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by Mike Schramm 
Dec 1st 2009 at 8:00PM
You may not have made it all the way to 350 during the holiday -- if you need to nab a few other points, you'll have to head to Outland and level up there for a little bit. Talbuk Steak is a good one to do if you need that extra boost -- it's vendor purchased, easily farmable (or buyable on the AH), and the Stam boost isn't bad. Once you've hit 350, then you'll need to head to Northrend. You can train at the cooking trainers in the faction inns in Dalaran. You'll probably also want to stop off and pick up the Northern Cooking quest, as Northern Stew will help you get relatively easily to 375. After that, it's time for the booze.
From 375 to 400, you'll probably want to go with Kungaloosh. There are probably other recipes that you can do (especially if you're also leveling an alt while doing this, you'll pick up lots of white food items that can help you get those leveling points), but Kungaloosh is the easiest and quickest. To get the recipe, you can do a quick quest from a drunk guy in the Dalaran sewers, and then all of the mats for cooking it can be purchased straight from the Dalaran fruit vendor. It'll go green at 387, so you'll need to cook a few extra to hit 400, but it'll get you there eventually.
After that, from 400-450, all of the recipes are bought with Dalaran Cooking Awards, done by doing the fishing or cooking dailies in Dalaran. Welcome to the recipe grind: earn some awards, buy some recipes, and grind out those last few points. Good luck! You'll be a Chef de Cuisine in no time.
Filed under: Cooking, Tips, How-tos, Fan stuff, Leveling, Guides
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
DAWG Dec 1st 2009 8:02PM
I forgot to level cooking for cheap on my Warrior :'(
(Hes on an Off-Realm)
Blackthorn Dec 1st 2009 8:16PM
You can actually start making Kungaloosh at 350, as long as you've done the Sholazar quest. Since its all vendor bought ingredients (from the tree druid in dalaran) I found it easier than northern stew, so one can save the chilled meats for dailys.
Wipeman Dec 1st 2009 8:24PM
Well if you want to level those last cooking levels here's how i did it(this is a guide i found on an external site so i take no credit for it, just spreading the knowledge):
Actually 350-450 is quite simple
From 350-400 you will want to make rhino dogs(sounds nasty)
the recipe is learnt at the cooking trainers in Warsong hold and Valliance keep at borean tundra. They take 1 rhino meat per dog. While recipe becomes green at ~380 rhinos are easy to farm(aoe preferably). They can be found in packs of 5 to six just west of the Warsong Hold. Very easy to aoe farm. Also there are multiple packs so you'll never have to wait for respawns
From 400-450 you'll be making hearty rhino dogs.
The recipe costs 3 dalaran cooking awards(earned by cooking dailies at dalaran). the mats are once again rhino meat but this times 2 pieces of meat per dog. Get's green ~430 but as mentioned above it's extremely easy to farm.
I hope this guide helps you. It has worked great for me at least. Enjoy.
Thander Dec 1st 2009 10:12PM
Yeah, it's great what they did in Wotlk. All the new profession recipes start at 350, so it's easy to get through Outland and Azeroth mats you can just buy because they are pretty cheap.
Tony Bowman Dec 2nd 2009 12:27AM
this is what i did. worked great. took about 85 pieces of rhino meat to get to 400 from 350 for me. now i just have to do the dailies to get the awards for the heart dog recipe
jurandr Dec 1st 2009 8:41PM
I already know every recipe on my mage, so I never really considered wanting to level cooking on my palidan, but I couldn't think of a reason as to why not. The whole thing took perhaps 10 minutes, if you don't count turkeyhunting, to do thanks to the holiday.
It took three days to level it up the first time, because I farmed all the mats myself.
Eric Dec 1st 2009 8:42PM
I did 350-400 with kungaloosh, since its vendor mats...
Colin Dec 1st 2009 8:53PM
Yeah, I forgot to do it on my leveling death knight. And that was probably the second most useful character to level cooking on (aside from my main).
Ah well.
Rajah Dec 1st 2009 8:54PM
If you are not high enough level to do the Sholazar quests that are required to be able to get the Kungaloosh quest, there are equally easy ways to get to 400. The Northrend cooking trainers have about a dozen recipes that can be learned at 350 that don't go gray until 415. If you fish, you can catch all you need right where you get off the boat. I did this around level 50.
