Cooking is the single most important skill in Runescape. Everyone needs food to live, and that's what this skill provides. You won't be able to make the best food that heals 20 hp right from the start, but it doesn't take long before you get up there. When making food there's also a possibility (like with most other skills) that you fail. This will result in you burning the food, and making it worthless. The better cooking level you gain, the less food you will burn.

Basics

Getting flour

There's two ways of getting flour:

• Go to the Port Sarim cooking store and buy it.
• Find a pot. These can be bought in the general stores, or you can make them yourself in crafting.
  Go to a field with wheat, I recommend either Lumbridge or north of Yanille, pick some of it.
  Now go to a windmill, and go all the way to the top. Use your grain (from the wheat picking) on the hopper, and operate the hopper controls.
  Go down stairs and use your pot on the flour.

Getting water

• Find yourself a jug or a bucket. These can both be bought in the general store.
• Go to a sink or fountain, and use your jug/bucket on it. If you have a bucket, you can use a well as your water source as well.

Pots, pie dishes and bowls.

• These items can all be made using the skill crafting. Pots can be bought in the general stores and pie dishes respawn in the dwarven mine at the pickaxe salesman.

Cooking/baking

Cooking food can be done in 2 ways. Either get your axe out of the bank, chop some trees and light the logs with a tinderbox, or simply find a range. Ranges are market with this icon on the world map: . Note that it's only meat and fish that can be cooked on fires.

Pies

• Mix flour and water and make 'pastry dough'.
• Use the pastry dough with a pie dish.
• Now add the content you want.
  - Redberry: You can buy this in the Port Sarim cooking shop, or find them at their respawn south of Varrock.
  - Meat: Kill a cow, bear or chicken and cook the meat.
  - Apple: Apples can be found on the cooking guilds' first floor. The guild is located east of Varrock, and you need lvl 32 cooking to get in.
• Bake it.

Pies
Picture	Name	Cooking lvl.	Cooking exp.	Healing
	Redberry Pie	10	60	6 (2*3)
	Meat Pie	20	80	8 (2*4)
	Apple Pie	30	100	10 (2*5)

Pizzas

• Mix flour and water and make 'pizza base'.
• Use (don't eat) a tomato and a slice of cheese on the pizza base. You can buy these in the Port Sarim cooking shop, or get them at the respawn in Draynor Village.
• Bake it.
  
  If you want some filling on, add it after you baked the pizza.
  - Meat: Kill a chicken, bear or cow and cook the meat they drop, then use it on the pizza.
  - Anchovies: Fish with a net, cook them and use them on the pizza.
  - Pineapple: Go to the jungle area south of Brimhaven and find a pineapple plant, pick the pineapples, use a knife on the pineapple and make dices. Use them on the pizza.
  
  Note: Pizzas are eaten in 2 pieces.

Pizzas
Picture	Name	Cooking lvl.	Cooking exp.	Healing
	Plain Pizza	35	110	10 (2*5)
	Meat Pizza	45	130	14 (2*7)
	Anchovy Pizza	55	140	16 (2*8)
	Pineapple Pizza	65	145	20 (2*10)

Cakes

• Get an egg from a chicken farm (Lumbridge and south of Falador).
• Get some milk by using a bucket on a cow. Cows can be found at Lumbridge and the Crafting Guild.
• Get some flour.
• Get yourself a cake tin. This can only be found in the cooking guild, and mix the eggs and milk into it.
• Bake it.
  
  For chocolate cake you need to add chocolate to the finished cake. This can be bought in the Port Sarim cooking store, or found at the respawn in the cooking guild.
  
  Note: Cakes are eaten in 3 pieces.

Cakes
Picture	Name	Cooking lvl.	Cooking exp.	Healing
	Cake	40	120	12 (3*4)
	Chocolate Cake	50	140	15 (3*5)

Soups

• Get yourself a bowl and some cooked meat. Fill the bowl with water from a sink or fountain.
• Go pick some potatoes from either the fields east of Draynor Village or west of Ardougne.
• Add the cooked meat and the potatoes to the water-filled bowl.
  - Curry: Buy or steal some spices at the spices stall in the Ardougne market.
• Bake it.

