How to level Cooking in WoW Dragonflight

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In Dragonflight, Blizzard Entertainment reworked the entire profession system to increase its importance and value in the end game. So now, there are a ton of high-quality recipes and goods locked behind different Renowns and reputations on the Dragon Isles, especially for secondary professions. Although the process of leveling your profession is now, to an extent, more complex and time-consuming than ever before, it has also never been more rewarding to have rare recipes.

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Cooking is one of the World of Warcraft’s professions that hasn’t changed much since coming into Dragonflight. Unlike primary professions that now have item quality, recipe difficulty, and profession specializations, Cooking is still the same old profession that uses the old leveling system—from one to 100. The only problem Cooking currently has is that is incredibly grindy and you have to get lucky with drops to level it up to max. Once you reach max level, it’s smooth sailing from there on.

No matter if you’re stuck at level 50 of Cooking or if you just took up Cooking, here’s a full guide on how to level up Cooking in Dragonflight—from Cooking trainers to how to level the last couple of levels that might contribute to your premature hair loss. 

Locations of Cooking trainers in WoW Dragonflight

You can find Cooking trainers in each zone of the Dragon Isles. Here’s the list of all Cooking trainers in Dragonflight and their coordinates: 

Cooking trainers in the Waking Shores

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  • Head Chef Stacks at the Wingrest Embassy (76.4, 35.7)
  • Head Chef Stacks at the Dragonscale Basecamp (47,1 82.7)

Cooking trainers in Ohn’ahran Plains

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  • Gordul Razamen at Teerakai (41.2, 57.2)

Cooking trainers in the Azure Span

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  • Elder Kinaa at Iskaara (13.6, 48.6)

Cooking trainers in Thaldraszus

  • Erugosa at the Roasted Ram in Valdrakken (46.6 46.6)

Shopping list for leveling Cooking in Dragonflight

IngredientAmountSource
Ohn’ahran Potato20General Goods, Trade Goods or Cooking Supplies vendors 
Three-Cheese Blend10General Goods, Trade Goods or Cooking Supplies vendors 
Salt Deposit20Drops from Mining or buy from auction house
Conveniently Packaged Ingredients100General Goods, Trade Goods or Cooking Supplies vendors
Maybe Meat135Drops from Fishing and killing Grazing Bruffalon or buy from auction house
Scalebelly Mackarel12Drops from Fishing or buy from auction house
Pebbled Rock Salts24Cook with Salt Deposit or buy from auction house
Fated Fortune Card45Inscription or buy from auction house
Thaldraszian Cocoa Powder130General Goods, Trade Goods or Cooking Supplies vendors
Pastry Packets220General Goods, Trade Goods or Cooking Supplies vendors
Temporal Dragonhead12Drops from Fishing or buy from auction house
Ribbled Mollusk Meat12Drops from Fishing or buy from auction house

How to level Cooking in WoW Dragonflight

The recipes for the first 50 levels can be learned from Cooking Trainers. For Fated Fortune Cookie, you’ll need to either buy Fated Fortune Cards from the auction house or craft them with Inscription and roll them. The drop chance isn’t high, but it’s your best bet compared to other recipes. 

For Timely Demise, you’ll need to get a drop from Fishing called Draconic Recipe in a Bottle, which has a chance to drop the recipe for Timely Demise. If you plan on finding this recipe while Fishing, it’s highly advised you unlock Fishing Holes (Iskaara Tuskarr Renown four) and get Draconium Fisherfriend or Khaz’gorite Fisherfriend from the auction house or Crafting Orders to increase your Perception. 

You can also get this by turning in 15 Copper Coins of the Isles for one Silver Coin of the Isles and buying Weighted Sac of Swog Treasures or exchanging five Silver Coins for one Gold Coin to open Immaculate Sac of Swog Treasures. Draconic Recipe in a Bottle may contain other fish-based recipes that you can use to level up Cooking like Filet of Fangs or Salt-Baked Fishcake. But it’s most likely to get Timely Demise the first time you open Draconic Recipe in a Bottle.

  • one to five – Cook five Twice-Baked Potato
  • five to 15 – Cook 10 Pebbled Rock Salt 
  • 15 to 25 – Cook 10 Probably Protein
  • 25 to 40 – Cook 15 Hopefully Healthy
  • 40 to 50 – Cook 10 Salted Meat Fish
  • 50 to 90 – Cook 40 Fated Fortune Cookie
  • 90 to 100 – Cook 10 Timely Demise

How to get all rare Cooking recipes in WoW Dragonflight

Simple Fish Dishes

ItemSource
Filet of FangsDraconic Recipe in a Bottle 
Salt-Baked FishcakeDraconic Recipe in a Bottle 
Seamoth SurpriseDraconic Recipe in a Bottle 
Timely DemiseDraconic Recipe in a Bottle 

Deluxe Fish Dishes

ItemSource
Aromatic Seafood PlatterDiscover when cooking Seamoth Surprise or Timely Demise
Feisty Fish SticksDiscover when cooking Filet of Fangs or Timely Demise
Great Cerulean SeaDiscover when cooking Seamoth Surprise or Salt-Baked Fishcake
Revenge, Served ColdDiscover when cooking Seamoth Surprise or Filet of Fangs
Sizzling Seafood MedleyDiscover when cooking Salt-Baked Fishcake or Timely Demise
Aromatic Seafood PlatterDiscover when cooking Salt-Baked Fishcake or Filet of Fangs

Great Feasts

ItemSource
Gral’s DevotionDiscover after completing Community Feast
Gral’s ReverenceDiscover after completing Community Feast
Gral’s VenerationDiscover after completing Community Feast
Hoard of Draconic DelicaciesComplete What a Long, Sweet Trip It’s Been quest chain
Yusa’s Hearty StewComplete tasks at Elder Yusa in Ohn’ahran Plains
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Staff Writer & World of Warcraft lead. Izabela has a long history with writing and games like World of Warcraft, League of Legends, Fortnite, and The Sims. Before finding her home at Dot Esports in 2021, Izabela was an English teacher and a freelancer at Hotspawn, GGRecon, and Gameranx. In her free time, you’ll find her writing novels, wandering Azeroth, or inting on Summoner’s Rift.