TBC Anniversary Cooking Leveling Guide 1-375: Recipes and Books

Quick summary

• TBC Anniversary cooking leveling 1-375 has three gates, not trainers: the Expert Cookbook (past 150), the Clamlette Surprise quest (past 225) and the Master Cookbook (past 300). Books stayed mandatory until patch 3.1, so they still apply on Anniversary realms (Warcraft Wiki).
• Master Cookbook sellers: Gaston at Honor Hold, Baxter at Thrallmar, or Naka at Cenarion Refuge for both factions.
• Outland recipes: Ravager Dog or Buzzard Bites 300-325, Talbuk Steak, Roasted Clefthoof or Warp Burger to 350/355, then Mok'Nathal Shortribs or Crunchy Serpent to 375.
• Cooking is a secondary profession, so it doesn't use one of your two main slots. Level it with Fishing if you can, because most fish you catch cook for skill-ups.

This route applies to the Burning Crusade Classic Anniversary realms in Phase 3.5. Recipes, vendors and skill colors are unchanged from the original 2.4 game.

Hit the three checkpoints

Checkpoint	Unlocks	How	Where
Apprentice and Journeyman	1-150	Train (Journeyman needs level 10 and 50 skill)	Any Cooking trainer
Expert Cookbook	150-225	Buy (1 gold) and read it at skill 125 or higher	Wulan at Shadowprey Village, Desolace (Horde), or Shandrina at Silverwind Refuge, Ashenvale (Alliance)
Clamlette Surprise	225-300	Quest. Level 35+ and 225 skill	Start: Zamja in Orgrimmar ("To Gadgetzan You Go!") or Daryl Riknussun in Ironforge ("I Know A Guy..."). Finish: Dirge Quikcleave, Gadgetzan
Master Cookbook	300-375	Buy and read the book	Gaston (Honor Hold inn backroom, /way 54.0 63.6), Baxter (Thrallmar inn, behind the innkeeper), or Naka (Cenarion Refuge)

Clamlette Surprise needs 12 Giant Egg, 10 Zesty Clam Meat and 20 Alterac Swiss. Collect them before you travel to Gadgetzan.

Classic trainers: Horde, Zamja (Orgrimmar), Eunice Burch (Undercity), Aska Mistrunner (Thunder Bluff), Duhng (Barrens), Mudduk (Stranglethorn), Pyall Silentstride (Mulgore), Sylann (Silvermoon). Alliance, Stephen Ryback (Stormwind), Daryl Riknussun (Ironforge), Alegorn (Darnassus), Gremlock Pilsnor (Dun Morogh), Tomas (Elwynn), Zarrin (Teldrassil), Mumman (Exodar). There are no Cooking trainers in Outland. The Master Cookbook replaces them.

Level Cooking 1-300

Skill	Cook	Materials (about)	Recipe from
1-40	Spice Bread	60 Simple Flour + 60 Mild Spices	Trainer. Materials from the Cooking Supply vendor, not the Auction House
40-65	Any mix: Roasted Boar Meat, Spiced Wolf Meat, Smoked Bear Meat, Brilliant Smallfish, Slitherskin Mackerel	25-35 crafts	Trainer, vendors. Smoked Bear Meat from Andrew Hilbert (Sepulcher) or Drac Roughcut (Thelsamar)
65-110	Boiled Clams, Coyote Steak, Longjaw Mud Snapper, Bat Bites (Horde), Strider Stew (Horde)	About 65 crafts	Trainer or vendors. Smoked Bear Meat works until about 90
110-130	Crab Cake, Dry Pork Ribs, Bristle Whisker Catfish, Cooked Crab Claw (Alliance)	20-30 crafts	Trainer, vendors, Kendor Kabonka
130-175	Curiously Tasty Omelet	50 Raptor Egg	Kendor Kabonka (Stormwind) or Keena (Arathi)
175-225	Roast Raptor	50 Raptor Flesh	Hammon Karwn or Keena (Arathi)
225-250	One of: Undermine Clam Chowder, Spotted Yellowtail, Monster Omelet, Tender Wolf Steak, Filet of Redgill	About 25 crafts	Jabbey, Gikkix, Dirge Quikcleave (Tanaris); Himmik (Everlook); Kelsey Yance (Booty Bay)
250-285	Juicy Bear Burger (or Charred Bear Kabobs)	40 Bear Flank	Bale (Horde) or Malygen (Alliance), Felwood
285-300	Smoked Desert Dumplings	15 Sandworm Meat	Quests "Desert Recipe" and "Sharing the Knowledge" in Silithus

