Cooking 1 to 300

Ranks

Route, recipes and skill levels are from Classic Era. WoW: Forever adds over 600 new recipes, so better options may appear and some numbers may differ. WoW: Forever food also gives small experience buffs and lasts longer.

Setup

1. Learn Apprentice Cooking from any cooking trainer.
2. You need a fire to cook. Use Basic Campfire (in your spellbook) or any cooking fire in a town.

1 to 50: Charred Wolf Meat or Roasted Boar Meat

1. Make about 55 Charred Wolf Meat (1 Stringy Wolf Meat each) or Roasted Boar Meat (1 Chunk of Boar Meat each). Both come from the trainer.
2. At skill 50, learn Journeyman Cooking (level 10).

50 to 100: Smoked Bear Meat or Boiled Clams

1. AllianceBuy Recipe: Smoked Bear Meat from Drac Roughcut in the Stoutlager Inn, Thelsamar (Loch Modan).
2. HordeBuy it from Andrew Hilbert at the Sepulcher (Silverpine Forest).
3. Make about 55 Smoked Bear Meat (1 Bear Meat each).
4. No bears nearby? Make Boiled Clams from the trainer instead (1 Clam Meat, 1 Refreshing Spring Water each).

100 to 130: Crab Cake

1. Learn Crab Cake from the trainer.
2. Make about 40 Crab Cake (1 Crawler Meat, 1 Mild Spices each). Crawlers live on the coasts of Westfall, Darkshore, Silverpine Forest and the Wetlands.

125: Expert Cookbook

You need skill 125 to read the book. You can't go past 150 without it.

1. AllianceBuy the Expert Cookbook from Shandrina at Silverwind Refuge, Ashenvale.
2. HordeBuy it from Wulan in Shadowprey Village, Desolace.
3. It costs about 1 gold. Read it to learn Expert Cooking (cap 225). Both vendors also sell Hot and Soothing Spices.

130 to 175: Curiously Tasty Omelet

1. AllianceBuy Recipe: Curiously Tasty Omelet from Kendor Kabonka upstairs in the Pig and Whistle Tavern, Stormwind (Old Town).
2. HordeBuy it from Keena in Hammerfall (Arathi Highlands).
3. Make about 50 Curiously Tasty Omelet (1 Raptor Egg, 1 Hot Spices each). Raptors in the Wetlands, Arathi Highlands and Stranglethorn Vale drop eggs.

175 to 200: Roast Raptor

1. AllianceBuy Recipe: Roast Raptor from Hammon Karwn in Refuge Pointe (Arathi Highlands).
2. HordeBuy it from Keena in Hammerfall (Arathi Highlands).
3. Make about 30 Roast Raptor (1 Raptor Flesh each). Keep the eggs from the same raptors for the step above.

200 to 225: Spider Sausage

1. Learn Spider Sausage from the trainer.
2. Make about 30 Spider Sausage (2 White Spider Meat each). Spiders in Stranglethorn Vale, the Badlands and the Hinterlands drop it. More Roast Raptor works too.

225: Artisan Cooking (Clamlette Surprise)

Needs skill 225 and level 35.

1. AllianceTalk to Daryl Riknussun in the Bronze Kettle, Ironforge, for I Know A Guy...
2. HordeTalk to Zamja in Orgrimmar for To Gadgetzan You Go!
3. Both send you to Dirge Quikcleave at the inn in Gadgetzan (Tanaris). He gives you Clamlette Surprise.
4. Bring him 12 Giant Egg, 10 Zesty Clam Meat and 20 Alterac Swiss. Giant Eggs drop from big birds level 41+ (rocs in Tanaris, owlbeasts in the Hinterlands), so you may want to buy them. Alterac Swiss is sold by food vendors.
5. Hand in to get Artisan Cooking (cap 300). Learn Tender Wolf Steak from Dirge while you're there.

225 to 275: Monster Omelet or Tender Wolf Steak

1. Buy Recipe: Monster Omelet from Himmik in Everlook (Winterspring). AllianceMalygen in Talonbranch Glade (Felwood) also sells it. HordeSo does Bale at Bloodvenom Post (Felwood).
2. Make about 65 Monster Omelet (Giant Egg plus Soothing Spices).
3. Or make Tender Wolf Steak (1 Tender Wolf Meat, 1 Soothing Spices each). Wolves in Winterspring, Felwood and the Burning Steppes drop the meat.

275 to 300: Nightfin Soup or Poached Sunscale Salmon

1. Buy Recipe: Nightfin Soup and Recipe: Poached Sunscale Salmon from Gikkix at Steamwheedle Port in Tanaris.
2. Make about 35 Nightfin Soup (1 Raw Nightfin Snapper, 1 Refreshing Spring Water each) or Poached Sunscale Salmon (1 Raw Sunscale Salmon each). Done: 300.
3. You can fish both yourself. See our Fishing 1 to 300.

Tips

• Meat and fish don't take up bag space for long: cook them as you go, at your campfire.
• Fish recipes are a good alternative at almost every step if you also fish.
• Counts are estimates. Yellow recipes don't always give a point, so bring a few extra.
• Have spare buff food? Raiders want it. Post it on the ONN Supply board.