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Cooking Guide

Introduction

Cooking is one of the most important skills in Runescape. Everyone needs food to live, and that's what this skill provides. You won't be able to make the best food that heals 20 hit points (HP) right from the start, but it doesn't take long before you get up there. When making food there's also a possibility (like with most other skills) that you will fail. This will result in burning the food, and making it worthless. If you have a higher cooking level, you will burn food less often.

Using a range is supposed to burn less food than using a fire. Additionally, Jagex has stated that the Lumbridge castle range burns food less often. However, it seems that this applies to lower-level and non-fish foods. This may be intended to help new players cook the food they need. Small studies indicate that swordfish and monkfish seem unaffected - they burn at the same rate as on any other range.

The fastest cooking location (closest bank to fire) for members is in the Rogues' Den under the pub in Burthorpe. Emerald Benedict acts as your bank, and there is an eternal fire right near him.

Levels to stop burning and members' cooking gauntlets are discussed in the Burning and gauntlets section.

This guide presents foods by category in order to provide instructions for making each type of food. However, it may be helpful to see exactly which food you can cook at your skill level. A table showing all foods, cooking levels and xp earned is available by clicking the link below.

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Basics

Cooking/Baking
Supplies
Main Cooking Shops
Minor Cooking Shops
Garden Produce
Cooks' Guild
Beginner's Cooking

If you are new to Runescape, you may want to visit Cordero the Cooking Tutor to learn more about the basics. The Beginner's Guide minimap shows that he is located at the question mark just south of Bob's Axes in Lumbridge.

COOKING/BAKING

Cooking food can be done in 2 ways. One is to get your axe out of the bank, chop some trees and light the logs with a tinderbox to cook your food on a fire. Tinderboxes can be found pretty much at any General Store in Runescape. The second way is to cook on a range, fireplace or cooking pot found inside buildings scattered around Runescape. Note that only meat, fish, vegetables and tea can be cooked on a fire or in a fireplace. Using a range is supposed to burn less food than using a fire.

To cook an item, just click on it, then click on the heat source (range, fire or fireplace). (You can also right-click on the food and select "Use", then click the heat source.) You can also cook multiple items at the same time. Whenever you have more than one raw item of the same kind in your inventory, and click to use it on a heat source, you will see a little menu at the bottom of your game window showing a picture of the item. Left-click on it to cook only one, or right-click on it if you'd like to cook several of them at once. Then select the number of raw items you'd like to cook at the same time. This menu doesn't appear if you have only one of the raw items in your inventory.

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SUPPLIES

Most cooking recipes have certain basic supplies in common. Common dishes may include pots, bowls and pie dishes. Ingredients may include flour, water and milk. F2P items and sources are marked with a solid circle.

Pots, pie dishes and bowls

These items can all be made from clay using the crafting skill. Check our crafting guide for detailed instructions.
Pots can be bought in any general store.
Pie dishes respawn in the Dwarven Mine at the pickaxe salesman, as well as in the Cooking Guild.
Members can buy bowls, pie dishes, and pots at "Frenita's Cookery Shop" in Yanille.

Flour

There are a number of ways to get flour:

Go to any general store and buy a pot of it, if they have it in stock.
Buy it from a shop that stocks pots of flour, such as the Port Sarim food shop, or for members, "Hudo's Grand Tree Groceries" in the Grand Tree, "Frenita's Cookery Shop" in Yanille or the General Store in Port Khazard.
Members can also take a pot to the Sinclair Mansion north of Seers' Village. In the kitchen on the ground floor there is a flour barrel. You can fill your pot from the barrel as many times as you like (just click it).
Mill your own flour:
1. Get a pot. Go to a wheat field and pick some wheat grain. There are wheat fields all over Runescape, but try to find one that also has a windmill nearby. We recommend either Lumbridge or (members) north of Ardougne.
2. Go to the windmill, and go all the way to the top floor. Use your grain on the hopper, and operate the hopper controls.
3. Go back down the stairs all the way to the ground floor, and use your pot on the flour. You can put more than one grain in the hopper at a time, but you'll need more than one pot to pick up the flour. If you put one grain in the hopper, you need one pot. If you put two grains in the hopper, you'll need two pots to pick up the flour from the two grains.

Getting water

Find a jug or a bucket. These can be bought in any general store.
Go to a sink, fountain or pump and use your jug/bucket on it. If you have a bucket, you can also use a well as your water source. Water sources are marked on your minimap by a water drop.

Getting milk

Get a bucket. These can be bought in any general store.
Find a Dairy cow. They are all over Runescape, usually with any cow herd, at farms and next to the Crafting Guild. They don't have an "Attack" option. They are tethered so they won't wander off while you're milking them.
Left click on the cow to milk it.
If members don't feel like milking a cow, they can buy a bucket of milk at some of the stores listed below.

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MAIN COOKING SUPPLY SHOPS

A few RuneScape shops specialize in cooking supplies. While most general stores sell a few pots of flour and tinderboxes, these stores provide a greater variety of cooking ingredients. The only F2P food stores are Wydin's in Port Sarim and Fat Tony's pizza supplies in the Wilderness Bandit Camp. F2P stores are marked with a solid circle.

