OSRS Cooking Profit Calculator
Cooking profit for every food at live prices: your burn chance wherever you cook, profit each and an hour, and the level each food stops burning.
Every food, side by side
At your level and where you cook, at prices right now.
Every way to cook it
| Where | Burn at your level | Stops burning at | Profit an hour |
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Burn chance by level
| Level | Burn | Profit each | Profit an hour |
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A batch
Burnt food is counted. Each food's chance to burn is worked out for your level and where you cook, and burnt food is worth nothing, so profit each and profit an hour are what an attempt makes on average. Cooking gauntlets help with lobster, swordfish, monkfish, shark, anglerfish and kyatt. At level 99 a Cooking cape stops all burning. Prices. Ingredients are bought at the instant-buy price and the food sold at the instant-sell price, less the 2% Grand Exchange tax where it applies. An ingredient you can only catch or gather counts as free. Rates. Food on a fire or range is about 1,435 an hour next to a bank, 1,365 at the Hosidius kitchen and 1,208 at the Lumbridge Castle range. A "~" marks a rate worked out from a similar method. Figures checked against the OSRS Wiki on 26 October 2026.
What makes cooking pay
Cooking makes money when a cooked food sells for more than its raw one, after the 2% tax and after the share you burn. The gap moves with the market, so the table above prices every food right now. Fish are the usual choice because they cook one an action, never need more than one ingredient and sell in bulk.
Where to cook, and what burns less
A range burns less than a fire for most foods. The ranges in the Hosidius kitchen need the easy Kourend & Kebos diary and add 5% to your chance of success, or 10% with the elite diary; the achievement diaries calculator lists every task of both tiers; they sit beside a bank chest, about 1,365 food an hour. The range in the Lumbridge Castle kitchen needs Cook's Assistant and burns less of 21 foods, from shrimps and bread to botanical and mushroom pies, but the trip to the Culinaromancer's Chest in the cellar makes it about 1,208 an hour.
Cooking gauntlets come from Family Crest. They lower the burn chance for lobster, swordfish, monkfish, shark, anglerfish and kyatt, and nothing else; at Hosidius they still help with all of those but swordfish and kyatt. A Cooking cape, at level 99, stops all burning.
Gnome cooking and cocktails
Gnome dishes start as Gianne dough baked in a crunchy tray, batta tin or gnomebowl mould. The basic ingredients go in, the dish is baked a second time and finished. Both bakes can burn at low levels. Cocktails are mixed in a shaker and poured into a cocktail glass, and only a drunk dragon, heated in a range, can fail.
Cooking profit questions
What is the most profitable thing to cook? It changes with prices. The table sorts every food by profit an hour at your level, and the top row is the answer right now.
How many raw fish will I need for a level? The Cooking calculator plans any level goal, burns included.
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