Material counts are approximate; skill-up chances on yellow recipes vary, so buy a few extra.

At 285, go to Twilight Base Camp southwest of Cenarion Hold, pick up the book quest, then take the Torn Recipe Page to Calandrath in Silithus. Sandworm Meat drops from Dredge Strikers and Dredge Crushers in Silithus.

Example: Bear Flank drops from roughly half of Felwood bears on community databases, which works out to about 80 bear kills for 40 burgers. If that's slow on your realm, buy Spotted Yellowtail and other recipes from Gikkix in Tanaris while you're there for the 225-250 step.

Level Cooking 300-375

Read the Master Cookbook first. Faction recipe vendors:

Skill	Recipe	Materials	Alliance source	Horde source
300-325	Ravager Dog	Ravager Flesh	Sid Limbardi, Honor Hold	Cookie One-Eye, Thrallmar
300-325	Buzzard Bites	Buzzard Meat	Quest chain from Legassi (/way 49.2 74.8): Ravager Egg Roundup, Helboar the Other White Meat, Smooth as Butter	Same
300-325	Blackened Trout	Fish	Doba, Orebor Harborage	Gambarinka, Zabra'jin
325-350/355	Talbuk Steak, Roasted Clefthoof, Poached Bluefish	Talbuk Venison, Clefthoof Meat, fish	Uriku, Telaar	Nula the Butcher, Garadar
325-350/355	Warp Burger	Warped Flesh	Supply Officer Mills, Allerian Stronghold	Innkeeper Grilka, Stonebreaker Hold
325-350	Golden Fish Sticks	Fish	Innkeeper Biribi, Allerian Stronghold	Rungor, Stonebreaker Hold
350/355-375	Mok'Nathal Shortribs, Crunchy Serpent	See each recipe's tooltip	Xerintha Ravenoak, Ruuan Weald; Sassa Weldwell, Toshley's Station	Xerintha Ravenoak, Ruuan Weald, or the Mok'Nathal Treats quest
350-375	Spicy Crawdad	Fish	Innkeeper Biribi	Rungor

Plan for about 30 crafts from 300-325 and 40 from 325-355. Azeroth alternative: Smoked Desert Dumplings keep giving occasional points past 300 (Icy Veins puts the end near 335), which can be cheaper if Sandworm Meat is plentiful on your realm.

Example: a Horde player at 355 reaches Ruuan Weald and finds Xerintha sold out. Her recipes are limited supply, so the Mok'Nathal Treats quest is probably faster than waiting. Alliance players can buy from Sassa Weldwell instead, who has no limit.

Spicy Crawdad gives reliable points to 375 but needs Furious Crawdad from fishing pools, so it is usually the expensive option. A cheaper recipe all the way to 375 is fine.

Do the Shattrath cooking daily

Once you're Master, The Rokk in Lower City, Shattrath offers one of four cooking dailies each day: Revenge is Tasty, Soup for the Soul, Super Hot Stew and Manalicious (Icy Veins). The reward is a choice of Crate of Meat or Barrel of Fish. Both contain random cooking materials and a small chance of a daily-only recipe. Raiders usually take the Crate of Meat because it can contain Recipe: Spicy Hot Talbuk, whose Well Fed buff gives +20 hit rating and +20 Spirit for 30 minutes (Warcraft Wiki). Hit food matters again in Zul'Aman and Black Temple; the Zul'Aman guide covers what else to bring.

