COOKING GUIDE V2.0

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Table of Contents
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I.	Version History 
II.	So you want to cook!
III.	Basic cooking (one ingredient)
IV.	Fish
V.	Complicated cooking
   -Pies
   -Cakes
   -Soups
   -Pizzas
   -Misc   
VI.     POWER COOKING (so to speak)
VII.	The cooking guild
VIII.	Experience charts 
IX.	Credits, thanks


I. VERSION HISTORY
=================================
1.0-	First version, fun stuff! I don't have the gnome foods, power 
        cooking or XP charts, and the complicated cooking isn't quite 
        done� BUT, the framework is there and the basics that most people 
        are looking for are in it.
2.0-	Finished it, WAHOO! I'm waiting on critiques from the staff, 
        though. I expect it will have a bit of overhauling to do. 


II. SO YOU WANT TO COOK!
=================================
 
Ah, cooking- the magic of the fork. With cooking, you create wondrous 
delicacies, ranging from grilled steak to a steaming apple pie. 
Ultimately, cooking is essential for any player. You have to eat food 
to regenerate your health, and you can't eat very many foods raw (you 
can only eat so many cabbages.. yuck!) As your cooking increases, you 
learn to cook new foods. 

Sadly, you aren't the perfect chef- you can burn the foods you cook. 
Don't fret! You don't burn the food very often unless you try and cook 
things you shouldn't be cooking, and as your cooking level increases, 
you chances of burning things decreases. As your levels increase, you 
cease to burn food completely!

Once you are a chef of great renown, you can make yourself an ever 
better cook through completing the Family Crest quest. Upon completion, 
you will recieve the cooking guantlets, which act as a safeguard when 
cooking shark, swordfish and lobsters. By wearing the guantlets, the 
user will recieve a +10 bonus to cooking when cooking sharks, lobsters 
and swordfish, meaning that the odds of burning said fish are far less 
than before.


III. BASIC COOKING (ONE INGREDIENT) 
===============================
While I know that you probably want to immediately start cooking 
elaborate feasts, but your basic cooking experience is pretty limited. 
You're going to be living on a TERRIBLE diet- meats and grain.

To cook meat, the most basic form of food, you simply need to pick it 
up. You can get raw chicken, raw beef and raw bear (never been partial 
to the bear, myself). From there, you need a source of heat to cook the 
food. There are 2 options. 
If you're more of the caveman type (you're limited to eating caveman 
food, at any rate), you can light yourself a fire. You can read a 
firemaking guide if you need help with that. However, the more 
sophisticated people use a range, which is a combination of stove and 
oven. Simply highlight your meat and click on the range. You'll cook 
your meat, vouila! Faster than a fire, but often inconvenient because 
there's not always a nearby range.

The other basic food is bread. Bread heals 4 HP instead of 3, but takes 
much longer to cook. To make bread, you first need some dough. Dough is 
a mix of flour and water.
FLOUR- pick a piece of grain and drop it into a hopper (hoppers are 
found at the top of windmills and in the cooking guild). Operate the 
hopper and the grain becomes flour. Get a clay pot and use it on the 
pile of flour at the bottom of the mill. You now have a pot of flour

WATER- Get a jug, and use it on a sink or fountain. Ta-da! Water!

Use the water and flour together and choose the option bread dough. 
Bake it, and you now have a loaf of bread! You must cook it on a range- 
you don't bake bread on a fire! 

IV. FISH
=======================
Fish are the top cooking method- You catch a fish and you cook it. You 
can then either store it for later, or sell it off to someone. Or, if 
you're a combatant at heart, you can run off and use the food in 
battle.

There's not a whole lot to say about fishing, except that every fish is 
just like a normal meat. Cook it on a fire. Nothing complicated about 
it! There are MANY levels of fish which can be found in a fishing 
guide.
 
Fish heal well, generally- if you want good food, get to a high fishing 
level. 40 yields lobsters, which heal 12 hp! Swordfish, at 50, heal 14 
hp!! (highest possible on the free world). At 76 fishing, you get the 
legendary shark, which gives 20(!!!) HPs recovery. Anyone worth his 
salt uses sharks on the members world.

V. COMPLICATED COOKING
=======================
Well, it's not exactly complicated cooking. In this section I will 
discuss how to cook everything that uses more than one ingredient.

PIES
----

Scrumptious pies! You can make 3 kinds- Redberry, meat and apple.

MINIMUM COOKING: 10

To make a pie, you first need pastry dough. In the same way you made 
bread dough, you make pie dough. Take flour and water and mix it (if 
you need help, head back to the simple cooking section). This time, 
choose pastry dough. Put the pie dough into a pie tin. Pie tins are 
crafted out of clay. Crafting guide explains how to do that. You can 
also pick one up in the cooking guild.

