Cooking Dishes

Dishes are Cooking's multi-ingredient recipes. A fish or a chicken goes on the fire alone and comes off as one heal; a dish takes two or three ingredients you already gather and comes off as food that heals and gives you a 10-minute buff. There are eight dishes, unlocking between Cooking 10 and Cooking 38.

How to cook a dish

• Cook dishes at any Roast Pit, the same as fish and chicken — pick the dish from the pit's recipe list.
• Every cook burns 1 Wood as fuel on top of the ingredients listed below.
• Dishes never burn. A dish spends several ingredients at once, so there's no burn roll to gamble them away.
• Dishes are not fish: cooking one does not count toward "cook fish" daily quests, the weekly quest, or your Fish Cooked total.
• Dishes are food, so they can be traded and listed on the Marketplace.

All dishes

Dish	Cooking level	Ingredients (plus 1 Wood)	Heals	Buff (10 minutes)	Cooking XP
Fisher's Chowder	10	2 Herring + 1 Trout	15 HP	+15% fishing speed	300
Cactus Salad	14	3 Cacti + 1 Raw Chicken	20 HP	+10% Woodcutting & Mining XP	190
Hunter's Roast	18	2 Raw Chicken + 2 Feather + 1 Coal	25 HP	+3 sword damage vs monsters	340
Coal-Smoked Bass	22	2 Bass + 2 Coal	30 HP	+10% Woodcutting & Mining speed	350
Seared Tuna Steak	26	2 Tuna + 1 Cacti + 1 Coal	35 HP	+10% Fishing XP	360
Brute Horn Broth	30	1 Brute Horn + 2 Cooked Chicken + 1 Coal	40 HP	10% less damage from monsters	80
Ember-Seared Swordfish	34	2 Swordfish + 1 Molten Rock	45 HP	+5 sword damage vs monsters	360
Reef Feast	38	1 Parrotfish + 1 Grouper + 1 Brute Horn	50 HP	15% less damage from monsters	380

Fish ingredients are the raw fish. Brute Horn Broth takes chicken that is already cooked, which is why it pays less Cooking XP — the chicken's own cook already paid out.

Food buffs

Eating a dish heals you and starts its buff, shown as a chip on your HUD with the time left.

• 10 minutes per buff.
• One food buff at a time. Eating a different dish replaces the buff that was running; the game asks you first, so press again to confirm.
• The same dish stacks time. Eating another of the same dish while its buff runs adds 10 minutes, up to 1 hour left. The buff itself doesn't get stronger.
• At the 1-hour cap the game won't let you eat more of that dish (heal included), and the dish isn't used up.
• Heals only what you're missing. A dish never heals past your maximum HP. You can still eat one at full health just for the buff.
• One dish heal every 31 seconds. Eat a second dish inside that window and you get its buff, but not its heal.
• Not in The Dunes. Like all cooked food, dishes can't be eaten in the heat — only Cacti heals there.
• The buff keeps running if you change realm or reconnect.

What each buff does

Buff	Effect	Dishes
Fishing speed	Fish bite sooner — the wait for a bite is 15% shorter.	Fisher's Chowder
Fishing XP	+10% Fishing XP on every catch.	Seared Tuna Steak
Woodcutting & Mining speed	Your axe and pickaxe swing 10% faster.	Coal-Smoked Bass
Woodcutting & Mining XP	+10% Woodcutting and Mining XP.	Cactus Salad
Sword damage vs monsters	Flat extra damage on every sword hit against a monster or boss. It does nothing against players, and nothing for a bow.	Hunter's Roast (+3), Ember-Seared Swordfish (+5)
Damage reduction vs monsters	Takes a percentage off every hit a monster or boss lands on you. It does nothing against players.	Brute Horn Broth (10%), Reef Feast (15%)

Food buffs work alongside relic bonuses and potions rather than replacing them.

Tips

• Fisher's Chowder is the first dish (Cooking 10) and only needs fish from The Pond and Whisperwood — eat one before a long fishing session.
• Coal-Smoked Bass and Cactus Salad pair well with gathering trips; combine with a higher-tier Axe or Pickaxe.
• For boss fights and the Frostmere packs, Brute Horn Broth or Reef Feast soak up damage, and Hunter's Roast / Ember-Seared Swordfish kill faster.
• Cacti come from The Dunes, and Brute Horn and Molten Rock from the Emberstone — free accounts can't reach either, but these ingredients can be bought on the Marketplace.

Related pages

Page	Why it matters
Cooking	The skill, the fish ladder and the burn chance.
Roast pit	Where every dish is cooked.
Fishing	Where the fish ingredients come from.
Whisperwood Chicken	Raw Chicken and Feathers.

Skills of Kintara
Gathering	Woodcutting  ·  Mining  ·  Fishing
Production	Cooking  ·  Smithing
Combat	Combat