Cooking Workbench
Used to cook advanced recipes for food, fuel, ammunition and explosives.
The Cooking Workbench is a cooking station in Rust with 500 health. It makes 81 recipes. You craft it at a Level 2 Workbench, and its blueprint costs 40 scrap to research.
About the Cooking Workbench
Outside a tool cupboard's range it holds for 2 days, then decays from full health to nothing in 4 days.
On the tech tree it sits behind 9 other unlocks: Large Furnace, Locker, Ladder Hatch, Handcuffs, Prison Cell Wall, Prison Cell Gate and 3 more. In all, 23 loot sources drop it; the full list of where it drops gives the chance for each.
How to raid the Cooking Workbench
Its cheapest raid is 2 × Satchel Charge, 960 sulfur in all. Each of these also brings it down from full health: 1 × Timed Explosive Charge and 2 × Rocket. That count assumes no duds, and a Satchel Charge fails to go off 20% of the time.
How to craft the Cooking Workbench
Crafting one takes 25 seconds at a Level 2 Workbench and costs 200 × Metal Fragments, 200 × Stones and 100 × Wood.
200
200
100 How to get the Cooking Workbench blueprint
Research it for 40 scrap, or unlock it on the Level 2 tech tree for 10 Blueprint Pages in total.
1 Item
40 Scrap
Blueprint
40
Node
1 Blueprint Page
Unlocked
10 Repair when placed
A damaged Cooking Workbench can be repaired where it stands with a hammer. Repairing it from nothing to full costs:
×100
×100
×50 How to repair the Cooking Workbench
A full repair at a Repair Bench costs 41 × Metal Fragments, 41 × Stones and 21 × Wood, and you need its blueprint.
×41
×41
×21 Reduction is how much of that damage type never lands. Damage taken is the rest: at 50% reduction a hit for 100 does 50. A negative reduction means the hit lands harder than it would bare.
Fill the slots left to right in the order shown: the station only starts a recipe whose slots match it exactly. Time is for one batch. A recipe marked Required needs its result's blueprint learned first.
What the Cooking Workbench recycles into
A green recycler always gives back 100 × Metal Fragments, 100 × Stones and 50 × Wood for one.
×100
×100
×50
×120
×120
×60
×150
×150
×75
×80
×80
×40
Timed Explosive Charge ×1550—
2,200
3,000
200
60
5
2
Rocket ×2312.5—
2,800
3,900
200
60
80
8
Satchel Charge ×227520%
960
1,440
160
20
2
40mm HE Grenade ×862.5——
Beancan Grenade ×86515%
960
1,440
160
High Velocity Rocket ×1245—
2,400
3,600
240
24
Survey Charge ×3614—
2,160
3,240
360
720
180
Explosive 5.56 Rifle Ammo ×3913—
975
1,170
195
Homing Missile ×4212—
4,200
6,300
21
840
84 From full health (500 HP), each one placed on it: damage per hit is after its protection. Duds are throws that fizzle and need another throw, not counted in Needed. Costs are for the whole count, crafted from raw materials.
Where to find the Cooking Workbench
Sunken Chest has the best chance at 1.1%, followed by Scarecrow at 0.49% and Brown Crate at 0.44%.
Stats checked against the Rust game files on 12 November 2026.








































































