Gnome Stronghold ("Funch's Fine Groceries" - southeast corner of Grand Tree, upstairs) - Heckel Funch sells chocolate, chocolate dust, cream, and milk; as well as knives. {Also sells Gnome Cuisine ingredients: dwellberries, equa leaves, lemons, limes, oranges, and pineapples; bartending ingredients brandy, gin, vodka, and whisky; as well as cocktail shakers and cocktail recipe books.} He stands near a range.
Gnome Stronghold ("Grand Tree Groceries" - northwest corner of Grand Tree, upstairs) - Hudo sells cabbage, cheese, chocolate, chocolate dust, cream, flour, gnome spice, milk, onions, potatoes, and tomatoes; as well as knives. {Also sells Gnome Cuisine ingredients: dwellberries, equa leaves, Gianne dough, lemons, limes, oranges, and pineapples; as well as cocktail shakers and recipe books.} Range is nearby.
Lumbridge ("Culinaromancer's chest" - castle basement) - members can access after completing the first part of the Recipe For Disaster quest. As you complete more parts of the quest, the amount of stock available from the chest increases. Members may buy butter, cheese, chocolate, cooking apples, cream, eggs, flour, grapes, milk, pizza bases, spice, and tomatoes; as well as bowls, buckets, cake tins, empty teacups, jugs, pie dishes, and pots. Please note that the chest is downstairs from the Lumbridge range, and you can also use the chest as a bank!
Miscellania ("Miscellanian Food Shop" - dungeon) - Fremenniks can buy bread, cabbages, cheese, chocolate, flour, milk, onions and potatoes.
Port Sarim ("Wydin's Grocery" - the only F2P food store) - sells cabbages, cheese, chicken (raw), chocolate, flour, meat (raw), potatoes, redberries, and tomatoes (also bananas). Range is two buildings away.
Yanille ("Frenita's Cookery Shop") - Frenita sells chocolate, cooking apples, flour, and potatoes; as well as bowls, cake tins, empty teacups, jugs, pie dishes, pots, and tinderboxes. Has range, churn and sink.

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MINOR COOKING SUPPLY SHOPS

Etceteria and Miscellania ("Greengrocer" vegetable stalls) - Fremenniks can purchase (or thieve) cabbages, garlic, onions, potatoes, and tomatoes.
Nardah ("Rok's Chocs Box") - notable only for its larger stock of chocolate bars.
Pollnivneach ("Pollnivneach General Store") - stocks cheese and tomatoes; bowls, buckets and jugs of water; and empty pots and jugs (among other desert items.)
Rellekka ("Sigmund the Merchant") - Fremenniks can purchase cabbages, cooked meat, eggs, and potatoes here; also sells buckets, buckets of water, pots and tinderboxes (among other items). Fire in nearby Longhall.
Wilderness Bandit Camp ("Fat Tony's" - F2P) - sells pizza bases; cheese and tomato both spawn on table. Has range, as well as small net fishing and giant rats nearby.

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GARDEN PRODUCE

Recipes may call for fruit or vegetables. There are multiple ways to obtain these ingredients.

Shops - see above section.
Farming - members can plant their own vegetables, fruit trees and bushes. This is the *only* way to obtain mushrooms, strawberries, sweetcorn, and watermelon. See Tip.It's Farming skill guide.
Farms - there are many locations in Runescape where you can harvest produce for free. Some of these farms also include helpful spawns. F2P farms are marked with a solid circle.
- Ardougne farm (north of town) - cooking apple spawn, potatoes, wheat; range in house; also dairy cow, mill, churn and well nearby
- Draynor farm (road to Lumbridge) - cabbages, onions, potatoes, wheat; fireplace in house; mill and churn nearby
- Falador farm (south of town) - cabbages, eggs; also dairy cow, churn, sink and water barrel
- Feldip Hills (chompy hunting grounds) - onions and potatoes in ground; also tomato and equa leaves spawns
- Fisher King's Realm (requires Holy Grail quest) - onions, potatoes
- Lumbridge farm (road to Varrock) - eggs, potatoes; fireplace in house; also dairy cow and other cows nearby
- Monastery garden - cabbages
- Miscellania farm - cabbages, potatoes and wheat
- Rellekka garden - cabbages, onions and potatoes; fire in nearby Longhall; also milk spawn, dairy cow, churn and well nearby
- Rimmington farm (northwest of town) - cabbages and onions
- Sinclair Mansion garden - cabbages, onions, potatoes and wheat; also cow, dairy cow, churn and sink nearby
- Varrock farm (south of town) - wheat
- Varrock garden (behind house near south gate) - cabbage
- Zanaris (requires Lost City quest) - chocolate, wheat; also cows, dairy cow, churn, fountains, mill and range nearby

Additional spawns and sources for these items are listed in this table.

