun interval and stun damage in Thieving when pickpocket attempt fails +25% Chance to Double Items in Runecrafting +1% chance to find a Lost Chest while Fishing (This is separate to the Special Fishing Chance) +5% chance to Preserve Food when eaten +5% Chance To Preserve Potion Charge +5% Chance To Preserve Prayer Points +8% Damage To Slayer Tasks +40% Farming Yield +100% chance to receive coal when burning logs in Firemaking +20% GP From Agility +150% GP From Thieving +5% Chance to find gem veins when Mining +8% Global Skill XP +15 Flat HP Regen +5% Lifesteal +5% Magic Damage Bonus from Equipment +5% Melee Strength Bonus from Equipment +1 minimum Bird Nest's recieved from Woodcutting +5% of Maximum Hit added to Minimum Hit +5% Ranged Strength Bonus from Equipment +5% Reflect Damage +10% Rune Preservation Rune providing items provide 4x as many runes +25% Chance to Preserve Resources in Summoning +35% Flat Slayer Area Effect Negation +10% Slayer Coins +15% Chance to preserve Summoning Charges +10 Base Quantity for Summoning Tablet Creation +10% Summoning Max Hit +270 Stealth while Thieving
Candelabra (Lit)	Item (Consumable)	-3% Interval for all Non-Combat Skills	+4% Global Mastery XP +3% Chance to Preserve Resources in Skills +4% Non-Combat Skill XP
Cooking Lesser Relic	Item (Consumable)	-5% Cooking Interval	+30% Chance to gain +1 additional resource in Cooking. Cannot be doubled +10% Lifesteal
Chef's Hat	Item (Helmet)	-0.1s Cooking Interval	+1% Cooking Mastery XP +1% Cooking Skill XP
Mortar and Pestle	Item (Shield)	-5% Cooking Interval	+10% chance to receive an additional Perfect Item from Cooking (Cannot be doubled) +3% Cooking Mastery XP
Harold	Pet	-2% Interval for all Non-Combat Skills	-0.1s Attack Interval -0.2s Monster Respawn Timer +3% Ammo Preservation +2% Chance to Double Items Globally +3% Chance To Preserve Potion Charge +5% GP from all sources (Except Item Selling) +5% Global Accuracy +5% Global Evasion +5% Global Mastery XP +50% Mastery Pool XP Cap +2% of Maximum Hit added to Minimum Hit +3% Rune Preservation +5% Slayer Coins +3% Chance to preserve Summoning Charges
Ragnar Dungeon Ruins	Point of Interest	-0.1s Cooking Interval	-0.1s Firemaking Interval -0.1s Smithing Interval +10% Chance to gain +1 additional resource in Cooking. Cannot be doubled +10% Chance to gain +1 additional resource in Firemaking. Cannot be doubled +10% Chance to gain +1 additional resource in Smithing. Cannot be doubled
Art of Control	Upgrade	-15% Cooking Interval	-15% Firemaking Interval -15% Smithing Interval
Augite Furnace	Upgrade	-2% Cooking Interval	+2% Chance to Double Items in Cooking
Carrion Cooking Fire	Upgrade	-3% Cooking Interval	+3% Perfect Cook chance for items cooked on Cooking Fire +2% Chance to Double Items in Cooking
Palladium Pot	Upgrade	-2% Cooking Interval	+2% Chance to Double Items in Cooking