WoW Cooking Guide

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Cooking is one of the World of Warcraft’s secondary professions, professions that all characters can learn. Cooking provides players with food that helps restore health, mana, and provides some very nice stat boosts. Cooked food can also be fed to hunter’s pets to keep them happy.

Feasts, which were introduced in the Wrath of the Lich King expansion, can be eaten by entire parties or raids, and they have become a must-have in some of the upper level raids because of the huge stat boosts they provide.

While you can buy food from venders, this is really a waste of money, and few of the really powerful and useful foods can be purchased. Instead, they have to be cooked. This WoW cooking guide will outline everything you need to do to become a master chef.

Learning to Cook
As you progress through the starting zones, you’ll come across some cooking trainers. For a small fee, these trainers will teach you the apprentice cooking skill and a few recipes. One of these, spiced bread, can be made with simple flour and mild spices that cooking merchants sell. You can quickly up your cooking skill to level 40 right away.

Making five pieces of bread will cost 30 copper in materials, so you’ll need 2 silver 40 copper total. Note that to cook, you’ll need to be near a cooking fire. You will find fires near most of the cooking trainers, and you can also make your own campfire via the campfire ability, although you can only create one every five minutes.

These recipes also make use of some of the meat you’ll find in the starting zone. For example, if you’re playing an orc in Durotar, you’ll loot some chunks of boar meat from the boars there. You can then cook these into roasted boar meat. These types of food are basically free to make since you don’t have to buy any extra ingredients.

You’ll notice that the recipes in your cookbook are different colors. Red recipes are ones that you can’t make yet because your skill is too high. Orange ones will always reward a cooking skill point, while yellow recipes will only likely reward a skill point. Green recipes will most not likely increase your cooking, while grey recipes will not increase your skill at all, no matter how many you cook.

Once all of the recipes you know have turned grey, it’s time to return to a trainer and learn more recipes. When your cooking skill reaches 75, you will have maxed out the apprentice level. You’ll then need to train in the next level from a trainer. The levels and maximum skill points for each are:

• Apprentice (75)
• Journeyman (150)
• Expert (225)
• Artisan (300)
• Master (375)
• Grand Master (450)

Note that prior to Patch 3.1, you had to read specific books or complete specific quests to reach the Expert and Artisan levels. However, these items and quests have been removed, and you can now reach these levels via trainers.

Quests – WoW Cooking Guide
There are a number of different cooking quests out there. These quests generally reward the aspiring cook with a new recipe, and often, completing these quests is the only way to get the specific recipe. Some are only available to Horde or Alliance. Alliance players, for example, can only learn how to make Roasted Moongraze Tenderloin by completing a quest on Azuremyst Isle. Some recipe quests can be accomplished by both Alliance and Horde, such as the quests to learn how to make Clamlette Magnifique and Smoked Desert Dumplings.

Daily Cooking Quests
Once you reach Outland, you’ll have access to daily cooking quests. These quests are random, and each day, a different one is offered. There are four different Outland dailies offered by The Rokk in Shattrath city. Once completed, you can select either a barrel of fish or a crate of meat. In addition to some raw food for cooking, there’s also a chance to get a rare recipe. The rarest of all is the Delicious Chocolate Cake recipe, one of the most sought-after recipes.

Once you hit Northrend, you’ll find another set of dailies offered by the master chef in both the Horde and Alliance inn. There are five different cooking dailies here, and some of them are very simple and don’t even require you to leave the city. These quests reward a Small Spice Bag and a Dalaran Cooking Award (one quest rewards two awards). In addition to including several different types of spices, the spice bag has a chance of including another cooking award, the Stormchops recipe, or the Delicious Chocolate Cake recipe (both of which can also be learned from the Outland daily cooking quests).

You’ll need the Dalaran Cooking Awards to purchase the recipes in Dalaran (most of the Wrath of the Lich King recipes are found here). Most sell for three cooking awards. You can also buy more Northern Spices with the awards, a must-have since almost every Northrend recipe requires at least one. For 100 cooking awards, you can buy the Chef’s Hat, a headpiece that dramatically increases your cooking time.

Cooking and Holidays
You’ll find a number of special recipes available during the WoW holiday events. Egg Nog and Gingerbread Cookie recipes are available during the Feast of Winter Veil. The recently added holiday of Pilgrim’s Bounty introduced five new recipes, each of which needed to be cooked for the different holiday daily quests. It’s possible to raise your cooking up to 354 using nothing but these five Pilgrim’s Bounty recipes.

Cooking Achievements
There are a number of achievements that can only be completed via cooking. This includes completing all of the daily quests, learning almost all of the recipes in the game, and cooking a number of rare foods like the Delicious Chocolate Cake. However, if you complete all of the major cooking achievements mentioned in this WoW cooking guide, you will receive the Chef title.