Guide to Leveling Cooking and Making Gold in Shadowlands
This page covers everything you need to know about leveling Cooking in the Shadowlands expansion from 1-75, as well as how to make gold with the profession.
Changes in Patch 9.2
Patch 9.2 comes with one new recipe for cooking in the form of
Recipe: Empty Kettle of Stone Soup. This recipe requires a new
Empty Kettle
item bought from vendors in Oribos and Zereth Mortis. Once
crafted, setting out the
Empty Kettle of Stone Soup does not make
something edible for your party or raid to enjoy, but rather the base of a soup
that everyone can work together to create!
Clicking on the Kettle of Unfinished Stone Soup will bring up a menu window
allowing you to donate various meat and fish, even if they are in your reagent bank,
to help finish the soup. Each option will count for 10% of the total progress on
the soup and, once finished, can be enjoyed by your party or raid members. The
finished soup functions identically to a Feast of Gluttonous Hedonism,
granting you +20 to your primary stat of Strength/Agility/Intellect.
New in Patch 9.1
Patch 9.1 brings with it extremely minor changes for Cooking in the form of three new recipes, all of which are essentially useless. The recipes and their sources are listed below, but keep in mind that none of these offer any meaningful value or buffs.
Recipe: Bonemeal Bread crafts
Bonemeal Bread, which can be found as a random treasure in Korthia. It grants 30,000 health over 20 seconds.
Recipe: Porous Rock Candy crafts
Porous Rock Candy, which can also be found as a random treasure in Korthia. It has no restoration purpose, instead simply granting you a flavour buff when eaten.
Recipe: Twilight Tea crafts
Twilight Tea, but the source of this recipe is currently unknown, as well as its effect.
Leveling Cooking from 1-75 in Shadowlands
Cooking is a profession that lends itself hugely to varied routes that depend entirely on the supply of materials on your realm. Due to the large number of possible reagents, certain recipes can essentially be the perfect target for some players, but incredibly expensive for others, due to population and supply differences.
The most important things to note are:
- Keep all of the Cooking reagents you find while leveling; you will find a decent number of them from killing beasts on your leveling path and these can be used for recipes.
- If you choose to level Fishing at the same time as Cooking, it will be slower than buying the materials from the Auction House, but you will save a huge amount of gold.
For the leveling path we recommend below, assuming that you do not have any materials whatsoever from gathering yourself, you will need:
- Vendor Products
- 61x
Inconceivably Aged Vinegar (purchased from vendor)
- 59x
Lusterwheat Flour (purchased from vendor)
- 60x
Medley of Transplanar Spices (purchased from vendor)
- 79x
Rich Grazer Milk (purchased from vendor)
- 41x
Smuggled Azerothian Produce (purchased from vendor)
- 61x
- Meat Products
- 21x
Aethereal Meat
- 112x
Raw Seraphic Wing
- 60x
Shadowy Shank
- 21x
- Fish Products
- 26x
Lost Sole
- 60x
Pocked Bonefish
- 26x
Silvergill Pike
- 26x
If you make the swap at level 30 to making Banana Beef Pudding, your
reagents list will instead look like this:
- Vendor Products
- 61x
Inconceivably Aged Vinegar (purchased from vendor)
- 81x
Lusterwheat Flour (purchased from vendor)
- 48x
Medley of Transplanar Spices (purchased from vendor)
- 115x
Rich Grazer Milk (purchased from vendor)
- 29x
Smuggled Azerothian Produce (purchased from vendor)
- 61x
- Meat Products
- 57x
Aethereal Meat
- 36x
Phantasmal Haunch
- 112x
Raw Seraphic Wing
- 60x
Shadowy Shank
- 57x
- Fish Products
- 26x
Lost Sole
- 24x
Pocked Bonefish
- 26x
Silvergill Pike
- 26x
1-22
For these levels, you should make the Pickled Meat Smoothie. It is a
very cheap recipe to craft and there is no reason to craft anything else until
it goes green, due to the use of
Aethereal Meat.
The materials required for this section are:
- 21x
Aethereal Meat
- 21x
Smuggled Azerothian Produce (purchased from vendor)
- 21x
Inconceivably Aged Vinegar (purchased from vendor)
22-42
Craft the Cinnamon Bonefish Stew for these levels, but note that you
can swap to
Banana Beef Pudding at skill level 30 if your realm does not
have enough fish and the stew becomes too expensive to craft.
