OSRS Cooking Calculator

7 priced Cooking methods, from 900,000 XP/hr down to 90,000. Free-to-play skill.

OSRS Cooking Calculator. 7 Cooking methods are listed below, level 15 (Trout) through 84 (Anglerfish). 1-Tick Karambwan at 900,000 XP/hr is the best of the 5 rows open at level 70. The one input that is not a rate is your target: 12,296,804 XP from level 70 to 99 is 64,721 karambwans and 14 hrs.

Cooking goal

RuneScape username

Current level

Current XP

Target level

How much do you actually play?

10 hrs / week

The damage

XP remaining

12,296,804

Actions left

64,721

via 1-Tick Karambwan

Time left

14 hrs

Nights of grinding

weekly hours averaged across 7 days

ETA

in 10 days

Total profit ≈ +8.6M gp

1-Tick Karambwan at 900,000 XP/hr is the fastest row available to you, and nothing locked in this table beats it.

Cooking methods and rates

Rates here are what an ordinary Cooking session produces, from Trout up to Anglerfish.

Method	Lvl	XP/hr	GP/XP	To goal	Hours
Trout f2p Cook fished trout for near-free early XP; salmon (90) and tuna (100) come next, and trout stops burning on a range at level 49. · 70 xp/trout	15	90,000	—	175,669	137 hrs
Lobsters f2p Cheap and semi-AFK; F2P can buy raw lobster off the GE, and cooking gauntlets stop the burns at level 64 (74 without). · 120 xp/lobster	40	150,000	-0.1	102,474	82 hrs
Jugs of Wine cheapest Squeeze grapes onto jugs of water and let them ferment: 200 XP each, zero failures past 68, roughly 4-5M gp to reach 99. · 200 xp/jug of wine	35	450,000	-0.4	61,485	27 hrs
Sharks afk Bank-side range plus cooking gauntlets keeps it near-AFK, and it currently profits ~200 gp per shark (GE margins swing). · 210 xp/shark	80	270,000	+0.8	—	41 hrs (80+)
Anglerfish Highest XP per fish at 230; near-AFK with gauntlets, banks premium food, and currently profits ~160 gp per fish cooked. · 230 xp/anglerfish	84	310,000	+0.6	—	33 hrs (84+)
1-Tick Karambwan fastest Fastest XP in the game, but you must click every 0.6s tick; needs the Tai Bwo Wannai Trio quest and still nets a profit. · 190 xp/karambwan	30	900,000	+0.7	64,721	14 hrs
Karambwan (profit) profit Relaxed clicking nets ~150 gp per cooked karambwan; it only profits once your burn rate drops, so aim for level 90+. · 190 xp/karambwan	30	220,000	+0.7	64,721	56 hrs

About training Cooking

Cooking is the textbook buyable skill: your gp budget usually sets your XP rate more than your level does, since you mostly stockpile raw food and click through it as fast as you can. From level 35 the popular fast-and-cheap route is fermenting jugs of wine (200 XP each, and they stop failing entirely past 68), while spam-cooking raw karambwans a single item per game tick is the outright XP record. Prefer something calmer? Cooking gauntlets plus a bank-side range turn sharks and anglerfish into an almost hands-off grind.

Did you know: At level 99 you can spam-cook raw karambwans one per 0.6-second game tick for about 950,000 Cooking XP an hour - among the fastest XP rates anywhere in the game - chewing through roughly 5,000 karambwans hourly and cutting a 30-to-99 grind down to around 14 hours.

How this Cooking estimate is built

13,021,068 XP separates level 30 from Cooking 99, out of 13,034,431 total. 14 hrs is the gap over 900,000 XP/hr on 1-Tick Karambwan; 68,532 is the same gap over 190 XP per karambwan. One action every 0.8 seconds: that is what 900,000 XP/hr at 190 XP per karambwan actually requires. Every row carries an action count here - all 7 Cooking methods - so that column is never blank. 11 nights at 1.4 hrs a day covers 14 hrs of Cooking. 15 hrs from level 1, if you switch at 15/30/35/40/80/84.

Decision example

13,021,068 XP: 1-Tick Karambwan converts it in 14 hrs, Karambwan (profit) in 59 hrs - 309% more clock. Both come to 9.1M gp, so 13,021,068 XP is all that differs. Low attention instead: Sharks at 270,000 XP/hr.

Limits of the number

900,000 XP/hr is 1-Tick Karambwan over a session, 1,215,000 on a perfect tick. An hour of 1-Tick Karambwan returns about 630K gp. Prices are 16 October 2026 estimates: 0.7 GP/XP today, and the Cooking cost moves with supply.

Cooking, level 30 to 99

13,021,068 XP - 100% of a whole 99 - explained twice. Same target, same 13,021,068 XP; the Cooking rate is the only difference.

Method	Rate	Actions	Active hours	GP/XP estimate
1-Tick Karambwan	900,000 XP/hr	68,532	14 hrs	+9.1M gp
Karambwan (profit)	220,000 XP/hr	68,532	59 hrs	+9.1M gp

1-Tick Karambwan saves 45 hrs over Karambwan (profit), which is 309% of the slower total.

Method detail comes from Cooking training on the OSRS Wiki, last read on 16 October 2026 for Cooking. Data sources.

A practical Cooking route

Below, the Cooking route from 1-30 to 70+: 3 switches, each tied to an unlock.

