Cooking leveling guide

Cooking in MoP Classic splits into six Ways from 525: Grill (Strength), Wok (Agility), Pot (Intellect), Steamer (Spirit), Oven (Stamina) and Brew. Your Cooking skill is your highest Way, so taking one Way to 600 is enough. The route below lists the Grill, Wok, Pot, Steamer and Oven dishes in that order. Counts are approximate: a recipe can turn green a few points earlier or later.

What to gather or buy

Material	About
Meat or fish for your Way	90
Vegetables for your Way	320
Soy Sauce	5

Meat comes from beasts in Pandaria, fish from Fishing, and vegetables from the Halfhill Market or your own farm at Sunsong Ranch. Each banquet uses the meat, fish and vegetables of its Way.

Route

Skill	Craft	Per craft
525-550	Charbroiled Tiger Steak / Sauteed Carrots / Swirling Mist Soup / Shrimp Dumplings / Wildfowl Roast	Raw Tiger Steak / 2 Juicycrunch Carrot / Jade Lungfish / Giant Mantis Shrimp / Wildfowl Breast
550-576	Eternal Blossom Fish / Valley Stir Fry / Braised Turtle / Fire Spirit Salmon / Twin Fish Platter	Jade Lungfish, 5 Striped Melon / Reef Octopus, Wildfowl Breast / Raw Turtle Meat, 5 Juicycrunch Carrot / Emperor Salmon, 5 Scallions / 2 Krasarang Paddlefish
576-600	The banquet of your Way, such as Banquet of the Grill	Soy Sauce, 10 Raw Crab Meat, 10 Redbelly Mandarin, 50 White Turnip

Trainers and tips

• Each Way is trained at the Halfhill Market in Valley of the Four Winds: Kol Ironpaw (Grill), Anthea Ironpaw (Wok), Mei Mei Ironpaw (Pot), Yan Ironpaw (Steamer), Jian Ironpaw (Oven) and Bobo Ironpaw (Brew). Sungshin Ironpaw gives the quests that unlock them.
• Way of the Brew gives no stats, so pick the Way whose stat you use.
• The banquets from 575 give a main stat buff to the whole raid, so they stay useful once you are done.