Cooked Herring

Cooked Herring
Type	Food
Gathered at	Cooked at roast pits from Herring
Skill	Cooking
Used for	Food (heals 5 HP), Guild Life upkeep and The Angler raffle

Cooked Herring is the cooked form of Herring. It was originally called Cooked Fish Meat, and older guides may still use that name. Since the fishing update each fish species cooks into its own item (Cooked Trout, Cooked Bass, Cooked Tuna, Cooked Swordfish); Cooked Herring is the Herring tier, and it is the one cooked fish used for Guild Life upkeep.

Cooking

Action	Location	Skill	Result
Cook raw Herring + 1 Wood at a Roast Pit	Any roast pit	Cooking (125 XP)	Cooked Herring

Each cook consumes 1 Wood and can fail — the burn chance starts at 30% at low Cooking levels and slides down to 5% at level 40. A failed cook produces worthless Burnt Herring instead, which pays no XP.

Uses

Use	Required amount	Result
Food	1 Cooked Herring	Heals 5 HP when eaten. Like all food, it can only be eaten in combat areas — the Wilderness realms and Emberstone — and never in The Dunes, where the heat blocks every cooked fish and only cacti heals
Guild Life upkeep	500 Cooked Herring	Adds a quarter-day of Guild Life; the full set (1,000 Wood + 750 Stone + 500 Coal + 500 Cooked Herring) adds one day
Bait trade-up	10 Herring (raw or cooked)	5 Trout Bait at the Old Fisher or Dockhand Maren — raw Herring is spent first
The Angler raffle	500 Cooked Herring per ticket	Cooked Herring is worth 1 point (Trout 5, Bass 8, Tuna 9, Swordfish 10) and 500 points buys one Angler Outfit raffle ticket, so any mix of cooked fish works

History: Cooked Fish Meat was once part of the Traveling Merchant's Gold bundle. The merchant no longer trades.

Related pages

Page	Why it matters
Cooking	Skill used to cook fish
Fishing	Skill used to gather raw Herring
Herring	Raw fish cooked into Cooked Herring
The Pond	Early fishing and cooking area
Guilds	Guild Life upkeep takes Cooked Herring
The Angler	Takes Cooked Herring for the Angler Outfit raffle