Cataclysm Classic Cooking Leveling 1-525 Guide

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The Cooking profession in WoW Cataclysm Classic is a valuable crafting profession that allows characters to make food items, such as meat and fish, into consumables that provide stat benefits. This guide covers the basics of getting started with Cooking and the best secondary professions to complement it.

Cooking is consistently beneficial for players in World of Warcraft, regardless of the expansion. It’s an enjoyable way to make the most out of various meats, fish, and other food materials you collect in the open world.

New Cooking Items In Cataclysm Classic

Cataclysm Classic introduces several new Cooking-crafted items to the game.

Some of the top items you can create include:

Cooking Leveling Guide 1-525 Cataclysm Classic

This guide for leveling Cooking from 1-525 in Cataclysm Classic focuses on easily obtained recipes with the fewest complex ingredients. It also provides alternative options for when materials are hard to find.

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Cooking Trainers

Horde Trainers:

Zamja (Orgrimmar)
Eunice Burch (Undercity)
Aska Mistrunner (Thunder Bluff)
Duhng (The Barrens)
Mudduk (Stranglethorn Vale)
Pyall Silentstride (Mulgore)
Sylann (Silvermoon City)

Alliance Trainers:

Stephen Ryback (Stormwind City)
Daryl Riknussun (Ironforge)
Alegorn (Darnassus)
Gremlock Pilsnor (Dun Morogh)
Tomas (Elwynn Forest)
Zarrin (Teldrassil)
Mumman (The Exodar)

Cooking Leveling Guide

Levels 1 – 40

60 Spice Bread: 60 Simple Flour, 60 Mild Spices
Buy Simple Flour and Mild Spices from Cooking Supply ven

Levels 40 – 65

Make 25-35 of any of the following recipes:

35 Roasted Boar Meat: 35 Chunk of Boar Meat (Trainer).
25 Smoked Bear Meat: 25 Bear Meat (Sold by Andrew Hilbert / Drac Roughcut).
30 Spiced Wolf Meat: 30 Stringy Wolf Meat (Trainer).
35 Brilliant Smallfish: 35 Raw Brilliant Smallfish (Vendors).
35 Slitherskin Mackerel: 35 Raw Slitherskin Mackerel (Vendors).

Levels 65 – 110

Learn Journeyman Cooking (requires level 10 and Cooking 50).

Make around 65 from any of the following recipes:

65 Boiled Clams: 65 Clam Meat, 65 Refreshing Spring Water (Trainer).
65 Coyote Steak: 65 Coyote Meat (Trainer).
65 Longjaw Mud Snapper: 65 Raw Longjaw Mud Snapper (Vendors).
65 Bat Bites: 65 Bat Flesh (Master Chef Mouldier (Horde only)).
65 Strider Stew: 65 Strider Meat (Tari’qa (Horde only)).

Levels 110 – 130

Make around 20-30 from any of the following recipes:

30 Crab Cake: 30 Crawler Meat (Trainer).
25 Dry Pork Ribs: 25 Boar Ribs (Trainer).
20 Bristle Whisker Catfish: 20 Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish (Vendors).
23 Cooked Crab Claw: 23 Crawler Claw (Kendor Kabonka (Alliance only)).

Levels 130 – 175

Learn Expert Cooking. Make 50 Curiously Tasty Omelet with 50 Raptor Egg.

Alternative recipes include:

Bristle Whisker Catfish if you can find cheap Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish.
Hot Lion Chops if you can get Lion Meat (Recipe sold by Zargh (The Barrens)).

Levels 175 – 225

Make 50 Roast Raptor with 50 Raptor Flesh.

Alternative recipes:

Soothing Turtle Bisque if you have Turtle Meat.
Mithril Headed Trout if you can find cheap Raw Mithril Head Trout.

Levels 225 – 250

Learn Artisan Cooking.

