WoW Cooking Guide

This World of Warcraft Cooking Guide explains how to work your way to level 300 with cooking. First, you'll need to read this guide to get the gold you'll need. Cooking is a challenge to level quickly as it requires a lot of meats that are not easily obtainable unless through killing the monsters by hand. Cooking is best leveled as you go from 1-60 and with Fishing. This cooking guide will take the approach that you simply want to level cooking and not fishing, so you will see where to go to get the materials.

This guide also assumes that you're max level.

Lets get cooking!

Go to your Auction House and check for any of these components. You'll want to do this when ever it is convenient to save time.

Cooking Materials

• Meats
• 40-50 Stringy Wolf
• 50-60 Bear
• 50-60 Lion
• 25-35 Raptor Flesh
• 50-60 White Spider
• 120-180 Giant Eggs or Wolf
• 10 Zesty Clam

• Spices/Misc
• 30-40 Mild Spices
• 25-35 Hot Spices
• 50-55 Dig Rats
• 180-240 Soothing Spices
• 12 Giant Eggs
• 20 Alterac Swiss

If you want to collect materials first follow these steps. Otherwise skip down to Apprentice Cooking:

• Purchase 30-40 Mild Spices from a trainer (I recommend UC trainer)
• Buy 1 Flint and Tinder and 10-15 Simple Wood for building cooking fires in the field
• Kill Wolves and Stalkers in Mulgore or Darkhounds around Trisifal Glades collecting 40-50 Stringy Wolf Meat.
• Slaughter Bears north of Sepulcher until you have 50-60 Bear Meat
• Kill Mountain Lions around Hillsbrad Foothills collecting 50-60 Lion Meat
• Travel to The Hinterlands and collect at least 12 Giant Eggs from Owlbeasts. Also kill Mangy Silvermanes. In addition to the 12 Giant Eggs you'll need a combined total of 120-180 of either. You can do this with as little as 120, but I'd recommend getting 180.
• Travel to Razor Hill in Durotar and buy the Cooking Receipe: Hot Lion Chops recipe from him
• Collect 50-55 Dig Rats from the Dwarves at Bael Modan
• Collect 50-60 White Spider Meat from the Darkfangs in Dustwallow Marsh
• Travel to Thunderbluff and buy 20 Alterac Swiss from the Innkeeper
• Travel to Shadowprey Village in Desolace and buy the Expert Cooking Book from Wulan
• Purchase the Roast Raptor Recipe from Nerrist in Grom'gol
• Purchase 25-35 Hot Spices from Nerrist
• Collect 25-35 Raptor Flesh from the Raptors around Grom'gol
• (It might be best to wait till you're 225 to do this) Travel to Steamwheedle Port in Tanaris and collect 10 Zesty Clam Meat from the Turtles
• Travel to Gadgetzan and obtain and complete Clamlette Surprize from Dirge Quikcleave (he's in the tavern)
• From Dirge, at the same time purchase the Recipe for Tender Wolf Steaks from Dirge Quikcleave
• From almost any Trade Supplier purchase 80-120 Soothing Spices + an additional Soothing Spice per Wolf Meat you collected
• Travel to Felwood and find Bale, purchase the Monster Omlet recipe

Apprentice Cooking

• Learn Apprentice Cooking from any trainer
• Purchase 30-40 Mild Spices from the same trainer
• Buy 1 Flint and Tinder and 10-15 Simple Wood for building fires in the field.
• Kill Wolves and Stalkers in Mulgore or Darkhounds around Trisifal Glades collecting 40-50 Stringy Wolf Meat.
• Cook 10 Charred Wolf Meat (1 per)
• You should be level 10
• Learn Spiced Wolf Meat
• Cook 30 Spiced Wolf Meat
• You should be level 40
• Learn Cooking Recipe: Smoked Bear Meat from Andrew Hilbert in The Sepulcher
• Slaughter Bears north of Sepulcher until you have 50-60 Bear Meat
• Cook 10 Smoked Bear Meat (1 per)
• You should be level 50

Journeyman Cooking

• Travel to your nearest trainer
• Learn Journeyman Cooking from any trainer
• Cook 40 Smoked Bear Meat (1 per)
• Collect 50-55 Dig Rats from the Dwarves at Bael Modan
• Fly to Ratchet and find Grub in the tower by Grosh'gek Farm, this is north of the road that heads to Crossroads.
• Receive and Complete the Dig Rat stew quest from Grub
• Cook up 35 Dig Rat Stews from 35 Dig Rat
• You should be level 125

Expert Cooking

• Travel to Shadowprey Village in Desolace and buy the Expert Cooking Book from Wulan
• Travel to Razor Hill in Durotar and buy the Hot Lion Chops recipe from him
• Kill Mountain Lions around Hillsbrad Foothills collecting 50-60 Lion Meat
• Cook 50 Hot Lion Chops (1 per)
• You should be level 175
• Purchase the Roast Raptor Recipe from Nerrist in Grom'gol
• Purchase 25-35 Hot Spices from Nerrist
• Collect 25-35 Raptor Flesh from the Raptors around Grom'gol
• Cook 25 Roast Raptor from 25 Hot Spices and 25 Raptor Flesh
• You should be level 200
• Return to a cooking trainer
• Train to cook Spider Sausage
• Collect 50-60 White Spider Meat from the Darkfangs in Dustwallow Marsh
• Cook up 25 Spider Sauges (2 per)
• You should be level 225

Artisan Cooking

• Travel to Thunderbluff and buy 20 Alterac Swiss from the Innkeeper
• Travel to The Hinterlands and collect at least 12 Giant Eggs from Owlbeasts. Also kill Mangy Silvermanes. In addition to the 12 Giant Eggs you'll need a combined total of 120-180 of either (80 eggs and 80 Wolf Meat). You can do this with as little as 120, but I'd recommend getting 180. If you want to return to Gadgetzan with the 12 Giant Eggs and return to collect more later that is also a good idea. If you come back after turning in Clamlette Surprize make sure you bring some Simple Wood and Timber so you can cook in the field.
• Travel to Steamwheedle Port in Tanaris and collect 10 Zesty Clam Meat from the Turtles
• Travel to Gadgetzan and obtain and complete Clamlette Surprize from Dirge Quikcleave (he's in the tavern). At the same time purchase the Recipe for Tender Wolf Steaks.
• From almost any Trade Supplier purchase 80-120 Soothing Spices + an additional Soothing Spice per Wolf Meat you collected.
• Travel to Felwood and find Bale, purchase the Monster Omlet recipe
• Cook up as many Monster Omlets as possible
• Cook up as many Tender Wolf Steaks as possible
• You should be level 300

There are alternative instructions to get from 285-300 in other guides. It involves doing the Cenarion Hold Desert Recipe quest from Calandrath. It is straight forward but I do not consider it a effective option since you're already in Hinterlands.

If you want to learn to level to 70 in less than 10 days play time, check out these guides: horde or alliance.