Cooking

Cooking UI

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Cooking is a skill that allows raw ingredients to be combined into an edible food; healing hitpoints when eaten and sometimes giving various buffs depending on the recipe. Players can add up to 5 ingredients into the pot by interacting with them in ingredients window on the right and then using Heat to cook them.

Food has a chance to burn, depending on the player's effective cooking level, resulting in either Burnt Food or Burnt Fish depending on the type of ingredients used. Effective cooking level and the amount of ingredients used also effects the level of food produced, which directly affects the amount of buff stacks the food will have. By leveling cooking, the player is able to cook better foods that give increased healing and better buffs.

Cooking goes hand-in-hand with the fishing, foraging and farming skills, as the player can cook using the ingredients they obtain.

Uses

Food can be placed in the combat inventory to recover health during combat.
- Combat buffs are only applied when food is eaten during combat.
Can be used to obtain various buffs that help in other skills such as foraging, mining, etc.
Cooking fish has a chance to produce fish oil which can be used in the crafting skill to create pyre logs.

Fish Oil Chance

Fish	Chance*
Shrimp	5%
Anchovy	5%
Trout	10%
Salmon	10%
Lobster	15%
Tuna	15%
Shark	20%

*This is per fish used. I.E. cooking with 1 shark and 1 tuna results in a 35% chance, while cooking with 5 sharks will result in a 100% chance to receive fish oil.

Quality

The quality (augmentation levels/bonus) of your food is based on two factors:

The first factor is the base quality of your recipe and ingredients. Higher tier ingredients generally result in better food, the experience an ingredient gives when cooked is a good indicator for its tier.

The second factor is your effective cooking level, which is a combination of your cooking level (including mastery) and additional modifiers such as an augmented ladle. Every 30 effective levels will increase the quality of food cooked by 1.

Each level of quality of a food will give additional health healed based on the base hitpoints of the recipe, and 2 additional stacks of its buff (if applicable).

Buffs

Eating food created with a few specific ingredients (see below) can give various buffs, similar to those from enchantments. The number of buff stacks given by the food is determined by the quality of the food which in turn, is determined by effective cooking level (a combination of base cooking level and additional modifiers such as an augmented ladle)).

Identical food buffs and enchantments will stack. E.G. if a player has an active 30% Inferno buff from a scroll of inferno, and a 10% inferno buff from food, they will have a total of 40%.

Food can be eaten any time to recover health, but only food brought in the combat inventory may be used during combat. Combat buffs will only be applied if the food is eaten during combat. Combat buffs will not be kept upon exiting combat, while skill-based buffs gained from eating food in combat will be kept until used once out of combat. Non-combat buff stacks are consumed by performing an action out of combat, regardless of the type of skill being trained. I.E inferno stacks will be used even when not smithing

Ingredients

Primary ingredients can be combined to produce food with a buffs, and neutral ingredients (those without an enchantment) can be used as a secondary ingredient to the primary one. The number and quality of ingredients will provide more/less buff stacks and healing. E.G. 1 pepper (primary, inferno) + 1 potato (secondary, neutral) will result in grilled veggies with the inferno buff. 1 pepper (primary, inferno) + 4 pumpkins (secondary, neutral) will still result in grilled veggies, but the quality of the food will be much higher.

A dish can only have 1 type of buff, attempting to cook food with 2 primary ingredients will result in questionable food. E.G. to make a candied fruit a fruit and a spice is required, but using both pepper (inferno buff) and bananas (gathering buff) will not work

Category	Ingredient	EXP	Source	Seed	Buff
Dairy	Butter	15	Crafting
Dairy	Milk	5	Combat
Egg	Egg	5	Combat
Fish	Raw Anchovy	5	Fishing
	Raw Lobster	15
	Raw Salmon	10
	Raw Shark	20
	Raw Shrimp	5			Shrimp Lord
	Raw Trout	10
	Raw Tuna	15
Fruit	Apple	5	Foraging	x
	Banana	5		x	Gathering
	Tomato	10		x
	Wildberry	10		x
	Sageberry	25	Combat	x	Intuition
Grain	Ashes	15	Combat		Pyromancy
	Rice	10	Foraging	x
	Wheat	10	Foraging	x
Meat	Raw Beef	5	Combat
Meat	Raw Chicken	5	Combat
Monster	Goblin Brain	10	Combat		Runecrafting
	Ichor	20			Demon Skin
	Spider Legs	20			Nimble
Spice	Honey	15	Foraging		Fishing
	Pepper	5	Farming	x	Inferno
	Salt	5	Mining		Cooking
	Sugar	5	Foraging	x	Efficiency
Vegetable	Carrot	5	Foraging	x
	Chili Pepper	10		x	Superheated
	Mushroom	15		x	Nature
	Potato	10		x
	Pumpkin	15		x