Soups
Picture	Name	Cooking lvl.	Cooking exp.	Healing
	Stew	25	90	12
	Curry	60	170	19

Ugthanki Kebab

• Get a bowl, flour and water.
• Get a tomato from the Port Sarim cooking store or at the respawn in Draynor Village.
• Get an onion from the field south-west of the crafting guild, or behind the house with chickens in front between Draynor and Lumbridge.
• You'll also need a knife. You can find this south of the Lumbridge castle and in Seers' Village in the house east from the bank.
• Go into the southern Al-Kharid desert and kill some Ugthankis and get their raw meat. Cook the meat.
• Use your onion, tomato and cooked Ugthanki meat with the bowl. You'll now have some kebab mix (need to have your knife in your inventory to make this).
• Mix flour and water and make 'pitta dough'.
• Bake it.
• Use your kebab mix with the pitta bread.

Ugthanki Kebab
Picture	Name	Cooking lvl.	Cooking exp.	Healing
	Ugthanki Kebab	58	80	19

Cooked Oomlie Wrap

• Go to the jungle south of Shilo (you'll need to be doing or have done Legends Quest).
• Kill some Oomlie Birds and get their meat.
• Find a Leafy Palm Tree and snake it. A palm leaf will appear on the ground, take it and use it with the meat.
• Bake it.

Cooked Oomlie Wrap
Picture	Name	Cooking lvl.	Cooking exp.	Healing
	Cooked Oomlie Wrap	50	30	14

Miscellaneous

• To get cooked meat or chicken, you'll need to kill cows, bears or chickens, and then use the raw meat/chicken with a fire/range.

Cooked meat/chicken
Picture	Name	Cooking lvl.	Cooking exp.	Healing
	Cooked meat	1	30	3
	Cooked chicken	1	30	3

• To make bread, mix flour and water and make 'bread dough'.
• Bake it.

Bread
Picture	Name	Cooking lvl.	Cooking exp.	Healing
	Bread	1	40	4

• To make wine, go buy a jug from the general store, and fill it with water from a sink or a fountain.
• Use grapes on it. Grapes can be obtained by killing goblins, or at the respawn in the cooking guild.
• Wait a little while the wine ferments.

Wine
Picture	Name	Cooking lvl.	Cooking exp.	Healing
	Wine	35	110	11

Gnome food

To start making the food of gnomes you'll have to prove to the chef gnome cook that you're worthy of making their food. This part can be a little tricky, but you'll learn a lot about the gnome cooking ways. Once you have completed Aluf's tasks, you're ready to make some awesome gnome food. The Gnome foods include: bowls, crunchies and battas.

Gnome Bowls (30 exp each)
	Name: Chocolate Bomb	Effect: Heals 15
	How to make: Put your dough in a gnomebowl mould and bake it. Add four chocolate bars and 1 equa leave. Bake it again. Add two times cream and some chocolate dust.
	Name: Tangled Toad Legs	Effect: Heals 15
	How to make: Put your dough in a gnomebowl mould and bake it. Add 4x toad legs, 2x cheese, 2x equa leaves, 2x spice and 1 dwellberry. Bake it.
	Name: Worm Hole	Effect: Heals 12
	How to make: Put your dough in a gnomebowl mould and bake it. Add 4x king worm, 2x onions and 1x spice. Bake it. Add 1 equa leaf.
	Name: Veg Ball	Effect: Heals 12
	How to make: Put your dough in a gnomebowl mould and bake it. Add 2x onions, 2x potatoes and 1x spice. Bake it. Add 1 equa leaf.

