Cooking Guide

How To Cook Food

First you need to be at a fire. Most any fire will do, but if you can’t find one in the environment you need to make one. To make a fire you need wowhead: Flint and Tinder and wowhead: Simple Wood. The Flint and Tinder is never consumed so you only ever need one, but 1 x Simple Wood is used for every fire you make. They are very inexpensive to buy.

Once you have those two items in your inventory you use the Basic Campfire ability found on the general tab of your spellbook. You have to train in cooking at a cooking trainer to have access to that ability. It takes 10 seconds to make a fire which lasts a few minutes.

When standing at the fire, bring up the cooking window from the general tab in your spellbook, choose the food you want to create and click the create button. That’s it. (You’ll of course need to get the necessary ingredients to cook that food first.)

Cooking Guide

Why Skill Up Cooking?

Good question. You certainly don’t need it to get to 70, and at that point, you don’t really need it either. However, cooking has been greatly buffed in The Burning Crusade, so if you have TBC it’s definitely worth skilling up your cooking.

But there are other good reasons to skill up your cooking, too.

For example, rogues will want the thistle tea that instantly restores some energy. The egg nog is kind of fun, as it can turn you into a reindeer or snowman and make you drunk to boot. Besides, it’s part of the WoW experience to have 300 or 375 cooking, you get to do some additional quests, and the Burning Crusade offers powerful buffs from the food you cook. And you’ll make quite a bit of extra gold from cooking the high level recipes (which are easy to obtain).

As a secondary skill that anyone can learn, there is no reason to not have cooking. And with this guide you’ll be able to skill it up very fast and get all the common recipes.