Cooking

October 1st, 2006 by Alice

What are Cooks?

Cooking Skills Cooks can create dishes to be consumed to heal a character. Food that heals can be purchased from NPC traders but food created by cooks has a greater healing potential so it is also has some value as a trading commodity. In addition, higher level food will grant the eater temporary attribute bonuses. The food can be fed to hunter pets also although the bonus to attributes (spirit, intellect etc) will not apply to the pet.

Cooking is a Secondary Production Profession and does not count towards your 2 primary profession limit.

How do I become one?

You need to seek out a Cooking Trainer and be a character level 1 to begin your cookery lessons.

	Horde	Alliance	Neutral
Trainer Train you to Apprentice & Journeyman rank	Duhng, 18, Barrens Pyall Silentstride, 12, Bloodhoof Village, Mulgore Zamja, 35, The Drag, Orgrimmar Mudduk, 40, Superior Cook, Grom’gol Base Camp, Stranglethorn Aska Mistrunner, 45, Elevation 3, Thunder Bluff Eunice Burch, 35, Trade Quarter, Undercity	Alegorn, 35, Craftmen’s Terrace, Darnassus Cook Ghilm, 9-11, Gol’Bolar Quarry, Dun Morogh Gremlock Pilsnor, 10, Kharanos, Dun Morogh Daryl Riknussun, 35, The Great Forge, Ironforge Crystal Boughman, 22, Lakeshire, Redridge Mountains Stephen Ryback, 35, The Old Town, Stormwind Kendor Kabonka, 50, Master of Cooking Recipes The Old Town, Stormwind Zarrin, 13, Dolanaar, Teldrassil
Traders Trains you to Expert	Wulan, (Expert Book @ 1g) & Supplies, Shadowprey Village , Desolace	Shandrina, (Expert Book @ 1g) & Supplies, Silverwind Refuge, Ashenvale
Master Trians you to Artisan	Zamja, 35, (Artisan Quest), The Drag, Orgrimmar	Daryl Riknussun, 35, (Artisan Quest), Great Forge, Ironforge	Dirge Quikcleave, 43 (Artisan Quest), Gadgetzan, Tanaris
Suppliers Sells you stoof	Otho Moji’ko, 48 Revantusk Village, Hinterlands Xen’to, 30, The Drag, Orgrimmar Naal Mistrunner, 40, Elevation 1, Thunder Bluff Ronald Burch, 30, Trade Quarter, Undercity	Fyldan, 30, Craftmen’s Terrace, Darnassus Emrul Riknussun, 30, Supplies Great Forge, Ironforge Erika Tate, 30, 1 The Old Town, Stormwind

You can train to four ranks of proficiency and each has certain prerequisites that you need to meet before you are able to progress to the next rank of proficiency.

To Train to rank of:	Cost	Required		Cook items from/to skill level
To Train to rank of:	Cost	Char Lvl	Prof Skill Lvl	Cook items from/to skill level
Apprentice	10c	1	-	1 - 75
Journeyman	5s	-	50	50 - 150
Expert	1g	-	125	125 - 225 Purchase book as detailed below
Artisan	-	35	225	225 - 300 Quest as detailed below

Training costs are reduced by 10% in cities you have an ‘Honored’ Reputation.

How do I get the supplies I need?

There are an abundance of food stuffs left as loot from a dead monster. You can also train in the supportive skill of Fishing and provide your own fish for free. Fishing, being a secondary skill, will not count towards your 2 primary skill limit. Cooked fish have higher healing properties than in raw form. For example:

Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish gives 243.6 health over 21 sec, whereas when it’s cooked it does 552 health over 24 seconds.

Suppliers can also sell food which is handy for the harder to find items. Fish recipes can be bought from a Fishing Supplier and these are an ideal way to raise your cooking skill.

What can I make?

Food and drink and you can give any of the items to other players, they’re not soulbound. The only one that requires a specific class is Thistle Tea for the Rogue.

Go here for a full list of all the recipes available >

Where do I get recipes?

You will need a recipe for each particular dish you wish to make. Once you’ve learnt the recipe you have it for life. These can be looted from monsters or bought from a trader or even as quest rewards.

Thistle Tea recipe comes from the quest Plundering the Plunderers.

Goldthorn Tea comes from Henry Stern in Razorfen Downs. As soon as you get into the instance take the first left and fight you way all the way down to the end, speak to this guy and he’ll teach you the recipe.

