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February 3, 2026

WoW Fresh Classic Cooking guide 1–375: Fast leveling

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WoW TBC Classic Cooking leveling guide. Learn everything about Cooking in TBC and how level it fast.

Welcome to our efficient and comprehensive WoW Fresh Classic Cooking leveling guide! This guide will cover the best ways to level your Cooking skills from 1 to 375 in the Classic Era. Whether you’re a newbie or an experienced player, this guide will help you level up quickly and economically.

For a complete guide on professions in Fresh WoW Classic, including a tier list of the most useful ones, be sure to check out our article here:

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Why choose Cooking in WoW Fresh Classic?

Cooking in WoW Classic is an excellent profession for those who want to provide valuable buffs for themselves and their allies and those looking to make gold. It allows you to prepare food that enhances stats, boosts health, and offers various buffs. 

Cooking can be paired with Fishing for even more significant benefits, especially if you want to maximize efficiency. All the reagents you get from Fishing will save you a lot of gold. Besides, Cooking will allow you to sell your fish reagents at better prices or utilize them in food. For example, you can fish for winter squid and then transform it into grilled squid by cooking it! Skinning is also useful, as you most likely will hunt for meat at some point leveling Cooking.

And the primary benefactor of this profession is that it doesn’t take up your primary profession slot. You can level up in Cooking in any profession you like. This all makes Cooking a significant boost to your character overall.

Cooking trainers in WoW Fresh Classic

You’ll need to find a Cooking trainer to begin your Cooking journey. You can learn the basics of Cooking once you reach level 5. Depending on your faction, here’s where you can find your Cooking trainer:

Fresh WoW Classic Cooking leveling 1–50

At the start of your Cooking profession, you’ll be crafting simple recipes to build up your skill. For efficient leveling, aim to craft around 55 items at this stage.

Recipes and Materials:

• Charred Wolf Meat: 55x Stringy Wolf Meat (Trainer recipe)
• Roasted Boar Meat: 55x Chunk of Boar Meat (Trainer recipe)
• Brilliant Smallfish: 55x Raw Brilliant Smallfish (Vendor recipe)
• Slitherskin Mackerel: 55x Raw Slitherskin Mackerel (Vendor recipe)

Horde-Only Alternatives:

• Crispy Bat Wing: Meaty Bat Wing (Abigail Shiel in Tirisfal Glades)
• Scorpid Surprise: Scorpid Stinger (Grimtak in Durotar)

Alliance-Only Alternative:

• Kaldorei Spider Kabob: Small Spider Leg (Quest reward from Zarrin in Teldrassil)

50–100: Journeyman Cooking

Once you reach level 10, you can visit your Cooking trainer to learn Journeyman Cooking. You’ll need Cooking skill 50 and character level 10 to train for this stage.

Recipes:

• Smoked Bear Meat: 65-75x Bear Meat (Andrew Hilbert or Drac Roughcut)
• Coyote Steak: 55x Coyote Meat (Trainer recipe)
• Rainbow Fin Albacore: 55x Raw Rainbow Fin Albacore (Vendor recipe)
• Strider Stew: 55x Strider Meat (Trainer recipe)
• Boiled Clams: 55x Clam Meat, 55x Refreshing Spring Water (Vendor recipe)

100–175: Expert Cooking

To move on to Expert Cooking, you’ll need to achieve Cooking skill 125 and reach level 20. Once you do, buy the Expert Cookbook from Wulan in Desolace (Horde) or Shandrina in Ashenvale (Alliance).

Recipes:

• Crab Cake: 40x Crawler Meat (Trainer recipe)
• Dry Pork Ribs: 35x Boar Meat (Trainer recipe)
• Bristle Whisker Catfish: 30x Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish (Vendor recipe)
• Cooked Crab Claw: 35x Crawler Claw (Kendor Kabonka – Alliance only)
• Curiously Tasty Omelet: 50x Raptor Egg (Trainer recipe)

For 130 — 175, you should aim to craft 50 Curiously Tasty Omelets from Raptor Eggs, which are sold by Kendor Kabonka in Stormwind City. The omelet recipe is a great and cost-efficient choice here.

• Curiously Tasty Omelet: 50x Raptor Egg (Vendor recipe)

175–225: Artisan Cooking

To become an Artisan Cook, you’ll need Cooking skill 225 and must complete the Clamlette Surprise questline. The quest requires materials such as Giant Eggs, Zesty Clam Meat, and Alterac Swiss Cheese.

Roast Raptor: 50x Raptor Flesh (Keena in Arathi Highlands)

Once you have your Artisan Cooking skills, visit Dirge Quikcleave in Tanaris to complete the final steps in your cooking mastery.

225–300: Advanced Artisan Recipes

To finish your Cooking journey to 300, you’ll be crafting higher-level recipes such as Poached Sunscale Salmon and Nightfin Soup. Gikkix sells these recipes in Tanaris and requires materials like Raw Sunscale Salmon and Raw Nightfin Snapper.

• Undermine Clam Chowder: 130x Zesty Clam Meat, 65x Ice Cold Milk
• Spotted Yellowtail: 65x Raw Spotted Yellowtail
• Monster Omelet: 65x Giant Egg
• Tender Wolf Steak: 65x Tender Wolf Meat

Final Recipes:

• Poached Sunscale Salmon: 35x Raw Sunscale Salmon (Gikkix)
• Nightfin Soup: 35x Raw Nightfin Snapper (Gikkix)

Alternative:

• Smoked Desert Dumplings: 15x Sandworm Meat (Requires quests in Silithus)

Congratulations! You have now reached Cooking Skill 300 in WoW Fresh Classic!

TBC Cooking profession guide

And here is TBC Classic Cooking profession guide:

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That’s everything you need to know to master Cookng in TBC Classic! Happy gaming!