Produce spawns
Pic	Name	Heals	Sources
	Apple (cooking)	-	Spawns in Cooking Guild (3x) and (members)Ardougne farmhouse.
	Cabbage	1	Spawns in Lumbridge Castle basement and Al Kharid palace.
	Cheese	2	Spawns at Aggie the Witch's in Draynor Village and Fat Tony's in Wilderness Bandit Camp.
	Garlic	-	Spawns in cupboard upstairs in Morgan's house in Draynor Village, (members) in house across from anvils in Seers' Village, and in kitchen next to Ardougne market square.
	Pineapple	8 (4 slices, heals 2 each)	(Members) Brimhaven southwest gold mine has 4 plants nearby, each bearing 5 fruit.
	Redberry	-	East of "Stonehenge" which is south of Varrock
	Tomato	1	Spawns at Aggie the Witch's in Draynor Village, Fat Tony's in Wilderness Bandit Camp, and (members) Feldip Hills chompy hunting grounds southeast of glider landing strip; members can rapidly obtain many by talking to the Recruiter in West Ardougne square (requires Plague City quest)

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Cooking Guild

The Cooking Guild is located just west of Varrock. You need a cooking level of 32 and must be wearing a chef's hat to enter. Chef's hats are dropped by imps and goblins.

The guild features ranges, a sink, a churn, and a mill. It has spawns of chocolate, a pie dish, a cake tin, cooking apples, grapes, a pot and a jug. A new feature of the Cooking Guild for members is the Pie Seller on the ground floor. He sells a book of recipes for all the fancy stat-raising pies now available to members. He also buys and sells pies (though his normal stock for some is zero). If you speak to him, you can offer to help him. He will ask you to make a certain number of pies, and when you deliver them, he will pay you (much like basic Gnome Cuisine at the Grand Tree.)

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BEGINNER'S COOKING

Bread

To make bread, mix flour and water and make 'bread dough'.
Bake it on a range.

Bread
Pic	Name	Cooking lvl	Cooking exp	Healing
	Bread	1	40	5

Cooked Meat/Chicken

To make cooked meat or chicken, you'll need to kill cows, bears, giant rats, rabbits or chickens, and then use the raw meat/chicken with a fire or range.

Members now have an additional option when cooking cow or bear meat. When you use the meat with a fire or range, a menu pops up asking if you wish to dry the meat or cook it. Selecting cook works the same as always. Selecting dry turns the meat into sinew, which can then be used on a spinning wheel to make a crossbow string (see Crafting Guide.)

Raw bird and beast meat (from the Hunter skill) can only be cooked over a fire using a spit. Spits can be smithed from iron with level 17 smithing.

Cooked meat/chicken
Pic	Name	Method	Cooking lvl	Cooking exp	Healing
	Cooked meat	Fire or Range	1	30	3
	Cooked chicken	Fire or Range	1	30	3
	Cooked rabbit	Range *	1	30	5
	Sinew	Fire or Range	3	3	-
	Roast bird meat	Fire spit only	11	62.5	6
	Roast rabbit	Fire spit *	16	72.5	7
	Roast beast meat	Fire spit only	21	82.5	8

* Raw rabbit can be cooked on either a range or a spit, but the spit roasting xp and healing is higher.

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Fish

To cook fish, simply use on a fire or range. A range will burn fewer, and using cooking gauntlets from the Family Crest quest will reduce the chances of burning lobsters, swordfish and sharks. The Fishing skill guide contains information about equipment and locations.

Fish
Pic	Name	Fishing lvl	Fishing exp	Cooking lvl	Cooking exp	Healing	Tool / Bait	Where
	Shrimp	1	10	1	30	3	Net	Any Sea
	Karambwanji**	5	10	1	10	3	Net	Karamja jungle
	Sardine	5	20	1	40	4	Fishing rod + Bait	Any Sea
	Herring	10	30	5	50	5	Fishing rod + Bait	Any Sea
	Anchovy	15	40	1	30	1	Net	Any Sea
	Karambwan** (poorly cooked)	65	105	1	80	poisons -5	Vessel + Karambwanji	Karamja Jungle
	Mackerel	16	20	10	60	6	Big Net	Catherby, Rellekka and Fishing guild
	Trout	20	50	15	70	7	Fly fishing rod + Feather	Rivers
	Cod	23	45	18	75	7	Big Net	Catherby, Rellekka and Fishing guild
	Pike	25	60	20	80	8	Fishing rod + Bait	Rivers
	Slimey Eel	28	65	28	95	6-10	Fishing rod + Bait	Mort Myre Swamp & Lumbridge Swamp Caves
	Salmon	30	70	25	90	9	Fly fishing rod + Feather	Rivers
	Karambwan** (thoroughly cooked)	65	105	30	190	18	Vessel + Karambwanji	Karamja Jungle
	Tuna	35	80	30	100	10	Harpoon	Karamja, Fishing guild, Catherby, Rellekka, Piscatoris
	Cave Eel	36	80	28	115	7-11	Fishing rod + Bait	Lumbridge Swamp Caves
	Rainbow Fish	38	80	35	110	11	Fly fishing rod + Stripey feather	Rivers
	Lobster	40	90	40	120	12	Lobster cage	Karamja, Fishing guild, Catherby, Rellekka
	Bass	46	100	43	130	13	Big Net	Catherby, Rellekka and Fishing guild
	Swordfish	50	100	45	140	14	Harpoon	Karamja, Fishing guild, Catherby, Rellekka, Piscatoris
	Lava Eel*	53	60	53	30	14	Oily Fishing rod + Bait	Members dungeon lava spot.
	Monkfish***	62	120	62	150	16	Net	Piscatoris Fishing Colony
	Shark	76	110	80	210	20	Harpoon	Catherby, Rellekka and Fishing guild
	Sea Turtle	79	38	82	211.3	21	Trawler	North of Yanille
	Manta Ray	81	46	91	216.3	22	Trawler	North of Yanille

