WoW Cooking Leveling Guide 1-450

Since cooking is a secondary profession, I recommend that every play levels it to 450. It’s an additional way to make gold with your character, and that means extra gold! This guide is going to show you the quickest way to level cooking WITHOUT Fishing. I always recommend leveling Fishing up with cooking (and we have a seperate guide for that…WoW Fishing and Cooking Guide).

This guide is for those of you who would rather just level up cooking by yourself, or you would prefer to farm/collect/ or buy the materials to go from 1-450 quickly.

How To Cook Food:

After you train your skill, you will need to locate a campfire. There are plenty of fires all over Azeroth but you can always make your own if you don’t feel like locating one (it can be hard to do sometimes). Cooks have an ability to create a campfire that you can use to cook. Once you get this out of the way, cooking is just like every other profession.

Guide Sections:

1-300 Horde
1-300 Alliance
301-450 Horde and Alliance

1-300 Horde Cooking Guide

1-40 Horde

Recipe: Spice Bread
Materials Needed: 100x Simple Flour, 100x Mild Spices

Steps:
1) Buy the materials from the cooking supplies vendor near your trainer.
2) The materials are cheap so I buy 100. The first time leveling it it took my 75, the second time level it took med 95 (to go from 1-40). So I always buy roughly 100 and just sell the rest back. They are cheap so it doesnt really matter.
3) Level up to 40 with Spice bread.

41-90 Horde

Recipe: Smoked Bear Meat
Materials Needed: 60x Bear Meat

Steps:
1) Go the Andrew Hilbert in Silverpine Forest
2) Buy the Smoked Bear Meat Recipe.
3) Kill Ferocious Grizzled Bear and Giant Grizzled Bear in Silverpine Forest
4) Collect 60x Bear Meat, and cook them until level 90.

** Make sure you train your next level of Cooking at level 75!

91-125 Horde

Recipe: Dig Rat Stew
Materials Needed: 48x Dig Rat

Steps:
1) Go to Grub in The Barrens
2) Accept the quest: Dig Rat Stew
3) Go kill Dig Rats and collect them until you have 48. (8 for the quest, 40 for leveling)

Optional: If you don’t want to do the quest, and you are a higher level you are now able to just purchase this recipe from him. After you purchase it just collect 40x Dig Rats instead of 48.

** Go and train your next level of Cooking at level 125.

126-175 Horde

Recipe: Hot Lion Chops
Materials Needed: 60x Lion Meat

Steps:
1) Go to Zargh and buy the Hot Lion Chops recipe.
2) Travel to Hillsbrad Foothills (and Alterac Mountains).
3) Kill Mountain Lion and Hulking Mountain Lion (If you are a high level and you run out of lions, you can head down south to kill Feral Mountain Lions).
4) Use Materials to level to 175.

176-200 Horde

Recipe: Roast Raptor
Materials Needed: 30x Raptor Flesh

Steps:
1) Go to Keena in Arathi Highlands and buy the Roast Raptor Recipe.
2) Kill Highland Thrasher, Highland Fleshstalker for 30x Raptor Flesh.
3) Cook Roast Raptor until level 200.

201-225 Horde

Recipe: Spider Sausage
Materials Needed: 60x White Spider Meat

Steps:
1) Go to you trainer and train your next level of cooking.
2) Train the Spider Sausage Recipe
3) Go to Searing Gorge and kill Greater Lava Spider and Searing Lava Spider for 60x White Spider meat.
4) Cook Spider Sausage until level 225.

226-275 Horde

Recipe: Monster Omelet
Materials Needed: 80x Giant Egg

Steps:
1) Go to Bale in Felwood and buy the Monster Omelet recipe.
2) Kill Ironbeak Owl, Ironbeak Screecher, and Ironbeak Hunter in Felwood to collect 80x Giant Egg
3) Cook Monster Omelet’s until level 275.

