Cooking: recipes, levelling and materials
Cooking in Zarhold: how to level 1–300, all 12 recipes with skill colours, materials and where to get them.
Cooking is a secondary profession. Skill grows from 1 to 300; learning is free and has no level requirement. Recipes: 12.
Links with other professions
- Materials from Fishing: Small Fish, Lake Fish, River Fish, Deep Fish, Coastal Fish, Frost Fish, Abyssal Fish, Stormfin.
- Materials from Herbalism: Tidewort, Briarthorn.
- Materials from no profession (enemies in the world and in dungeons, the merchant): Raw Meat, Spices, Flour.
Levelling from 1 to 300
At every skill point the table picks the recipe that gives the most skill on average (orange and yellow always give points, green only with a 33% chance, grey never), cheapest first. Crafts are an average estimate.
| Skill | Recipe | Colour at start | Points per craft | Crafts (avg.) | Reagents per craft |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1–41 | Cook Grilled Fish | orange | 1 | 40 | Small Fish ×1 |
| 41–60 | Grind Flour | yellow | 1 | 19 | Tidewort ×1 |
| 60–80 | Crush Spices | orange | 1 | 20 | Briarthorn ×1 |
| 80–120 | Cook Hearty Stew | orange | 2 | 20 | Lake Fish ×1, Flour ×1, Spices ×1 |
| 120–160 | Cook a Cauldron of Hearty Stew | yellow | 2 | 40 | River Fish ×1, Deep Fish ×1 |
| 160–200 | Prepare Spiced Roast | orange | 2 | 20 | Raw Meat ×2, Coastal Fish ×1, Spices ×2, Flour ×1 |
| 200–240 | Bake Hearty Pie | orange | 1 | 40 | Frost Fish ×1, Flour ×2, Spices ×1 |
| 240–280 | Serve Festive Feast | orange | 1 | 40 | Abyssal Fish ×1, Stormfin ×1, Spices ×2 |
| 280–300 | Lay Out Festive Feasts for the Band | orange | 1 | 20 | Stormfin ×2, Spices ×2, Flour ×2 |
In total about 259 crafts to reach 300. Materials for the whole path (approx.): Small Fish — 40, Tidewort — 19, Briarthorn — 20, Lake Fish — 20, Flour — 160, Spices — 220, River Fish — 40, Deep Fish — 40, Raw Meat — 40, Coastal Fish — 20, Frost Fish — 40, Abyssal Fish — 40, Stormfin — 80.
Intermediate materials of the same profession (for example cloth you weave yourself) are extra crafts on top of this count — while their recipe is not grey, they raise the skill too.
All recipes
Yellow, green and grey: the skill at which the recipe changes colour. Recipe scrolls drop from bosses.
| Recipe | Kind | Skill | Yellow | Green | Grey | Points | Reagents | Where to learn |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cook Grilled Fish | Food | 1 | 21 | 41 | 61 | 1 | Small Fish ×1 | opens by skill |
| Cook Roast | Food | 1 | 21 | 41 | 61 | 1 | Raw Meat ×1 | opens by skill |
| Grill Spiced Fish | Food | 15 | 35 | 55 | 75 | 1 | Small Fish ×1, Spices ×1 | opens by skill |
| Grind Flour | Material | 20 | 40 | 60 | 80 | 1 | Tidewort ×1 | opens by skill |
| Crush Spices | Material | 60 | 80 | 100 | 120 | 1 | Briarthorn ×1 | opens by skill |
| Cook Hearty Stew | Food | 80 | 100 | 120 | 140 | 2 | Lake Fish ×1, Flour ×1, Spices ×1 | opens by skill |
| Cook a Cauldron of Hearty Stew | Food | 100 | 120 | 140 | 160 | 2 | River Fish ×1, Deep Fish ×1 | opens by skill |
| Prepare Spiced Roast | Food | 160 | 180 | 200 | 220 | 2 | Raw Meat ×2, Coastal Fish ×1, Spices ×2, Flour ×1 | opens by skill |
| Bake Hearty Pie | Food | 200 | 220 | 240 | 260 | 1 | Frost Fish ×1, Flour ×2, Spices ×1 | opens by skill |
| Serve Festive Feast | Food | 240 | 260 | 280 | 300 | 1 | Abyssal Fish ×1, Stormfin ×1, Spices ×2 | opens by skill |
| Lay Out Festive Feasts for the Band | Food | 265 | 285 | 305 | 325 | 1 | Stormfin ×2, Spices ×2, Flour ×2 | opens by skill |
| Cook a Stormfin Feast | Food | 285 | 305 | 325 | 345 | 1 | Stormfin ×3, Spices ×3, Flour ×2 | opens by skill |
Materials and where to get them
| Material | Where to get it |
|---|---|
| Small Fish | Fishing: Brightdale (skill 1), Crimson Wastes (skill 1), Tirisfal Mires (skill 26) |
| Raw Meat | Drops from beasts, 45% per fight (level: pieces — 1–20: 1; 21–40: 2; 41+: 3) · Dungeons, raids and world bosses — to everyone after every fight, no rolling: Howling Caverns (15–21) — beasts, 1–3 per fight; Duskshadow Keep (18–25) — beasts, 1–3 per fight; The Blackwood Depths (20–27) — beasts, 1–4 per fight and 12 more — all places |
| Spices | Merchant: 10c · Cooking: Crush Spices (60) |
| Tidewort | Herbalism: Brightdale (skill 1), Crimson Wastes (skill 1), Silver Fields (skill 16), Golden Plains (skill 16) and 1 more |
| Briarthorn | Herbalism: Crimson Hills (skill 71), Stoneclaw (skill 71), Ashwood (skill 86), Duskwood (skill 86) and 1 more |
| Lake Fish | Fishing: Western Marches (skill 36), Lakeridge (skill 46) |
| Flour | Merchant: 8c · Cooking: Grind Flour (20) |
| River Fish | Fishing: Mireland (skill 101) |
| Deep Fish | Fishing: Thornvale (skill 146) |
| Coastal Fish | Fishing: Sorrow Marsh (skill 171), Dustmire (skill 171–205) |
| Frost Fish | Fishing: Dustmire (skill 206) |
| Abyssal Fish | Fishing: Crater of Wonder (skill 256) |
| Stormfin | Fishing: Plaguelands (skill 276) |
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