Cooking



  The  Cooking  skill is used to cook raw food for a number of reasons, including restoring  life points and the temporary boosting of skill levels. There are many different types of food in Autoscape , each healing a certain amount of life points. However, as with all skills, players must reach certain levels to cook various types of foods. Cooking can often generate a small profit as many players are willing to purchase food already cooked, especially those who cannot actually prepare higher level foods. Cooking also has a larger variety of training options than any other skill.

Cooking is considered by most players to be one of the easiest skills 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. However, it should be noted that some foods available in the Cooking skill require significantly more work than other skills, perhaps most notably the  mushroom potato, and that if one was so inclined he or she could find endless diversity in the Cooking skill; despite this, most players choose to cook fish. Cooking is the second most common 99 skill, after  Strength. Cooking used to be the most common 99, but later the amount of people wanting it decreased due to the fact it no longer makes profit.