Cook's Assistant
NoviceFree-to-playVery ShortOSRS TCG Cook's Assistant — Old School RuneScape quest card mapping
Start: talk to Cook (Lumbridge).
The Lumbridge Castle cook is in a mess. It is the Duke of Lumbridge's birthday and the cook is making the cake. He needs a lot of ingredients and doesn't have much time.
Cook's Assistant is a free-to-play Old School RuneScape quest rated Novice. The OSRS TCG Cook's Assistant card list covers 3 of the items and monsters involved, including Egg, Bucket of milk and Pot of flour. This page pairs the quest with those cards and with the open player trades for them; the OSRS Wiki remains the authority on requirements and the walkthrough itself.
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Required items & monsters
Items you need to bring and the monsters you'll fight, paired with their OSRS TCG cards. See the wiki for the full requirement list.
Walkthrough overview
A brief summary of the quest, noting where each card is used. The OSRS Wiki has the full, authoritative walkthrough.
- 1
Talk to the cook in the kitchen on the ground floor of Lumbridge Castle to start the quest. He asks for a bucket of milk, an egg, and a pot of flour.
- 2
Grab an empty bucket (Lumbridge Castle cellar) and an empty pot (kitchen table) if you don't already have them.
- 3
Collect an egg from the chicken coop north-west of Farmer Fred's house.
- Egg
- 4
Use the empty bucket on a dairy cow in the pasture to the north to get a bucket of milk.
- Bucket of milk
- 5
Pick grain from the wheat field, mill it at Mill Lane Mill, then use the empty pot on the flour bin to get a pot of flour.
- Pot of flour
- 6
Return to the cook and hand over all three ingredients to complete the quest.
- Egg
- Bucket of milk
- Pot of flour
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OSRS TCG Cook's Assistant — frequently asked
- Which OSRS TCG cards are linked to Cook's Assistant?
- 3 catalogue cards map to Cook's Assistant: Egg, Bucket of milk and Pot of flour. They are the quest's items and the monsters you fight that exist as cards in the Old School RuneScape TCG. The mapping is maintained by OSRS Card Exchange; whether something is a card, and its rarity, come from the OSRS TCG catalogue.
- Is Cook's Assistant members only?
- No, Cook's Assistant is free-to-play. It is rated Novice.
- What is the rarest card from Cook's Assistant?
- Egg at Common, which packs land on about 37.34% of the time. Rarity comes from the card's OSRS TCG score, not from the quest.
- How do I get the OSRS TCG Cook's Assistant cards?
- Pull them from packs in the OSRS TCG RuneLite plugin, or trade for them. Open exchanges for this quest's cards are listed further down this page, and the trade itself happens in the plugin's own Trade window in game.
- Does this page tell me how to complete Cook's Assistant?
- It gives a brief walkthrough overview and maps the quest to its OSRS TCG cards — the items and monsters involved, and who is trading them. For the complete requirements, detailed steps and rewards, the OSRS Wiki link on this page is the authority.
Related cards
Cards that come up around Cook's Assistant but that you don't actually need for it — NPCs mentioned in passing, scenery, or items suggested only for convenience.

Resource • Consumable
A plain sponge cake.
The cake is the item the cook bakes at the end; it is a reward/outcome, not something you bring.

Monster
Yep. Definitely a chicken.
Chickens are near the coop where you pick up the egg, but they are not fought or required.

Monster
Converts grass to beef.
A dairy cow is milked to fill the bucket, but the cow itself is not a required card or an enemy.

Resource
Some wheat heads.
Grain is milled into flour during the quest; it is an intermediate step, not a required card to bring.