Cooking/Guide

Cooking in real life and cooking in MineScape have one thing in common; it's not hard to learn how! Cooking requires either a fire and a food to cook, or a smoker and a recipe. Recipes provide less XP for cooking than raw foods, so this guide will not focus on recipes.

**It is highly recommended that you train other skills in conjunction to just cooking.** If you lack food to cook and do not have the cash to buy supplies, train fishing or combat. If you are looking for the most efficient route to 99 cooking, you could buy supplies from the Grand Exchange but you may find it more expensive in the long run.

**Bank the resources you gain from fishing for an easy stockpile of cooking materials.** See the fishing guide for how to efficiently level up your fishing level. *You will have to fish more than the amount recommended in the Fishing Guide to account for burned fish.*

**Use an eternal fire when possible.** These fires never go out, so you can consistently cook without worry. Cooking on a fire you make yourself can be time consuming, as it requires constant relighting and possibly the chopping down of more trees. There is an eternal fire located in the Cooking Guild. Speaking of which...

**Once you reach Level 50, use the Cooking Guild.** This location houses a bank, smoker, and eternal fire. All are fantastic for getting your cookin' on, chef!

## Levels 1-5 Cooked Shrimp

Right from the get-go you will be able to cook shrimp. Do this until level 5.

*(At 6 xp each you will have to successfully cook 74 shrimps to reach lvl 5)*

## Levels 5-10 Cooked Sardines

Cooked sardines are your next XP gainers. You *could* switch over to cooked beef at level 8 for 1 xp extra per food, but that would only be advantageous for 2 more levels. Therefore make sure your bank is packed tightly to the brim with this fish like... Well... Sardines!

*(Cooked Sardines give 8 xp each)*

## Levels 10-20 Cooked Herring

This tip isn't a red herring. Cook these until level 15!

*(Cooked Herring gives 12 xp each)*

## Levels 20-30 Cooked Trout

The jury is still trout on how many you may burn in this step, but don't trout in your abilities!

*(Cooked Trout gives 22 xp each)*

## Levels 30-35 Cooked Salmon

Don't leave your cooking ability to salmon else, keep those levels coming!

*(Cooked Salmon gives 32 xp each)*

## Levels 35-40 Cooked Tuna

You can cook tuna but you can't cook a piano... Cook these until level 40.

*(Cooked Tuna gives 37 xp each)*

## Levels 40-45 Cooked Lobster

Make like the B-52's and rock your lobster.

*(Cooked Lobster gives 44 xp each)*

## Levels 45-50 Cooked Bass

Be all about that bass, 'bout that bass.

*(Cooked Bass gives 53 xp each)*

## Levels 50-55 Cooked Swordfish

Avoid the pointy bit!

**At this point, you should be cooking at the Cooking Guild since you now have access.**

*(Cooked Swordfish gives 62 xp each)*

## Levels 55-60 Cooked Tench

This fish may be a little harder to come by. Since they only are fishable on Entrana most players drop the fish instead of carrying it back to a bank. If you are one of those players who did the same, or do not want to pay the higher prices for Tench, keep cooking swordfish until level 60.

*(Cooked Tench gives 71 xp each)*