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General Goods

Cooking is considered by most players to be one of, if not actually the easiest skill to train. This is due to being able to simply buy the items they want to cook from the grand exchange and then cook it merely a few feet away. Unfortunately this method will usually not generate a profit for the player, actually requiring a rather large investment. As such, a multitude of wealthier players are often seen training cooking this way, while less fortunate players are forced to manually gather their raw foods. As of 22 December, 2010 there are 244 players that have received 200,000,000 experience in Cooking. As of 9 April 2011, there are 173,240 players that have achieved level 99 in Cooking. This makes it the second most common 99 skill, after Strength.The current minimum requirement to be ranked (at rank 2,000,000) on the hiscores for Cooking is level 58.

As players train cooking, they will periodically and randomly fail to cook something properly. The result is a burnt version of the item that the player was attempting to cook. As an example, if a player tries to cook a raw shark and burns it they will obtain the item 'burnt shark.' The same holds true for items such as burnt cake, burnt meat, and burnt fish, where the item name holds the general form 'burnt [something].'

As you increase your cooking level beyond what is required for that particular food, you will gradually burn less, as is made obvious by the logic of getting better at cooking. With many raw items, especially lower to mid level items, you will eventually stop burning some types of food entirely, but will often need an extensive amount of training to reach the appropriate zero-burn level. An example being raw monkfish, which is accessed in the mid level-60's, and does not reach zero-burn until the high level-90's range. (See the meat/fish charts for exact data.) Other than increasing your cooking level, there are other methods of decreasing the chance of burning while cooking.

The lists below provide both the minimum requirements for cooking the item as well as the level at which the item will no longer be burnt. Some of the high level foods never reach the 'no-burn' point, with the list including items on the level magnitude of raw shark. As such, some players choose to wait before beginning to cook foods they have just met the requirements for, as they will usually burn more than half of the food they are trying to cook. Burning food provides NO experience, so it is something to be avoided in earnest.