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This article is about the free-to-play guide. For the members guide, see Make runescape money by Cooking (F2P)
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Due to the price volatility of various ingredients it is not always possible to make a profit with many activities.
It is the player’s responsibility to be aware of whether any activity makes or loses money at any given time.
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Cooking
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Effectiveness
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Cooking level Requirement
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Details
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Level 7
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Go to the potato field north of Ardougne and collect potatoes. Across the road from the potato field is a farmer’s house with a range in it. Cook the potatoes on the range bank them in Ardougne, and repeat. Baked potatoes sell for about 188 coins each. This can also be done by buying the potatoes off the GE and still get almost double profit; ranges near a bank are in Catherby, Nardah and the Cooks’ Guild. You can also take sacks and get 10 times more potatoes in one trip, making it much more profitable (note: keep 10 slots open; without beast of burden, it will give you 190 potatoes in a single trip)
See article on potatoes
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Level 14
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Brew cider. Cider is used for the Seers’ Village Tasks. It is hard to obtain on the Grand Exchange, so it may be useful.
Ghosts Ahoy is strongly recommended as there is a brewery there to make cider.
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Level 39
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Another relatively easy way to make good money is to bake buttered potatoes, which sell for about 1,000 gp each on members’ worlds. The best place to make this is Lumbridge, where you can easily obtain buckets, cows’ milk, and potatoes, and there is a range and a dairy churn nearby. To make, obtain half an inventory of potatoes and half an inventory of buckets of cows’ milk. In the farmer’s house, churn the milk to make pats of butter, and go to Lumbridge to bake the potatoes before applying butter. Each potato made from scratch gives you 199 cooking experience and a full inventory of these will give you around 20,000 gp.
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140,000coins per hour
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Level 35
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You can cook uncooked pizza. There are three ways of obtaining pizza base: Buying it at the Grand Exchange for 283 coins each (fastest method), buying from Fat Tony in the Wilderness Bandit Camp for 4 coins each, or made by combining flour and water. You can get tomato and cheese for 116 and 97 each respectively, or get them from Fat Tony, the Culinaromancer’s chest, or Aggie’s house. The easiest way of getting cheese is to churn milk into cheese wheels, and cut them into cheese slices with a knife. This requires level 48 Cooking, but higher levels will be able to cut more cheese from each wheel. Uncooked pizzas sell for 750 coins each. If all materials are purchased from the Grand Exchange, the net profit per pizza is 254 coins per pizza.
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280,000coins per hour
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Level 38
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Pats of butter sell for 311 coins and are comparatively easy to make, though time-consuming. Take a bucket of milk (either bought for 48 coins on the Grand Exchange, obtained from any cow with a bucket in inventory, or bought from the Culinaromancer’s chest) to a dairy churn and churn the milk into butter. Alternately you can churn cream into butter. The churn at the Cooking Guild is close to the Grand Exchange, but the churn in Zanaris (requiresLostCity) is closer to a bank. Another way, (More money) in Zanaris if you get 14 buckets of milk and churn them to pats of butter with the 14 buckets leftover go to the sand pit South West of the churn you can fill your buckets with sand and make an extra 4,500 coins per inventory.
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Level 42
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The Gnome Restaurant Activity can make you a lot of money for little starting cash. Some rewards are more than1.8m, although getting those are rare. All of the orders can be made at level 42 cooking. Some quests are helpful for transportation when doing the activity.
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Level 50
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Buy a wrapped oomlie at the Grand exchange (Its very rare to get it from the grand exchange) (529 coins) and cook it. Then sell the cooked oomlie wrap at the Grand Exchange for a 674 coin profit.
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Level 60
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At level 60 you can make curry, which sells for 429 coins each and is generally in high demand. Making curry from scratch is a bit of a task as you will need a supply of bowls, potatoes, cooked meat and spices. The fastest method is to buy the potatoes (67 coins), add them, then add your choice of meat (chicken or beef), and some spice (434 coins) or three curry leaves (235 coins) to a bowl of water. Due to the GE restriction on buying more than 100 bowls per hour, the best method to obtain bowls of water is to buy the bowls from the Falador general store, fill them with water outside and then bank them. Making curry will generate a profit of -139 coins each, assuming all materials are purchased at the Grand Exchange. In addition, each bowl of curry gives 280 cooking exp when cooked. At level 74 cooking Curry will stop burning, increasing the amount of profit gained from this method.
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320,000coins per hour
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Level 67
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At this level you can put cooked sweetcorn (10gp) into a bowl, making a bowl of sweetcorn (130gp) (if you have a knife in your inventory). Then, combine the bowl of sweetcorn with a tuna(80gp) to make tuna and corn (410gp). With a quick finger, this can make about 1,000 tuna and corn per hour, yielding 314 coins per tuna and corn (new G.E. price is 412 coins each), for about 320k/hr (410-90gp). This method gives NO Cooking experience, only gold. (GE prices current as of April, 9 2011. Prices are rounded to the nearest 10gp.)
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265,000coins per hour
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Level 68
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Tuna potatoes, one of the best foods in the game, sell for about 1,170 coins each. If you farm the sweetcorn and potatoes, craft the bowls, churn the butter, and fish and cook the tuna yourself, you will get maximum profit per potato. However, this method can take a long time, as it takes around 40 minutes to grow a batch of potatoes and sweetcorn. If you want to buy the ingredients yourself, then the cost of a bowl, sweetcorn, baked potato, pat of butter and cooked tuna is 611 coins. This means you will only get 559 coins per potato, but since this method is decidedly faster, it is recommended if you are cooking tuna potatoes for experience and profit. A range is required to cook tuna potatoes, and the range in Lumbridge castle (requires Cook’s Assistant completed) is close to a bank. If you have completed Recipe for Disaster, the chest under Lumbridge castle contains limited supplies of bowls and butter.
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470,000coins per hour
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level 95
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Raw Summer pie
Requirements: 95 cooking, pie shell, strawberry, watermelon, cooking apple
Pie shell: 514 Strawberry: 11 Watermelon: 87 Cooking apple: 308
Raw summer pie: 1,751
Profit per pie: 831
Stock up on these if you’re going to be doing more than an hour of pie making at a time – the shells have a limit of 1k per 4 hours. The ingredients are extremely easy to obtain although the pie shells may be the only exception (due to the limit). They have a very good demand and profit as well.
You should be able to make around 680-700 pies per hour which gives you a nice and tidy profit once sold. The prices used are the market GE prices. Cooking from pie dish and pastry gives more profit, per pie, but is, of course, slower. The raw materials cost 714, The raw pie costs 1,751.
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Level 95 with Cooking gauntlets
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Cooking Rocktail can be an effective way to make money but are currently valued at the same price as one another, but it requires 95 cooking as well as completion of the Family Crest quest, so many players can’t use this method. However, the price of raw and cooked Rocktail is often subject to change, so sometimes, whilst gaining very fast experience if a player can manage to buy a large quantity of raw Rocktail, a player may actually lose money with this method. Check the Grand Exchange database in order to see whether this method is currently profitable.
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Owning a Larder in a POH can reduce costs by significantly, but may reduce efficiency. Taking an item from the first page (such as milk) will take 60 seconds to get a full inventory. It will take more than 2 minutes to get an item from the second page (such as a potato). However, this will save a lot of money e.g. a full inventory of milk costs 1344 gp.
Due to constantly changing prices for items on the Grand Exchange, some information in this article may not be current.
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