Cooking training

This page details the optimal training methods for levelling up Cooking.

Category	Items progression (Late Game → Early Game)
Head	Chef's Hat
Legs	Leggings Of Lightness
Trinket	Inspiring Ring of Cooking

Armour Slots:

• Chef's hat – to feel like a true Chef! Hopefully it gets a cool perk soon...
• Leggings of lightness – Increases the player's maximum carry weight by 50

Trinkets:

• Inspiring ring of Cooking – +5% experience boost in Cooking

Category	Items progression (Late Game → Early Game)
Potions (Focused Cooking I & II)	Super Focused Cooking Potion	Focused Cooking Potion	Lesser Focused Cooking Potion	Weak Focused Cooking Potion	N/A	N/A
Food (Knowledgable Nourishment)	Wild Pie	Forager's Sandwich	Sweet Veg Ball	N/A	N/A	N/A

Food & potions perks:

• Knowledgable Nourishment – Increases the player's experience gain in all skills by 10%
• Focused Cooking – Increases the experience gained when training the Cooking skill by 15%
• Focused Cooking II – Increases the experience gained when training the Cooking skill by 30%

*Perks: Food perks do NOT stack. Eating another food after consuming a different one overrides its perk(s) with the most recent food eaten. Potions behave like this as well; drinking a new potion will immediately overwrite your active potion buff. While players cannot layer multiple foods or multiple potions, one potion + one food perks can be stacked together simultaneously.

• Levelling up reduces the chance to burn ingredients. See Cooking/Level up Table.
• Ingredients give 10 XP when cooked.
• Meals give 20 XP when prepared.
• Drinks give 15 XP when prepared.

• Farming ingredients
• Training Cooking with Fishing

Once the player has access to Umbral Sands and have completed parts of it's main quest, Ictlharin's Little Helper, they get access to garou merchants. These merchants offer a direct source of buyable ingredients for Cooking in exchange for garou chits. As cooking ingredients on a grill give 10 XP each, we can calculate how many ingredients are required to reach a certain Cooking level.

Based on the previous region, Dowdun Reach, players indirectly need a level 41 Cooking to complete its main quest, as they need to cook maple sap into Syrup. Taking that into consideration, here are the calculations for some level thresholds starting at level 41:

• 24,084 XP to reach level 50
• 167,168 XP to reach level 75
• 431,179 XP to reach level 95
• 983,490 XP to reach level 99

The cheapest ingredient available, redberries, gives 10 XP each and is sold at a rate of 3 garou chits per redberries:

• ~7,227 garou chits for 2,409 redberries to reach level 50
• ~50,151 garou chits for 16,717 redberries to reach level 75
• ~129,354 garou chits for 43,118 redberries to reach level 95
• ~295,047 garou chits for 98,349 redberries to reach level 99

If the player uses all the best Cooking experience boosts available (Ring, Knowledgable Nourishment, and Potion):

• ~4,812 garou chits for 1,604 redberries to reach level 50
• ~33,402 garou chits for 11,134 redberries to reach level 75
• ~86,151 garou chits for 28,717 redberries to reach level 95
• ~196,503 garou chits for 65,501 redberries to reach level 99

With an empty inventory and the use of the Personal Chest spell, players can buy about ~5148 redberries per trip:

• ~20 trips to buy enough redberries to reach level 99 Cooking without using any experience boosts
• ~13 trips to buy enough redberries to reach level 99 Cooking with experience boosts
  • About 16 and 11 iron chests are needed to contain all the redberries required to achieve level 99 Cooking, respectively.

Lodestones prove to be very useful here as they can be built very close to garou merchants.

See garou chit for strategies about gathering garou chits.