Cooking - Methods

There are many different methods of Cooking and a variety of base ingredients to use to make your foods complete. As your skill increases, you will find yourself able to make more complicated types of food. For the skill requirements of these foods please see the Non-Members' or Members' food sections.


Dough is the basic ingredient for many recipes within RuneScape, so it is important that you can make it. Dough is composed of both flour and water. To get water, fill a bucket or a jug from any source of water. Look for the following symbol on your minimap .

To make flour you first need to gather grain from a field, then, after making sure you have an empty pot in your inventory, find a windmill. Windmills are located on the map by the windmill symbol .

Once in a windmill, go to the top floor and use the grain with the hopper. Click on the controls to operate them, then go down to the bottom floor and collect the flour from the flour bin into your empty pot.

Use the pot of flour with the bucket (or jug) of water. You will then get the option to make bread dough, pitta bread dough, pastry dough, or pizza dough.

Bread	Pitta Bread
Make dough using the instructions above and select bread dough. Use the bread dough with a Cooking range.	Make dough using the instructions above and select pitta bread dough. Use the pitta bread dough with a Cooking range.
Pies	Pizza
Make dough using the instructions above and select pastry dough. Use the pastry dough with an empty pie dish and add a filling of your choice. You can obtain cooking apples from the Cooking Guild and the Ardougne Farming shop. You can obtain redberries south of Varrock. Use the pie with a Cooking range.	Make dough using the instructions above and select pizza dough. Get a tomato and use it with the pizza base. Then use cheese with the incomplete pizza. Use the uncooked pizza with a Cooking range. Add your choice of topping: anchovy, meat or pineapple. You can catch anchovies using a Fishing net in one of the Fishing spots around RuneScape. You can obtain a pineapple from the Grand Tree in the Tree Gnome Stronghold, or they can be picked from pineapple plants west of Brimhaven on Karamja.
Cake	Chocolate Cake
Mix a pot of flour, an egg and a bucket of milk into a cake tin to make an uncooked cake. Use the uncooked cake on a range to bake a cake.	Follow the instructions to make a cake. Use a chocolate bar with the cake to make a chocolate cake.

Hops are an important ingredient in the brewing process. Hops can be grown through Farming or bought from other players or the Grand Exchange. With hops, cooks can use their skills to brew a selection of drinks, either saving them the costs of buying them from a bar, or making an entirely new drink, which can be used, or sold to players to help temporarily boost skills.

Through brewing you are introduced to a variety of alcohols which can be brewed in the breweries of Keldagrim and Port Phasmatys.

Location of Keldagrim Brewery

Location of Port Phasmatys Brewery

Below are the varieties of alcohol that can be made. For the effects these drinks have on your character when drunk, please see the Cooking Drinks section.

Drink	Main Ingredient	Main Ingredient Obtained
Cider	4 x Buckets of apple mush	Player-made (see instructions below)
Dwarven Stout	4 x Hammerstone hops	Grown using the Farming skill
Asgarnian Ale	4 x Asgarnian hops	Grown using the Farming skill
Greenman's Ale	4 x Harralander	Monster drop / Grown using the Farming skill
Wizard's Mind Bomb	4 x Yanillian hops	Grown using the Farming skill
Dragon Bitter	4 x Krandorian hops	Grown using the Farming skill
Moonlight Mead	4 x Bittercap mushrooms	Grown in the mushroom patch west of Canifis
Axeman's Folly	1 x Oak root	Growing your own oak, chopping it down and digging up the roots
Chef's Delight	4 x Chocolate dust	Bought from Grand Tree
Slayer's Respite	4 x Wildblood hops	Grown using the Farming skill

How to Brew

To brew, you will need to obtain barley and a pot of ale yeast. The barley can be bought from other players or grown in a hops patch (see the Farming skill guide), while the pot of ale yeast can be bought from the local brewers.

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1. Add two buckets of water to a fermenting vat.
   
2. Add two lots of barley malt (this is made by using barley on a Cooking range) to the fermenting vat.
   
3. Add the main ingredient to the fermenting vat.
   
4. Lastly, add a pot of ale yeast.
   
5. Wait for several days (depending on the type of drink you are brewing).
   
6. Turn the valve to let the liquid run into the barrel.
   
7. Now simply use either a calquat keg or a beer glass on the barrel to empty the contents.
   

How to Brew Cider

To start brewing you will need four buckets of apple mush. To obtain a bucket of apple mush, you will need four cooking apples, and an empty bucket to collect the apple mush in. All these items need to be in your inventory for you to successfully follow the apple mushing process detailed below.

