WOTLK Cooking Guide 1-450 – Fastest Route to Max Skill
Profession: Cooking
This streamlined guide will take you from novice to master chef in Wrath of the Lich King. 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
Leveling Steps
Start by training Cooking in Stormwind’s Old Town.
Spice Bread (1-40)
Roasted Boar Meat (40-50)
Buy recipes from Kendor Kabonka: Cooked Crab Claw and Curiously Tasty Omelet
Boiled Clams, Cooked Crab Claw, Crab Cake (50-130)
Use the Expert Cookbook
Curiously Tasty Omelet (130–175)
Travel to Theramore for Mystery Stew and to Feralas for Hot Wolf Ribs
Mystery Stew & Hot Wolf Ribs (175–225)
Do Clamlette Surprise quest
Tender Wolf Steak (225–250)
Juicy Bear Burger (250–285)
Do the Desert Recipe questline
Smoked Desert Dumplings (285–300)
Travel to Outland and train Master Cooking
Ravager Dogs (300–330)
Talbuk Steak (330–350)
Go to Dalaran and train Grand Master Cooking
Mammoth Meal (350–400)
From 400–450: Complete Dalaran Cooking Dailies