Once you have your dough and pie tin, use the dough with the tin to 
line the tin with dough. NOW, you need to get yourself the core 
ingredients.

-Redberries can be bought in the cooking store, or picked up from the 
ground outside of Varrock. 
-Meat pies are made with just normal meat. Chicken, which originally 
was just a meat, can no longer be used.
-Apples can be bought in the cooking store, or found at the spawn 
inside of the cooking guild.
Once you have your core ingredient, add it to the pie. It's now ready 
to be baked, so bake in on a range. Again, no fires!

Pies are eaten in 2 bites instead of 1. In classic Runescape this made 
them useless because you couldn't heal fast enough, but they're 
actually half decent in Runescape 2.

CAKES
-----
"CAKES! Everybody loves cakes"- Donkey, Shrek 2
Indeed, cakes are incredibly popular, as they provide ample healing, 
and besides, who doesn't like cake?

MINIMUM COOKING:40

To make a cake, take your flour and grab yourself an egg and some milk. 

To obtain milk, you must buy a bucket from the store (2 gold, don't 
worry). Walk up to a cow (preferably not being assaulted by someone 
else), and use the bucket on the cow. All cows are inherently female 
(which says odd things about reproduction), so you will get milk from 
any cow.

For an egg, head on down to Lumbridge. There is a chicken farm on the 
west side of the river. An egg appears there. Grab it!

Use these new-fangled ingredients with a cake tin, from the cooking 
guild. Cook the cake mixture on a range. YAY, YOU HAVE CAKE!
Add on a chocolate bar. YAY! CHOCOLATE CAKE!

SOUPS
-----
Nothing like a bowl of soup to take care of a cold� Luckily, Runescape 
has no colds, but you can make soups all the same.

MINIMUM COOKING: 25

There are 2 levels of soup- stew and curry.

First, you need a bowl. You can either get this bowl from the cooking 
guild, or make your own.

Add water to the bowl, and add a potato and some cooked meat. Cook the 
cold mixture on a range, and you get stew! (a personal favorite of mine 
for it's low cooking and high HP recovery)

For all you members, you can get some spice from the spice stall. Add 
that in and you get curry, which also heals an incredible amount. If 
you enjoy getting the ingredients, I think soups are the best of the 
complicated foods.

PIZZAS
------
As a true blooded American, I like pizza. A lot. It stands to reason 
that runescape would put my favorite food into their game.

MINIMUM COOKING: 35

This time you make dough, make in into a pizza dough. From there, get 
some cheese and tomatoes. You can either get it from the food store, or 
find it at its 2 spawn points- 1 is in the home of Aggie at Draynor 
village, the other is in the bandit camp, located in the level 23 free 
wild. The guy there also sells pizza doughs. Many pkers save themselves 
some effort and just cook up there. Of course, that risks your life, as 
it's a multi-combat area� anyhow, something to think about.

Once you have the dough, add tomatoes. DON'T EAT THE TOMATO OR CHEESE 
BY MISTAKE >_<. Add the cheese next. Now, you can either add meat and 
make a meat pizza, add anchovies for an anchovy pizza, or a pineapple 
for a pineapple pizza. Or, you can just make a normal pizza.

Cook it on a range. They heal relatively well, but they aren't a very 
popular food choice in RS. Pfft, Runescape writers obviously haven't 
tried a good New York style pizza�

MISCELLANEOUS
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Wine
---
There is no drinking age at this point in time, and besides, you 
character passes any drinking ages that there might be (heck, you could 
live in Germany where there never was a drinking age to begin with).

MINIMUM COOKING: 35

To make wine, take some water and some grapes. Mix them together. Isn't 
it simple? 
It heals well for its simplicity, but it makes your attack drop a bit. 
Better than beer, I suppose.

Oomlie Wrap & Ugthanki Kebab
---------------------------
Now, I put these 2 together because, in my opinion, they're both REALLY 
WEIRD, and deserve their section together.
 
MINIMUM COOKING: 50 and 58, respectfully

To make your oomlie wrap, walk south of shilo village in the kharazi 
jungle (have to start legends to be able to go there) and kill an 
oomlie bird. Grab the meat they drop and then walk up to a leafy palm 
tree. Shake it with your life and it will yield a leaf. Use them 
together. Cook the mixture. Kind of like a tamale, don't you think?

