Cooking guide July 2024 (Ironman)
Most of this is common sense, but for planning purposes some people might like to know this information beforehand.
Honestly, if you have done 99 fishing catching salmon, I personally would just cook them for 99 cooking. Salmon gives 700xp per fish in the fishing skill, and 900xp in the cooking skill. Therefore, as long as you haven't been dropping a lot of your salmon you will have plenty for 99 cooking. Just cook a couple inventories of shrimp/trout for 1-25 and off you go.
Tips:
1. Before you start cooking anything, buy the cooking gauntlets from Vannaka at spawn (skilling tab), they cost 5M. Wearing these gloves will mean you never burn any fish. If you don't have the cash, there are many ways to make money and I will include one possible way below.
2. Closest working range on this server to a bank is in the cooking guild. Teleport via the tree at spawn to Varrock city and saunter on over to the guild. The doors are all openable, with no requirements. Inside it is three tiles from the bank to the range, simply use a raw fish on the range and cook. Welcome to your cooking prison.
Vannaka: Does sell and buy some raw/cooked fish. Information below:
Lobster: Requires level 40 to cook.
Buying raw from Vannaka will cost 250gp each, however you can sell cooked ones back for 100gp.
Each cooked Lobster grants 1200xp.
Works out to 8xp per gp spent (if you sell back the cooked).
Swordfish: Requires level 45 to cook.
Buying raw from Vannaka will cost 300gp each, however you can sell cooked ones back for 120gp.
Each cooked Swordfish grants 1400xp.
Works out to 7.7xp per gp spent (if you sell back the cooked).
Monkfish: Requires level 62 to cook.
Buying raw from Vannaka will cost 400gp each, however you can sell cooked ones back for 180gp.
Each cooked Monkfish grants 1500xp.
Works out to 6.8xp per gp spent (if you sell back the cooked).
Shark: Requires level 80 to cook.
Buying raw from Vannaka will cost 850gp each, however you can sell cooked ones back for 400gp.
Each cooked Shark grants 2100xp.
Works out to 4.6xp per gp spent (if you sell back the cooked).
Cost 40 - 99: 2,648,590gp (This cost is calculated based on you selling the cooked fish back to Vannaka).
I don't care how you get to 40, just that you cannot train cooking easily from 1-40 through Vannaka. Go fish a few inventories of something and you'll there to level 40 very quickly.
Level 40 - 45: 21 Lobsters.
Level 45 - 62: 195 Swordfish
Level 62 - 80: 1102 Monkfish
Level 80 - 99: 5262 Sharks
Level 99 - 120: 89,032 Sharks. This will cost 40M. (Also, this is 3,180 inventories of sharks).
"Simple" Money maker:
By a Tiara Mould from Vannaka and go to the crafting guild. Mine clay until you can mine silver and make bars, then make tiaras. Go back to Vannaka and buy Death Talismans (Cost 10k each). Go enchant the tiaras in the death alter (Cross the Wilderness ditch to the north of spawn, run Northeast around level 4 wilderness, teleport via the Mage of Zamorak. Look for the Death alter. Teleport home when done). Sell death tiaras to Vannaka for 44k each. This is a common way to train your Runecrafting level anyway from 1-77, so it's probably worth doing a few inventories. Each inventory of tiaras will sell for 1.23M.
Leave a comment for changes, and I'll make them if appropriate. Thanks.