For leveling this section with Cinnamon Bonefish Stew, you will
need:
- 60x
Pocked Bonefish
- 20x
Medley of Transplanar Spices (purchased from vendor)
- 20x
Smuggled Azerothian Produce (purchased from vendor)
- 20x
Lusterwheat Flour (purchased from vendor)
If you swap to the Banana Beef Pudding at skill level 30, you will
need:
- 24x
Pocked Bonefish
- 36x
Aethereal Meat
- 36x
Phantasmal Haunch
- 8x
Medley of Transplanar Spices (purchased from vendor)
- 8x
Smuggled Azerothian Produce (purchased from vendor)
- 42x
Lusterwheat Flour (purchased from vendor)
- 36x
Rich Grazer Milk (purchased from vendor)
42-62
For this part of the leveling, you should make Steak a la Mode. This, once
again, features meat rather than fish, but specifically uses
Raw Seraphic Wing, which should be available in large amounts, due to
them dropping from mobs that are required for quests in the early stages of
Bastion.
For leveling this section with Steak a la Mode, you will need:
- 60x
Shadowy Shank
- 60x
Raw Seraphic Wing
- 40x
Rich Grazer Milk (purchased from vendor)
- 40x
Medley of Transplanar Spices (purchased from vendor)
- 40x
Inconceivably Aged Vinegar (purchased from vendor)
62-75
For the final stretch, you will be making Seraph Tenders, another
recipe which makes use of
Raw Seraphic Wing once again.
For leveling this section with Seraph Tenders, you will need:
- 52x
Raw Seraphic Wing
- 26x
Lost Sole
- 26x
Silvergill Pike
- 39x
Rich Grazer Milk (purchased from vendor)
- 39x
Lusterwheat Flour (purchased from vendor)
Leveling Cooking with Fishing in Shadowlands
If you want to level both of the professions at the same time, you can do so very effectively, saving yourself a decent chunk of gold, but it is more time consuming, due to having to farm the fish yourself.
In the leveling path below, we assume that you have no meat available for use and wish to only use vendor materials and the fish you have found via leveling your Fishing.
THIS IS NOT THE MOST EFFICIENT LEVELING ROUTE. THIS ROUTE IS DEFINITELY MORE EXPENSIVE THAN THE ONE LISTED ABOVE IN TERMS OF TOTAL VALUE LOST. IT IS ONLY WORTH DOING IF YOU ARE COLLECTING ALL OF THE FISH YOURSELF AND NEED FISHING LEVELS.
1-22
For this section, you will want to make the fish counterpart of the first
recipes, Biscuits and Caviar.
For leveling this section with Biscuits and Caviar, you will
need:
- 21x
Lost Sole
- 21x
Lusterwheat Flour (purchased from vendor)
- 21x
Rich Grazer Milk (purchased from vendor)
22-42
Craft the Cinnamon Bonefish Stew for these levels. While you have the
alternative of swapping to a meat-based craft at 30 with the other path, this
leveling route exclusively uses fish.
For leveling this section with Cinnamon Bonefish Stew, you will
need:
- 60x
Pocked Bonefish
- 20x
Medley of Transplanar Spices (purchased from vendor)
- 20x
Smuggled Azerothian Produce (purchased from vendor)
- 20x
Lusterwheat Flour (purchased from vendor)
42-50
Craft Candied Amberjack Cakes until you reach skill level 50. You
will need:
- 24x
Iridescent Amberjack
- 24x
Pocked Bonefish
- 16x
Medley of Transplanar Spices (purchased from vendor)
- 16x
Smuggled Azerothian Produce (purchased from vendor)
- 16x
Lusterwheat Flour (purchased from vendor)
50-75
For the final stretch, you can craft Spinefin Souffle and Fries, but
note that it does go green for the final few levels. If you would prefer to
craft only at yellow crafting difficulties, which means a higher chance of
leveling up after each craft, then you can craft
Fried Bonefish from
70, but it is slightly more expensive to make.
If you only craft Spinefin Souffle and Fries, you will need the
following approximate ingredients. Note that, due to the final crafts being
green, you may require more or less than we list.
- 90x
Spinefin Piranha
- 90x
Iridescent Amberjack
- 120x
Smuggled Azerothian Produce (purchased from vendor)
- 60x
Inconceivably Aged Vinegar (purchased from vendor)
Making Gold with Cooking in Shadowlands
Making gold with Cooking is almost exactly the same every expansion, with extremely heavy dependencies on the number of people raiding at that point in the patch.
Your only source of income from Shadowlands recipes, for almost every situation, will be from selling food to raiders.
We will update this section with more information on which foods are used by the highest number of specialisations, as well as give a breakdown of the usefulness of each food. Due to certain stats being favoured, it is unlikely that you will make much profit crafting a food that only one specialisation wants, for example.
Changelog
- 18 Feb. 2022: Updated for Patch 9.2.
- 30 Jun. 2021: Updated for Patch 9.1.
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