276-285 Horde

Recipe: Juicy Bear Burger
Materials Needed: 15x Bear Flank

Steps:
1) Go back to Bale in Felwood and buy the Juicy Bear Burger recipe.
2) Kill Angerclaw Bear in Felwood to collect 15x Bear Flank
3) Cook 15x Juicy Bear Burger to hit 285 cooking.

286-300 Horde

Recipe: Smoked Desert Dumplings
Materials Needed: 15x Sandworm Meat

Steps:
1) Go to Calandrath in Silithus, and accept the Desert Recipe quest, then do this quest line.
2) On the second part of the quest line you will get the receipe to make Smoked Desert Dumplings.
3) Kill Dredge Striker, and Dredge Crusher in Silithus for 15x Sandworm Meat.
4) Make 15x Smoked Desert Dumplings to hit 300.

Alliance 1-300 Cooking Guide

1-40 Alliance

Recipe: Spice Bread
Materials Needed: 100x Simple Flour, 100x Mild Spices

Steps:
1) Buy the materials from the cooking supplies vendor near your trainer.
2) The materials are cheap so I buy 100. The first time leveling it it took my 75, the second time level it took med 95 (to go from 1-40). So I always buy roughly 100 and just sell the rest back. They are cheap so it doesnt really matter.
3) Level up to 40 with Spice bread.

41-50 Alliance

Recipe: Smoked Bear Meat or Herb Baked Egg
Materials Needed: 10x Bear Meat, or 10x Small Egg

Steps:
1a) You can usually find Small Eggs in the Auction House, if you can (and you can afford them) purchase them and make Herb Baked eggs until level 50. If not…
1b) Go the Drac Roughcut in Thelsamar
2) Buy the Smoked Bear Meat Recipe.
3) Kill Grizzled Black Bear and Black Bear Patriarch in Loch Modan.
4) Collect 40x Bear Meat, and cook them until level 75.

51-130 Alliance

This part of the guide is extremely fast! Thanks to blizzard giving us a “bugged” farming area to level our cooking. You will be farming in one spot.

Farming Location: Westfall (40, 12)

You will be killing Sand Crawler’s and collect three materials:

- 30x Clam Meat

and

- 30x Crawler Meat
- 30x Crawler Claw
(or total combined 60 Crawler Meat and Crawler Claws)

These all drop from the Sand Crawler’s. The Clam Meat drops from the Small Barnacle Clams that they drop.

Steps:
1) Once you have collected all of your materials go back to Stormwind and train the Boiled Clams recipe from your trainer.
2) Use the clam meat to level up to 75.
3) At level 75 get your next level of training, along with the Crab Cake recipe.
4) From 75 and beyond make Crab Cakes. You need to get to atleast 85 with Crab Cakes. At level 85 you can train the Cooked Crab Claw recipe and make them.
5) Use these two recipes to level to 130.

** Make sure you train your next level of Cooking at level 125!

131-175

Recipe: Curiously Tasty Omelet
Materials Needed: 50x Raptor Egg

Steps:
1) Fly back to Stormwind and go to Kendor Kabonka and purchase the Curiously Tasty Omelet recipe.
2) You have two choices, you can fly to Wetlands and kill raptors or head to Strangle Thorn Vale and kill raptors in various places here.
3) The choice is up to you, I choose STV because i can have a little PVP fun while i’m there. In case you want to find what mobs to kill where, here’s a link to the loot tables: Raptor Egg Drops
4) DON’T GET RID OF YOUR RAPTOR FLESH – YOU STILL NEED IT.

176-225

Recipe: Roast Raptor
Materials Needed: 50x Raptor Flesh

Steps:
1) Use the raptor flesh you got from killing raptors in the previous step to make Roast Raptor.
2) You can get the recipe from Corporal Bluth in Stranglethorn Vale.

226-275 Horde Cooking

Recipe: Monster Omelet
Materials Needed: 80x Giant Egg

Steps:
1) Go to Malygen in Felwood and buy the Monster Omelet recipe.
2) Kill Ironbeak Owl, Ironbeak Screecher, and Ironbeak Hunter in Felwood to collect 80x Giant Egg
3) Cook Monster Omelet’s until level 275.

