Production skill
Cooking training
Cooks raw food into healing items and brews. One of the fastest and cheapest skills — great for a first 99.
Methods
5
Ranked by xp/hr
Top xp/hr
440,000
Fastest listed
Best gp/hr
250k
Most profitable
Milestones
3
Key unlocks
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Why train Cooking?
Cooking is fast, cheap and low-stress, which makes it many players' first 99 — and it keeps you supplied with your own PvM food.
ScapePath pairs the Cooking guide with its dedicated calculator so you can plan the exact food count to a target level, and treats it as a support skill rather than an income source.
68 reliably cooks sharks, 80 stops most burning with the Cooking gauntlets, and 95 cooks anglerfish consistently. Karambwans are the notable method that actually turns a profit while training.
Milestones
The levels that actually change what you can do — link your account above to see how close you are.
- Level 68Consistently cook sharks
- Reliable shark cooking
- Level 80No-burn most fish (with gauntlets)
- No-burn most fish
- Level 95Cook anglerfish reliably
- Reliable anglerfish
Important unlocks
What levelling Cooking opens up across the game.
Utility
- Reliable shark cookingLv 68
- No-burn most fishLv 80
- Reliable anglerfishLv 95
Training methods
Ranked by xp/hr. gp/hr is signed — green earns, red is the cost to train. Figures are conservative experienced-player estimates.
Cooking wines
The fastest Cooking XP; grapes + jugs of water, and wines have no burn level.
440,000
xp/hr
−200k
gp/hr
Cooking karambwans
Fast XP and a profit — cooked karambwans sell above raw for combo-eating.
300,000
xp/hr
+250k
gp/hr
Cooking sharks
Turn raw sharks into PvM food once you rarely burn them.
180,000
xp/hr
−100k
gp/hr
Cooking lobsters
Cheap and simple; a common alternative to wines.
140,000
xp/hr
−30k
gp/hr
Cooking shrimp / trout (early)
Free F2P starter cooking on cheap fish until wines open up.
90,000
xp/hr
How to get there
The best ways to reach Cooking Guild (for Cooking training) in west of Varrock. Requirements are checked against your account on the readiness panel above.
Skills necklace → outside the guild
- 1Rub a Skills necklace to teleport just outside the Cooking Guild.
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2 alternative routes
Fairy ring DKR → run south
- 1Travel with fairy ring code DKR (west of the Grand Exchange).
- 2Run south to the guild.
Amulet of glory → Edgeville, run
- 1Rub an Amulet of glory to Edgeville.
- 2Run south then east to the guild.
Requirements, milestones and unlocks are verified against the OSRS Wiki. xp/hr and gp/hr are conservative experienced-player estimates that vary with gear, efficiency and live Grand Exchange prices — use them to compare methods, not as exact quotes. Personalized recommendations are derived from your public RuneScape Hiscores. ScapePath is a fan-made companion and is not affiliated with Jagex.