* See our Hero's Quest quest guide.
** See our Tai Bwo Wannai Trio quest guide.
*** See our Swan Song quest guide.

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Pies

Mix flour and water and make 'pastry dough'.
Use the pastry dough with a pie dish to make a 'pie shell'.
Add the filling. F2P pies below are marked with a solid circle. Note that vegetable ingredients should not be cooked, but fish should be cooked before adding. Also, ingredients must be added to the pie shell in the order listed:
- Redberries: buy these in the Port Sarim food shop, or get them free at the respawn southeast of Varrock. If you like, you can also grow your very own Redberry bush! Refer to our Farming Guide.
- Meat: kill a cow, bear, giant rat, rabbit or chicken, and cook the meat.
- Mud: make this multi-ingredient pie from compost, water, and clay. It is not used for food, but rather can be thrown at your enemies in the wild to reduce their Run energy.
- Apple: See the Basics section of this guide for ways to obtain these.
- Garden: make this multi-ingredient pie from tomato, onion, and cabbage.
- Fish: make this multi-ingredient pie from trout, cod, and raw potato.
- Admiral: make this multi-ingredient pie from salmon, tuna, and raw potato.
- Wild: This multi-ingredient pie uses raw bear, raw chompy, and raw rabbit meats.
- Summer: make this multi-ingredient pie from strawberry, watermelon, and apple. You can only obtain strawberry and watermelon from the Farming skill.
Bake it.

Note: Pies are eaten in 2 pieces.

Pies
Pic	Name	Cooking lvl	Cooking exp	Healing	Bonuses
	Redberry Pie	10	78	9 (15, 14)	none
	Meat Pie	20	110	11 (16, 15)	none
	Mud Pie	29	128	0	Throw at enemies to reduce their Run energy
	Apple Pie	30	130	14 (2*7)	none
	Garden Pie	34	138	12 (2*6)	+3 Farming
	Fish Pie	47	164	12 (2*6)	+3 Fishing
	Admiral Pie	70	210	16 (2*8)	+5 Fishing
	Wild Pie	85	240	22 (2*11)	+4 Range, +5 Slayer
	Summer Pie	95	260	22 (2*11)	+5 Agility

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Wine

To make wine, go buy a jug from the general store, and fill it with water from a sink, fountain or pump.
Use grapes on it. Grapes can be obtained by killing goblins, Thieved from the Wine stall in Draynor Village, bought from the Culinaromancer's Chest (requires Recipe for Disaster quest), or picked up at respawns in the top floor of the Cooking Guild and in Varrock's Phoenix gang headquarters.
Wait until the wine ferments (a few minutes max), or (optionally) store unfermented wine in your bank, where it will finish fermenting.
Sometimes it fails and only makes Bad wine.
Drinking wine also causes a slight temporary decrease in your attack level. See the Beer and Wines Guide for more information.

Wine
Pic	Name	Cooking lvl	Cooking exp	Healing
	Wine	35	200	11

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Pizzas

Mix flour and water and make 'pizza base'.
Use (don't eat) a tomato and a slice of cheese on the pizza base.
Bake it.

If you want a topping on your pizza, add it after the pizza has been cooked:

Meat: kill a bear, chicken, cow or rat and cook the meat they drop, then use it on the pizza.
Anchovies: fish with a small net (see fishing guide), cook the fish and use it on the pizza.
Pineapple (members): go to the jungle area south of Brimhaven and find a pineapple plant. Pick a pineapple, then use a knife on it to slice it. Use one pineapple slice for each pizza - since each pineapple gives you 4 slices, you'll have enough for 4 pizzas. If you don't feel like travelling to the jungle to pick your own pineapples, you can buy some at "Hudo's Grand Tree Groceries" and "Funch's Fine Groceries" in the Grand Tree. You can also grow your own using the Farming skill.

If you're brave enough to venture into the Wilderness, Fat Tony the cook in the Bandit Camp (level 20 Wilderness) sells pizza bases, and there's a respawn of both cheese and a tomato next to him. There is also a net fishing spot, a range and rat respawn in the Bandit Camp, so this is the perfect place for making plain cheese, meat or anchovy pizza...you just have to be careful that other players don't attack you and steal your delicious, freshly-made pizza pies!