276-285 Horde Cooking

Recipe: Juicy Bear Burger
Materials Needed: 15x Bear Flank

Steps:
1) Go back to Malygen in Felwood and buy the Juicy Bear Burger recipe.
2) Kill Angerclaw Bear in Felwood to collect 15x Bear Flank
3) Cook 15x Juicy Bear Burger to hit 285 cooking.

286-300

Recipe: Smoked Desert Dumplings
Materials Needed: 15x Sandworm Meat

Steps:
1) Go to Calandrath in Silithus, and accept the Desert Recipe quest, then do this quest line.
2) On the second part of the quest line you will get the receipe to make Smoked Desert Dumplings.
3) Kill Dredge Striker, and Dredge Crusher in Silithus for 15x Sandworm Meat.
4) Make 15x Smoked Desert Dumplings to hit 300.

300-450 Cooking Guide

300-325 Cooking

Go to the Outlands and train your new Cooking level.

Recipe: Ravager Dog
Materials Needed: 30x Ravager Flesh

Steps:
1) Go to Your Vendor (click here for the location) to purchase the Ravager Dog recipe.
2) Kill Quillfang Ravager, and Quillfang Skitterer to collect 30x Ravager Flesh
3) Make Ravager Dog until level 325.

326-350 Cooking

Recipe: Talbuk Steak and Roasted Clefthoof
Materials Needed: 35x Talbuk Venison or 35x Clefthoof Meat (combined total of 35 of them also works).

Steps:
1) Go to Your Vendor (click the link for the location) to purchase both recipes: Talbuk Steak and Roasted Clefthoof. (They are both from the same vendor).
2) Go and kill Talbuk Stag and Talbuk Thorngrazer. Also kill Clefthoof, Clefthoof Bull, Clefthoof Calf and Aged Clefthoof, for their meats.
3) I farm both of these until I have a combined total of 35x materials, then cook the materials until 350.

351-365 Cooking

Get and complete the Northern Cooking quest. Once you are done you will learn the Northern Stew recipe.

Recipe: Northern Stew
Materials Needed: 24x Chilled Meat

Steps:
1) Get the Northern Cooking quest.

Locations to Start Quest:
Horde – Vengeance Landing
Alliance – Valgarde

2) Collect 24x Chilled Meat by killing Lion Seal, Lion Seal Whelp. and Bull Lion Seal in Howling Fjord.
3) Make 20x Northern Stew

366-415

Recipe: Worm Delight, Rhino Dogs, Pickled Fangtooth
Materials Needed: Fangtooth Herring, Rhino Meat, Worm Meat

Steps:
1) You can train these recipes from your trainer. They all go gray at level 415. You can do one of a few things to level up from 366-415, either purchase the materials off the auction house or go out and farm the materials. It’s much quicker to purchase the materials.

416-425

From this point and beyond you will have to level up with recipes that are purchased with the Daily Cooking Quest rewards: Dalaran Cooking Awards.

Horde Quest Giver: Awilo Lon’gomba
Alliance Quest Giver: Katherine Lee

All the recipes are sold by these two NPC’s. Horde: Misensi, Alliance: Derek Odds.  Click on your factions NPC to see a list of all these receipes. I recommend going with the recipe that best benefits your class, or your guild for raiding. That way the materials, time, and gold you spend on getting the recipe/materials isn’t as bad.

426-450

Recipe: Small Feast, or Gigantic Feast

Steps:
1) Both of these recipes are sold by the vendors linked above (Misensi and Derek Odds), these recipes will be used in all of your raids both PvP and PvE, so its good to finish your leveling out by stocking up on these.

As you can see it’s very important to have Fishing leveled, so you can see our guide here to level fishing.

You are now level 450! Thanks for checking out this guide. Do you see any errors? Feel free to comment below so we can update it properly. Thanks!