My bag of spice has everything nice
by Adam Holisky 
Dec 8th 2008 at 11:00AM
In each cooking daily you get a Small Spice Bag. The bag is one of the two ways you can pickup the essential Northern Spice, which is required for the major cooking recipes that are prevalent in Wrath*.The Small Spice Bag also has a certain chance to drop some other goods, including Old Spice, Baby Spice, and a recipe for a Delicious Chocolate Cake.
The Old Spice, which is a reference to a brand of deodorant, makes you smell nice. The only result of it is a buff which lasts for five minutes and says "Smelling Great!"
So you smell nice, congrats you stinking plate wearer.
The Baby Spice is a fun buff you can apply to a target which shrinks the target by 50%.
It should be noted that the buff only lasts for 30 seconds, so it's not something you can keep on forever. However it can be useful in some situations, especially if you're a Tauren and can't get in some Lake Wintergrasp structures.
A quick fix, granted, but at least it works.
The other special item the bag drops is a Delicious Chocolate Cake recipe. Cake is yummy, and is clearly greater than pie. People will recognize that this is a BC recipe, and was previously a drop from the daily cooking quests offered in Shattrath.
In addition to it being a drop from the current cooking quests in Wrath, it can also now be bought from the cooking supplies vendors in Dalaran for 10 Dalaran Cooking Awards and some gold. This is a good option for those that have had bad luck with the random number generator.
Overall the Small Spice Bag is rather nice right now, yet I have to wonder if Blizzard will eventually add some things to it in the future. Perhaps some Chilled Meat since it's such an important item in the daily quests, or some more random recipes. Only time will tell.
*The other way to get a Northern Spice is to buy it from a vendor for one Dalaran Cooking Award.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)
Kaylad Dec 8th 2008 9:40AM
Old Spice isn't just deodorant - may be more familiar to people as the aftershave or cologne their dad (or grandad) wears/wore :)
Shulkman Dec 8th 2008 11:08AM
Kaylad beat me to it... Old Spice was an aftershave long before it was a brand of deodorant.
Elealla Dec 8th 2008 11:38AM
And Baby Spice is a reference to one of the Spice Girls (a successful UK pop quintet).
...
At least it seems to much of a coincidence not to be!
JJV Dec 8th 2008 12:30PM
Myspice.com??? =P
Tanglebones Dec 8th 2008 12:30PM
I'm holding out for "David Beckham's Wife Spice."
Abbadon Dec 8th 2008 10:33AM
You can also get a bonus Dalaran cooking award from the small spice bag. I've gotten two thus far while one guildie has gotten a handful this way and another has yet to see a bonus award at all... I guess it comes down to the all powerful RNG and how it's feeling towards you on any given day.
I was really hoping for the Rhino dog quest or a bonus award today, but I had no such luck. As it stands, I'm one award shy of buying my next recipe and cooking my 30th Northrend meal. And with that completed, I'll earn my Cook title. Woot!! I'm looking forward to tomorrow (after the maintenance, of course).
Nellius Dec 8th 2008 11:08AM
You should know that the cook title achievement is gained after cooking 45 of the recipes, not 30.
Neodarkmatter Dec 8th 2008 11:16AM
And currently you can't get 45 because 4 recipes are unavilable: Fish Feast, Kungaloosh, Shoveltusk Soup, and Succulent Orca Stew. The items may be available but the recipes are not.
Abbadon Dec 8th 2008 11:27AM
Oh... /cry
The last thing I need is Northrend Gourmet which currently shows as needing 30 recipes to complete. But given your comments, I guess it's one of those comulative achievements that will still be there and require 45 after I hit the 30 mark. What a bummer!
And yea, I was aware of the 4 bugged recipes...
Will Dec 8th 2008 3:49PM
If you looked closely at your achievements, you'd see that you've already obtained an achievement called "The Northrend Gourmet" for cooking 15 of them.
RogueJedi86 Dec 8th 2008 6:54PM
What is this RNG you people keep referring too? All I can think of when I see RNG is Ranger from FFXI, or the word range. What's it mean?
Honoke Dec 9th 2008 10:15AM
RNG = Really Neurotic Goldfarmer
Mutak Dec 9th 2008 10:51AM
Random Number Generator
MisterBook Dec 8th 2008 11:08AM
You can't buy the recipe for chocolate cake from the vendor; that was in beta, and wowhead hasn't cleaned up their links yet. I know this well because my wife is going for the cooking achievements, and despite doing both the Dalaran and the Shattrath cooking dailies for two weeks straight, hasn't gotten the recipe yet. She would have bought it had it been available.
Galeck Dec 8th 2008 11:12AM
Indeed, it is not buyable from the cooking supplier...
Darn you for getting my hopes up! :(
SaintStryfe Dec 8th 2008 2:39PM
It's very rare. I did the Shatt Cooking Quests for well over 2 months before I got it in BC.
Ace Dec 8th 2008 11:14AM
I have done the Dalaran cooking quest every day since Wrath went live and the Shattrath cooking quest at least 100 times with no drop of the cake recipe. I hope they up the drop rate or do add it for purchase from the vendor. That darn cake is keeping me from the Cook title.
Jason Dec 8th 2008 11:21AM
How are you going to get the Cook title when the game only has 42 of the 46 listed recipes available?
paper Dec 8th 2008 11:26AM
As Jason said, only 42 of 46 recipes are in-game for Northrend currently, and you need to make 45 for the Northrend Gourmet achievement. It's also going to take a while to get the sixty or so Dalaran Cooking Awards to buy and create all of the advanced recipes.
Jay in Oregon Dec 8th 2008 11:50AM
I got the Delicious Chocolate Cake recipe on my 6th or 7th daily in Dalaran; quite a pleasant surprise, as I was still doing the Shattrath cooking daily for that recipe! That recipe is not available from the Dalaran cooking vendor.
I've gotten 4 or 5 Dalaran cooking awards from the spice bag, which puts me ahead of everyone else in my guild.
I was surprised to see that the Mustard Dogs! quest does award two cooking awards, presumably because it uses a meat that drops off of only one group of animals, but Convention at the Legerdemain only awards one cooking award even though it requires TWELVE pieces of Chilled Meat.
Maybe Blizzard can put the recipes that DON'T EXIST YET into the Spice Bag, so people who are grinding their hearts out for the Chef title can actually accomplish it. (Those recipes would be Shoveltusk Soup, Kungaloosh, Succulent Orca Stew and the Fish Feast...)