Cooking for profit: what to cook and what to assemble

This table ranks every Cooking money maker by profit per hour at current Grand Exchange prices, from cooking sharks to assembling raw pies and pizzas. Enter your Cooking level first. The profit figures assume you burn at a realistic rate for that level, so a method can climb the list as you level and burn less.

Top method right now+2.85M /hrCutting raw marlin

Best free-to-play+274K /hrMaking pie shells

Best low intensity+722K /hrCreating forester's rations

41 methods

Method	Category	Intensity	Members	Profit per unit	Profit/hr
Cutting raw marlinMarlins per hour: 11,000	Processing	Moderate	Members	+259	+2.85M
Cutting raw yellowfinYellowfin per hour: 11,000	Processing	High	Members	+213	+2.34M
Making raw summer pies95 CookingRaw summer pies per hour: 670	Processing	Moderate	Members	+1,557	+1.04M
Creating forester's rations35 Cooking · 35 WoodcuttingSets of rations created per hour: 71	SkillingCooking	Low	Members	+10,233	+722K
Cooking raw moonlight antelope92 CookingMoonlight antelope cooked per hour: 1,300	SkillingCooking	Low	Members	+439	+571K
Making tuna potatoes68 CookingPotatoes per hour: 2,000	Processing	Moderate	Members	+218	+436K
Cooking raw dark crabs90 CookingDark crabs cooked per hour: 1,300	SkillingCooking	Low	Members	+330	+429K
Cooking raw marlin99 CookingMarlin cooked per hour: 1,300	SkillingCooking	Low	Members	+315	+410K
Making raw admiral pies70 CookingRaw admiral pies per hour: 840	Processing	High	Members	+427	+359K
Cooking raw sharks80 Cooking · Family CrestSharks cooked per hour: 1,300	SkillingCooking	Low	Members	+268	+348K
Making pie shellsPie shells per hour: 2,450	Processing	Low	F2P	+112	+274K
Making pineapple pizzas65 CookingPizzas made per hour: 2,500	SkillingCooking	High	Members	+105	+263K
Cooking raw anglerfish84 CookingAnglerfish cooked per hour: 1,300	SkillingCooking	Low	Members	+199	+259K
Making uncooked berry pies10 CookingUncooked berry pies per hour: 2,450	Processing	Low	F2P	+88	+216K
Making anchovy pizzas55 CookingPizzas made per hour: 2,500	SkillingCooking	Moderate	F2P	+86	+215K
Making uncooked apple pies30 CookingUncooked apple pies per hour: 2,450	Processing	Low	F2P	+84	+206K
Making pizza basesPizza bases per hour: 2,400	Processing	High	F2P	+76	+182K
Making pastry doughPastry dough per hour: 2,400	Processing	Moderate	F2P	+62	+149K
Making uncooked meat pies20 CookingUncooked meat pies per hour: 2,450	Processing	Low	F2P	+59	+145K
Cooking plain pizzas35 CookingPizzas per hour: 540	SkillingCooking	Low	F2P	+237	+128K
Cooking raw karambwan30 Cooking · Tai Bwo Wannai TrioKarambwan cooked per hour: 1,300	SkillingCooking	Low	Members	+91	+118K
Making chocolate cake50 CookingCakes made per hour: 2,500	SkillingCooking	Moderate	F2P	+28	+70,000
Cooking raw monkfish62 Cooking · Family CrestMonkfish cooked per hour: 1,300	SkillingCooking	Low	Members	+42	+54,600
Making dough at Cooks' Guild32 CookingDough per hour: 338	Processing	High	F2P	+145	+49,010
Baking potatoes7 CookingPotatoes cooked per hour: 1,120	SkillingCooking	Low	Members	+27	+30,240
Cooking raw chicken1 CookingChicken cooked per hour: 1,300	SkillingCooking	Low	F2P	+15	+19,500
Cooking raw tuna30 CookingTuna cooked per hour: 1,300	SkillingCooking	Low	F2P	+7	+9,100
Cooking raw anchovies1 CookingAnchovies cooked per hour: 1,300	SkillingCooking	Low	F2P	+3	+3,900
Cooking raw shrimp1 CookingShrimps cooked per hour: 1,300	SkillingCooking	Low	F2P	0	0
Cooking raw salmon25 CookingSalmon cooked per hour: 1,300	SkillingCooking	Low	F2P	0	0
Cooking raw swordfish45 CookingSwordfish cooked per hour: 1,300	SkillingCooking	Low	F2P	−3	−3,900
Cooking raw trout15 CookingTrout cooked per hour: 1,300	SkillingCooking	Low	F2P	−22	−28,600
Cooking raw lobster40 CookingLobster cooked per hour: 1,300	SkillingCooking	Low	F2P	−28	−36,400
Cooking raw yellowfin79 CookingYellowfin cooked per hour: 1,300	SkillingCooking	Low	Members	−121	−157K
Cooking raw herring5 CookingHerring cooked per hour: 1,300	SkillingCooking	Low	F2P	−225	−293K
Making fine fish offcutsFine fish offcuts per hour: 1,500	Processing	Low	Members	−207	−311K
Pasting squidSquids pasted per hour: 2,000	Processing	Moderate	Members	−188	−376K
Cooking raw sunlight antelope68 CookingSunlight antelope cooked per hour: 1,300	SkillingCooking	Low	Members	−373	−485K
Cooking raw dashing kebbit82 CookingDashing kebbits cooked per hour: 1,300	SkillingCooking	Low	Members	−383	−498K
Making raw wild pies85 CookingRaw wild pies per hour: 740	Processing	High	Members	−2,412	−1.78M
Cutting raw sharksShark per hour: 11,000	Processing	High	Members	−207	−2.28M