Gnome Crunchies (30 exp each)
	Name: Worm Chrunchies	Effect: Heals 8
	How to make: Put your dough in a crunchy tray and bake it. Add 2x king worm, 1x equa leave and 1x spice. Bake it. Add 1x spices.
	Name: Chocolate Chip Crunchies	Effect: Heals 8
	How to make: Put your dough in a crunchy tray and bake it. Add 2x chocolate bars and 1x spice. Bake it. Add 1x chocolate dust.
	Name: Spicy Crunchies	Effect: Heals 7
	How to make: Put your dough in a crunchy tray and bake it. Add 3x spices and 2x equa leaves. Bake it. Add 1x spice.
	Name: Toad Crunchies	Effect: Heals 7
	How to make: Put your dough in a crunchy tray and bake it. Add 2x toad legs and 1x spice. Bake it. Add 1 equa leaf.

Gnome Battas (30 exp each)
	Name: Worm Batta	Effect: Heals 11
	How to make: Put your dough in a batta tin and bake it. Add some spices to a king worm and add it to the batta, add 1x cheese. Bake it. Add 1 equa leaf.
	Name: Toad Legs Batta	Effect: Heals 11
	How to make: Put your dough in a batta tin and bake it. Add 1 eqau leave to a toad leg, spice it and add to the batta, add 1 cheese. Bake it.
	Name: Cheese & Tomato Batta	Effect: Heals 11
	How to make: Put your dough in a batta tin and bake it. Add 1x cheese, 1x tomato. Bake it. Add 1 equa leaf.
	Name: Fruit Batta	Effect: Heals 11
	How to make: Put your dough in a batta tin and bake it. Add 4 eqau leaves and bake it. Use your knife on a pineapple, orange and lime, make them all to dices and add them to the batta. Add 1x spice.
	Name: Vegetable Batta	Effect: Heals 11
	How to make: Put your dough in a batta tin and bake it. Add 2x tomato, 1 onion, 1 cabbage, 1 dwellberry and 1 cheese. Bake it. Add 1 equa leaf.

Gnome Cocktails

Before you can start making cocktails you'll have to prove that you're good enough to make the fine drinks of the gnomes. To do this go to the grand tree's first floor, go east and talk with Blurberry. He'll give you some tasks; complete them and you can make cocktails.

Gnome Cocktails (60 exp each)
	Name: Blurberry Special	Effect: Heals 7, +6 strength, -4 attack
	How to make: Put 1 vodka, 1 gin, 1 brandy, 2 lemons and 1 orange into your shaker and pour it into the glass. Dice some orange, add it, then dice some lemon, add it. Slice lime and add it, then add 1 equa.
	Name: Chocolate Sunday	Effect: Heals 5, +6 strength, -4 attack
	How to make: Put 1 whisky, 1 equa leaf and 1 milk into your shaker and pour it into the glass. Add 1 chocolate bar and heat it. Add 1 cream and 1 chocolate dust.
	Name: Drunk Dragon	Effect: Heals 5, +6 strength, -4 attack
	How to make: Put 1 vodka, 1 gin and 1 dwellberry into your shaker and pour it into the glass. Cut a pineapple into dices and add it to the drink as well as some cream. Heat it up.
	Name: Fruit Blast	Effect: Heals 9
	How to make: Put 1 pineapple, 1 lemon and 1 orange into your shaker and pour it into the glass. Cut a lemon into slices and add to your drink.
	Name: Pineapple Punch	Effect: Heals 9
	How to make: Put 2 pineapples, 1 orange and 1 lemon into your shaker and pour it into the glass. Dice 1 lime and 1 pineapple and add it. Slice an orange and add it.
	Name: Short Green Guy (SGG)	Effect: Heals 5, +5 strength, -4 attack
	How to make: Put 1 vodka and 3 limes into your shaker and pour it into the glass. Cut a lime into slices and add it to the drink as well as a equa leave
	Name: Wizard Blizzard	Effect: Heals 5, +5 strength, -4 attack
	How to make: Put 2 vodkas, 1 gin, 1 pineapple, 1 orange, 1 lime and 1 lemon into your shaker and pour it into the glass. Dice a pineapple and add it. Slice a lime and add it.