OSRS Cooking Calculator

Turn your Cooking grind into an exact number of nights - and a date. Free-to-play skill.

The OSRS Cooking Calculator turns your target level into the exact XP, karambwans, hours and nights still ahead of you. Load your RuneScape username or enter your level, pick a training method below, and get a real date for your next Cooking milestone.

Your goal
10 hrs / week
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Actions left
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Time left
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Nights of grinding
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at your weekly pace
ETA
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Training methods

Tap a method to plan your goal with it. Rates are realistic averages, not tick-perfect world records.

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 — — —
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 — —
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 — —
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 — —
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 — —
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 — —
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 — —
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.
Cooking FAQ

How long does 99 Cooking take in OSRS?

Roughly 14 hours of focused training from level 1 using 1-Tick Karambwan at about 900,000 XP/hr. At two hours a night that is around 7 evenings. Enter your current level above and the calculator turns it into an exact date.

How many karambwans do you need for 99 Cooking?

From level 1 you would need about 68,603 karambwans via 1-Tick Karambwan (190 XP each). Your personal count from your current XP appears in the results panel above.

What is the fastest way to train Cooking in OSRS?

The quickest method in this Cooking calculator is 1-Tick Karambwan at roughly 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. Tap any row in the methods table to plan your goal around it.

Is the OSRS Cooking calculator free to use?

Yes. Every calculator on OSRS Calc is free with no login or sign-up - load your RuneScape username or type your level and the Cooking numbers update instantly in your browser.

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. Slower than the fastest methods, but the grind pays you.

What XP rates does this Cooking calculator use?

Realistic community averages for a normal 2026 player, not tick-perfect world records - so the hours, nights and ETA are targets you can actually hit rather than theoretical bests.

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