How to Achieve 99 Cooking on RuneScape

Last Updated: February 21, 2021

Cooking takes the raw material from fishing and turns into usable food for combat related skills. This being said, it is one of the most vital skills in Runescape, and one of the fastest to train. Using these methods you can find out how to get 99 cooking on runescape!

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Know where to cook. Musa Point on Karamja is a hotspot for people looking to power fish lobsters and swordfish, however logs must be obtained in the entrance, making fire scarce. Some banks with close ranges include Edgeville bank with the furnace in Evil Dave's house and Al Kharid.
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Levels 1-15. Cook crayfish. You can fish these yourself behind the Lumbridge church, or you can try and buy them, however due to their low level buying any is rare.
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Levels 15-30. Cook trout. These can be found just dropped on the ground at Gunnarsground, or you can buy them raw in the Grand Exchange.
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Levels 30-40. Cook Tuna. You can often find these dropped by power fishers at Musa Point on Karamja, so going there can be an option, or buying them on the Grand Exchange is a good option.
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Levels 40-50. Cook Lobsters. These are commonly used by pkers and pvmers due to their cheap cost, so cooking them in some situations may actually make you a bit of profit.
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Levels 50-99. Cook Swordfish. This may seem like a big stretch, and it is. However, for free to play they give the best experience per unit cooked in the game. These can be found commonly in the GE, and are used even more commonly than lobsters, so demand is high.

Method 2

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Know where to Cook. Since bonfires were added to the game, they offer great bonus experience into the game. The most common place to find bonfires is world 100 at Shantay Pass, just south of the Al-Kharid Lodestone. Here you can find several dozen people using food on bonfires, and giving you bonus experience.
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Consider getting cooking gauntlets. You get an unpowered set of gauntlets after completing the Family Crest Quest. You can then bring them Caleb in Gertrude's house just west of Varrock to change them to cooking gauntlets. These lower your chance of burning fish from swordfish on up.
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Levels 1-15. Cook shrimp. In the beginning, you will burn a lot, however you'll notice you'll burn very few near the end.
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Levels 15-25. Cook trout. These are very cheap to buy, as people who fly fish at Gunnar's ground and Shilo Village get several thousands of them, so you won't be spending much cooking them.
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Levels 25-40. Cook Salmon. These are again fished very commonly by fly fishers, and the demand for cooked salmon is decent food for free to players.
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Levels 40-50. Cook Tuna. Tuna is the ingredient used in Tuna Potatoes, and therefore is very sought after by people looking to monopolize the pker market. The reason you cook to 68 is that is the level you can cook the next fish without burning them.
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Levels 50-62. Cook lobsters. At this level, you should burn very few, if any lobsters. These are again sought by pkers as they are very good food in the f2p worlds.
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Levels 62-80. Cook Monkfish. You stop burning monkfish at level 82, so you will be making pure profit, as they are used by PvMers and early slayer accounts, as they heal 1600 for a cheap price.
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Levels 80-93. Cook Sharks. If you are wearing your cooking gauntlets, you won't burn these either, and they are used in most pvp situations, as well as several bosses use them for the pvm dungeon.
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Levels 93-99. Cook rocktail. Rocktail are the highest healing food in the game, aside from rocktail soup, and therefore are used in almost every situation from pking to slaying. You can make a tidy profit if you don't burn too many.