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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.

500HEALTH
5 slotsSTORAGE
2dDECAY DELAY
4dDECAYS IN
100%DROPS LOOT

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.

Metal Fragments 200
Stones 200
Wood 100
Cooking Workbench
Output ×1
Workbench Level 2
Craft time
WB2 25s
WB3 −50% 12.5s

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.

Research table Burn one copy of the item for its blueprint
Item 1 Item
+
Scrap 40 Scrap
→
Blueprint Blueprint
Research cost 40
Tech tree In the level 2 workbench tree
Node Node
+
Blueprint Page 1 Blueprint Page
→
Unlocked Unlocked
Total to reach 10

Repair when placed

A damaged Cooking Workbench can be repaired where it stands with a hammer. Repairing it from nothing to full costs:

Hammer Placed repair
×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.

Repair bench Blueprint required
×41 ×41 ×21
Condition lost —

Stats checked against the Rust game files on 12 November 2026.