Cooking 1-450

This WoW Cooking guide will show you the fastest way how to level your cooking skill from 1 to 450. I recommend everyone to level cooking to 450, you can make gold with lot of the foods you can cook. This cooking guide uses a lot of vendor bought recipes, be prepared to travel a lot because you have to buy cooking recipes and farm meats,eggs etc. while you are leveling this profession. Updated for WoW patch 3.1

I recommend to pick up your cooking skill as soon as you can, because killing level 10 boars when you are level 80...it's aint that much fun.

You will need a lot of spices later, so make sure to buy them before you go out fo farm mobs, you can buy spices at every cooking or trade supplier. Bring some [Simple Wood] and [Flint and Tinder] too, so you can make [Basic Campfire] to cook your food.

Cooking guide sections:
Cooking Apprentice 1 - 80
Cooking Journeyman 80 - 130
Cooking Expert 130 - 225
Cooking Artisan 225 - 300
Cooking Master 300 - 350
Cooking Grand Master 350 - 450


WoW Cooking Leveling Guide 1 - 450


First, visit any trainer in the main cities of old Azeroth - just ask a guard, and learn Apprentice Cooking.

1 - 40
60 x [Spice Bread] - 60 [Simple Flour], 60 Mild Spices

40-80
40 x [Smoked Bear Meat] - 40 [Brear Meat]

Usually where are bears, there are Wolfes too. Kill those and you can cook [Spiced Wolf Meat], also.

At 75, you have to visit your trainer in order to to learn Journeyman Cooking.

80 - 130
Learn Journeyman Cooking.

80 - 130
Go to Ashenvale, and head to the Zoram Strand, where the sea is (north-west).

[Boiled Clams] - 1 Calm Meat, 1 Refreshing Spring Water - calm meat can be found in [Small Barnacled Clam]
[Crab Cake] - 1 Crawler Meat, 1 Mild Spices

[Cooked Crab Claw] - 1 Crawler Claw, 1 Mild Spices

130 - 225
Learn Expert Cooking.

130 - 175
The Raptors will drops [Raptor Flesh] also, don't sell or destroy them, because you will need those in the next step of the Cooking guide.

50 x [Curiously Tasty Omelet] - 50 [Raptor Egg], 50 Hot Spices

175 - 225
50 x [Roast Raptor] - 50 [Raptor Flesh]


225 - 300
Learn Artisan Cooking.

225 - 250
25 x [Monster Omelet] - 25 Giant Egg, 50 Soothing Spices

250 - 285
40 x [Juicy Bear Burger] - 40 [Bear Flank]

285 - 300
15 x [Smoked Desert Dumplings] - 15 [Sandworm Meat], 15 Shoothing Spices

To get this cooking recipe, you have to complete a quest chain first.

Desert Recipe
Sharing the Knowledge

300 - 350
Go to Outland and learn Cooking Master.

300 - 325
30 x [Ravager Dog] - 30 [Ravager Flesh]

or

30 x [Buzzard Bites] - 30 [Buzzard Meat]

You have to complete a quest chain for this cooking recipe.

Ravager Egg Roundup
Helboar, the Other White Meat
Smooth as Butter

325 - 350
You have 3 choice now. I say, farming Talbuk Venison and Clefthoof Meat is a lot easier than the Warped Flesh, because they are both in Nagrand, but you might need the Warp Burger for raiding.

35 x [Talbuk Steak] - 35 [Talbuk Venison ]
35 x [Roasted Clefthoof] - 35 [Clefthoof Meat]
35 x [Warp Burger] - 35 [Warped Flesh]


350 - 450
Go to Northrend and learn Cooking Grand Master.

350 - 365
Get the Northern Cooking quest and complete it. It requires 4 Chilled Meat. Completing this quest will teach you how to create [Northern Stew]

20 x [Northern Stew] - 20 Chilled Meat

365 - 400
The Cooking trainer will teach you a lot of recipes which will go green at 382 skill and gray at 415 skill. Any of these recipes are good for skilling up Cooking.

I recommend Rhino Dogs. There are a lot of Rhinos around Warsong Hold in Borean Tundra, and they respawn really quickly.

50 x [Rhino Dogs] - 50 [Rhino Meat]

400 - 425
Every cooking recipe beyond this point will be purchased with [Dalaran Cooking Awards], which are obtained by completing the daily cooking quest given by Katherine Lee (Alliance) or Awilo Lon'gomba (Horde). And you're going to need them and a ton of Northern Spices to level past 425 skill.

You should cook the recipe that you will use for raiding. Choose one recipe from these, and make that until you reach 425. The recipes are sold by Derek Odds (Alliance) and Misensi (Horde).

425 - 450
[Gigantic Feast] or [Small Feast]. Both recipes are sold by the NPCs mentioned above.

I hope you liked this Cooking Guide, GZ to 450!