Pair it with Fishing

Level Cooking alongside Fishing when you can, since most fish you catch can be cooked. Several brackets above have fish options: Longjaw Mud Snapper, Bristle Whisker Catfish, Spotted Yellowtail, Filet of Redgill, Blackened Trout, Golden Fish Sticks, Poached Bluefish and Spicy Crawdad. Our TBC Anniversary Fishing guide lists the pools for each bracket, and the First Aid guide is the third secondary profession worth doing on the same trip.

Skinners get Outland meat (Ravager, Talbuk, Clefthoof) from the same kills. See our Skinning guide.

Avoid these mistakes

1. Traveling to Gadgetzan without the Clamlette materials. Collect 12 Giant Egg, 10 Zesty Clam Meat and 20 Alterac Swiss first.
2. Looking for a Cooking trainer in Outland. There isn't one. Buy the Master Cookbook.
3. Buying Flour and Spices on the Auction House. Cooking Supply vendors sell them.
4. Waiting for Xerintha's limited recipes. Horde can do Mok'Nathal Treats. Alliance can buy from Sassa Weldwell.
5. Choosing Barrel of Fish without a reason. Crate of Meat has the Spicy Hot Talbuk chance.
6. Using Spicy Crawdad for every point. It costs more than it needs to. A cheaper recipe gets you to 375.

Return, boost, or level an alt

• Returning player at 300: buy the Master Cookbook in Hellfire and cook Ravager Dog from Hellfire ravagers.
• Boosted or fresh 70: the slow part is 130-300 (raptor eggs and flesh, Clamlette materials, bear flanks). At 70, the Arathi and Felwood mobs are trivial to kill. Skinners can collect meat at the same time.
• Leveling alt: cook what you kill as you quest. Cooking also covers your own food.
• Raider: the cooking daily is your source of Spicy Hot Talbuk. Pair the food with the gem and enchant choices in the Phase 3 gems and enchants guide.
• Gold maker: Outland food sells steadily to raiders. The gold farming guide compares it with other methods.

Every other profession route is in the TBC Anniversary professions leveling guide. The TBC Anniversary professions page lists profession services from independent sellers, and everything else is on the TBC Anniversary hub.

Want a hand with this?

If you would rather not grind this part yourself, TBC Anniversary powerleveling services are listed on FullBoosts. Read Blizzard's End User License Agreement before you buy any service from anyone, FullBoosts included — a marketplace listing isn't publisher permission.

FAQ

Where do I buy the Master Cookbook in TBC Anniversary? Gaston at Honor Hold (Alliance), Baxter at Thrallmar (Horde), or Naka at Cenarion Refuge in Zangarmarsh (both factions).

How do I get Artisan Cooking? Complete Clamlette Surprise for Dirge Quikcleave in Gadgetzan. It needs 12 Giant Egg, 10 Zesty Clam Meat and 20 Alterac Swiss, plus the faction lead-in quest.

Where is the Expert Cookbook? Wulan at Shadowprey Village, Desolace (Horde), or Shandrina in Ashenvale (Alliance).

What should I cook from 300 to 325? Ravager Dog, Buzzard Bites or Blackened Trout. Ravager Dog is the simplest, since the recipe is sold at Honor Hold and Thrallmar.

What's the best recipe for Cooking 350-375? Mok'Nathal Shortribs or Crunchy Serpent from Blade's Edge. Spicy Crawdad also works but usually costs more.

Where is the TBC cooking daily? The Rokk in Lower City, Shattrath, once you have Master Cooking. One of four quests each day, rewarding a Crate of Meat or Barrel of Fish.

Related guides

• TBC Anniversary Fishing Leveling Guide 1-375
• TBC Anniversary Skinning Leveling Guide 1-375
• TBC Anniversary First Aid Leveling Guide 1-375
• TBC Anniversary Professions Leveling Guide 1-375