Make 25 from one of the following recipes:

Undermine Clam Chowder: 50 Zesty Clam Meat (Recipe sold by “Chef” Overheat in Badlands and Mrs. Gant in Booty Bay).
Spotted Yellowtail: 25 Raw Spotted Yellowtail (Trainer).
Monster Omelet: 25 Giant Egg (Recipe sold by Himmik in Winterspring or Malygen in Felwood).
Tender Wolf Steak: 25 Tender Wolf Meat (Recipe sold by Dirge Quikcleave in Tanaris).
Filet of Redgill: 25 Raw Redgill (Recipe sold by Kelsey Yance in Booty Bay).

Levels 250 – 285

Make 40 Juicy Bear Burger with 40 Bear Flank.

Alternative recipes:

Poached Sunscale Salmon: 40 Raw Sunscale Salmon.
Nightfin Soup: 40 Raw Nightfin Snapper.

Levels 285 – 300

Make 15 Smoked Desert Dumplings with 15 Sandworm Meat. You need to complete two quests in Silithus for the recipe: “Desert Recipe” and “Sharing the Knowledge”.

Alternative recipes:

Baked Salmon: 15 Raw Whitescale Salmon.
Lobster Stew: 15 Darkclaw Lobster (Recipes sold by Vivianna / Sheendra Tallgrass (Feralas)).

TBC Cooking (300-350)

Learn Master Cooking from your trainer.

Levels 300 – 325

Make one of these:

30 Ravager Dog: 30 Ravager Flesh (Recipe sold by Cookie One-Eye (Horde) and Sid Limbardi (Alliance) in Hellfire Peninsula).
30 Buzzard Bites: 30 Buzzard Meat (Complete quest chain starting from Legassi in Hellfire Peninsula).

Levels 325 – 350

You have 3 choices:

40 Talbuk Steak: 40 Talbuk Venison.
40 Roasted Clefthoof: 40 Clefthoof Meat.
40 Warp Burger: 40 Warped Flesh.

Recipe locations:

Talbuk Steak and Roasted Clefthoof sold by Nula the Butcher (Horde) and Uriku (Alliance) in Nagrand.
Warp Burger sold by Innkeeper Grilka (Horde) and Supply Officer Mills in Terrokar Forest.

WotLK Cooking (350-450)

Learn Grand Master Cooking from your trainer.

Levels 350 – 365

Complete the Northern Cooking quest from trainers in Howling Fjord (Thomas Kolichio / Brom Brewbaster) or Borean Tundra (Orn Tenderhoof / Rollick MacKreel) to learn the Northern Stew recipe. Make 23 Northern Stew with 23 Chilled Meat.

Levels 365 – 400

Make around 70 from any of these recipes:

Worm Delight: Worm Meat
Shoveltusk Steak: Shoveltusk Flank
Roasted Worg: Worg Haunch
Rhino Dogs: Rhino Meat
Mammoth Meal: Chunk o’ Mammoth
Smoked Salmon: Glacial Salmon
Poached Nettlefish: Nettlefish
Pickled Fangtooth: Fangtooth Herring
Grilled Sculpin: Musselback Sculpin
Baked Manta Ray: Imperial Manta Ray

Levels 400 – 415

Make 23 Black Jelly with 69 Borean Man O’ War. If Borean Man O’ War is expensive, make more of the previous recipes.

Levels 415 – 440

Make 50 Darkbrew Lager with 100 Skin of Dwarven Stout and 50 Jug of Badlands Bourbon.

Purchase these items from:

Innkeeper Firebrew in Ironforge (Alliance).

Julia Gallina in Stormwind City (Alliance).

Sarah Brady in Dalaran.

Nixxrax Fillamug in Booty Bay.

Levels 440 – 450

Make 10 Blackened Surprise with 10 Toughened Flesh.

Cataclysm Classic Cooking (450-525)

Learn Illustrious Grand Master Cooking from your trainer.

Cooking Daily Quests

Complete daily cooking quests for Marogg in Orgrimmar or Robby Flay in Stormwind City to earn Chef’s Awards. Use these awards to purchase recipes from Shazdar in Orgrimmar or Bario Matalli in Stormwind City.