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Midnight Cooking Leveling Guide 1-100 & Best Food Buffs

This Midnight Cooking leveling guide shows you how to level Cooking from 1 to 100 with the fastest and cheapest path I found. You get the Cooking trainer location, exact leveling steps, and the best food buffs.

If you just want to hit 100 fast, you can do most of it with vendor materials near the trainer in Silvermoon City. I also listed the best Feast, Master, and cheaper food buffs so you can pick what to craft based on your gold.

Cooking Trainer

The Midnight Cooking trainer is Sylann in Silvermoon City, inside the inn. Talk to her to learn Cooking and pick up new recipes as you level up.

Silvermoon City
Silvermoon City
Sylann
Sylann

Leveling Midnight Cooking

1 - 25

50x Spiced Biscuits - 50x A Big Ol' Stick of Butter, 150x Pouch of Spices

Both of these materials are sold by the Cooking supply vendor near your trainer, do not buy these from the Auction House. Make this recipe until it turns grey.

25 - 35

10x Felberry Figs - 100x Plant Protein, 40x Ripened Vegetable Assortment, 10x A Big Ol' Stick of Butter, 10x Mana-Wyrm Essence

Buy 100x Plant Protein from the Auction House. The rest are all sold by the vendor.

35 - 100

At 35, you will unlock Hearty Food. This recipe uses your crafted food as material, and since you can also use Spiced Biscuits for it, you can level to 100 with just vendor materials.

  1. Make 100x Spiced Biscuits - 200x A Big Ol' Stick of Butter, 600x Pouch of Spices
  2. Use Hearty Food on the Spiced Biscuits.
  3. Make 100x Spiced Biscuits again. The number of servings you get is based on your cooking skill, so it's better to alternate between the two instead of making all your biscuits at a low skill level. However, since they are very cheap to make, you could also just go AFK and craft 500 at once, or buy them from the Auction House.
  4. Repeat this process until you reach 100 skill by alternating between cooking Biscuits and making Hearty Food. The recipe will be green for the last 25 points, so you will have to make a lot, but it is still very cheap and fast to level.

Best Food Buffs

These are the best food buffs from Midnight Cooking. Master recipes give higher stat values, and Feasts buff your entire group. Vendor materials are not listed. You can buy all of those from the Cooking supply vendor near your trainer.

Cooking Recipes

Flora Frenzy is a reward from the Gomphusta quest in Harandar.

All other recipes are learned from the Cooking trainer in Silvermoon City.

Feasts

Feasts buff your entire group. They give +98 Stamina and either +50 Primary Stat or +65 Highest Secondary Stat.

Feast Buff Reagents
Blooming Feast +65 Highest Secondary Stat, +98 Stamina
Harandar Celebration +50 Primary Stat, +98 Stamina
Quel'dorei Medley +65 Highest Secondary Stat, +98 Stamina
Silvermoon Parade +50 Primary Stat, +98 Stamina

Food Buffs

Food Buff Reagents
Champion's Bento +65 Highest Secondary Stat
Flora Frenzy +65 Highest Secondary Stat
Impossibly Royal Roast +65 Primary Stat
Royal Roast +65 Primary Stat

Cheaper Food

Advanced recipes give slightly lower stats but are cheaper to make.

Food Buff Reagents
Arcano Cutlets +59 Critical Strike
Sun-Seared Lumifin +59 Critical Strike
Tasty Smoked Tetra +59 Critical Strike
Crimson Calamari +59 Haste
Fel-Kissed Filet +59 Haste
Null and Void Plate +59 Haste
Glitter Skewers +59 Mastery
Warped Wise Wings +59 Mastery
Braised Blood Hunter +59 Versatility
Buttered Root Crab +59 Versatility
Void-Kissed Fish Rolls +59 Versatility

Profession Equipment

Cooking uses two profession equipment slots, but both are crafted by other professions. Inscribers make the rolling pin (tool) and Tailors make the chef hat (accessory). The green versions can be bought on the Auction House. Blue and epic versions are soulbound, so you will need to place a Crafting Order.

Unlike other professions, Cooking tools have fixed stats. You cannot add a Missive to customize the secondary stat, so what you see is what you get.

Tool/Accessory Crafted By Materials Needed
Hobbyist Rolling Pin Inscription 10x Azeroot, 1x Sienna Ink
Chef's Bright Linen Cooking Chapeau Tailoring 2x Eversinging Dust, 2x Imbued Bright Linen Bolt
Sin'dorei Rolling Pin Inscription 4x Codified Azeroot, 1x Majestic Claw
Elegant Artisan's Cooking Hat Tailoring 5x Mote of Light, 3x Radiant Shard, 8x Sunfire Silk Bolt
Gilded Sin'dorei Rolling Pin Inscription 4x Codified Azeroot, 2x Majestic Claw, 20x Fused Vitality
Thalassian Chef's Chapeau Tailoring 5x Mote of Light, 3x Radiant Shard, 8x Sunfire Silk Bolt, 20x Fused Vitality