Leveling Cooking From 375 to 450 In 20 Minutes Or Less

Those last 75 points in cooking may seem daunting at first glance.  But there is an easy way to get there.  We outlined our methods on the podcast last week, but here it is in print as a reference with all the links you need for the future.

There are a few pre-requirements for this one.  We have always advocated that you level cooking with fishing since cooking fish is a much better way to level your culinary skill than using other mats and recipes.  Yes, the fish recipes are all spread out, but we’ve found a new mod that will help you with that as well – but we’ll have to get to that one another time.

First, you’ll need to be doing your cooking dailies and have a stack of Northern Spices.  Next, you’ll need to have completed the Kungaloosh quest line in Sholazar basin.  For those of you using Gavin’s Horde leveling Guide, this is a done deal.  For the rest of you (yes an Ally guide is coming) the quest line starts with Some Make Lemonade, Some Make Liquor, and ends with The Taste Test.

Once you’ve completed The Taste Test, you can run down to Washed up Mage in the Dalaran sewers and buy the recipe for Kungaloosh.  Kungaloosh has to be the biggest skill level freebie in the game.  Without a cooking fire, you can brew these things up using Tundra Berries and Savory Snowplum, both available from the fruit vendor in Dalaran, Applebough.

About four stacks of each will cost you just a couple of gold and get you to skill level 400.  It has to be the easiest and cheapest 25 points you can get in any profession at any level.  You can try to sell the Kungaloosh on the AH, but we prefer to vendor them since they don’t do anything but make your screen go wonky.

Next, you’ll need to have 6 extra Dalaran Cooking Awards to purchase the recipes for Spicy Fried Herring and Gigantic Feast.  Spicy Fried Herring uses 1 Fangtooth Herring and 1 Northern Spices.  Gigantic Feast Requires the spices along with 2 Deep Sea Monsterbelly, 2 Chunk o’ Mammoth, and 2 Rockfin Grouper.

The great thing about these two recipes is that the mats are pretty cheap, or if you don’t mind fishing they aren’t ahrd to catch either.  We prefer the AH for speed, so grab 3 stacks of Herring and two stacks each of Monsterbelly, Chunk o Mammoth and Rockfin and you’re all set.

The Herring is only used in foods that give MP5, and those are normally passed over by most folks in favor of foods with SP or other stats, so Herring are in low demand which means low cost.  Deep Sea Monsterbelly are in the same boat, as they are only used in the Gigantic Feast recipe.  The Rockfin grouper have another use, but it’s just as worthless as Gigantic Feast, so again, cheap.

Spicy Fried Herring will get you to 425, where you can pound out the Gigantic Feasts right up to the cap at 450.  Then you’re just 5 cooking awards short of the best buff food in the game – Fish Feast.  It’s a really fast, cheap and Dominating way to max out your cooking and feed your crew in style.