WoW Forever Cooking Guide

Cooking in WoW Forever is a secondary profession, which means it does not take up one of your two primary profession slots. It is also easy to level while questing because many recipes use meat, eggs, clams, or fish that you can collect naturally while moving through different zones.

This WoW Forever Cooking leveling guide covers the full route from 1 to 300, trainer locations for every faction and starting zone, the Forever campfire system, Expert and Artisan unlocks, and several recipe choices for each skill range. The goal is simple: use whichever ingredients are easiest or cheapest to get on your realm.

WoW Forever Cooking Overview

Cooking is much more flexible than most crafting professions. There is rarely one mandatory ingredient list. If you already have meat or fish from leveling, use the recipe that matches what is in your bags instead of buying an entirely different set of materials. This matters most between 50 and 225, where several recipes overlap across the same skill ranges.

Cooking also provides the campfire used by the Forever camping system. The Basic Campfire Kit gives you a portable cooking fire and supports up to three additional camp features. The higher-tier Journeyman Campfire Kit and Expert Campfire Kit expand that limit to five and ten additional features.

Buying every recipe path at once wastes gold fast. Cooking has overlapping routes, so one bad shopping list can leave you with stacks of ingredients you never use.

Cooking Trainer Locations

Apprentice Cooking has no character-level requirement. Standard Cooking trainers can also teach Journeyman Cooking, so once you reach 50 skill there is no need to search for a separate Journeyman-only NPC.

Capital City Cooking Trainers

Starting-Zone Cooking Trainers

How Campfires Work in WoW Forever

You need a cooking fire for Cooking recipes. In WoW Forever, the basic version comes from the Basic Campfire Kit. Crafting it requires Simple Wood and uses Flint and Tinder as a crafting tool. Once the Campfire Kit is already in your bags, placing the campfire does not consume Flint and Tinder.

Cooking Supply vendors near trainers sell the common ingredients used by many recipes. Buy these directly from vendors whenever your route needs them. There is usually no reason to pay an Auction House markup.

• Mild Spices
• Hot Spices
• Soothing Spices
• Refreshing Spring Water

WoW Forever Cooking Materials

The shopping list below follows one complete 1-300 route, which makes it useful if you want to prepare most ingredients before starting. This version uses the fish-heavy path where possible, then switches to Curiously Tasty Omelet for 150-175, Spotted Yellowtail for 225-275, and Poached Sunscale Salmon for 275-300.

The quantities are estimates because yellow recipes can miss a skill point. Alternative meat and fish routes are still listed in the leveling sections below, but their ingredients are not added to this shopping list. Otherwise, you could easily end up buying materials for two routes at once.

You will also need Expert Cookbook to raise your Cooking cap past 150. At 225, the Clamlette Surprise quest and the materials listed above unlock Artisan Cooking.

Apprentice Cooking 1-50

Make around 55 crafts using one of the recipes below. If you are leveling Fishing at the same time, the fish recipes are usually the easiest choice. If questing has already filled your bags with meat or eggs, use those instead.

Alternative 1-50 Recipes

• Horde: Crispy Bat Wing if you already have Meaty Bat Wing. The recipe is sold by Abigail Shiel in Tirisfal Glades.
• Horde: Scorpid Surprise if you have Scorpid Stinger. The recipe is sold by Grimtak in Durotar.
• Alliance: Kaldorei Spider Kabob from the Recipe of the Kaldorei quest in Teldrassil if you have Small Spider Leg.

Journeyman Cooking 50-150

Train Journeyman Cooking at 50 skill and character level 10. From here, there is no need to force one fixed route. Check what you already have and use the cheapest suitable recipe.

Cooking 50-100

Cooking 100-130

Cooking 130-150

Expert Cooking 150-225

To learn Expert Cooking, reach character level 20 and Cooking 125, then buy Expert Cookbook. Horde players can get it from Wulan in Shadowprey Village, Desolace. Alliance players buy it from Shandrina near Mystral Lake in Ashenvale. The book is tradable, so checking the Auction House is another option.

Cooking 150-175

Cooking 175-225

The later Cooking ranges can eat through extra materials quickly when recipes turn yellow, especially if you arrive without the next recipe or enough backup ingredients.

Artisan Cooking 225-300

Artisan Cooking is unlocked through Clamlette Surprise at character level 35 and Cooking 225. The quest is completed for Dirge Quikcleave in Gadgetzan, Tanaris.

How to Unlock Artisan Cooking

Cooking 225-275

Cooking 275-300

Alternative: Smoked Desert Dumplings

If you already have the recipe and Sandworm Meat, Smoked Desert Dumplings can cover the final part of the route. The recipe comes from the Silithus quests Desert Recipe and Sharing the Knowledge. A typical batch is 15 crafts using 15 Sandworm Meat and 15 Soothing Spices.

WoW Forever Cooking Leveling Tips

• Use meat and fish you already collected while leveling before buying an entirely new route from the Auction House.
• Buy Mild Spices, Hot Spices, Soothing Spices, and Refreshing Spring Water from vendors whenever possible.
• If you also plan to level Fishing, fish-based Cooking recipes let both secondary professions progress together and reduce Auction House shopping.
• Before going to Gadgetzan at 225, collect every material needed for Clamlette Surprise. One trip is enough if you arrive prepared.
• Yellow recipes do not guarantee one skill point per craft. Treat every quantity in this guide as an estimate and keep a small reserve.

WoW Forever Cooking FAQ