Profit uses current Grand Exchange mid prices and takes off the 2% GE tax on what you sell. Rates assume a practised player with the listed requirements; your own rate may be lower at first.

Cooking pays for assembly, not heat

The surprise in this table is how few of the top rows involve a range. Most of the best Cooking money comes from assembling things other players want to cook or eat: raw wild pies (85), raw summer pies (95) and raw admiral pies (70), pineapple pizzas (65) and pastry or pie shells at any level. These need the Cooking level to add the ingredients but never burn, so the margin is exactly what the table says.

Raw pies sell because players who train Cooking with the Bake Pie spell, or cook pies on a range, would rather buy them ready-made. Pie shells, raw pies and pastry dough have limits of 13,000 every four hours, which covers a long session.

Cooking fish: burn rates decide everything

Cooking fish is usually a small profit per fish, and a single burnt fish can wipe out the margin on several cooked ones. That is why the high-level fish rows (shark, anglerfish, dark crab, the new Sailing fish) only become worth doing once your burn rate is low. These are the levels where you stop burning entirely on a range:

Fish	With cooking gauntlets	Gauntlets plus Hosidius range
Lobster	64	60
Swordfish	80	76
Monkfish	86	82
Shark	94	89 (84 with the elite diary)
Anglerfish	97	93 (87 with the elite diary)

Cooking gauntlets come from Family Crest, and without them sharks and anglerfish can still burn at 99. The Hosidius kitchen range lowers burn chance further with the Kourend and Kebos diaries. Below those levels you still profit on some fish, but the table's number assumes some burns, so it will look lower than the raw price gap.

The appeal of fish is AFK time. An inventory of 28 takes about a minute on a range with nothing to click in between, and cooked shark, anglerfish and karambwan have limits of 10,000 so you will not run out. For many players cooking is something to run on a second screen rather than a money maker.

The Sailing effect

Sailing added new fish and new uses for old ones. Yellowfin, halibut, bluefin and marlin come from deep sea trawling, and cutting raw fish with a knife gives fine fish offcuts for trawling bait, plus scales from some species. Rows such as cutting raw marlin or yellowfin often show a strong figure because a knife gets through fish very quickly, but they depend on prices that are still settling, so check the 7 day chart for each fish before you commit. The Sailing money making table covers trawling itself.

Pasting squid is another newer row: squid paste is a Herblore secondary, so its price follows potion demand rather than food demand.

How to read the numbers

Each row prices raw ingredients and the product at the current mid price, takes Grand Exchange tax off the product, and uses a realistic rate per hour. For fish, the yield is reduced by an expected burn rate. Check 24 hour volume on pies and pizzas; they trade in smaller amounts than fish. If you want levels more than gold, the Cooking calculator shows xp and cost for every food, the Cooking training guide has the fastest routes, and the OSRS best food list shows which foods give the most healing per coin, which is a good hint of what sells.

Questions players ask

What is the most profitable thing to cook in OSRS?

Making raw pies such as wild and summer pies, and pineapple pizzas, often beats cooking fish because nothing burns. Among fish, sharks, anglerfish and dark crabs give the most per fish once you stop burning them. Sailing fish processing has added new options. Sort the table by profit to see today's best.

Is cooking sharks profitable?

Usually a little per fish. The gap between raw and cooked shark is small, so burns matter a lot. With cooking gauntlets you stop burning sharks at 94 Cooking, or 89 using the Hosidius range with the medium diary. Below that the table accounts for burns, which reduces the profit shown.

Can you make money training Cooking?

Yes. Cooking is one of the cheapest skills to train and several training methods are profitable, such as high-level fish once your burn rate is low and some pies and pizzas. The fastest xp methods are usually close to break-even rather than a loss.

What Cooking money makers are AFK?

Cooking fish on a range is the most AFK: one click cooks a full inventory, taking about a minute. Assembling pies and pizzas needs more clicks per inventory but pays more. Both bank near a range at places such as the Hosidius kitchen and Rogues' Den.

By OSRS Math Team · 28 Oct 2026