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Cooking is a very useful profession, which everybody can and should train. Since it is a secondary profession, it does not count towards the two main professions that any character can learn and there is absolutely no reason not to train it. Cooking is especially useful for raids, as all the high level food provide buffs which are of great use. In this guide we will look at how you can train Cooking from 0 to 375, as well as some other important aspects of the Cooking Profession. If you have any questions and/or comments, please do not hesitate to leave a comment!

Training the Cooking Profession from 0 to 375

Please note this is a stand-alone Cooking Profession leveling guide. It is more effective and cheaper to train Fishing and Cooking at the same time. Please see our Training Cooking and Fishing Guide if you would like to train your Cooking Profession that way instead. If you just want to level your Cooking, because Fishing can be incredibly tedious, please read on.

We try to pick the cheapest, easiest and quickest recipes to make and where possilbe we try to stick to trainer only recipes. So get yourself to a cooking trainer and pick up the apprentice cooking skill.
Once you’ve trained as an apprentice cook, you’ll have 3 recipes to start with (along with the fire making skill), they are as follows:

• Herb Baked Egg
• Roasted Boar Meat
• Charred Wolf Meat

From these recipes, you’ll only want to use the Roasted Boar Meat and Charred Wolf Meat, as they dont need any other reagents to cook.

Ready? Steady? Cook!

Horde

Cooking Skill 0 - 40
Kill any of the following:

• Mottled Boars around Orgrimmar for Chunks of Boar Meat.
• Wolves and Stalkers around Mulgore for Stringy Wolf Meat.
• Darkhounds around Tirisfal Glades for Stringy Wolf Meat.

You’ll need about 45 Wolf Meat or about 55 Boar Meat.
Cook the Boar Meat and Stringy Wolf Meat until 40 (train on Spiced Wolf Meat at level 10 and use this to get skill ups quicker, but you’ll have to buy mild spices).

At this point you really should take up Fishing as it’s easier to fill the gaps, especially if you’re on the Horde side. But this is a cooking only guide, so let’s stick to mob drops.

Cooking Skill 41 - 90
At level 50 train as Journeyman Cook.

• Goto The Sepulcher in Silverpine Forest and buy the Smoked Bear Meat recipe from Andrew Hilbert.
• Kill Grizzled Bears around Silverpine Forest for Bear Meat.

You’ll need about 60.

Cooking Skill 91 - 125

• Go find Grub in The Barrens. He’s in a Tower by Grosh’gek Farm, just north off the road between Crossroads and Ratchet and pick up the quest for Dig Rat stew.
• Kill Dig Rats until you have about 30 more than the quest needs. Complete quest and cook Dig Rat Stew till your level 125.

Cooking Skill 126 - 175

• To Train as a Expert cook, goto Shadowprey Village and buy the Expert Cooking Book from Wulan.
• Goto Razor Hill and buy Hot Lion Chops recipe from Zargh and about 60 Hot Spices.
• Kill Mountain Lions around Hillsbrad Foothills for Lion Meat.

You’ll need about 60.

Cooking Skill 176 - 200

• Goto Grom’gol and buy Roast Raptor recipe from Nerrist and about 30 Hot Spices.
• Kill Raptors around Grom’gol for Raptor Flesh.

You’ll need about 30.

Cooking Skill 201 - 225

• Goto a trainer and train Spider Sausage.
• Kill Darkfangs around Dustwallow Marsh for White Spider Meat.

You’ll need about 30.

Cooking Skill 225

• Goto Gadgetzan and speak to Dirge Quikcleave to obtain Artisan cooking quest - Clamlette Surprize (he’s in the tavern). Whilst you’re there, pick up the recipe for Tender Wolf Steaks.
• You’ll need 12 Giant Eggs, 10 zesty Clam Meat and 20 Alterac Swiss. The Alterac Swiss is the easiest to get, just goto the Inn in Thunderbluff and buy them from the Innkeeper. Get the eggs from the Owlbeasts in The Hinterlands (the drop rate is way better than the Rocs in Tanaris). For the clam meat goto Steamwheedle Port in Tanaris and kill the Turtles. They will drop Big Mouth Clams at a good rate, which contain Zesty clam Meat.
• Keep killing Owlbeasts in The Hinterlands and grab another 70-80 eggs. Also kill the Wolves round here for Tender Wolf Meat.
• Goto Bloodvenom Post in Felwood and buy the Monster Omelet recipe from Bale and about 140-160 Soothing Spices (this is where it gets expensive.)

