WoW Cooking Walkthrough

In the past, most people did not even give this profession a chance but with Burning Crusade a lot more opportunities opened up that required this skill and more people are now giving it a try. This profession can be pretty fun while at the same time you are helping other players and earning gold.

Getting Started

If you decide that you want to try out cooking, you will need to have fire. This requires the items: Flint and Tinder as well as Simple Wood. These items are pretty easy to find, so you shouldn’t need to work too hard to obtain them. Once you have these items, you will need to open up your Spellbook. All players have the ability to make the Basic Campfire, so you won’t need to worry about additional training at this point.

You will also find your cookbook in your Spellbook. Go ahead and open it to see which recipes you would like to try. Please remember that your fire will only last for a few minutes. Since you do have to purchase wood, it is a good idea to only start a fire when you are actually ready to start cooking. Click on the ingredients that are required for each recipe and you will be cooking in no time.

You may realize that the recipes call for a few other items in order to complete. Here is a sample recipe for Crocolisk Steak. You will need to have one Crocolisk Meat and one set of Mild Spices. These can be purchased from a vendor, or you can go out and buy your own.

Once you have completed your apprenticeship, you will be prepared to progress. Items that you do not have can be purchased from a cooking trainer, so you may need to spend a little to make a little at first. Though, once you advance and go through more quests, you will have easy access to the items that you need for your recipes.

Advancing

When you start out, you will not have a lot of what you need to make more advanced recipes. Here is a quick way to progress in skill from 1 to 375 with very little effort. You will need to start in Ironforge. Here, you can buy one flour and one mild spices to make your first recipe of Spiced Bread. This is very easy and will help you advance to 40.

Once you have done that, you will need to get 30 mild spices as well as some more wood. Now, get to Auberdine and find a Moonkin. Keep killing them until you have around 20 eggs or more. This will quickly take you to skill level 60.

You can then travel south to Ashenvale where you will be able to locate the Crawlers which will drop clams. Gather as much as possible and then head back to Ironforge. Cook up the eggs that you got from the Moonkin and then sell them. You will need to then find a cooking trainer and learn more skills so that you can cook the clams you found. By now, your skill level will be around 130. Get the expert cookbook and you will be well on your way to getting up to 375.

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