Another alternative to get from 400 to 425 is to learn the Black Jelly recipe from the Northrend cooking trainers (recipe added in patch 3.1.0). Either fish up the Borean Man O' War yourself or buy them on the AH.
Beyond 425 you will need to be level 65 so that you can do the Dalaran cooking dailies. This is is the only way to earn Dalaran Cooking Awards, which are required to get any recipes that are not gray above 425. You really need to earn only 3 Dalaran Cooking Awards and use them to buy one recipe to get all the way to 450. Both Gigantic Feast and Small Feast remain orange until 437.
Noid Dec 1st 2009 9:03PM
Youre about 2 days too late. Already started leveling up. Boo!!
Broken_toes Dec 1st 2009 9:11PM
Pah pilgrim cooking is or noobs- real men miss it... err mean ignore it... and wait till all they have is farming sandworms in silithius, a land were not all sandworms have meat and the lowbies ask for runs through they're stupid pointless quests.
Bronwyn Dec 2nd 2009 8:03AM
With a little creative thinking you can cut out the sandworms and get one of the many fish recipes that can be used from 285-300+ instead. I did this recently with my DK to get her up to snuff for the Pilgrim holiday- only to find out I could have saved myself time if I just leveled with those recipes.
Oh Well.
But seriously, a lot of people seem to forget about fishing for cooking, but it really is a lot easier than having to farm those damned sandworms with their crappy meat drop rate.
skurfer48 Dec 1st 2009 9:14PM
It wasn't mentioned here, but you NEED to do the preliminary quest line in Sholazar Basin before the quest will be offered by the drunk guy in the Dalaran sewers to get Kungaloosh. I was 450 cooking and level 80 and he didn't offer the quest until I had done the chain in Sholazar.
Reading WoWhead comments=a good idea....
Viper007Bond Dec 1st 2009 9:26PM
Oh. Wish I had leveled up an alt's cooking. Totally missed this. :(
traptinacivicsi Dec 2nd 2009 9:26AM
Yeah I was pretty PO'ed when I found out there was something useful to the seemingly useless holiday event. The only time I saw the faster cooking mentioned was in the last day of the event post here on wowinsider, not a single person said anything about it in trade or in game.
Shame really because I want to get cooking up so I can finish the Winter's Veil achievements and get my drake, but am at 5 cooking.. here comes the grind :(
CallMeIrd Dec 1st 2009 9:33PM
Bah, I leveled cooking to about 305 on my paladin, but she's just 25...and no high level main on her server. Guess I'm stuck for a while unless I find cheap meat on the AH.
Thander Dec 1st 2009 10:09PM
I loved this holiday. I was able to get cooking up on all 10 my alts. Some of them are low level, but the ingredients were so cheap why not? My bank alt level 10, had not done a quest in over a year even got his cooking to 340.
Arita Dec 1st 2009 11:23PM
A really good guide for leveling both you cooking and your fishing together is El's Extreme Anglin' at http://www.elsanglin.com/training.html. That's what I used to get my druid's cooking and fishing up.
pinkysan Dec 2nd 2009 3:20PM
Btw, you use Waterlogged Recipe www.wowhead.com/?item=48681 to get 5 Dalaran Cooking Awards repeatedly. The Waterlogged Recipes drop from the Dalaran fishing daily goody bag, and it doesn't seem to drop very often, so you will have better luck buying it from AH.
Rob Dec 2nd 2009 3:48PM
If you are like me you have a few toons that never got the turkey part done.
Well, if you are 290 you need to go to Silithis, talk to the innkeeper for a quest. It's a "run and get me x" quest, then you get a quest to make something out of worm meat in silithis. Slaughter the entire zone for 10 worm meat, get up to 300.
At 300, go to outlands and get the ravager dog recipe (its the food vendor near the gate in the first town in hellfire (thrallmar?). Go to the tunnel between hellfire and telokar, slaughter ravagers, enough to get to 330 cooking.
At 330, go to nagard, get the recipes from the butcher at the town, there is one for talbuk and another for clefhides. Grind these until you get to cooking 350. At 350, follow the WI guide.