Cooking Skill 226 - 285

• Stay in Felwood and cook those eggs for Monster Omelets and any Tender Wolf Meat you got. If you didnt have enough to get you to 285, go kill the Wolves around Felwood for Tender Wolf Meat and make Tender Wolf Steaks.

Cooking Skill 286 - 300

• Goto Cenarion Hold in Silithus and speak to Calandrath for the Desert Recipe chain of quests. When you get to the third quest you’ll get the recipe for Smoked Desert Dumplings.
• Kill Dredge Crushers and Strikers for the Sandworm Meat (low drop rate). You’ll only need about 10 more than the quest needs plus the soothing spices (about 20 in total).

Cook till 300.

Cooking Skill 300 - 325
First you need to learn Master Cooking, so go see Baxter in the tavern in Thrallmar and buy the Master Cooking Manual.

• Buy the recipe for Ravager Dogs from Cookie One-Eye in Thrallmar (by the stables) and then go kill Ravagers around Falcon Watch until you have about 35-40 meat.

Cooking Skill 325 - 350
Two choices here.

1. Go buy the Roasted Clefthoof recipe from Nula the Butcher in Garadar (Nagrand) and then kill Clefthooves around Nagrand for about 35-40 meat or:
2. Go buy the Warp Burger recipe from Innkeeper Grilka in Stonebreaker Hold (Terokkar Forest) and then kill Warp Stalkers/Hunters around Terokkar Forest for about 35-40 meat.

Cooking Skill 350 - 375
This part really is a problem at the moment. The best way to get to 375 at the moment is by fishing up Furious Crawdads in one of three lakes around Terokkar Forest and then cooking them. However, these lakes are only accessible if you have a flying mount.
The three lakes are:

1. Lake Jorune - north west of Stonebreaker Hold.
2. Lake Ere’Noru - south east of Allerian Stronghold.
3. Blackwind Lake - in the south east corner of the map, in the Skettis area.

You can buy the recipe from Rungor in Stonebreaker Hold.

• However, you can go to Blade’s Edge Mountains and find an NPC called Matron Varah (she’s in the Inn) who gives you a quest to get her Raptor Ribs and Serpent Flesh. Once you complete it, she’ll give you the recipe for Crunchy Serpent, which will stay green untill 375.
• You can now kill Scalewing’s around Blade’s Edge Mountains for Serpent Flesh. You will need about 60 to get to 375.

Congratulations, you now have 375 Cooking.

Alliance

Alliance players have an easier time finding reagents for the lower level recipes.

Cooking Skill 1 - 40
Kill any of the following:

• Crag Boars around Dun Morogh for Chunks of Boar Meat.
• Boars around Elwynn Forest for Chunks of Boar Meat.
• Crag and Mountain Boars around Loch Modan for Chunks of Boar Meat.
• Thistle Boars around Teldrassil for Chunks of Boar Meat.
• Wolves around Elwynn Forest Stringy Wolf Meat.
• Wolves around Dun Morogh Stringy Wolf Meat.

You’ll need about 45 Wolf Meat or about 55 Boar Meat.
Cook the Boar Meat and Stringy Wolf Meat until 40 (you can train on Spiced Wolf Meat at level 10 and use this to get skill ups quicker, but you’ll have to buy mild spices).

Cooking Skill 41 - 75

• Goto Drac Roughcut in Thelsamar, Loch Modan and buy Smoked Bear Meat recipe.
• Kill bears around Loch Modan for Bear Meat.

Cooking Skill 76 - 85

• Train as Journeyman cook and get Crab Cake recipe.
• Kill Crawlers around Darkshore and Westfall for Crawler meat.

You’ll need about 10. Dont sell the Crawler Claws, you’ll need them for the next stage.

Cooking Skill 86 - 100

• Goto Stormwind City and buy Crooked Crab Claw recipe from Kendor Kabonka. Get about 20 mild spices.
• Go back to Darkshore or Westfall and continue killing Crawlers.

You’ll need about 20.

Cooking Skill 101 - 130

• Goto Chef Grual in Darkshire and get the Seasoned Wolf Kabobs quest.
• Get the Stormwind Seasoning Herbs from Felcia Gump in Stormwind (Trade District).
• Kill Ravagers and Wolves around Duskwood for Lean wolf Flank.

