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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.

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Trainers

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.

  1. Make aheadBasic Campfire KitA stack of kits first: Simple Wood with Flint and Tinder.

    Materials: 1 Simple Wood each

  2. Skill 1–50

    Orange until 45, yellow from 45.
    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.

    Or

    Holding Slitherskin Mackerel.

    Or

    Holding Stringy Wolf Meat.

    Or

    Holding boar meat.

    Or

    Holding Small Eggs.

    Or

    Horde; holding bat wings.

    Or, skill 20–50

    Horde; holding Scorpid Stingers.

    Or, skill 10–50

    Alliance; holding spider legs.

  3. Skill 50–100

    Orange until 90, yellow from 90.
    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.

    Or

    Holding Rainbow Fin Albacore.

    Or

    Holding Bear Meat. Cook it early: it yellows first.

    Or

    Holding Clam Meat.

    Or

    Holding Coyote Meat.

    Or

    Holding Strider Meat.

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.

  1. Skill 100–130

    Orange throughout.

    Keep the output

    Get ~55 fish: 130–150 needs another 25.

    Or

    Holding Crawler Meat.

    Or

    Holding Boar Ribs.

    Or

    Alliance; holding Crawler Claws.

  2. Skill 130–150

    Orange until 140, yellow from 140.

    Or

    Holding Raptor Eggs.

    Or

    Holding Tangy Clam Meat.

    Or

    Holding Lion Meat.

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.

  1. Skill 150–175

    Orange until 170, yellow from 170.
    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.

    Or

    Holding Lion Meat.

  2. Skill 175–225

    Orange until 215, yellow from 215.
    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.

    Or

    Holding Raptor Flesh.

    Or

    Holding Turtle Meat (recipe from a quest).

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.

  1. 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.
  2. Skill 285–300

    Orange until 290, yellow from 290.
    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.

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