Despite a player’s playstyle, preference, or focus, Cooking needs to be trained at some point in the game. It’s also worth noting that everyone from skill trainers, to pure, alt, and main accounts requires food, which comes from Cooking.
Not only is this, but cooking is probably the easiest skill to train in both, OSRS & RuneScape 3 as it’s quite identical on both platforms. Let’s take a deep dive into cooking at different levels.
Level 1 to 15
While hanging at the Lumbridge, you can cook shrimp and anchovies caught from the nearby river. Make sure that you are using the range in Lumbridge Castle to boost your experience per hour by reducing the amount of burned food. Using this method, you can easily hit level 15 in a confined timeframe.
Selling cooked anchovies can help gain RS3 Gold which is required to get appropriate materials for your leveling. You can also bank some of the anchovies for making anchovy pizzas later but for this, you need to become a member.
Along with the cooking, you need to level your fishing a little more to reach level 20 which helps you to move on to the next training method. In the north and east of Lumbridge, there are chicken coups where you can easily collect feathers used for bait to cover the next levels. You can also pick raw chicken which can be cooked for XP.
Level 15 to 32
From level 15 and beyond, you can start cooking trout in the fires next to the fishers at the Barbarian Village. Several power fishers drop raw trout and salmon so you can either pick them up or grab a fishing rod and some feathers to fish them yourself.
You can purchase a sufficient number of feathers for continuous fishing, and if you lack RSGP, you can head back down to the chicken farms in Lumbridge. Nevertheless, the cooked food can be power trained or banked at the Grand Exchange for later use.
Level 32 to 55
After reaching level 32, you need to purchase a Chef’s Hat for cooking at the Cook’s Guild in Varrock where you will be able to make apple pies and wine.
You can use grains from the nearby fields to make flour, and then mix them with water for the dough, and finally, start collecting cooking apples which can be cooked at the range of the building’s first and second floors.
You can combine grapes that are found in the guild with water jugs to make wine at level 35. But remember that the grape spawns are slower so you won’t be making much. Either way, this method gives more experience than making apple pies.
Level 55+
Beyond these levels, you will be given two options, but for that; you need first head to the Karamja fish and cook all the high-level fishes that would have been dropped by the power fishers. More likely, you’ll find tuna and swordfish which can be cooked and sold for great experience along with a decent profit.
Remember that the burn rates are not that low at these levels, so you need to pick the lobsters as well which will be possibly dropped by the power fishers too. Cooking swordfish and lobsters will provide you the greatest profit per hour and it becomes quite easy for you to hit level 99.
The fastest way of leveling your cooking is the investment. You’ve been selling the food that has been made so far and achieved a good amount of Runescape Gold which can now be useful for making anchovies pizzas.
Anchovy pizzas give the most experience per hour compared to any option available to players, having a 100% success rate. We suggest you invest your gold in pizzas and anchovies and use the dropped fish from Karmja to offset your profit margin.