WoW Forever Cooking Guide: Leveling 1 to 300, Recipes and Changes

Level your profession from 1 to 300 without getting lost: the shopping list, the steps to follow and every recipe in the game, with what Forever changed.

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How to use this guide

Enter your current skill in cooking: the shopping list below works itself out up to 300.
Then follow the steps in order: each step tells you what to craft, how many, and with what.
Hover or tap an item to read its tooltip, exactly as in game.

Cooking recipes

125 recipes · ★ 44 new · ◆ 1 changed · 80 same as the original game

Your skill

Orange Yellow Green Grey Not learnable yet

Filter

Status Source Only what I can learn Hide grey recipes

125 of 125

Dishes 107

Teas and drinks 14

Feasts 1

Camp objects 3

Charred Wolf Meat

Creates: ×1

At skill 1 this recipe is orange: it is guaranteed to raise your skill.

Required skill

Colours

Orange 0–44 Yellow 45–64 Green 65–84 Grey 85+

Reagents

Stringy Wolf Meat ×1

How to learn it

Known from the start

★ New in Forever (not in the original game) · ◆ Changed from the original game · no mark: same as the original game

Item names

Your skill in cooking

Your faction

New recipe or item exclusive to Forever Changed recipe or item different from the original game
Steps marked "after the beta" cannot be played yet: the beta stops at 225.

Shopping list

To go from 1 to 300 in cooking. Amounts are averages: bring a few extra.

Tick each item once it is in your bag: 0 of 9.

Buy from a merchant

Hot Spices17 × (40 copper each) (bring up to 19 to be safe)

Mild Spices61 × (10 copper each) (bring up to 69 to be safe)

Total cost at the merchant: about 4 gold 58 silver 90 copper. Includes 4 gold 46 silver for the recipes to buy.

Gather, or buy at the Auction House

In Auctionator, open the Shopping tab, click Import, paste (Ctrl+V), then click Import in the window. A list with the same name is replaced. Items you have ticked are not copied.

Chunk of Boar Meat105 × (bring up to 113 to be safe)

Coyote Meat35 ×

Dig Rat81 × (bring up to 92 to be safe)

Lean Wolf Flank36 × (bring up to 41 to be safe)

Raw Spotted Yellowtail25 ×

Raw Sunscale Salmon51 × (bring up to 53 to be safe)

Red Wolf Meat17 × (bring up to 19 to be safe)

Your route

You are at 1Goal: 300

From 1 to 55: craft about 55 × Roasted Boar Meat

At the start: every craft gives a point. At the end: a point almost every time.

1 ×Chunk of Boar Meat

From 55 to 90: craft about 35 × Coyote Steak

Every craft gives a point.

1 ×Coyote Meat

Key step: when you reach skill 75, visit a cooking trainer to learn the Journeyman rank (required: skill 50, level 10). Your limit then rises to 150.

From 90 to 156: craft about 81 × Dig Rat Stew

At the start: every craft gives a point. At the end: a point now and then.

Quest reward recipe (Dig Rat Stew)

1 ×Dig Rat

Key step: when you reach skill 150, visit a cooking trainer to learn the Expert rank (required: skill 125, level 20). Your limit then rises to 225.

From 156 to 185: craft about 36 × Lean Wolf Steak

At the start: every craft gives a point. At the end: a point almost every time.

Buy the recipe from Super-Seller 680 (Desolace), 16 silver

1 ×Lean Wolf Flank

1 ×Mild Spices

From 185 to 209: craft about 25 × Plain Ol' Paletusk New

At the start: every craft gives a point. At the end: a point almost every time.

Buy the recipe from Martha Wellsworth (Riverglades), 20 silver

2 ×Chunk of Boar Meat

1 ×Mild Spices

From 209 to 225: craft about 17 × Hot Wolf Ribs

At the start: every craft gives a point. At the end: a point almost every time.