How do I cook things?

When you have the required ingrediants you may begin cooking. The cooking skill icon is put in your skills book when you first learn cooking. Cooking will increase your level in Cookery as long as they’re recipes coloured green or above. Thankfully, you’ll notice that the recipes in your list are colour coded and below is a key to those colours:

Grey = Will not receive a skill point in Cooking when creating.
Green = Rarely will you gain a skill point in Cooking when creating.
Yellow = Probably gain a skill point in Cooking when creating.
Orange = Always gain a skill point in Cooking when creating.
Red = Not high enough level in Cooking to create.

You will never fail cooking something {as is the case in some other games}.

You will need a fire to create your dish. These are usually located in towns but when you learnt cooking you would also been given the skill Basic Campfire and this allows you to make a fire anywhere, as long as you have the supplies. In this case Flint and Tinder. If you have that on your person you simply click the icon above and you’ll begin to create a fire. But fires are so abundant in the world it’s hardly worth giving up the one slot in your bags for flint and tinder.

What can food do for me?

Well the most important is it can replenish your health but some recipes can also give your attributes a temporary boost. Below is a table detailing which level of recipe will give you wish level of temporary bonus as well as replenishing health. The top lot require you to be seated for at least 10 seconds to get the bonuses the bottom lot don’t.

Recipes level from/to	Attribute Bonus Must remain seated while consuming & for atleast 10 secs to get the following benefits
1 - 49	2 stamina & spirit for 15 mins
50 - 89	4 stamina & spirit for 15 mins
90-149	6 stamina & spirit for 15 mins
150-199	8 stamina & spirit for 15 mins
200-225	12 stamina & spirit for 15 mins
There are some that do not require you to be ‘well fed’ to apply the attribute bonuses.
Thistle Tea - 60	Instantly restores 100 Energy.
Goldthorn Tea -	Restores 1344 points of mana over 27 seconds. No health resotration with this one.
Nightfin Soup - 250	Restores 874 health over 27 sec. Also restores 8 mana every 5 seconds for 10 mins.
Poached Sunscale Salmon - 250	Restores 874 health over 27 sec. Also restores 6 health every 5 seconds for 10 min.
Mightfish Steak - 275	Restores 1933 health over 27 sec. Also increases your stamina by 10 for 10 min.
Runn Tum Tuber Surprise - 275	Restores 1933 health over 27 sec.Also increases your intellect by 10 for 10 min.
Hot Smoked Bass - 240	Restores 874 health over 27 sec. Also increases your Spirit by 10 for 10 mins.
Cooked Glossy Mightfish - 225	Restores 874 health over 27 sec. Also increase your stamina by 10 for 10 mins
Dragonbreath Chili - 200	Occasionally belch flame at enemies stuck in melee for the next 10 mins.

How do I train in the higher levels of Cookery?

For Expert you’ll need to buy a book for 1 gold either from Shandrina in Ashenvale for Alliance or from Wulan in Desolace if you’re Horde.

Training to Artisan level demands more of you however and involves questing, as follows.

Horde

Once you hit a character level of 35 and with at least 225 in your cooking skill visit Zamja in Orgrimmar and he will give you the quest “To Gadgetzan You Go!”which sends you off to see Dirge Quikcleave in the Inn in Gadgetzan, Tanaris.

Alliance

Once you hit a character level of 35 and with at least 225 in your cooking skill visit Daryl Riknussan in Ironforge and he will give you the quest “To Gadgetzan You Go!”which sends you off to see Dirge Quikcleave in the Inn in Gadgetzan, Tanaris.

Both Factions

From that point on the quest is the same no matter which faction you belong to. Dirge Quikcleave gives you another quest called “Clamlette Surprise” asking for 12 Giant Eggs, 20 pieces of Alterac Swiss and 10 Zesty Clam Meat. Follow the links for details of where you find and buy those ingrediants.

You should note there has been a bug reported regarding this which Blizzard is aware of so we assume will fix it. On completing this quest your max level cooking cap should rise to 300 but it doesn’t with everyone. To remedy this you need to immediately cook things until your skill gets to at least 226 (which will only be 1 point because you need to be 225 to do the quest anyway) and at this point the max cap should change.

Is there anything else I should know about Cooking?

