Cooking Guide

Before you begin

• Raw food and a bank nearby
• A usable range or fire; check whether your recipe needs a range
• Keep cooked supplies for combat, Slayer and bossing

Click the skill in your in-game Skills tab to inspect its guide. Check equipment, quests and supplies before leaving the bank.

These level bands are recommendations, not extra unlock requirements. Where an option unlocks partway through a band, keep using the earlier method until you reach it.

1. Levels1–15

   Shrimps, crayfish and basic meat

   Cook your early Fishing catches or ordinary cow meat near Lumbridge. Low-level food is cheap and gives useful starter supplies.

2. Levels15–40

   Trout, then salmon at 25 and tuna at 30

   Use fish from your gathering sessions. Stay with cheaper food while your burn rate is high; switching immediately is not always the best value.

3. Levels40–62

   Lobsters, then swordfish at 45

   Bank raw batches and cook near a bank. Higher XP per success helps only if you can obtain enough raw fish.

4. Levels62–80

   Monkfish or economical lower-tier fish

   Monkfish give 150 base XP on success. Fish availability and price determine whether they are preferable to lobsters or swordfish.

5. Levels80–99

   Sharks, with manta rays available at 91

   Sharks give 210 base XP. High-level recipes can still burn, so compare the final cooked supply and losses as well as the XP.

Field notes

• Brutus’s raw T-bone steak cooks at level 13 for 90 base XP. It is a real alternative when you have his drops.
• Fishing and Cooking requirements differ: catching a shark at 76 does not let you cook it until 80.
• Use the recipe table for successful-cook XP; burnt food does not provide the same reward.

Use this reference alongside the training route. A level requirement alone does not replace the correct tools, ingredients, location or quest access.

Level	Method / reward	Base XP	Details
1	Chicken	30	Per successful cook.
1	Ugthanki	40	Per successful cook.
1	Rabbit	30	Per successful cook.
1	Crayfish	30	Per successful cook.
1	Shrimp	30	Per successful cook.
1	Karambwanji	10	Per successful cook.
1	Sardine	40	Per successful cook.
1	Anchovies	30	Per successful cook.
1	Bread	40	Per successful cook.
1	Beef	30	Per successful cook.
1	Rat meat	30	Per successful cook.
1	Bear meat	30	Per successful cook.
1	Yak meat	30	Per successful cook.
5	Herring	50	Per successful cook.
7	Baked potato	15	Per successful cook.
10	Mackerel	60	Per successful cook.
10	Redberry pie	78	Per successful cook.
11	Skewer roast bird	62	Per successful cook.
12	Thin snail	70	Per successful cook.
13	T bone steak	90	Per successful cook.
13	Bowl egg	50	Per successful cook.
15	Trout	70	Per successful cook.
16	Skewer roast rabbit	72	Per successful cook.
17	Lean snail	80	Per successful cook.
18	Cod	75	Per successful cook.
20	Pike	80	Per successful cook.
20	Meat pie	110	Per successful cook.
20	Bowl nettle	53	Per successful cook.
21	Crab	100	Per successful cook.
21	Skewer roast beast	82.5	Per successful cook.
22	Fat snail	95	Per successful cook.
25	Salmon	90	Per successful cook.
25	Bowl stew	117	Per successful cook.
28	Slimy eel	95	Per successful cook.
28	Sweetcorn	104	Per successful cook.
29	Mud pie	128	Per successful cook.
30	Chompy	100	Per successful cook.
30	Tuna	100	Per successful cook.
30	Karambwan	190	Per successful cook.
30	Skewer chompy	100	Per successful cook.
30	Apple pie	130	Per successful cook.
34	Garden pie	138	Per successful cook.
35	Rainbow fish	110	Per successful cook.
35	Pizza plain	143	Per successful cook.
38	Cave eel	115	Per successful cook.
40	Lobster	120	Per successful cook.
40	Cake	180	Per successful cook.
41	Jubbly	160	Per successful cook.
43	Bass	130	Per successful cook.
43	Bowl onion	60	Per successful cook.
45	Swordfish	140	Per successful cook.
46	Bowl mushroom	60	Per successful cook.
47	Fish pie	164	Per successful cook.
53	Lava eel	30	Per successful cook.
58	Pitta bread	40	Per successful cook.
60	Bowl curry	280	Per successful cook.
62	Monkfish	150	Per successful cook.
70	Admiral pie	210	Per successful cook.
80	Shark	210	Per successful cook.
82	Sea turtle	212	Per successful cook.
85	Wild pie	240	Per successful cook.
91	Manta ray	216	Per successful cook.
95	Summer pie	260	Per successful cook.

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XP values checked against Serenity's skill definitions. Success, resource availability and banking time vary; the table does not promise an hourly training rate.