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1. Use the cooking apples with the apple barrel (which can be found near a fermenting vat) and your character will begin to squash the apples.
   
2. After the apples are squashed, the mush will automatically be collected into your empty bucket.
   Repeat steps 1 and 2 until you have enough buckets of apple mush.
   

Now you have collected your apple mush, you just need to grab a pot of ale yeast and you are ready to start brewing cider. Follow the recipe detailed below to begin.

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1. First, add the buckets of apple mush to the fermenting vat.
   
2. Add a pot of ale yeast
   
3. Now sit back and wait.
   

When the yeast has been added, the mixture will begin to ferment. This process can take up to a day, so be prepared to just leave it and go do something else while you are waiting. Eventually, the ale or cider will be ready for drinking � turn the valve on the vat and the barrel will fill up. It is possible that occasionally your cider will turn bad while brewing - if this should prove to be the case, there is nothing you can do other than empty the vat and start again. You can then fill up to eight beer glasses from the barrel.

Alternatively, scoop the flesh out of a calquat fruit with a knife and you have a calquat keg that can hold four pints by itself!

Calquat fruits can be obtained by trading with another player or growing your own calquat tree and picking the fruit using the Farming skill.

Mature Ales

Mature ales are obtained when brewing. The chances of producing a mature ale when brewing is completely random, it does not depend on the amount of time the beer is left fermenting. You can only brew mature ales by brewing the normal states. For example, to obtain a mature Dragon Bitter, you will have to obtain the ingredients and brew Dragon Bitter. If you are lucky, you may obtain mature Dragon Bitter when it has fully fermented.

Due to the extra potency of a matured ale, you may find that the changes it makes to your skills will increase. For example, a mature Dwarven Stout will boost your Mining and Smithing levels by 2, instead of the standard 1.

The 'Stuff'

Those who have bought the 'stuff' from Honest Jimmy after participating in the Trouble Brewing will have an advantage when brewing ales (does not work on cider).

Follow the same steps as you do in normal brewing; however, after you have added the barley malt, add the 'stuff' to the vat, and then continue with the normal method again (add your hops, then yeast).

The 'stuff' will give you a 50% chance of brewing a mature ale of the type you are brewing.


Churns can be used in the production of dairy products such as cream, butter and cheese, which can in turn be used in conjunction with other foods to create things like pizzas and baked potatoes with toppings, which typically taste better and restore more life points.

The process of churning can turn milk into cream, cream into butter, and butter into a wheel of cheese, but you don't need to do these things in turn. You can, for instance, directly churn a bucket of milk into cheese, but you cannot churn a wheel of cheese back into milk, butter or cream. As such, you can use a churn if you have a bucket of milk, a pot of cream or a pat of butter in your inventory; which of these you have in your inventory determines what you will be able to produce with a churn.

Name	Item Churned	Level Required	Experience Gained
Bucket of milk	Cream	21	18
	Butter	38	40.5
	Cheese wheel	48	64
Pot of cream	Butter	38	22.5
	Cheese wheel	48	46
Pat of butter	Cheese wheel	48	23.5

Using a knife on a cheese wheel will allow you to cut wedges of cheese from it - you can either cut wedges one at a time or cut the entire wheel, which will yield a random number of wedges of cheese. Cheese wheels cannot be eaten directly; wedges of cheese can be eaten, and are what is needed for any recipes involving cheese. Each wedge of cheese that you cut from a wheel earns you 4 Cooking XP.

Locations of Churns

You can find the churns in the following locations:

• Inside the Make Over Mage's house. Nearest dairy cows are next to the Crafting Guild.
  
• Inside Frenita's restaurant in Yanille. Nearest dairy cow is north of Yanille.
  
• Inside the mill in Zanaris. Nearest dairy cow is in a field in Zanaris.
  
• In a farm building, north of Ardougne. Nearest dairy cow is in cow field nearby.
  
• In building next to fenced area with cow and chickens in Rellekka. Nearest dairy cow is in this fenced area.
  
• Next to the shed in Sinclair Mansion garden. Nearest dairy cow is in the south west of the garden.
  
• In farm building south of Falador. Nearest dairy cow is in the field, north of the farmhouse.
  
• In farm building to the north-west of Lumbridge. Nearest dairy cow is to the north of the nearby windmill.
  
• In farm building to the north of Lumbridge, opposite a large field full of cows. Nearest dairy cow is in said field.
  