You’ll need about 50-60 (including the ones you need for quest)You could get the Lean Wolf Steak recipe from Super Seller 680 in Desolace and continue killing until your cooking is upto 150+ and then skip the next step).

Cooking Skill 131 - 175
At level 125 train as Expert Cook.

• To Train as a Expert cook, goto Shandrina by Mystral Lake in Ashenvale and buy the Expert cookbook.
• Goto Kendor Kabonka in Stormwind City and buy the Curiously Tasty Omelet recipe.
• Kill Raptors in Arathi Highlands for Raptor Eggs.

You’ll need about 55 Eggs and 55 Hot Spices.

Cooking Skill 176 - 200

• Goto Chef Jessen in Southshore and get the Soothing Turtle Bisque quest.
• Kill the Turtles all along the river between Southshore and Tarren Mill for Turtle Meat.

Keep killing them till you have about 40 meat, then hand in quest and cook till level 200.

Cooking Skill 201 - 225

• Goto a trainer and train Spider Sausage.
• Kill Darkfangs around Dustwallow Marsh for White Spider Meat.

You’ll need about 30.

Cooking Skill 225

• Goto Gadgetzan and speak to Dirge Quikcleave to obtain Artisan cooking quest - Clamlette Surprize (he’s in the tavern). Whilst your here, pick up the Tender Wolf Steaks recipe.
• You’ll need 12 Giant Eggs, 10 zesty Clam Meat and 20 Alterac Swiss. The Alterac Swiss is the easiest to get, just goto the Trade District in Stormwind City and buy it from Ben Trias. Get the eggs from the Owlbeasts in The Hinterlands (the drop rate is way better than the Rocs in Tanaris). For the clam meat goto Steamwheedle Port in Tanaris and kill the Turtles. They will drop Big Mouth Clams at a good rate, which contain Zesty clam Meat.
• Keep killing Owlbeasts in The Hinterlands and grab another 70-80 eggs. Also kill the Wolves round here for Tender Wolf Meat.
• Goto Talonbranch Glade in Felwood and buy the Monster Omelet recipe from Malygen and about 140-160 Soothing Spices.

Cooking Skill 226 - 285

• Stay in Felwood and cook those eggs for Monster Omelets and any Tender Wolf Meat you got. If you dont have enough to get you to 285, go kill the Wolves around Felwood for Tender Wolf Meat and make Tender Wolf Steaks.

Cooking Skill 286 - 300

• Goto Cenarion Hold in Silithus and speak to Calandrath for the Desert Recipe chain of quests. When you get to the third quest you’ll get the recipe for Smoked Desert Dumplings.
• Kill Dredge Crushers and Strikers for the Sandworm Meat (low drop rate). You’ll need about 10 more than the quest needs plus the soothing spices (20 in total).

Cook till 300.

Cooking Skill 300 - 325

• First you need to learn Master Cooking, so go see Gaston in Honor Hold and buy the Master Cooking Manual.
• Buy the recipe for Ravager Dogs from Father Malgor Devidicus in Honor Hold and then go kill Ravagers around Falcon Watch until you have about 35-40 meat.

Cooking Skill 325 - 350
Two choices here.

1. Go buy the Roasted Clefthoof recipe from Uriku in Telaar (Nagrand) and then kill Clefthooves around Nagrand for about 35-40 meat or:
2. Go buy the Warp Burger recipe from Supply Officer Mills in Allerian Stronghold (Terokkar Forest) and then kill Warp Stalkers/Hunters around Terokkar Forest for about 35-40 meat.

Cooking Skill 350 - 375
This part really is a problem at the moment. The best way to get to 375 at the moment is by fishing up Furious Crawdads in one of three lakes around Terokkar Forest and then cooking them. However, these lakes are only accessible if you have a flying mount.
The three lakes are:

1. Lake Jorune - north west of Stonebreaker Hold.
2. Lake Ere’Noru - south east of Allerian Stronghold.
3. Blackwind Lake - in the south east corner of the map, in the Skettis area.

You can buy the recipe from Innkeeper Biribi in Allerian Stronghold.

Unfortunately, there doesnt appear to be a way for Alliance players to get hold of the Crunchy Serpent recipe at the moment, so levelling up from 350 to 375 is going to be a major pain without a flying mount and fishing.

Congratulations, you now have 375 Cooking.

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