Buy the recipe from Vivianna (Feralas) or Super-Seller 680 (Desolace), 50 silver

1 ×Red Wolf Meat

1 ×Hot Spices

Key step: before you continue, visit a cooking trainer to learn the Artisan rank (required: skill 200, level 35). Your limit then rises to 300.

From 225 to 250: craft about 25 × Spotted Yellowtail after the beta

Every craft gives a point.

Buy the recipe from Gikkix (Tanaris), 1 gold 60 silver

Fish to catch (or buy at the Auction House).

1 ×Raw Spotted Yellowtail

From 250 to 300: craft about 51 × Poached Sunscale Salmon after the beta

At the start: every craft gives a point. At the end: a point almost every time.

Buy the recipe from Gikkix (Tanaris), 2 gold

Fish to catch (or buy at the Auction House).

1 ×Raw Sunscale Salmon

What changed

125 recipes in all: 44 New and 1 Changed compared with the original game.

Camp

These objects are placed at your camp and help you craft faster or more comfortably.

Basic Campfire Kit, from skill 20. Creates a campfire that holds up to 3 camp objects.
Journeyman Campfire Kit, from skill 90. Creates a campfire that holds up to 5 camp objects.
Expert Campfire Kit, from skill 200. Creates a campfire that holds up to 10 camp objects.

Profession bonus

Unconfirmed bonus Announced during the BlizzCon 2026 demo, it is not datamined and does not appear in the beta game data yet: it may change before launch.

Some dishes grant the Well Fed stat buff and a Well Fed experience boost on kills. Cooking also makes the campfire kits that every camp starts from.

Legacy points: at skill 150, 225, 300. See the Legacy tree

Where to find a cooking trainer

A cooking trainer teaches you the new ranks and most of the basic recipes. List for your faction.

Other trainers

Alegorn — Darnassus (48.4, 21.0)
AlegornDarnassus
Darnassus, coordinates 48.4, 21.0.
Cook Ghilm — Dun Morogh (68.4, 54.4)
Cook GhilmDun Morogh
Dun Morogh, coordinates 68.4, 54.4.
Crystal Boughman — Redridge Mountains (17.6, 43.6)
Crystal BoughmanRedridge Mountains
Redridge Mountains, coordinates 17.6, 43.6.
Daryl Riknussun — Ironforge (60.0, 36.8)
Daryl RiknussunIronforge
Ironforge, coordinates 60.0, 36.8.
Gremlock Pilsnor — Dun Morogh (47.6, 52.4)
Gremlock PilsnorDun Morogh
Dun Morogh, coordinates 47.6, 52.4.
Hnaz Blunderflame — Mount Hyjal (15.4, 50.0)
Hnaz BlunderflameMount Hyjal
Mount Hyjal, coordinates 15.4, 50.0.
Katherine Lee — Alterac Mountains (12.4, 65.8)
Katherine LeeAlterac Mountains
Alterac Mountains, coordinates 12.4, 65.8.
Nyalah Brightfire — Zephras Isle (60.6, 72.6)
Nyalah BrightfireZephras Isle
Zephras Isle, coordinates 60.6, 72.6.
Ortak Lomgok — Mount Hyjal (12.8, 52.4)
Ortak LomgokMount Hyjal
Mount Hyjal, coordinates 12.8, 52.4.
Stephen Ryback — Stormwind City (75.4, 37.2)
Stephen RybackStormwind City
Stormwind City, coordinates 75.4, 37.2.
Tomas — Elwynn Forest (44.2, 66.0)
TomasElwynn Forest
Elwynn Forest, coordinates 44.2, 66.0.
Zarrin — Teldrassil (57.0, 61.2)
ZarrinTeldrassil
Teldrassil, coordinates 57.0, 61.2.
Zerril Softbreeze — Zephras Isle (43.8, 43.8)
Zerril SoftbreezeZephras Isle
Zephras Isle, coordinates 43.8, 43.8.