WoW Cooking Guide

Cooking is one of the most enjoyable and beneficial professions to do in WoW. Cooking is a secondary skill and comes in very handy as it can be performed by any class/race and generally used to restore health. It usually goes hand-in-hand with Fishing and you can make food that will enhance your stats. Other items that players with the World of Warcraft Cooking skill provide additional buffs in game such as boosts to stamina or strength. It is a nice addition to the skill, but it is not its primary benefit. This WoW cooking guide will focus on leveling without fishing so you’ll need a lot of meats not found by fishing. Some of these meats you might be able to purchase off the Auction House, if you’re interested in making gold for these purchases then you should look at this guide.

3.2 Cooking Patch notes

The 3.2 patch didn’t make any significant changes, but here they are anyway:

• Blackened Dragonfin Recipe: Now only requires 1 Dragonfin Angelfish
• Chef’s Hat is now superior quality and allows the chef to cook faster
• Increased the drop rate for recipes from the Outland Daily Cooking quests
• Increased the chance to get a bonus Dalaran Cooking Token from the Spice Bag.
• The recipe for Captain Rumsey’s Lager can now be randomly found in the quest reward Crate, Barrel, or Spice Bag from the cooking dailies.

Cooking Recipes

You can get new recipes in several ways: as a reward for a quest, as loot from a monster or chest, or even by buying them from a merchant. A few recipes also come for quests or are only available during special holidays.

You can have your friends be on the lookout for new recipes for you. Cooks are not as common as other tradesmen and this will allow you to have an easier time finding recipes. People may even be more willing to donate recipes to you! Check the auction house for recipes too.

2 New recipes you might be interested in to level up your cooking skill to 300 without fishing are Charred Bear Kabobs and Juicy Bear Burgers. These recipes can be purchased from Bale (Horde) or Malygen (Alliance) in Felwood.

Cooking Ingredients

Most of the ingredients to level your cooking, even to the new 450 cap, can be bought off the auction house. Grab your ingredients and camp the trainer to level your skill. You will have to visit Gadgetzan to do the Artisan Cooking Quest, though. It used to be that you had to buy the Master Cooking Book in Outlands to train your skill past 300, but now you can just go to the Outlands trainers.

Cooking Leveling Up

1-40: Spice Bread – 1 Simple Flour/1 Mild Spices
40-70: Spiced Wolf Meat – 1 Stringy Wolf Meat
70-120: Crunchy Spider Surprise – 1 Crunchy Spider Leg
120-130: Crab Cake – 1 Crawler Meat
130-190: Curiously Tasty Omelet – 1 Raptor Egg
190-225: Hot Wolf Ribs – 1 Red Wolf Meat
225-260: Tender Wolf Steak – 1 Tender Wolf Meat
260-285: Juicy Bear Burger – 1 Bear Flank
285-300: Smoked Desert Dumplings – 1 Sandworm Meat
300-330: Ravager Dog – 1 Ravager Flesh
330-350: Talbuk Steak – 1 Talbuk Venison
330-350: Roasted Clefthoof – 1 Clefthoof Meat
350-400: Rhino Dogs – 1 Rhino Meat
400-425: Critter Bites – 2 Chilled Meat/ Northern Spices
425-450: Small Feast – 2 Nettlefish/2 Rhino Meat/2 Glacial Salmon/1 Northern Spices

Daily Cooking Quest For WotLK

You do have to have a high level of cooking to be able to pick up quests and these quests can be obtained from your faction’s inn in Dalaran City. As far as level is concerned, you should pick up the quest as soon as you reach the city, but you will find that your breeze through the quests much easier and quicker at level eighty. Daily cooking quests from The Rokk, at the lake north of Shattrath City can earn you gold, new recipes or random cooking reagent rewards once completed.

Making Gold with WoW Cooking

It’s been greatly buffed in The Burning Crusade and I now recommend everyone to get 375 cooking, as it can be very useful and profitable for you.

The best profession to use together with cooking is skinning. The reason, of course, is that beasts can be skinned and often drop meat that can be cooked, so you kill two birds with one stone.

Some people, for whatever reason, don’t want to bother with cooking, but they like eating meals that buff Stam or other stats, they’re quite willing to shell out gold for these items, too. Do a little Auction House research for finished recipes (and even raw materials,) especially at higher level, and you may be able to put your skills to another good (cash generating) use.

In addition to tips for making gold from fishing and cooking, Warcraft Millionaire has hundreds of other tips to rake in the WoW gold.

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