Note: Pizzas are eaten in 2 pieces.

Pizzas
Pic	Name	Cooking lvl	Cooking exp	Healing
	Plain Pizza	35	143	14 (2*7)
	Meat Pizza	45	169	16 (2*8)
	Anchovy Pizza	55	182	18 (2*9)
	Pineapple Pizza	65	195	22 (2*11)

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Culinaromancer's Chest

This chest contains a load of helpful items for you and your cooking adventures. You can access the Culinaromancer's quest after you complete the first part of the Recipe For Disaster quest. During the quest more items become available from the chest. Please note that the chest is downstairs from a range, and you can also use the chest as a bank, talking about good positioning...

Culinaromancer's Chest cooking items
Name	Use	Price	Amount
Chocolate bar	Edible, used in chocolate cakes, chocolate milk, and to make chocolate dust (for herblore and gnome cuisine).	13	50
Cheese	Edible, used in pizza and as a potato topping.	5	50
Tomato	Edible, used in pizza, potato topping, ugthanki kebab and pie.	5	50
Cooking apple	Used to make pies and brew cider.	1	50
Grapes	Used to make wine.	1	10
Pot of flour	Used to make bread, pastry (pie), pizza, and pitta doughs.	13	10
Pizza base	Used to make pizza.	5	1
Egg	Used to make cakes and potato toppings.	5	50
Bucket of milk	Used to feed pet cats, or make cream or butter.	7	50
Pot of cream	Edible, used to make potato toppings.	2	50
Pat of butter	Used to make potato toppings.	5	10
Spice	Used to make curry.	299	50
Pie dish	Used to bake pies.	3	50
Cake tin	Used to bake cakes.	13	50
Bowl	Used to make stews, heat water (for nettle tea) or to cook and combine ingredients (for potato toppings or ugthanki kebabs).	5	50
Jug	Used to make wine, or to store water.	1	10
Pot	Used to fill with flour or ale yeast.	1	50
Empty cup	Used to make tea.	2	50
Bucket	Used to keep water or milk. Many other uses in other skills.	2	50

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Cakes

Get an egg from a chicken farm (Lumbridge and South of Falador; members can also find on Entrana). Members can also buy eggs at the Gnome Tree Grocery shops.
Get some milk. (See Basics section of this guide.)
Get some flour.
Get a cake tin. You can get a cake tin at any F2P general store. See the shops section of this guide for others.
Click any of the three ingredients and then click the tin. All three ingredients will automatically be added.
Bake it.

For chocolate cake you need to add chocolate to a finished cake. Adding chocolate to any cake (thieved, stolen or made) gives 30 xp. You can buy chocolate bars at the Port Sarim food shop, at "Hudo's Grand Tree Groceries" and "Funch's Fine Groceries" in the Grand Tree, at "Frenita's Cookery Shop" in Yanille, and "Rok's Chocs Box" in Nardah. If your cooking level is at least 32, you can get some for free at the respawn in the Cooking Guild. There is also a spawn at the range in Zanaris.

Note: Cakes are eaten in 3 pieces.

Cakes
Pic	Name	Cooking lvl	Cooking exp	Healing
	Cake	40	180	12 (3*4)
	Chocolate Cake	50	30+(180)=210	15 (3*5)

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Stews

Get a bowl. Fill the bowl with water from a sink or fountain.
Get some cooked meat. You can cook your own meat (dropped by cows, chickens, bears, rats, etc.), or you can buy some at the Ardougne General Store, which always has some in stock. Most other general stores will usually also have some.
Add the cooked meat and potato to the bowl of water.
Curry (members): Add spice bought or stolen from the spice stall in Ardougne market, or from the Culinaromancer's chest in Lumbridge Castle basement (requires Recipe For Disaster quest). Three curry leaves (grown using the Farming skill) can be used instead of spice.
Bake it.

Stews
Pic	Name	Cooking lvl	Cooking exp	Healing
	Stew	25	117	11
	Spicy Stew *	25	117	11 (and stat boost)
	Curry	60	280	19

* For special (members) Spicy Stew you need to complete the "Evil Dave : Evil stew" part of the Recipe For Disaster quest. You first need a normal stew, then you can add spices to it. Various combinations will boost some of your stats. The boosts are random, but Jagex has announced that there is a correlation between colours and affected skills (listed below, with a roughly descriptive label devised for each group). You can only use up to 3 doses of any one colour, but you can use as many colours as you like. The stat effect will be plus or minus two times the number of spice doses used. If you add 2 red and 3 brown (a total of 5 doses), the stat effect may be anywhere from -4 to +4 in a red skill, and/or -6 to +6 in a brown skill.

red (combat): Attack, Defence, Ranged, Strength, and Magic
orange (skillcraft): Construction, Cooking, Crafting, Fletching, Runecrafting, and Smithing
yellow (self-improvement): Agility, Prayer, Slayer and Thieving
brown (gathering): Farming, Fishing, Firemaking, Herblore, Mining and Woodcutting

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Vegetables (members only)

To cook corn, simply grill it over an open fire, or use a range.
To make baked potatoes with toppings, first bake the potato on a range (potatoes burn on fires.) Then use butter on it. Follow up by adding the desired toppings (see Potato Toppings). Refer to the Dairy section for information about butter.

