Range
| Range | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Released | 4 January 2001 (Update) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Members | No | ||||||||||||||||||
| Quest | No | ||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Throughout Gielinor | ||||||||||||||||||
| Options | Cook | ||||||||||||||||||
| Examine | Ideal for cooking on. | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Object ID | 9736,26181 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Link | MOID | ||||||||||||||||||
A range is used to cook food through the Cooking skill. Except for special cases, any food that can be cooked on a fire can be cooked on a range. To cook food, simply 'use' it on the range. Ranges are marked on a player's map by the
icon. Clay ovens also serve the same function as a range.
Cooking on a range reduces the burn chance for certain foods. The range in Lumbridge Castle (referred to as the "Cook-o-matic 100"), which requires completion of Cook's Assistant to use, has an even lower burn rate for certain foods. Lastly, the clay ovens in the Hosidius Kitchen give the best reduction in burn rates, provided the player has completed the easy Kourend & Kebos Diary.
A table of the levels where cooking food items becomes successful 100% of the time can be found here.
Tips on leveling cooking
[edit | edit source]For players training Cooking with a low Cooking level, ranges can come in handy, especially the ranges within chicken farms. A common tactic would be to collect as many raw chickens as possible, and cook them in the range by selecting "cook all". A good place to train at low levels is in the Champions' Guild. You can easily kill chickens, cook them, then sell them upstairs.
It is highly recommended to use a Range over a Fire, as it will greatly reduce your burn rate, and thus increase your experience gained. Even better is to use the range on the ground floor of Lumbridge Castle, the Cook-o-matic 100, after completion of Cook's Assistant.
The best place for levelling cooking is the bank chest in the Myths' Guild, which requires completion of Dragon Slayer II. The range and bank border the same tile, meaning no walking is required to cook at this location. Another area, which has lower requirements, is in the Cooks' Guild. This requires the completion of the Varrock Hard Diary in order to access the bank. The range there is right next to the bank, so the time between banking and cooking is only a tiny bit slower than at the Rogues' Den Fire in Burthorpe. The time lost is more than compensated for, however, by the reduced burn rate when cooking on a range.
If you do not have the requirements for the Cooks' Guild bank area, the second best place to level cooking is in Hosidius Kitchen. Completion of the easy Kourend & Kebos Diary is required to use the clay ovens here, but there is a bank only 6 spaces away, and it also provides a 5% lower burn chance.
When cooking certain fish, you should always be wearing the Cooking gauntlets, a possible reward from the Family Crest quest. These gauntlets significantly decrease the likelihood of burning lobsters, swordfish, monkfish, sharks and anglerfish.
Range distances from a nearby bank
[edit | edit source]Free-to-play
[edit | edit source]- 22 spaces - Al Kharid - Range north of bank.
- 24 spaces - Clan Hall - Oven south of bank.
- 25 spaces - Edgeville - Stove west of bank — there is a gate and a door that periodically shuts.
- 29 spaces - Falador - Range east of the east bank.
- 22 spaces + 2 extra clicks - Lumbridge Castle - Requires completion of Cook's Assistant. Cook-o-matic 100 on the ground floor of the castle. Provides a lower burn chance for certain foods.
- 32 spaces - Juliet's house west of Varrock.
- 118 spaces - In Bandit Camp (Wilderness)
Pay-to-play
[edit | edit source]- 0 spaces - Myths' Guild - Requires completion of Dragon Slayer II.
- 0 spaces - Bank boat - Build a range on your boat with 16 Sailing and place your boat next to the banker.
- 2 spaces - Cooks' Guild in Varrock - Requires Varrock Hard Diary or 99 Cooking to access the bank.
- 3 spaces - Sunbleak Island - Requires construction of both the cooking pot and the bank chest.
- 6 spaces - Ruins of Unkah - the fire is coded as a range.
- 6 spaces - Hosidius Kitchen - Requires completion of the easy Kourend & Kebos Diary. Clay oven north of bank. Provides a 5% lower burn chance.
- 9 spaces - Nardah - Clay oven just south-east of bank.
- 12 spaces - Museum Camp on Fossil Island - Cooking pot north-west of the bank chest. Requires completion of Bone Voyage and 24 Construction along with 2 logs, tinderbox, iron bar, 3 soft clay to build.
- 13 spaces - Quetzacalli Gorge - May require the occasional extra click to open the door. Requires completion of Children of the Sun for access to Varlamore.
- 14 spaces - Neitiznot - Requires partial completion of The Fremennik Isles to access. Clay oven north-east of bank.
- 14 spaces - Prifddinas - Requires completion of Song of the Elves to access. Just north of the Tower of Light.
- 17 spaces - Catherby - Range in building east of bank.
- 17 spaces - Hunter Guild - Requires completion of Children of the Sun to access. Oven next to Guildmaster Apatura. Does not require level 46 Hunter to access the inner guild.
- 19 spaces - Zanaris - Requires completion of The Lost City to access. Range south of bank.
- 18 spaces + 1 extra click - Lumbridge Castle - Requires starting Recipe for Disaster for bank access from the Culinaromancer's Chest. Cook-o-matic 100 on the ground floor of the castle. Provides a lower burn chance for certain foods (refer to the list at the top of this page).
Products
[edit | edit source]Changes
[edit | edit source]| Date | Changes |
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| 27 August 2015 (Update) |
Fixed occasional render issue with certain ranges during the cooking animation. |
Gallery
[edit | edit source]Several notable ranges:
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A common range as found in many places in Gielinor
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A variant with a wooden pedestal, such as the version found in Lumbridge Castle.
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A steel range as built in the Player Owned House.
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A fancy range as built in the Player Owned House.
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A blue range as found in The Gauntlet.
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A red range as found in The Corrupted Gauntlet.

