IdleMMO Cooking Calculator
Every cooking resource ranked by XP/hr and gold/hr — pick the best one for fast levels or profit.
Last updated: 2026-08-13T01:42:51.565396+00:00Cooking is a crafting skill: take raw fish and seafood to a fire to cook them into meals and earn Cooking XP plus a little Dexterity XP. Every meal consumes one raw ingredient (plus a Coal Ore for fuel), so the real profit is what the cooked meal sells for minus what its inputs cost. The table below ranks each meal by XP per hour and by NET gold per hour after material cost, so you can pick the best meal for either fast levels or real profit.
Plan your cooking training
Enter where you are and where you want to be — see exactly how many actions, how long, and what materials it takes.
Per-level XP requirements are community-sourced estimates — IdleMMO does not publish an official XP curve, so treat action and time totals as close approximations, not exact figures.
| Resource | Lvl | XP | Dexterity XP (approx.) | Time | XP/Hr | Materials | Vendor | Market | Net GP/Item | GP/s | 1 Hour | 4 Hours | 8 Hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Cooked Cod
|
1 | 2 | 1 | 8.0s | 900 |
1× Cod, 1× Coal Ore
−11 cost |
2 | 6 | -5 | -0.62 |
-2,250 450 items 900 XP |
-9,000 1,800 items 3,600 XP |
-18,000 3,600 items 7,200 XP |
Cooked Salmon
|
3 | 4 | 2 | 12.0s | 1,200 |
1× Salmon, 1× Coal Ore
−13 cost |
4 | 8 | -5 | -0.42 |
-1,500 300 items 1,200 XP |
-6,000 1,200 items 4,800 XP |
-12,000 2,400 items 9,600 XP |
Cooked Tuna
|
5 | 6 | 3 | 14.0s | 1,543 |
1× Tuna, 1× Coal Ore
−12 cost |
6 | 12 | 0 | 0.00 |
0 257 items 1,543 XP |
0 1,029 items 6,171 XP |
0 2,057 items 12,343 XP |
Cooked Trout
|
8 | 8 | 4 | 17.0s | 1,694 |
1× Trout, 1× Coal Ore
−19 cost |
11 | 15 | -4 | -0.24 |
-847 212 items 1,694 XP |
-3,388 847 items 6,776 XP |
-6,776 1,694 items 13,553 XP |
Cooked Perch
|
11 | 10 | 5 | 19.0s | 1,895 |
1× Perch, 1× Coal Ore
−19 cost |
13 | 18 | -1 | -0.05 |
-189 189 items 1,895 XP |
-758 758 items 7,579 XP |
-1,516 1,516 items 15,158 XP |
Cooked Herring
|
15 | 13 | 6 | 22.0s | 2,127 |
1× Herring, 1× Coal Ore
−20 cost |
15 | 19 | -1 | -0.05 |
-164 164 items 2,127 XP |
-655 655 items 8,509 XP |
-1,309 1,309 items 17,018 XP |
Cooked Sardines
|
25 | 16 | 7 | 25.0s | 2,304 |
1× Sardines, 1× Coal Ore
−24 cost |
20 | 28 | 4 | 0.16 |
576 144 items 2,304 XP |
2,304 576 items 9,216 XP |
4,608 1,152 items 18,432 XP |
Cooked Lobster
|
30 | 19 | 8 | 28.0s | 2,443 |
1× Lobster, 1× Coal Ore
−30 cost |
25 | 31 | 1 | 0.04 |
129 129 items 2,443 XP |
514 514 items 9,771 XP |
1,029 1,029 items 19,543 XP |
Cooked Crab
|
40 | 22 | 9 | 30.0s | 2,640 |
1× Crab, 1× Coal Ore
−35 cost |
32 | 42 | 7 | 0.23 |
840 120 items 2,640 XP |
3,360 480 items 10,560 XP |
6,720 960 items 21,120 XP |
Cooked Turtle
|
50 | 27 | 10 | 35.0s | 2,777 |
1× Turtle, 1× Coal Ore
−40 cost |
45 | 55 | 15 | 0.43 |
1,543 103 items 2,777 XP |
6,171 411 items 11,109 XP |
12,343 823 items 22,217 XP |
Cooked Stingray
|
60 | 35 | 11 | 40.0s | 3,150 |
1× Stingray, 1× Coal Ore
−37 cost |
55 | 67 | 30 | 0.75 |
2,700 90 items 3,150 XP |
10,800 360 items 12,600 XP |
21,600 720 items 25,200 XP |
Cooked Lantern Fish
|
80 | 40 | 13 | 42.0s | 3,429 |
1× Lantern Fish, 1× Coal Ore
−48 cost |
65 | 79 | 31 | 0.74 |
2,657 86 items 3,429 XP |
10,629 343 items 13,714 XP |
21,257 686 items 27,429 XP |
Cooked Great White Shark
|
90 | 55 | 16 | 55.0s | 3,600 |
1× Great White Shark, 1× Coal Ore
−58 cost |
77 | 101 | 43 | 0.78 |
2,815 65 items 3,600 XP |
11,258 262 items 14,400 XP |
22,516 524 items 28,800 XP |
The Materials column shows what each craft costs. Net profit (sale − materials) is shown only where a live market price exists for the output — crafted gear isn't meaningfully sold to vendors, so we show “—” rather than a misleading vendor-based loss. Live market pricing is coming to fill these in.