In the table below, the experience is shown two ways. The first column, "exp final step", is for players who simply purchase the next-to-last step ingredients: a buttered potato and a completed topping. In that column, only the experience for adding the final topping (to an already buttered potato) is shown. The second column, "cooking experience from scratch", is for players who make (and churn) all of their own ingredients and cook their own topping items. Ingredients that have experience associated with their preparation include churned butter, churned cheese, and any other cooked topping items. Later tables in this guide show the ingredients and experience for making the individual topping items and churning dairy products.

Vegetables
Pic	Name	Level	Cooking exp final step	Cooking exp from scratch	Healing
	Baked potato	7	15	15	4
	Sweetcorn	21	104	104	2-10*
	Baked potato with butter	39	40	95.5	14
	Chilli Potato	41	15	165.5	14
	Baked potato with cheese	47	40	199.5	16
	Egg Potato	51	50	195.5	16
	Mushroom potato	64	55	270.5	20
	Tuna potato	68	10	309.5	22

* according to Jagex, sweetcorn heals 10% of your HP. This number is rounded up. For example, if your HP is 62, 10% of 62 is 6.2, rounding up makes it 7, so eating sweetcorn will heal you 7HP.

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Potato Toppings (members only)

To make these, use your raw ingredients on a bowl while having knife in inventory, then cook.
For toppings with some pre-cooked ingredients (such as meat), just add those ingredients after cooking the others in bowl.
If ingredients are cooked in separate bowls (as with mushrooms and onions), just prepare them separately and then *carefully* right click to use one of the bowls on the other (avoid accidentally eating it!)

Potato Toppings
Pic	Name	Level	Exp final step	Exp from scratch	Healing	Recipe
	Spicy sauce	9	25	25	2	Gnome spice and garlic in bowl
	Chilli Con Carne	11	0	55	5	Cooked meat and Spicy sauce (above)
	Scrambled egg	13	50	50	5	Cook egg in bowl
	Egg and tomato	23	0	50	8	Scrambled egg (above) and Tomato
	Fried onion	42	60	60	5	Cook onion in bowl
	Fried mushroom	46	60	60	5	Cook mushroom in bowl
	Mushroom and onion	57	0	120	11	Fried mushroom (above) and Fried onion (above)
	Tuna and corn	67	0	204	13	Put cooked sweetcorn in bowl. Add cooked tuna.

Note: Yellow items above cannot be used directly on potatoes; they can be eaten alone or used with other items to make potato toppings.

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Dairy (members only)

While milk and cheese are F2P items, making dairy products using a churn is a members only activity. Members can also add butter and cheese to potatoes, making them more "tasty" (increasing healing). To make dairy products you only need a bucket of milk and access to a churn. To get milk, see the Basics section of this guide.

Making dairy products is easy:

Get milk and go to a dairy churn. These are located in farms and farming shops (see Garden Produce), windmills, the Cooking Guild, the Makeover Mage southwest of Falador, and Frenita's Cookery Shop in Yanille.
Use the milk on the churn.
If you are holding more than one type of dairy product (for example, milk and cream) and you only click on the churn (as opposed to using your starting ingredient on it), you will first be asked which ingredient you want to put in the churn. If you have only one type, or use your starting ingredient on the churn, it will skip this step.
Choose what you want to make.

Don't worry that making different products might give better experience. The experience for making one ingredient directly (for example, milk to cheese) is equal to the total experience earned for making the individual products along the way (milk to cream to butter to cheese).

Dairy products
Start product	End product	Process	Cooking lvl	Cooking exp	Healing
		Milk to cream	21	18	1
		Milk to butter	38	40.5	-
		Milk to cheese	48	64	2
		Cream to butter	38	22.5	-
		Cream to cheese	48	46	2
		Butter to cheese	48	23.5	2

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Brewing (members only)

Tired of paying for a glass of ale when you're parched? Feel like making your own ale or cider? There are breweries upstairs in the East pub in Keldagrim near the cart tracks, and in the cellar of the Port Phasmatys bar. Each has a brewing vat, a cider-press, and an attendant. There you can make and ferment a wide variety of ales. Some, such as Chef's Delight, can't be bought from any pub or inn. Each type of ale will affect you in a different way when you drink it. Some will increase a specific skill, while at the same time decreasing other skills. Others have only healing properties, and do not affect your skills. Refer to our Beer & Wines Guide for more information on the effects of each ale.

General brewing information:

Ale yeast is required for all brewing. You can only buy it from brewery attendants, and you must be carrying an empty pot. In Keldagrim, Blandebir will charge 25gp for ale yeast, and in Port Phasmatys, Metarialus will charge 5 ecto-tokens (you must wear your Ghostspeak amulet to buy it from him). To get ecto-tokens, you'll need to worship the Ectofunctus -- instructions are available in our Ghosts Ahoy Quest Guide. When you buy ale yeast, it automatically goes into your empty pot. To brew ale or cider, follow the instructions below for each type.