Kebabs are complicated little things to pull off. Grab yourself a bowl, 
some flour and some water. Make the flour and water into pitta dough. 
Bake it. 
Get a tomato and an onion. Onions come from a field behind the 
farmhouse between Lumbridge and Draynor. Get a knife from one of it's 
spawning points. 
Now, to get the meat. Ugthankis are found in the desert south of Al 
Kharid. Kill it for some meat. Cook the meat. Mix it all together into 
the bowl (not the dough, though). Add the dough to the mix and you now 
have your own kebabs! Unlike the regular kebabs, it heals a set amount, 
and that set amount happens to be 19 (!!)

VI. POWER COOKING (so to speak)
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As with all skills, becoming a good cook takes time and patience. 
However, cooking is like smithing and crafting; if you have money, it's 
very fast. If you have no money, it's� well, it's not so fast.

With money, buy fish, cook them, sell them again. Easy as pie. Harder 
in the early levels, but once you hit being able to cook trout, it's 
smooth sailing (before then, it's hard to find buyers.) 
 
NOW, FOR THE REST OF US:

The most common way to raise cooking is in conjunction with fishing. 
Because cooking gives more XP per fish than fishing, but you sometimes 
burn the fish, you generally raise your cooking about as fast as you 
raise your fishing.  
 
SO, follow the typical power fishing guide, only cook everything. For 

those of you who don't know how to power fish: 
 
Buy a net, and catch shrimp until you get to level 20 fishing.

If you want to spend the money, bait fish until level 20. 
Either way, from there you fly fish for trout and salmon. At level 50, 
you can start catching lobsters if you want. Most people wait until 
level 70, though.

ANYWAYS, just cook the fish that you catch, and your cooking will go up 
dramatically.

If you prefer the method of catching a lot of fish and then cooking 
them later (which many people do prefer), the closet bank-to-range is 
found in Al Kharid, where the first house north of the bank has a 
range. Another fairly close one is the house west of the east falador 
bank, though not quite as close as the one in Al Kharid.

NOW, I was not a fishermen in my early days (I have since become a 
master fisher and cook, but I'm trying to connect with you newer 
people).  Combat is fun, there's no ifs, ands or buts about it. It's 
the most fun skill to raise in runescape. SO, if your combat is below 
30, you can train on cows (which believe it or not is the best training 
spot until 30 combat). Cook the meat they drop, and you could have 30 
cooking by the time you've got 30 combat.  
I also took interest in the champions guild. There are lots of chickens 
there with a range just inside. 

Kill chickens for meat (and some meager combat XP, I suppose). AND, 
pick up the feathers- you need feathers to fly fish. That, and you can 
sell them for a small profit.

Once you have high fishing (and members), you can catch and cook 
lobsters. Good cooking XP, good fishing XP, fast (if you're a member- 
god-awful slow on the free worlds) XP, and you can either sell them for 
a profit or eat them when you train combat. What's not to like??

However, if you're like me and never got members, you have to keep fly 
fishing� sorry!

VII. COOKING GUILD
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The most esteemed chefs in Runescape gain access to the cooking guild. 
Only the best are allowed in, and only the best is found inside.

There are bowls, pie tins, cake tins, a hopper..

You can get a little bit of everything in the cooking guild. There's 
only one real set-back- there's no wheat. The closest wheat field is 
just south of Varrock, so plan accordingly.

VIII. XP CHARTS
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The foods are laid out like this:

Food
Req. Level
Cooking XP

Meat
1
30

Bread
1
40

Shrimp
1
30

Sardine
1
40

Herring
5
50

Anchovy
15
30

Mackerel
10
60

Trout
15
70

Cod
18
75

Pike
20
80

Salmon
25
90

Tuna
30
100

Lobster
40
120

Bass
43
130

Swordfish
45
140

Eel
53
140

Shark
80
210

Sea Turtle
82
212

Sting Ray
91
216

Redberry Pie
10
60

Meat Pie
20
80

Apple Pie
30
100

Pizza
35
110

Meat Pizza
45
130

Anchovy Pizza
55
140

Pineapple Pizza
65
145

Cake
40
120

Chocolate Cake
50
140

Stew
25
90

Curry
60
170

Ugthanki Kebab
58
80

Oomlie Wrap
50
30

Wine
35
110


IX. CREDITS, THANKS
===========================

Runescape- While in a perfect world we'd figure everything out for 
           ourselves, this isn't a perfect world. If you had just 
           clicked on "cooking" in your stats, you would have found the 
           answers to all cooking levels and "how to cook".  
           Anyhow, I thank them for making a cool game.
 
Tip.it- Another great runescape website (not as good as ours!) I used 
        their XP charts to fill in the holes I had (kebab and wrap) 
 
Hattusas- made a couple of corrections on my members stuff- I'm not a  
member, so it was bound to have some foul-ups.

COPYRIGHT � 2004 Sean D'Hoostelaere