Embrace your Chilled Meat
by Alex Ziebart 
Dec 1st 2008 at 9:00AM
Leveling through Northrend, you're probably coming across oodles of Chilled Meat. It drops off of just about every beast (and some other critters) in Northrend, so it piles up pretty quick. You get multiple stacks of it just questing normally. With it being so horirbly common, you might be inclined to just toss it. I mean, it can't be that useful, right? It's everywhere! No. Keep it. Trust me. Keep it.Why should you keep Chilled Meat? Well, it's not only used in Cooking awesome things like Feasts (and everyone loves to feast), but it's also used in almost all of the new Cooking daily quests in Dalaran. If you're a Cook, you'll want a massive stockpile of the stuff. If you're not a Cook, your friends will really appreciate it, and if you don't like your friends that much, you can auction it for a lot. I've been watching the prices on them, and it varies wildly between being cheap and unreasonably expensive, depending on what the daily quest is and what day of the week it is. Weekends the price drops significantly since more people are leveling, but come the middle of the week, peoples' stores start slipping.
One of the daily quests takes twelve Chilled Meats. If you don't have the stuff stocked up, you're going to run out fast unless you go hunting for it every day, and do you really want to do that? Every single day? No, not really, so just play it safe. You can save yourself a lot of time by just making sure to hold onto your meat, which I've noticed a lot of people not doing at all. Admittedly it's pretty nice to run behind a party member in Sholazar Basin looting all of the meat they decided wasn't important without realizing how easy life could be for them, but I'll be nice. Keep your Chilled Meat. It's more useful than you may first expect.
Filed under: Cooking, Analysis / Opinion, Expansions, Wrath of the Lich King
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Onyxz Dec 1st 2008 9:04AM
No doubt, im a cooker myself trying to push for 450 ( currently at 420 ) the chilled meat are really damned important for cooks.
Nokturnus Jan 27th 2009 10:07AM
That is good you are a cooker, just don't get too surprised, when you meet a cook and he starts stuffing that chilled meat inside you and then sets you alight :)
pietrex Dec 1st 2008 9:09AM
Damn, I vendored most of it, even though my cooking is around 390. Looks like I'm going to regret it soon. I wonder why it's blue though...
ScytheNoire Dec 1st 2008 9:11AM
I've tested this with some guild members, and it doesn't seem to drop unless your character is level 70. We've had a few sub-70's in Northrend and it would never drop. Hit 70, and it starts dropping from those same mobs.
Will Dec 1st 2008 9:15AM
I suggest it's a good idea to sell your chilled meat on the AH as you level if you aren't too concerned with the dailies. The price of chilled meat is still high and over the last 3 weeks it has come down 50-80% of its value each week but the price is still really high. What this means is you can basically buy back any meat you need for dailies/cooking later but by that time the meat will be so abundant on the AH that you will buy it for 1/3 the price you sold it for as you leveled.
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Clasifyd Dec 1st 2008 9:15AM
It seems to me the unruly drop rate on chilled meat is no longer the case.
At launch, you could kill a mammoth, rhino, tree, rock, dragon, pile of snow, etc. and you'd get a chilled meat. About a week after release, though, it seems that thing that drop other sorts of meat (Rhino, mammoth, wyrm, shoveltusk) do not drop chilled meat. It took me a few days to figure this out, though. Rhinos were always may favorite chilled meat farming spot since I could AOE down as many as I could gather up. Since this change, however, I've yet to see a single chilled meat drop from them. I've resulted to AOEing the gorillas in Sholazar Basin now.
bmiller Dec 1st 2008 9:28AM
I agree with clasifyd.
Shoveltusks and anything that normally drops a type of meat almost never drop Chilled Meat. In the early zones, there's the occasional drop on Orcas, sharks.
No worries, 2 of my three 70+ are skinners :)
Bears in Grizzly Hills seem to drop regularly (one-third to one half of the time)
Rugus Dec 1st 2008 10:26AM
Agreed. Same goes for [Arctic fur] that I could find very often while leveling in Howling Fjord the 1st week. Now it drops like an epic item :(
bdaneila Dec 1st 2008 9:30AM
Sharks and orcas in the waters off Howling Fjord are a good source of chilled meat. I always grab a few when there doing the sea-lion mating daily.
JPN Dec 1st 2008 9:33AM
No, no, please....everyone keep selling it on the AH! It's going for about 2g a stack which is...unbelieveable. I buy about 5 stacks every time I'm near an AH just for that stupid convention at the Legermain daily. I also make tracker snacks when i can, they're still green for me and I think they are up to 450 but I could be wrong.
Unfortunately, I've seen no reason to get my cooking above 425. Kinda disappointing, really, to get no new recipes at 450. What's the point of leveling it up? Hopefully some new recipes will come in later patches.
vazhkatsi Dec 1st 2008 11:38AM
well, yes its true there is no reason to go above level 425 cooking, but there was also no need to get to 375 cooking. the need to go back to things like run tunn tuber surprise dropping off of some boss for highlevel cooks.
Flint Dec 1st 2008 9:33AM
I _KNEW_ there was some reason that would justify me saving every slab I've got (which is about 100 pieces in my bank).
ttcism Dec 1st 2008 9:56AM
and here i've been feeding it to my pet.
but I don't come across it nearly as much as this author suggests.
Drow Dec 1st 2008 5:31PM
I agree.
At first, I would have tossed most of it.
But that first Cooking quest you get makes you look for them, and I didn't get any at first, so I started asking people for them, so my guild throws them my way anytime they see it (plus, I told them about Feast so I get chilled meat plus all the other meat in the mail daily), and I stockpiled it too so I could lvl cooking. When I found out it was part of the cooking daily's, I was kind of releaved they would now be so easy!
Tenchan Dec 1st 2008 1:22PM
Must you talk about tossing your meat in public?
Tim Dec 1st 2008 10:05AM
This article is just an excuse to make a bunch of "hold on to your meat" references.
Well played Mr. Ziebart, well played.
anonymoose Dec 1st 2008 10:48AM
OMG so full of win.
Hold on to your meat!
You will need your meat!
Auction your meat!
Midweek people are running low and desperately need your meat!
Sorry, the possibilities for a trade channel extravaganza with this are quite good.
Uberdork Dec 1st 2008 2:35PM
"You can save yourself a lot of time by just making sure to hold onto your meat, which I've noticed a lot of people not doing at all."
Oh man I lol'd IRL ...
Yes I know .. I'm twelve so what!
Jon Dec 1st 2008 11:07AM
Chilled meat no longer drops from beasts that drop a particular type of meat also. This includes rhinos, mammoths and shoveltusks. This is actually kind of nice, in that it is now much easier to gather rhino meat than it was at release.
You can still get chilled meat in metric tons from sea lions, gorillas, caribou and such.
Mike Dec 1st 2008 12:06PM
I usually farm it from rams in HF.