*Important: if you try to drain the vat before brewing is complete, you'll get an "are you sure" message. Carefully choose the "no" option, or you'll end up draining your unfinished ale, and you won't be able to drink it or earn cooking experience. Before you drain the vat, be sure brewing is complete. Just "examine" the vat to find out. If it isn't ready, the examine will say that your ale is fermenting in the vat. If it is ready, it will say that the vat is full of your ale.

When you examine the vat of ale, you might see that the vat contains "Bad Ale". This means that brewing has failed, and you won't be able to drink it. If this happens, you'll need to start over. Turn the valve and choose the "Drain" option to drain the bad ale from your vat (it disappears).

Sometimes, when you examine the vat of ale, you might see that the vat contains "Mature" ale (of whatever type you were making). Mature ale is more powerful than the regular type, and will increase stats higher than the normal ale. Jagex has confirmed that with normal brewing, the occurrence of this is totally random - there is no way to influence it. However, pieces of eight earned from the Trouble Brewing mini game can be used to purchase "The stuff" from Honest Jimmy. "The stuff" is added to a brewing vat after the barley malt and before the main ingredient, and Jagex states it will increase the chance of making mature ale. Mature ale will not stack with the regular type in your bank.

You earn your brewing cooking experience when you drain the completed ale into the barrel. If your barrel is already full of ale you brewed before, you can't drain the vat until you've emptied the barrel.

You can fill up to 8 beer glasses from the finished barrel of brewed ale or cider. If you want, you can also create your own homemade keg by using a knife to scoop out the inside of a Calquat fruit. You can draw 4 beer-glasses worth of ale or cider from the barrel into your Calquat keg. Refer to our Farming Guide for information on growing Calquat trees. Ale can be transferred from kegs to glasses, but not vice-versa.

How to brew ales:

To brew your own ales, you will need an empty vat, 2 barley malt, a pot of ale yeast, and 2 buckets of water. You will also need one other ingredient, which will vary based on the kind of ale you want to make. The main ingredient for each kind of ale is provided in the table below, and you can refer to our Farming Guide for more information on growing the ingredients you need.

To make barley malt, get some barley and roast it on a range. Refer to our Farming Guide for information on growing barley in a hops patch.

Pour two buckets of water into the empty vat.
Add two barley malt.
Add the main ingredient as indicated in the table below.
Add a pot of ale yeast.
Wait for the ale to ferment. This can take up to 24 hours (real time, not game time).
When examining the vat shows it is full of ale, turn the valve and the ale will go into the barrel.
Fill up to 8 beer-glasses or 2 Calquat kegs from the barrel.
Enjoy!

How to brew cider:

To make your own apple cider, you will need an empty vat, 16 cooking apples, 4 empty buckets, and a pot of ale yeast. The Basics section of this guide describes where to get apples.

Put your apples into the brewery's cider-press to mash them up.
Fill all four buckets with apple mush, then pour them into the empty vat.
Add a pot of ale yeast.
Wait for the cider to ferment. This can take up to 24 hours (real time, not game time).
When examining the vat shows it is full of cider, turn the valve and the cider will go into the barrel.
Fill up to 8 beer-glasses or 2 Calquat kegs from the barrel.
Enjoy!

Brewing
Pic	Name	Ingredients	Cooking lvl	Cooking exp
	Cider	4 Buckets of Apple Mush	14	182
	Dwarven Stout	4 x Hammerstone Hops	19	215
	Asgarnian Ale	4 x Asgarnian Hops	24	248
	Greenman's Ale	4 x Harralander	29	281
	Wizard Mind Bomb	4 x Yanillian Hops	34	314
	Dragon Bitter	4 x Krandorian Hops	39	347
	Moonlight Mead	4 x Bittercap Mushrooms	44	400
	Axeman's Folly	1 x Oak Root	49	413
	Chef's Delight	4 x Chocolate Dust	54	446
	Slayer's Respite	4 x Wildblood hops	59	479

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Miscellaneous (members only)

Chocolate Milk
Chompy and Jubbly Bird Meat
Crab and Fishcake
Food ration
Nettle Tea
Oomlie Wrap
Snails
Ugthanki Kebab

Chocolate Milk (members only)

To make chocolate milk, get a bucket of milk (see the Basics section of this guide.)
Get a chocolate bar and make chocolate dust by using either a knife or a pestle and mortar on it. You can buy a mortar and pestle at the Herblore Shop in Taverly or Entrana. The Basics section of this guide lists where to buy chocolate and chocolate dust. If your cooking level is at least 32, you can get chocolate for free at the respawn in the Cooking Guild. There is also a spawn at the range in Zanaris.
Use the chocolate dust with the bucket of milk.

