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Cooking
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What is Cooking?
Introduction
Cooking 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.
Type of Profession?
Cooking is a Secondary Production Profession and does not count towards your 2 primary profession limit. Another secondary profession, Fishing, goes very nicely with Cooking.
How Do I Become a Cook?
You need to seek out a Cooking Trainer and be a character level 1 to begin your cookery lessons. You can train to five levels of proficiency (four if you don't have the Burning Crusade expansion) and each has certain prerequisites that you need to meet before you are able to progress to the next rank of proficiency. You need to be character level one or above to begin your training in Cooking. Below is a list of Trainers for both factions, and their locations.
Trainers
Training Costs
Once found, you simply request to be trained at which time you'll be given a few recipes to start you on your way. You will receive a 10% discount if you train in a city where you are honored.
| Proficiency | Level Req. | Skill Range | Cost | Required Trainer | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apprentice | 1 | 1-75 | 
| 10 | Journeyman |
| Journeyman | - | 75-150 | 
| 5 | Expert |
| Expert | - | 150-225 Purchase Book [Expert Cookbook] |
| 1G | Artisan |
| Artisan | 35 | 225-300 Quest | - | - | Master |
| Master | 55 | 300-375 Purchase Book [Master Cookbook] | 
| 2 | Grand Master |
If you have at least a Honored standing with the faction that the trainer belongs to, you will only pay 90% of these prices.
What Are the Cooking Specialisations?
Cooks do not require any specialisation.
How Do I Change Cooking or Unlearn it?
You cannot unlearn Cooking because it's a secondary skill, and as you can have all four (cooking, first aid, fishing and riding) there is no need to have an unlearn feature.
Crafting
How do I Get Supplies?
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 becomes [Bristle Whisker Catfish], and gives 552 health over 24 seconds.
Suppliers can also sell food which is handy for the harder to find items, and recipes. Fish recipes can be bought from a Fishing Supplier and these are an ideal way to raise your cooking skill. Here is a list of the Cooking Suppliers that can be found:
How Do I Make Items?
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. 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.
[Recipe: Thistle Tea] 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.
When you have the required ingredients 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}.
Basic Campfire
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] and some [Simple Wood]. If you have that on your person you simply click the icon above and you'll begin to create a fire. Fires are so abundant in the world, you can question whether it's worth giving up the one slot in your bags for these items, but you never know when you might get caught out!
What Items Can I Create?
A Cook can create food and drink that replenishes a player's resources, such as health, mana or energy quickly. These created items can provide the character with temporary buffs, for example, [Smoked Desert Dumplings] restores 2148 health and, if eaten for more than 10 seconds, increases Strength by 20 for 15 minutes. A higher cooking skill allows you to learn higher level cooking recipes. Recipes can be found on trainers around the world as well as from quests and as drops from monsters.
Here's a list of everything you can make, and the ingredients needed.
What Can I Make That Other Professions Need?
As yet, there are no items that a Cook can make that are required by other professions.
Anything Else
[Thistle Tea] & The Rogue - 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 [Recipe: Thistle Tea].
Combat - You can not eat food during combat. You can consume [Thistle Tea] while fighting though.
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.
Recap
- 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
- A Mage 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 Cooking
