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This WoW Cooking guide will show you the fastest way how to level your cooking skill from 1 to 450. I recommend everyone to level cooking to 450, you can make gold with lot of the foods you can cook. This cooking guide uses a lot of vendor bought recipes, be prepared to travel a lot because you have to buy cooking recipes and farm meats,eggs etc. while you are leveling this profession. Updated for WoW patch 3.3

I recommend to pick up your cooking skill as soon as you can, because killing level 10 boars when you are level 80…it’s aint that much fun.

Cooking guide sections:
Cooking Apprentice 1 – 80
Cooking Journeyman 80 – 130
Cooking Expert 130 – 225
Cooking Artisan 225 – 300
Cooking Master 300 – 350
Cooking Grand Master 350 – 450

WoW Cooking Leveling Guide 1 – 450

First, visit any trainer in the main cities of old Azeroth – just ask a guard, and learn Apprentice Cooking.

You can make [Basic Campfire] to cook your food.

•1 – 40
60 x [Spice Bread] – 60 [Simple Flour], 60 Mild Spices

•40-80
40 x [Smoked Bear Meat] – 40 [Bear Meat]

Usually where are bears, there are Wolfes too. Kill those and you can cook [Spiced Wolf Meat], also.

At 75, you have to visit your trainer in order to to learn Journeyman Cooking.

80 – 130

Learn Journeyman Cooking.

•80 – 130
Go to Ashenvale, and head to the Zoram Strand, where the sea is (north-west).

[Boiled Clams] – 1 Clam Meat, 1 Refreshing Spring Water – clam meat can be found in [Small Barnacled Clam]
[Crab Cake] – 1 Crawler Meat

Alliance:

Alliance players can buy this recipe too, because the Crawlers drop Crawler Claws too. Don’t sell the Crawler Claws!

[Cooked Crab Claw] – 1 Crawler Claw

130 – 225

Learn Expert Cooking.

•130 – 175
The Raptors will drops [Raptor Flesh] also, don’t sell or destroy them, because you will need those in the next step of the Cooking guide.

50 x [Curiously Tasty Omelet] – 50 [Raptor Egg]

•175 – 225
50 x [Roast Raptor] – 50 [Raptor Flesh]

225 – 300

Learn Artisan Cooking.

•225 – 250
25 x [Monster Omelet] – 25 Giant Egg

•250 – 285
40 x [Juicy Bear Burger] – 40 [Bear Flank]

•285 – 300
15 x [Smoked Desert Dumplings] – 15 [Sandworm Meat]

To get this cooking recipe, you have to complete a quest chain first.

1.Desert Recipe
2.Sharing the Knowledge

300 – 350

Go to Outland and learn Cooking Master.

•300 – 325
30 x [Ravager Dog] – 30 [Ravager Flesh]

or

30 x [Buzzard Bites] – 30 [Buzzard Meat]

You have to complete a quest chain for this cooking recipe.

1.Ravager Egg Roundup
2.Helboar, the Other White Meat
3.Smooth as Butter
•325 – 350
You have 3 choice now. I say, farming Talbuk Venison and Clefthoof Meat is a lot easier than the Warped Flesh, because they are both in Nagrand.

35 x [Talbuk Steak] – 35 [Talbuk Venison ]
35 x [Roasted Clefthoof] – 35 [Clefthoof Meat]
35 x [Warp Burger] – 35 [Warped Flesh]

350 – 450

Go to Northrend and learn Cooking Grand Master.

•350 – 365
Get the Northern Cooking quest and complete it. It requires 4 Chilled Meat. Completing this quest will teach you how to create [Northern Stew]

20 x [Northern Stew] – 20 Chilled Meat

•365 – 375
The Cooking trainer will teach you a lot of recipes which will go green at 382 skill and gray at 415 skill. Any of these recipes are good for skilling up Cooking. I recommend Rhino Dogs if you want to farm the materials. There are a lot of Rhinos around Warsong Hold in Borean Tundra, and they respawn really quickly. If you want to buy the materials, you should check the prices for Rhino Dogs, Worm Meat and Fangtooth Herring. These are usually the cheapest ones.

13 x [Rhino Dogs] – 13 [Rhino Meat]

•375 – 400
Making one Kungaloosh costs 66 silver, so if you find out that Rhino Dogs, Worm Meat or Fangtooth Herring are cheaper than that, buy those instead.
You have to finish a quest chain first. It starts with the quest called Some Make Lemonade, Some Make Liquor and ends with The Taste Test. After you completed the quest chain, go to Dalaran and find the Washed-Up Mage, he is in the In the underbelly (sewers). He will teach you how to make [Kungaloosh]. After that, go to the Dalaran Fruit Vendor and you can just buy the materials from him.

•400 – 425
Every cooking recipe beyond this point will be purchased with [Dalaran Cooking Awards], which are obtained by completing the daily cooking quest given by Katherine Lee (Alliance) or Awilo Lon’gomba (Horde). And you’re going to need them and a ton of Northern Spices to level past 425 skill.

You should cook the recipe that you will use for raiding. Choose one recipe from these, and make that until you reach 425. The recipes are sold by Derek Odds (Alliance) and Misensi (Horde).

•425 – 450
[Gigantic Feast] or [Small Feast]. Both recipes are sold by the NPCs mentioned above.

I hope you liked this Cooking Guide, GZ to 450!