Cooking is an artisan skill focusing mainly on processing raw ingredients into food. You can gather ingredients for cooking from skills such as fishing, hunter, and farming. Food made from cooking is often used for healing, while some provide players with temporary boosts. Furthermore, cooking can be quite a decent skill for money-making. In this article, we’re going through some of the best RuneScape 3 cooking money-making methods, complete with its requirements and expected gold per hour.
Best RuneScape 3 Cooking Money Making Method: Gnome Restaurant
Requirements:
- Level 29 Cooking (Level 42 is highly recommended)
Gold per hour: 15M
Gnome Restaurant is a minigame that involves players making food with gnome cooking and delivering it to customers across gielenor. You need to have level 29 Cooking to do this minigame, although level 42 is highly recommended to be able to cook all the food that may be requested.
You can start this minigame by talking to Aluft Gianne Jr on the second floor of the Grand Tree, north of the westernmost bank. If this is your first time, you’ll need to run through a small tutorial before you can begin delivering orders. This tutorial will help you with the basics of gnome cooking by making four different gnome dishes.
You should always choose the hard task for your delivery for maximum profit. 11 minutes are given to you to complete each task. You can see the current customer, order, and the remaining time by clicking on the delivery box given to you when accepting the task. Do note that you can buy the finished food from the Grand Exchange to save time, although most of the time you have to make do with making it yourself because of the low supply of gnome dishes in the GE. In that case, you can use this list of gnome dishes and their ingredients to help you prepare your orders. Other than that, you can use this list of customers to help you pinpoint the exact location of each possible customer for your delivery.
Making Raw Wild Pies
Requirements:
- Level 85 Cooking
Gold per hour: 7M
Ingredients:
- Pie shell
- Raw bear meat
- Raw chompy
- Raw rabbit
You need to have level 85 Cooking to make raw wild pies. Do note that each ingredient has a buying limit of 1000 per 4 hours on the Grand Exchange. Don’t forget to check the prices of the ingredients along with the price of the raw wild pie on the GE to determine the profitability of this money-making method.
The following are the steps for making raw wild pies:
- Withdraw 14 x pie shells and 14 x raw bear meats from your bank to your inventory.
- Use raw bear meat on the pie shell and click ‘Mix’ on the interface that appears.
- Do this until you’ve run out of all your pie shells and bear meats.
- Do the same with part wild pies and raw chompy.
- Do the same with part wild pies and raw rabbit until you’ve exhausted all the ingredients.
Making Raw Admiral Pies
Requirements:
- Level 70 Cooking
Gold per hour: 2M
Ingredients:
- Pie shell
- Salmon
- Tuna
- Raw potato
You need to have level 70 Cooking to make raw admiral pies. Do note that each ingredient has a buying limit of 1000 per 4 hours on the Grand Exchange. Don’t forget to check the prices of the ingredients along with the price of the raw admiral pie on the GE to determine the profitability of this money-making method.
The following are the steps for making raw admiral pies:
- Withdraw 14 x pie shells and 14 x salmons from your bank to your inventory.
- Use salmon on the pie shell, and click ‘Mix’ on the interface that appears.
- Do this until you’ve run out of all your pie shells and salmons.
- Do the same with part admiral pies and tunas.
- Do the same with part admiral pies and raw potatoes until you’ve exhausted all the ingredients.