Cooking

Cook raw food at a campfire or range. Cooked food heals you and is worth about twice as much as raw.

The Cooking skill page — every level, every item and the xp, in tables.

On this page: Getting started · What you can cook · How it works · Dishes from the farm · Game meat · Going further · Tips

Getting started

• There's a campfire just inside the Yard, by the way in from the casino, and a range in some buildings. Click it with raw food in your bag.
• The fire always cooks the best thing in your bag that you can cook, so there's nothing to choose.
• Raw fish can't be eaten and Bom won't buy it, so every fish is worth a stop at the fire on the way home.
• Meat is the easy start. You can cook a chicken at level 1 without a rod.

What you can cook

Dish	Cook at	Burns least (2%)	Heals	Buff	Bom pays
Cooked sardine	1	39	8	—	8
Cooked chicken	1	39	12	—	8
Cooked beef	5	43	16	—	12
Cooked perch	5	43	16	—	10
Mushroom soup	5	43	36	—	—
Roast boar	10	48	24	—	16
Tomato soup	12	50	40	3% of what you mine, cut or catch comes up double, 10 min	—
Cooked trout	15	53	24	—	14
Cooked catfish	18	56	32	—	18
Cooked mudskipper	22	60	48	—	28
Cooked gloomfin	25	63	40	—	7
Pumpkin pie	25	63	80	10% more tickets from kills, and that chance of a second fish on a catch; rare drops come up 15% more often, 15 min	—
Rattlebean chili	28	66	80	you pick pockets 4% more reliably, 10 min	—
Cooked lanternfish	30	68	40	—	20
Bramble jam	30	68	88	—	—
Cooked bonefish (smokes)	32	70	56	—	28
Cooked ghost carp (smokes)	36	74	64	—	36
Cooked moon carp (smokes)	40	78	72	—	13
Ram chop	40	78	96	—	—
Cooked oasis perch (smokes)	42	80	72	—	40
Lanternroot hash	44	82	104	food heals 10% more (not meals), 10 min	—
Cooked cloud ray (smokes)	45	83	80	—	48
Cooked temple carp (smokes)	48	86	88	—	48
Cooked sky eel (smokes)	50	88	72	—	40
Cooked storm marlin (smokes)	55	93	96	—	44
Goose breast	55	93	120	—	—
Stormcorn chowder	58	96	120	your spells hit 5% harder, 10 min	—
Cooked thunder squid (smokes)	60	98	104	—	52
Cooked mackerel (smokes)	62	99	112	—	—
Goldfish on a stick (smokes)	62	99	120	—	54
Gourd soup	65	99	132	your arrows hit 5% harder, 10 min	—
Truffle dinner	65	99	136	5% more tickets from kills, and that chance of a second fish on a catch; rare drops come up 20% more often, 10 min	—
Cooked reef snapper (smokes)	66	99	128	—	—
Koi on a tray (smokes)	68	99	136	—	57
Gator gumbo	72	99	144	5% more tickets from kills, and that chance of a second fish on a catch, 5 min	—
Cooked bluefin (smokes)	74	99	144	—	—
Nitro eel fillet (smokes)	75	99	152	—	—
Cooked comet carp	76	99	160	—	—
Ember bread	78	99	160	the cold doesn't bite, as if you wore a Frost ward, 10 min	—
Cooked mud cat (smokes)	80	99	160	—	58
Possum on a stick	80	99	160	—	—
Cooked cove grouper (smokes)	85	99	176	—	—
Cooked swordfish (smokes)	86	99	168	—	—
Melon salad	86	99	168	—	—
Gator tail	88	99	168	—	—
Cooked bowfin (smokes)	88	99	184	—	66
Starcap feast	90	99	200	8% more tickets from kills, and that chance of a second fish on a catch; you take 15% less damage; rare drops come up 20% more often, 10 min	—
Cooked voidfin (smokes)	92	99	192	—	80
Cooked coelacanth (smokes)	92	99	192	—	—
Cooked icefin (smokes)	94	99	200	—	—
Mammoth steak	95	99	192	—	—
Rimecap stew	95	99	192	you take 12% less damage; food heals 10% more (not meals), 10 min	—
Cooked under-ice pike (smokes)	95	99	208	—	—
Cooked HOA koi (smokes)	95	99	208	—	—
Cooked grimscale (smokes)	97	99	216	—	104
Leviathan steak (smokes)	99	99	224	—	—
The Leviathan platter (smokes)	99	99	396	5% more tickets from kills, and that chance of a second fish on a catch; you swing and fish 8% faster; you take 10% less damage; rare drops come up 10% more often; 5% of what you mine, cut or catch comes up double; your arrows hit 5% harder; your spells hit 5% harder, 7.5 min	—
Koi and cinderroot hash	100	99	264	—	—
Cooked ashfin	103	99	172	—	—
Cooked furnace eel	105	99	180	—	—
Cooked glassperch	108	99	184	—	—
Cooked drowned lantern eel	110	99	188	—	—
Garden party platter	110	99	352	you take 10% less damage, 30 min	—
Cooked mossgill	113	99	192	—	—
Cooked crown koi	115	99	196	—	—
Cooked comet minnow	118	99	200	—	—
Cooked voidray	120	99	204	—	—

How it works

• You'll burn a lot at first, and less every level. At a dish's own level, 40% burn. Each level above it burns 1% fewer, down to 2% thirty-eight levels later (the third column). That 2% stays all the way to 99.
• Only no-burn effects stop it completely: the Kiln tonic, the Cinder Salamander, Steady Hands, the Pressure Cooker or the Smokehouse.
• A range burns a fifth less than a fire. Each cook takes 2.4 s.

Dishes from the farm

Six dishes, each a 10-minute meal with something no fish gives you. You can have one meal at a time, next to a drink, and it only counts down outside.

Cook at	Dish	From	Heals	For 10 minutes outside
12	Tomato soup	2 tomatoe, wheat, small vial of water	40	3% of what you mine, cut or catch comes up double
28	Rattlebean chili	2 rattlebean, raw beef	80	you pick pockets 4% more reliably
44	Lanternroot hash	2 lanternroot, raw boar	104	food heals 10% more (not meals)
58	Stormcorn chowder	stormcorn, sky eel, medium vial of water	120	your spells hit 5% harder
65	Gourd soup	glass gourd, bonegourd, medium vial of water	132	your arrows hit 5% harder
78	Ember bread	2 ember wheat, charcoal, medium vial of water	160	the cold doesn't bite, as if you wore a Frost ward

Ember bread keeps the cold off. Eat it before the Frozen Reach and, for its 10 minutes, the cold doesn't bite, just as if you wore a Frost ward.

Game meat

Five animals drop a cut you can cook, on about a third of kills, so a fighter can cook what they kill all the way up.

Cook at	Meat	Drops from	Heals
40	Ram chop	Cumulus Ram	96
55	Goose breast	Thunder Goose	120
80	Possum on a stick	Rabid Possum	160
88	Gator tail	Yard Gator	168
95	Mammoth steak	Woolly Mammoth	192

Going further

• A fish cooks when you can catch it. The mudcat, bowfin, voidfin and grimscale cook at the Fishing level they bite at (80, 88, 92 and 97).
• The Cook's cape: at Cooking 99, Salty Meg, on the Boardwalk sells it for 99,000 tickets. The food you eat heals a fifth more, and 20% of cooks make two.

Tips

• 26 of these can be smoked instead. A smoked fish heals 8% more and sells for more. It needs charcoal, and the fire smokes automatically when you carry some. See Smoked fish.

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