Cooking Guide 1 – 450
Profession: Cooking
This streamlined guide will take you from novice to master chef in WotLK. After level 400, you'll need to complete daily cooking quests in Dalaran to finish leveling.
Estimated Materials Required:
- 60 Simple Flour
- 100 Mild Spices
- 40 Soothing Spices
- 50+ Hot Spices
- 10 Boar Meat
- 50 Clam Meat
- 50 Refreshing Spring Water
- 20 Crawler Meat
- 20 Crawler Claw
- 50 Raptor Eggs
- 60 Mystery Meat or Red Wolf Meat
- 12 Giant Eggs
- 20 Alterac Swiss
- 10 Zesty Clam Meat
- 25 Tender Wolf Meat
- 40 Bear Flanks
- 25 Sandworm Meat
- 40 Ravager Flesh
- 40 Talbuk Venison
- 80 Chunk o’Mammoth
Start by training Cooking in Stormwind's Old Town district.
Spice Bread (1-40) – Purchase ingredients from a vendor.
Roasted Boar Meat (40-50) – Gather Boar Meat in Elwynn Forest, then return to Stormwind.
Buy these recipes from Kendor Kabonka: Cooked Crab Claw and Curiously Tasty Omelet.
Boiled Clams, Cooked Crab Claw, Crab Cake (50-130) – Farm clams and crabs on Westfall's Longshore.
Use the Expert Cookbook and learn all recipes from your trainer.
Curiously Tasty Omelet (130-175) – Farm raptors in Wetlands for eggs.
Boat to Theramore for Mystery Stew Recipe and fly to Feralas for Hot Wolf Ribs Recipe.
Mystery Stew & Hot Wolf Ribs (175-225) – Farm meat in Tanaris near the giant skeletons.
At 225, complete Clamlette Surprise. Gather Alterac Swiss, Zesty Clam Meat, and Giant Eggs.
Tender Wolf Steak (225-250) – Farm Tender Wolf Meat from hyenas.
Buy Juicy Bear Burger Recipe in Felwood.
Juicy Bear Burger (250-285) – Farm bears in Felwood.
Head to Silithus and complete the Desert Recipe questline.
Smoked Desert Dumplings (285-300) – Farm worms in Silithus.
Travel to Honor Hold in Outlands. Buy the Master Cookbook and Ravager Dog Recipe.
Ravager Dogs (300-330) – Farm Ravagers in Hellfire Peninsula.
Talbuk Steak (330-350) – Farm Talbuks in Nagrand.
Go to Dalaran, train cooking, and buy the Mammoth Meal Recipe.
Mammoth Meal (350-400) – Farm Mammoths in Storm Peaks, Dragonblight, or Borean Tundra.
From 400 onward, complete Dalaran Daily Cooking Quests for recipes and spices. It’s a grind, but it’s worth it!
Finish with the WotLK Cooking Dailies Guide.