Cooking/Training

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
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 -0.5s Thieving Interval -0.5s Crafting Interval -15% Woodcutting Interval -15% Cooking Interval -50% Coal Costs for Smithing x2 Items received from Fishing x2 Items received from Fletching x2 Items received from Herblore +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) +2% Global Perfect Cook chance. +100% chance to successfully Cook an item. +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 +100% to effective Mastery Pool progress Rune providing items provide 2x as many runes +35% Chance to Preserve Resources in Runecrafting +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 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 -0.5s Thieving Interval -0.5s Crafting Interval -15% Woodcutting Interval -15% Cooking Interval -50% Coal Costs for Smithing x2 Items received from Fishing x2 Items received from Fletching x2 Items received from Herblore +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) +2% Global Perfect Cook chance. +100% chance to successfully Cook an item. +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 +35% Chance to Preserve Resources in Runecrafting +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
Chef's Hat	Item (Helmet)	+1% Cooking Skill XP	-0.1s Cooking Interval +1% Cooking Mastery XP
Cooking Apron	Item (Platebody)	+1% Cooking Skill XP	+20% Food Healing Value +1% Cooking Mastery XP
Ancient Ring of Skills	Item (Ring)	+8% Cooking Skill XP	+8% Alt. Magic Skill XP +8% Woodcutting Skill XP +8% Fishing Skill XP +8% Firemaking Skill XP +8% Mining Skill XP +8% Smithing Skill XP +8% Farming Skill XP +8% Thieving Skill XP +8% Fletching Skill XP +8% Crafting Skill XP +8% Runecrafting Skill XP +8% Herblore Skill XP +8% Agility Skill XP +8% Summoning Skill XP +8% Astrology 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
Burning Coals	Agility Obstacle 3	+3% Cooking Skill XP	-6% Damage To All Monsters +5% chance to successfully Cook an item.
Pit Jump	Agility Obstacle 3	+1% Global Skill XP	-4% Agility Skill XP
Tree Climb	Agility Obstacle 5	+3% Global Skill XP	-10% Ammo Preservation -10% Chance to Preserve Resources in Skills -10% Rune Preservation +2% Global Mastery XP
A Lovely Jog	Agility Obstacle 8	+5% Global Skill XP	-6% Global Mastery XP
Vale	Constellation	+1-15% Cooking Skill XP	-1-15% Cooking Interval +1-15% Chance to Double Items in Cooking +1-15% chance to Preserve Food when eaten +1-15% Food Healing Value +1-15% GP From Monsters +1-15% Global Accuracy +1-15% Hitpoint Regeneration +1-15% Lifesteal +1-15% Cooking Mastery XP +1-15% Hitpoints Skill 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
Cape of Completion	Item (Cape)	-15% Cooking Interval	Bypass Slayer Area item requirements -20% Agility Obstacle Build Costs -50% Prayer Point Cost for Prayers -0.5s Thieving Interval -0.5s Crafting Interval -15% Woodcutting Interval -50% Coal Costs for Smithing x2 Items received from Fishing x2 Items received from Fletching x2 Items received from Herblore +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) +2% Global Perfect Cook chance. +100% chance to successfully Cook an item. +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 +100% to effective Mastery Pool progress Rune providing items provide 2x as many runes +35% Chance to Preserve Resources in Runecrafting +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 -0.5s Thieving Interval -0.5s Crafting Interval -15% Woodcutting Interval -50% Coal Costs for Smithing x2 Items received from Fishing x2 Items received from Fletching x2 Items received from Herblore +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) +2% Global Perfect Cook chance. +100% chance to successfully Cook an item. +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 +35% Chance to Preserve Resources in Runecrafting +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
Chef's Hat	Item (Helmet)	-0.1s Cooking Interval	+1% Cooking Mastery XP +1% 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
Vale	Constellation	-1-15% Cooking Interval	+1-15% Chance to Double Items in Cooking +1-15% chance to Preserve Food when eaten +1-15% Food Healing Value +1-15% GP From Monsters +1-15% Global Accuracy +1-15% Hitpoint Regeneration +1-15% Lifesteal +1-15% Cooking Mastery XP +1-15% Hitpoints Skill XP +1-15% Cooking Skill XP
Art of Control	Upgrade	-15% Cooking Interval	-15% Firemaking Interval -15% Smithing Interval