Recipes

Recipe	Base Healing	Ingredient 1	Ingredient 2	Ingredient 3	Ingredient 4
Questionable Food	1 HP	Any	Any	Any	Any
Monster Surprise	1 HP	Monster	-	-	-
Seared Steak	1 HP	Beef	-	-	-
Seared Fish	1 HP	Fish	-	-	-
Seared Poultry	1 HP	Chicken	-	-	-
Birdie Pasta	3 HP	Chicken	Grain	-	-
Spaghetti & Meat	3 HP	Beef	Grain	-	-
Sushi	3 HP	Fish	Grain	-	-
Cottage Pie	4 HP	Beef	Grain	Dairy	-
Fisherman's Pie	4 HP	Fish	Grain	Dairy	-
Fruit Pie	4 HP	Fruit	Grain	Dairy	-
Omelette	2 HP	Egg	-	-	-
Veggie Crepe	3 HP	Egg	Vegetable	-	-
Eggnog	3 HP	Egg	Dairy	-	-
Fried Fruit	1 HP	Fruit	-	-	-
Grilled Veggies	1 HP	Vegetable	-	-	-
Kebabs	3 HP	Meat	Vegetable	-	-
Jerky	3 HP	Meat	Salt	-	-
Beast Curry	4 HP	Beef	Grain	Spice	-
Birdie Curry	4 HP	Chicken	Grain	Spice	-
Seafood Curry	4 HP	Fish	Vegetable	Ashes	-
Monster Gelato	4 HP	Dairy	Egg	Monster	Grain
Monster Omelette	3 HP	Dairy	Egg	Monster	-
Candied Fruit	2 HP	Fruit	Spice	-	-
Milkshake	4 HP	Fruit	Dairy	-	-
Meaty Stew	3 HP	Meat or Fish	Dairy	-	-
Vegetable Stew	3 HP	Vegetable	Dairy	-	-
Monster Stew	3 HP	Ichor	Dairy	-	-
Monster Curry	4 HP	Ichor	Grain	-	-
Meat Roast	4 HP	Raw Beef	Raw Chicken	Fish	-
Grain Cake	4 HP	Grain	Sugar or Honey	-	-
Cake	4 HP	Grain	Sugar or Honey	Dairy	-
Demon Cake	3 HP	Grain	Monster	Fruit	-
Fruit Cake	4 HP	Grain	Fruit	-	-

Notable Recipes

Buffs gained from food

Name	Skill Affected	Description	Buff Gained From	Top Tier Recipe	Mid Tier Recipe
Inferno	Smithing	Gain a 10% chance to automatically smelt ores an additional time while smithing.	1 Pepper	4 Pumpkins, 1 Pepper	4 Tomato, 1 Pepper
Cooking	Cooking	Decreases chance of burning food by 8% while cooking.	1 Salt	4 Pumpkins, 1 Salt	2 Raw Chickens, 3 Salt
Efficiency	All production skills except crafting	Gain a 2% chance to produce an extra item during production tasks, except crafting.	1 Sugar	4 Pumpkins, 1 Sugar	4 Apples, 1 Sugar
Superheated	Mining	Gain a 2% chance to instantly smelt an ore into a bar while mining.	1 Chilli Pepper	4 Pumpkins, 1 Chilli Pepper	4 Potatoes, 1 Chilli Pepper
Gathering	Mining, Foraging, and Fishing	Gain a 20% chance to find an extra resource while gathering.	1 Banana	4 Pumpkins, 1 Banana	4 Apples, 1 Banana
Runecrafting	Runecrafting	Reduces essence used in runecrafting by 5%.	1 Goblin Brain	4 Pumpkins, 1 Goblin Brain	5 Goblin Brains
Intuition	Most activities	Increases experience gained by 10% while doing most things.	1 Sageberry	4 Pumpkins, 1 Sageberry	4 Apples, 1 Sageberry
Demon Skin	Combat	All damage taken is reduced by 2.	1 Ichor	2 Sharks, 2 Pumpkins, and 1 Ichor	4 Apples, 1 Ichor
Pyromancy	Cooking and Smithing	Player uses 10% less heat while Cooking and Smithing.	1 Ashes	3 Raw Chickens, 2 Ashes	4 Apples, 1 Ashes
Nimble	Combat	Slightly increases evasion.	1 Spider Legs	3 Pumpkins, 1 Raw Shark, and 1 Spider Leg	???
Shrimp Lord	Cooking	Player gains 5% increased chance of finding Raw Shrimp while Cooking.	1 Raw Shrimp	???	???

Top and mid tier recipes are based on community input and might not be best available in-game

Equipment

Equipment that can used to support cooking.

Name	Requirement	Source	Effect	Augmenting Bonus	Enchantment Slots
Lesser Ladle	N/A	Rare Goblin Drop	None	+3 Cooking Level	5
Ladle	N/A	Rare Goblin Drop	None	+3 Cooking Level	5
Greater Ladle	N/A	Rare Goblin Drop	None	+3 Cooking Level	5

Enchantments

Enchantments that benefit cooking.

Scroll	Slot	Level	Silver	Rune 1	Rune 2	Rune 3	Rune 4	Rune 5	Effect
Scroll of the Shrimp Lord	Gloves, Boots	1	100	10 Air	10 Water	10 Chaos	10 Nature	-	Gain 5% chance to find shrimps in any food you cook.
Scroll of Pyromancy	Ring, Necklace	7	100	30 Fire	30 Water	30 Nature	-	-	Use 10% less heat when cooking and smithing.
Scroll of Cooking	Gloves, Boots	40	500	50 Earth	50 Fire	50 Water	-	-	Decreases chance to burn food while cooking by 4%.
Scroll of Prolonging	Gloves, Boots	58	700	60 Nature	60 Mind	-	-	-	Grants 10% more buff stacks from consumables.