Chocolate Milk
Pic	Name	Cooking lvl	Cooking exp	Healing
	Chocolate Milk	1	0	4

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Snails (members only)

Go to Mort Myre swamp (Priest in Peril and Nature Spirit quests required for access to this area), and kill the snails there. There's a large number of snails to the East. You can also kill snails in the Haunted Forest, just to the Southeast of Slayer Master Mazchna (only Priest in Peril quest required for access to this area.)
Pick up the snail meat.
Cook it.

Note: All cooked snail meat heals randomly between 5 and 9.

Cooked snail meat
Pic	Name	Get from	Cooking lvl	Cooking exp
	Thin snail	Ochre & Myre blamish snails	12	70
	Lean Snail	Bark blamish snails	17	80
	Fat snail	Bruise & Blood blamish snails	22	95

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Nettle Tea (members only)

To make nettle tea, get a bowl and fill it with water.
Wearing gloves, pick nettles and put them in the bowl of water. Nettles can be found just East of Draynor Manor, East of Draynor jail, near the entrance to the Edgeville dungeon, and just to the southeast of the Slayer Master in Canifis. Nettles will prick you when you try to pick them, so if you don't wear gloves, you'll get poisoned.
Boil the nettle-water by using it with a range or fire.
Use the bowl of nettle tea with an empty cup. You can get a cup from a number of places, including the tea stall in Varrock (buy or steal) or by speaking to Brother Galahad (his house is East of the coal trucks, West of McGrubor's Wood). There are also a number of tea respawns in Taverly. Drink the tea and you'll have an empty cup. The Basics section of this guide lists places to buy cups.
If you like milk in your nettle tea, use a bucket of milk with the cup of nettle tea.

Nettle Tea
Pic	Name	Cooking lvl	Cooking exp	Healing
	Nettle Tea	20	52	3

Note: making "Construction" tea in a player's home kitchen earns the same amount of Cooking experience (52 xp). It temporarily raises Construction by 1 to 3 levels. For directions, see our Construction guide.

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Crab and Fishcake (members only)

For Crabmeat, you need to kill giant crabs. You can only do so after completing the Pirate Pete : fishcake portion of the Recipe For Disaster quest.

To make a fish cake you need to complete the Pirate Pete subquest of the Recipe For Disaster quest. One of the rewards is the ability of making this special cake! You will need several ingredients: Ground cod, Ground kelp, Ground giant crab, and breadcrumbs. To get all these, please refer to our Recipe For Disaster quest guide (the Pirate Pete : A fishcake subquest)!

Crab and Fishcake
Pic	Name	Cooking lvl	Cooking exp	Healing
	Crabmeat	21	100	10 (5 bites)
	Fish cake	31	100	11

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Cooked Chompy and Jubbly Bird Meat (members only)

To get Chompy Bird meat, you'll first have to complete the Big Chompy Bird Hunting quest. Once you've completed the quest, you can catch, kill and cook as many Chompy Birds as you like. Refer to our Chompy Bird Hunting Guide for more information on catching and killing Chompy Birds.
To get Jubbly Bird meat, you'll have to do the Skrach 'Bone Crusher' Uglogwee: A cooked Jubbly bird part of the Recipe for Disaster quest. During and after the quest, you'll be able to catch and kill Jubbly Birds.
Once you have the Chompy or Jubbly Bird meat, use the raw meat with an iron spit (the spit can be smithed from iron with level 17 smithing.) Then use the spitted bird on a fire to cook it. Be aware that these large birds weigh a lot, so you don't want to do much running while carrying them.

Chompy and Jubbly Bird Meat
Pic	Name	Cooking lvl	Cooking exp	Healing
	Chompy Bird Meat	30	140	10
	Jubbly Bird Meat	41	160	15

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Cooked Oomlie Wrap (members only)

Go to the jungle South of Shilo (you'll need to have started the Legends Quest).
Kill some Oomlie Birds and get their meat.
Find a Leafy Palm Tree and shake it. A palm leaf will appear on the ground. Take it and use it with the meat.
Bake it.

Cooked Oomlie Wrap
Pic	Name	Cooking lvl	Cooking exp	Healing
	Cooked Oomlie Wrap	50	30	14

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Ugthanki Kebab

Get a bowl, flour and water.
Get a tomato and an onion.
You'll need a knife. Most General Stores have knives in stock.
Go into the Al-Kharid desert through Shantay Pass. Kill some Ugthankis (they look like camels) and get their raw meat. Cook the meat.
Use your onion, tomato and cooked Ugthanki meat with the bowl (need knife in your inventory). You'll now have some kebab mix.
Mix flour and water and make 'pitta dough'.
Bake the pitta dough.
Use your kebab mix with the pitta bread.

Ugthanki Kebab
Pic	Name	Cooking lvl	Cooking exp	Healing
	Ugthanki Kebab	58	80	19

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Food rations (members only)

Food rations are obtained at the Void Knight Outpost. To get there you have to take the boat from Port Sarim (it's free). You can buy them here in the general store, for a "fair price". Food rations can be used in the Pest Control minigame, read more about it in our guide.

Food rations
Pic	Name