Cooking leveling guide
Cooking from 1 to 300
What to make at every skill, what one craft takes, where to train each rank and which recipes to buy before you need them. The beta caps skill at 225 for now; the route carries on to 300.
- Beta cap
- 225
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The route
Trainers
Start with Apprentice Cooking for 1 from character level 5. Any of these trainers teaches it; the capital cities are listed first.
Alliance
Apprentice Cooking (1–75)
Any Cooking trainer teaches Apprentice from character level 5 for 1. Where they stand.
Recipes to buy for this stretch: Recipe: Brilliant Smallfish and Recipe: Longjaw Mud Snapper. Buy them on your way so you are not stuck at the vendor-sold steps.
- Make aheadBasic Campfire KitA stack of kits first: Simple Wood with Flint and Tinder.
Materials: 1 Simple Wood each
Skill 1–50
Orange until 45, yellow from 45.
55 × Brilliant Smallfish
Materials: 55 Raw Brilliant Smallfish
Recipe to buyRecipe: Brilliant Smallfish from Alliance: Catherine Leland (Stormwind City), Gretta Ganter (Dun Morogh); Horde: Sewa Mistrunner (Thunder Bluff), Harn Longcast (Mulgore). Pick it up before you get here.Any one recipe, ~55 times. Spice and water: Cooking Supplies vendors.
Skill 50–100
Orange until 90, yellow from 90.
55 × Longjaw Mud Snapper
Materials: 55 Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper
Recipe to buyRecipe: Longjaw Mud Snapper from Alliance: Tansy Puddlefizz (Dun Morogh), Tharynn Bouden (Elwynn Forest); Horde: Naal Mistrunner (Thunder Bluff), Harn Longcast (Mulgore). Pick it up before you get here.Train Journeyman first (Apprentice stops at 75). Any one recipe, ~55 times. Train Journeyman before 75.
Materials for this rank2 items
Everything this rank’s steps use, less what earlier steps already made.
Journeyman Cooking (75–150)
A Cooking trainer teaches Journeyman from Cooking 50 and character level 10 for 5. Every trainer under Trainers teaches it.
Recipes to buy for this stretch: Recipe: Bristle Whisker Catfish. Buy them on your way so you are not stuck at the vendor-sold steps.
Skill 100–130
Orange throughout.
Materials: 30 Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish
Keep the output
Recipe to buyRecipe: Bristle Whisker Catfish from Alliance: Catherine Leland (Stormwind City), Lindea Rabonne (Hillsbrad Foothills); Horde: Naal Mistrunner (Thunder Bluff), Sewa Mistrunner (Thunder Bluff); Both factions: Kilxx (The Barrens). Pick it up before you get here.Get ~55 fish: 130–150 needs another 25.
Skill 130–150
Orange until 140, yellow from 140.
Materials: 25 Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish
Recipe to buyRecipe: Bristle Whisker Catfish from Alliance: Catherine Leland (Stormwind City), Lindea Rabonne (Hillsbrad Foothills); Horde: Naal Mistrunner (Thunder Bluff), Sewa Mistrunner (Thunder Bluff); Both factions: Kilxx (The Barrens). Pick it up before you get here.
Materials for this rank1 item
Everything this rank’s steps use, less what earlier steps already made.
Expert Cooking (150–225)
Expert Cooking comes from the book Expert Cookbook, usable from Cooking 125.
Recipes to buy for this stretch: Recipe: Curiously Tasty Omelet and Recipe: Mithril Head Trout. Buy them on your way so you are not stuck at the vendor-sold steps.
Skill 150–175
Orange until 170, yellow from 170.
Materials: 25 Raptor Egg, 25 Hot Spices
Recipe to buyRecipe: Curiously Tasty Omelet from Alliance: Kendor Kabonka (Stormwind City); Horde: Keena (Arathi Highlands), Nerrist (Stranglethorn Vale). Pick it up before you get here.Past 150 you need the Expert Cookbook.
Skill 175–225
Orange until 215, yellow from 215.
50 × Mithril Headed Trout
Materials: 50 Raw Mithril Head Trout
Recipe to buyRecipe: Mithril Head Trout from Alliance: Heldan Galesong (Darkshore), Tansy Puddlefizz (Dun Morogh); Horde: Shankys (Orgrimmar), Wik'Tar (Ashenvale); Both factions: Kelsey Yance (Stranglethorn Vale). Pick it up before you get here.
Materials for this rank3 items
Everything this rank’s steps use, less what earlier steps already made.
Artisan Cooking (225–300)
Artisan Cooking is learned through a quest from Dirge Quikcleave in Gadgetzan, Tanaris, from Cooking 225 and character level 35. The beta caps skill at 225 for now, so this rank waits until it goes up.
Recipes to buy for this stretch: Recipe: Filet of Redgill and Recipe: Poached Sunscale Salmon. Buy them on your way so you are not stuck at the vendor-sold steps.
The beta stops at 225: skill cannot go past it for now. The steps below wait for the cap to go up.
Skill 225–285
Orange until 265, yellow from 265.
68 × Filet of Redgill
Materials: 68 Raw Redgill
Recipe to buyRecipe: Filet of Redgill from Both factions: Kelsey Yance (Stranglethorn Vale). Pick it up before you get here.Skill 285–300
Orange until 290, yellow from 290.
Materials: 17 Raw Sunscale Salmon
Recipe to buyRecipe: Poached Sunscale Salmon from Both factions: Gikkix (Tanaris). Pick it up before you get here.
Materials for this rank2 items
Everything this rank’s steps use, less what earlier steps already made.