Thistle Tea & Rogues - We have rage potions and mana potions but for Rogue’s who get through Energy like it’s going out of fashion there are nice cups of Thistle Tea and all you need is cooking. The recipe is a quest reward, (Plundering the Plunderers) and requires a cooking skill of level 60 and character level of 5. It’s actually not that difficult to get to 60 with one of the cooking recipes you’re given for free when you first train. I killed boars outside Orgrimmar for an hour (level 6 to 9 I believe) and just cook the lot in one go, got my skill to 60 and then learnt the tea recipe.

Combat - You can not eat food during combat. Thistle Tea you can consume while fighting.

First Aid - If you take first aid you can apply a bandage to heal and then eat something you’ve cooked to heal, both will heal but you can’t heal and bandage at the same time.

Stacking Bonuses Attribute Bonuses - The bonuses to your attributes (stamina, intellect etc) will stack with other buffs of the same type gained by other means. Food stuffs that add bonuses to the same attributes don’t stack however so example if you ate some food that gave 8 stamina & spirit for 15 mins you couldn’t then eat another piece of cooked food that gave 6 stamina & spirit for 15 mins hoping them to add together. The example on the right shows an Elixir of Fortitude in action with health bonus from from Buzzard wings.

Can I unlearn Cooking?

No, it’s a secondary skills and as you can have all three (cooking, first aid, fishing) there is no need to have an unlearn feature.

To recap on basics of Cooking:

Training in Cooking costs money
Recipes cost money
Can train as Apprentice at character level 1
Food stuffs created through cooking have a greater healing potential than those bought from traders or found as loot.
Supportive Skills such as Fishing will make Cooking more efficient.
Once you have learnt a recipe you know it for life
Mages would benefit the least because they can conjure food and water with their class skills.
Bonuses to attributes (spirit, intellect etc) do not apply to pets fed with dishes made via cookery
Can’t unlearn

Further Cooking Reading & Resources

		List of Cooking Recipes
		Cooking Quests
		List of Cooking Trainers
		List of Cooking Suppliers

		Professions Forum
		Profession UIs/Mods
		WWN Data

Patch changes to Cooking

Patch 1.9.0 (3 January 2006)

The cooking trainers around the world sell the recipe for Sagefish and Greater Sagefish. These two fish types can be found in schools in inland areas and provide health and mana regeneration as well as additional mana regeneration for 15 minutes after eating.

Patch 1.8.0 (11 October 2005)

The minimum level for the Artisan Cooking quest line has been lowered to 35.

Patch 1.7.0 (13 September 2005)

There is now a Horde cooking recipe that uses Tender Crocolisk Meat found at Brackenwall Village.

Patch 1.5.0 (7 June 2005)

Dragonbreath Chili proc rate has been reduced.

Patch 1.3.0 (22 March 2005)

The cooking trainer in Dolanaar now sells cooking recipes for several types of fish.
Owls in Teldrassil now drop more eggs than they used to.
Cooking recipe, Tender Wolf Steak, added to vendors in Aerie Peaks and Gadgetzan. Allows players to cook tender wolf meat.
Horde cooks can now cook up raptor eggs from a recipe found in Gromgol and Hammerfall.
Hot Wolf Ribs now count as meat for purposes of being fed to hunter pets.

Patch 1.2.0 - 17 December 2004

Spider Sausage added to cooking trainers.
Small Spider Legs drops have been increased to aid night elf cooks.

Patch 1.1.0 - 7 November 2004

Expert and above skill tiers for secondary skills are no longer available on trainers, you need to find the books to teach you them. Expert level is on a vendor somewhere in the world, artisan level requires a quest to be completed.

Beta Patch 0.11.0 - 28 September 2004

New cooking recipes are now in to support the new fish types that you can catch. Artisan cooking has been added to support these new recipes.

Beta Patch 0.10.0 - 19 September 2004

Several old trade skills are being turned into secondary skills. These do not count toward your two-profession limit, so players can learn all three secondary skills, in addition to their two professions, without restriction. The survival skill is being removed and campfires have been folded into the cooking profession.
A number of new higher level cooking recipes added.

Beta Patch 0.9.0 - 15 August 2004

All secondary tracking skills have been removed. Your skill points have been refunded.
Campfires can now be made in dungeons (and as a side effect of this in buildings as well).
Campfire Bonuses no longer stack.