Dungeoneering/Cooking

A range as found in Daemonheim

Cooking in Daemonheim is accessible to Free-to-play and Pay-to-play. Cooking can be increased with Naturalist's potions in the dungeons.

To cook fish, you must be raiding a dungeon with complexity level 2+. To cook potatoes and fillings, you must be raiding a dungeon with complexity level 5+.

Much of the food found in the tunnels beneath Daemonheim is already cooked, but it is possible to catch fish from some of the dark pools within the structure, and, for this reason, it is useful to be able to prepare them using the Cooking skill.

To cook any of the items below, you will need to find or make an appropriate source of heat, either a fire or a range within your dungeon, depending on the food. Once a range is found, store it with branches and then light it using a tinderbox. Ranges will not last forever, unlike the ranges on the surface, although they seem to last much longer than ground fire, so you may need to periodically restock and re-light them. Branches can be gained by cutting the trees that jut from the walls of Daemonheim, or by buying them straight from the Smuggler.

Higher tier logs offer a lower burn rate. The range itself also greatly reduces the chance of burning fish. Higher tier logs in a range will give the best chance of not burning your fish. The burning rate of cooking range is about 1/10 of open fire based on 1000 short-finned eel cooked on spinebeam branches fire with 289 burnt and another 1000 short-finned eel cooked on cooking range using spinebeam branches with only 27 burnt, which is significantly lower.

For members, making potatoes and filled potatoes can only be achieved on a complexity level of 5 or higher. To make a filled potato, use a Cave potato (obtained by planting Cave potato seeds in the farming patches around Daemonheim) on a range. Then use a mushroom or cooked fish on the potato. As noted below, up to two ingredients can be added to a cooked potato to make a foodstuff with a much greater ability to heal.

As all the ingredients are edible (with the exception of raw fish; mushrooms and potatoes can be eaten raw), remember to right-click when making filled potatoes.

Food

Product	Image	Level	Experience	Heals	Ingredients
Baked cave potato		1	9	25	Cave potato
Gissel potato		1	12.5	50	Cave potato & Gissel mushroom
Edicap potato		1	16.7	100	Cave potato & Edicap mushroom
Heim crab(f)		1	22	200	Raw heim crab
Heim crab potato		3	31	250	Heim crab & Cave potato
Heim crab & gissel potato		6	41.1	300	Heim crab, Cave potato & Gissel mushroom OR Heim crab potato and Gissel mushroom
Heim crab & edicap potato		9	51.9	350	Heim crab, Cave potato & Edicap mushroom OR Heim crab potato and Edicap mushroom
Red-eye(f)		10	41	250	Raw red-eye
Red-eye potato		13	50	325	Red-eye & Cave potato
Red-eye & gissel potato		16	65.8	400	Red-eye, Cave potato & Gissel mushroom OR Red-eye potato and Gissel mushroom
Red-eye & edicap potato		19	82.3	475	Red-eye, Cave potato & Edicap mushroom OR Red-eye potato and Edicap mushroom
Dusk eel(f)		20	61	500	Raw dusk eel
Dusk eel potato		23	70	575	Dusk eel & Cave potato
Dusk eel & gissel potato		26	91.8	650	Dusk eel, Cave potato & Gissel mushroom OR Dusk eel potato and Gissel mushroom
Dusk eel & edicap potato		29	114.3	725	Dusk eel, Cave potato & Edicap mushroom OR Dusk eel potato and Edicap mushroom
Giant flatfish(f)		30	82	750	Raw giant flatfish
Giant flatfish potato		33	91	825	Giant flatfish & Cave potato
Flatfish & gissel potato		36	119.1	900	Giant flatfish, Cave potato & Gissel mushroom OR Flatfish potato and Gissel mushroom
Flatfish & edicap potato		39	147.9	975	Giant flatfish, Cave potato & Edicap mushroom OR Flatfish potato and Edicap mushroom
Short-finned eel(f)		40	103	1000	Raw short-finned eel
Short-fin eel potato		43	112	1075	Short-finned eel & Cave potato
Short-fin & gissel potato		46	146.4	1150	Short-finned eel, Cave potato & Gissel mushroom OR Shortfin potato and Gissel mushroom
Short-fin & edicap potato		49	181.5	1225	Short-finned eel, Cave potato & Edicap mushroom OR Shortfin potato and Edicap mushroom
Web snipper(f)		50	124	1250	Raw web snipper
Snipper potato		53	133	1325	Web snipper & Cave potato
Snipper & gissel potato		56	173.7	1400	Web snipper, Cave potato & Gissel mushroom OR Snipper potato and Gissel mushroom
Snipper & edicap potato		59	215.1	1475	Web snipper, Cave potato & Edicap mushroom OR Snipper potato and Edicap mushroom
Bouldabass		60	146	1500	Raw bouldabass
Bouldabass potato		63	155	1575	Bouldabass & Cave potato
Bouldabass & gissel potato		66	202.3	1650	Bouldabass, Cave potato & Gissel mushroom OR Bouldabass potato and Gissel mushroom
Bouldabass & edicap potato		69	250.3	1725	Bouldabass, Cave potato & Edicap mushroom OR Bouldabass potato and Edicap mushroom
Salve eel		70	168	1750	Raw salve eel
Salve eel potato		73	177	1825	Salve eel & Cave potato
Salve eel & gissel potato		76	230.9	1900	Salve eel, Cave potato & Gissel mushroom OR Salve eel potato and Gissel mushroom
Salve eel & edicap potato		79	285.5	1975	Salve eel, Cave potato & Edicap mushroom OR Salve eel potato and Edicap mushroom
Blue crab		80	191	2000	Raw blue crab
Blue crab potato		83	200	2075	Blue crab & Cave potato
Blue crab & gissel potato		86	260.8	2150	Blue crab, Cave potato & Gissel mushroom OR Blue crab potato and Gissel mushroom
Blue crab & edicap potato		89	322.3	2225	Blue crab, Cave potato & Edicap mushroom OR Blue crab potato and Edicap mushroom
Cave moray		90	215	2250	Raw cave moray
Moray potato		93	224	2325	Cave moray & Cave potato
Moray & gissel potato		96	292	2400	Cave moray, Cave potato & Gissel mushroom OR Moray potato and Gissel mushroom
Moray & edicap potato		99	360.7	2475	Cave moray, Cave potato & Edicap mushroom OR Moray potato and Edicap mushroom

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Update history

The update history project is a work-in-progress – not all updates to this topic may be covered below. See here for how to help out!

• ninja 17 September 2018 (Update):
  • Added a Drop-X option for cooked Daemonheim food.

• patch 15 March 2011 (Update):
  • Cooking in a dungeon is now faster.
  • Lit cooking ranges will now last three times as long.

• patch 28 April 2010 (Update):
  • Added some safety checks to cooking fish.

Trivia

• There used to be a glitch where when you eat a raw Cave potato, the text box would say, "You eat the baked Cave potato." This has been fixed.
• The RuneScape game guide states that 'You can also gain Cooking experience by completing cooking skill doors', such as the barbarian supply and ferret fishing/cooking/ranged rooms.
• There may sometimes be a glitch with the Cooking range (lit) to show up in places it shouldn't.
• Previously, eating a fish would bring up the message "It tastes better than it looks.", referring to the distasteful examine texts on many of the fish.