1-30

Cook cheap fish
Use fish you catch or buy in small batches; the early levels mainly unlock faster ranges and better food.
30-70

Balance burn rate and margin
Trout, salmon, lobsters and swordfish trade XP for purchase price and burns; test a small batch before committing.
70+

Wines or high-level food
Cooking wines can be very fast but require timing and jugs, while sharks and karambwan are slower routes with different margins.

Cooking by goal

What changes the choice

Fastest: Wines and other high-XP lines reward continuous banking; a short interruption changes the effective rate sharply.
Low risk: Choose a range with high success chance and accept a lower rate until the burn breakpoint is reached.
Profit: Cook food with a stable buy/sell spread and track burns; raw-food prices can erase the apparent margin.

Requirements and caveats

Burn chance depends on level, item, gloves and range; early rates should not be extrapolated to high-level food.
The calculator's GP/XP uses the method's stated input assumptions and can change with GE prices.

Common mistakes to avoid

Buying millions of raw items before checking the current cooked-food margin.
Counting a perfect success rate when the account has not reached the relevant burn protection.

3 Cooking switches, reviewed 2026-10-16. Cooking training on the OSRS Wiki.

Recent data notes

11 review notes on Cooking, each naming a figure that moved and the reason.

11 review notes for this skill

Trout xpPerHour 130,000 -> 90,000: OSRS Wiki P2P Cooking guide rates the trout/tuna tier at ~85,000-100,000 xp/hr; 130k overstated it.
Trout note fixed: trout stops burning at level 49 on a range/fire (Cooking/Burn level table), not 'around 34' - cooking gauntlets do not affect trout.
Lobster note fixed: with cooking gauntlets lobster stops burning at level 64; level 74 is the no-gauntlets figure. Original had the gauntlets number backwards.
Jug of Wine gpPerXp -0.3 -> -0.4: current GE prices (grapes ~64 + jug of water ~14 - jug of wine ~3 = ~75 gp per 200 XP = ~-0.38/xp) show the cost was understated.
Jug of Wine note: cost to 99 raised from '3.5-4M gp' to 'roughly 4-5M gp' to match current grape prices (~65k+ wines x ~75 gp).
Sharks gpPerXp 0 -> +0.8 (sign fix): 24h-avg GE raw shark ~727 vs cooked ~960 = ~+230/shark; wiki MMG confirms 189k-325k gp/hr. Cooking sharks profits now, it is not break-even.
Sharks note rewritten from 'about break-even' to reflect the current ~200 gp/shark profit (with a volatility caveat).
Anglerfish gpPerXp -0.2 -> +0.6 (SIGN FIX): wiki MMG shows cooked anglerfish 2,676 vs raw 2,514 = +162 gp profit per fish. Cooking anglerfish makes gp, it does not lose it.
Anglerfish note updated to state it currently profits (~160 gp/fish) instead of implying a loss.
1-Tick Karambwan xpPerHour 700,000 -> 900,000: OSRS Wiki lists 950,000 xp/hr at level 99 (5,000/hr); 700k contradicted the dataset's own fun fact and undersold the method (kept slightly below 950k as a realistic, non-tick-perfect rate).
1-Tick Karambwan gpPerXp +0.5 -> +0.7: wiki MMG has raw karambwan 263 / cooked 420 = +157 gp each (~+0.83/xp at 99); 0.5 understated it and clashed with the +0.7 profit variant of the same food.

Cooking FAQ

Cooking 99: how many hours?

Roughly 15 hours of play, assuming you move to each faster Cooking method as soon as its requirement is met. At two hours a night: 8 sessions.

How many karambwans do you need for 99 Cooking?

About 68,532 karambwans at 190 XP each on 1-Tick Karambwan, from level 30 to 99.

What is the fastest way to train Cooking in OSRS?

1-Tick Karambwan, from level 30, at about 900,000 XP/hr. Fastest XP in the game, but you must click every 0.6s tick; needs the Tai Bwo Wannai Trio quest and still nets a profit.

What is a practical Cooking training route?

1-30: Cook cheap fish - Use fish you catch or buy in small batches; the early levels mainly unlock faster ranges and better food. 30-70: Balance burn rate and margin - Trout, salmon, lobsters and swordfish trade XP for purchase price and burns; test a small batch before committing. 70+: Wines or high-level food - Cooking wines can be very fast but require timing and jugs, while sharks and karambwan are slower routes with different margins.

Can you make money training Cooking?

Yes - Sharks earns roughly 0.8 gp per XP, and Anglerfish earns roughly 0.6 gp per XP, and 1-Tick Karambwan earns roughly 0.7 gp per XP, and Karambwan (profit) earns roughly 0.7 gp per XP. All of them are slower than 1-Tick Karambwan at 900,000 XP/hr.

Before you commit to a Cooking method, what?

Burn chance depends on level, item, gloves and range; early rates should not be extrapolated to high-level food. The calculator's GP/XP uses the method's stated input assumptions and can change with GE prices. Common mistakes include Buying millions of raw items before checking the current cooked-food margin. Counting a perfect success rate when the account has not reached the relevant burn protection.

Is 1-Tick Karambwan worth it over Karambwan (profit)?

1-Tick Karambwan spends 14 hrs of the 13,021,068 XP between level 30 and 99; Karambwan (profit) 59 hrs. The 45 hrs gap is the decision.

All 24 skill calculators, closest in hours first

Cooking sits at 1 of 24 by active hours to 99. Open the hub table: Sharks is the only Cooking row that pays, at 0.8 GP/XP.