Cooking leveling guide

Cooking in Cata Classic runs from 450 to 525 with recipes bought for Chef’s Awards, which you earn with the daily cooking quest in your capital city. Where a step lists several dishes, pick the one whose fish or meat is cheapest. Counts are approximate: a recipe can turn green a few points earlier or later.

What to gather or buy

Material	About
Striped Lurker, Lavascale Catfish, Monstrous Claw or Snake Eye	25
Highland Guppy, Blood Shrimp or Giant Turtle Tongue	35
Algaefin Rockfish, Crocolisk Tail, Deepsea Sagefish or Dragon Flank	35
Chef’s Award	12

A few recipes also need a spice or a drink from the cooking vendor. Fish comes from Fishing in the Cataclysm zones, meat from their beasts.

Route

Skill	Craft	Per craft
450-475	Lightly Fried Lurker / Lavascale Fillet / Seasoned Crab / Salted Eye	Striped Lurker / Lavascale Catfish / Monstrous Claw / Snake Eye
475-500	Pickled Guppy / Hearty Seafood Soup / Tender Baked Turtle	Highland Guppy / Blood Shrimp / Giant Turtle Tongue
500-525	Baked Rockfish / Beer-Basted Crocolisk / Delicious Sagefish Tail / Grilled Dragon	Algaefin Rockfish / Crocolisk Tail / Deepsea Sagefish / Dragon Flank

Trainers and tips

• Illustrious Grand Master Cooking is taught by the cooking trainers in the capital cities.
• The daily cooking quest comes from Robby Flay in Stormwind City for the Alliance and Marogg in Orgrimmar for the Horde. You can do one each day, and each gives a Chef’s Award.
• Recipes cost 3 Chef’s Awards each at Bario Matalli in Stormwind City for the Alliance and Shazdar in Orgrimmar for the Horde.