• On the first floor of the Cooking Guild. Not particularly near any cows - the nearest dairy cows are probably the Lumbridge or Falador ones.
  

Both delicious and nutritious, baked potatoes can be simple to create or divinely complex, depending on the flavours you enjoy and the amount you'd like to bolster your life points by.

Using a potato on a Cooking range will make a baked potato. Baked potatoes cannot be made using a fire, they will always burn - please see the Members Food section for details of the required level to cook the different variations of potatoes.

Buttered Potato	Potato with Cheese
To make a buttered potato, use a pat of butter with a baked potato.	To make a potato with cheese, follow the instructions to make a buttered potato. Use some cheese with the buttered potato.
Chilli Potato	Egg Potato
To make a chilli potato, follow the instructions to make a buttered potato. Use the buttered potato with a bowl of chilli con carne (see below for instructions to make chilli con carne).	To make an egg potato, follow the instructions to make a buttered potato. Use the buttered potato with a bowl of scrambled egg and tomato (for instructions to make scrambled egg and tomato see below).
Mushroom Potato	Tuna Potato
To make a mushroom potato, follow the instructions to make a buttered potato. Use the buttered potato with a bowl of fried mushrooms and fried onions (see below for instructions to make fried mushrooms and fried onions).	To make a tuna potato, follow the instructions to make a buttered potato. Use the buttered potato with a bowl of tuna and sweetcorn (for instructions to make tuna and sweetcorn see below).

Fish	Meat
To cook fish, obtain the fish that you want to cook by fishing for it, or by buying some raw fish from the fishing shop in Port Sarim. Use your chosen fish with a Cooking range or an open fire.	To cook any meat, obtain the meat that you want to cook by killing an animal for it or picking it up from a monster drop. Use your chosen meat with a Cooking range or an open fire.
Ugthanki Kebab	Oomlie Wrap
Obtain an empty bowl and have a knife in your inventory. Use a tomato on the bowl to get a bowl of chopped tomatoes. Use an onion on the bowl of chopped tomatoes to get a bowl of chopped tomatoes and onions. Obtain a piece of raw ugthanki meat. This can be found from monster drops (usually in the desert south of Shantay Pass). Cook the meat on a fire or a Cooking range and add it to the bowl of chopped tomatoes and onions. This will give you a kebab mix. Make pitta bread using the instructions above. Use the kebab mix with the pitta bread to make an ugthanki kebab.	Obtain some oomlie meat by killing oomlie birds. Obtain a palm leaf by shaking a leafy palm tree. Use the oomlie meat and palm leaf together to make an uncooked oomlie wrap. Use the uncooked oomlie wrap with a range.
Stew	Curry
Obtain an empty bowl and fill it with water from a water source. Pick a potato from a field and use it with the bowl of water. Cook some meat and use it in the incomplete stew. This will make an uncooked stew. Use the uncooked stew with a Cooking range.	Follow the instructions to make an uncooked stew and add 3 curry leaves or a pot of spices. Use the uncooked curry with a Cooking range.
Chilli Con Carne	Scrambled Egg and Tomato
The first ingredient is minced meat, which is made by adding cooked meat to a bowl (with a knife in your inventory). The second ingredient is spicy sauce, which is made by adding garlic to a bowl (with a knife in your inventory) to get chopped garlic. Add some gnome spice to the chopped garlic. Use the minced meat with the spicy sauce.	The first ingredient is scrambled egg, which is made by using an egg on a bowl (to create a bowl of uncooked egg) and then using it on a range to make scrambled eggs. The second ingredient is chopped tomato, which is made by adding a tomato to the bowl (with a knife in your inventory). Then use the bowl of chopped tomatoes with the bowl of scrambled egg.
Fried Mushrooms and Fried Onions	Tuna and Sweetcorn
The first ingredient is fried mushrooms, which is made by using a bittercap mushroom with a bowl (with a knife in your inventory) to get sliced mushrooms. Then use the bowl of sliced mushrooms with a Cooking range to make fried mushrooms. The second ingredient is fried onions, which is made by using an onion with a bowl (with a knife in your inventory). Use the bowl of sliced onions on a range to make fried onions. Then use the fried onions with the fried mushrooms.	The first ingredient is chopped tuna, which is made by adding cooked tuna to a bowl (with a knife in your inventory). Then use a piece of cooked sweetcorn with the bowl of cooked tuna (this can be done without a knife in your inventory).

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