I went to Gadgetzan at 31 not realizing the level requirement to obtain the quest. I went back to Orgrimmar and went to the cooking trainer area in case she had any recipes I didn't have yet. She trained me to 300-Artisan. I guess the quest is no longer necessary and Alla needs to update the trainer list.

Edited, Jun 21st 2009 9:16pm by gunnymusto

you can find the clam meat on the naga just NW of booty bay.

Im at 38 right now and Im trying to level everything as I go with this toon

All I read is about people sulking over having a hard time at 35 to complete this quest. Here's a thought that crossed my mind, you don't actually have to be the minimum level to complete a quest. It's hard concept to follow, but it works perfect for a speed leveler like myself (green quests = red quests in xp, green quests < red quests to complete in time).

For some help nonetheless

SPEED LEVELERS
Through your adventures you should be banking ALL of your food items that you get, no matter what they are. Turn in any quests that require food (like westfall stew and such) when needed, but any extra bank. When you reach around level 45 you should be tracking most of your hinterlands quests, at which point add "Owlbeasts" to your killing spree...see one, kill it. By the time you have finished hinterlands, you will have all your eggs, and somehow I ALWAYS seem to have 30 zesty clam meat (Giants around feathermoon doing the zap quest drop them, along with many other quest killables). Just buy your cheese, grab all your food, buy up some recipes and go for the win on passing your 225 skill.

PERFECTIONISTS
You are the type that needs to be at 100% with EVERYTHING you do AS you play. To get this quest done at 35 without help, you should have 2 professions supplying you money...go buy the materials needed from the auction house. Yes, you can fight 1 mob at a time, waste valuable time trying to kill things that are way too powerful for you, but you are only giving yourself tunnel vision. Just buy what you need, and later on when you come across those items, you can resell them on the auction house for the next perfectionist, it's called paying forward.

TWINK
You already have a high level character supplying you money to buy those blue and purple items, and now you need to level your cooking to get that +XX stam/spirit boost item for BGs. Either purchase the items required in the auction house like a perfectionist, or use your main to scrounge it up.

If anyone noticed, I think I was the only one to state that Zesty Clam Meat came from the giants around Feathermoon. The goblin at the docks gives you a zapping quest which is repeatable, kill 2 birds with 1 stone (3 birds if you do the water elemental quest with it).

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Edited, Apr 12th 2008 1:38pm by phxbadboy

as part of reward it let me have upto 300 cooking skill which makes me happy. I been 225 forever.

OK, from Gadget head on down the road to Steamwheedle Port and kill turtles on the beach and in the water for large clams. The drop rate is so-so, took me about 20mins to gather the clam meats.

Buy your cheese from the Inn keeper at Hammerfall VIllage in Arathi highlands.

Then go kill some owlbeasts in the Hinterlands for giant eggs. Pick up the quests from Raventusk village in the Hinterlands to kill savage Owlbeasts and Silvermane wolves and kill 2 birds with one stone.


Depending on class/level/gear I'd say this is soloable around the 42-45 area.

Good luck!

Edited, Feb 13th 2008 11:17am by valadamir

There is no need to go all over Azeroth to complete this quest. Buy your cheese from the Trias Cheese shop in Stormwind, or collect it from the Syndicate in Hillsbrad. It can also be bought from Galgrom, the provisioner in the Caverns of Time.

The eggs and clam meat can all be collected in Tanaris.

The lowest level Rocs are 41 so it will be easier to kill them as part of a group, you could collect them as you were completing other quests in the area.

The Steeljaw snappers close to Steamwheedle Port drop the clams, these are lvl42 - 43, so again you would need to kill them as part of a group if you are only level 35.

All this does is take up space in your quest log.
Unless you want to buy all the ingredients, I recommend waiting until your character is high enough to have a realistic chance of defeating the things that drop them.

So I got the quest at lvl 35. Hooray.
All that does is take up a space in my quest log. Unless you want to buy everything from AH, it's pretty much impossible to get it by yourself.
My recommendation is to wait with getting the quest until you've got a realistic chance of finishing it.

You can buy the Alterac Swiss from the Innkeeper in TB.

Everything can be got from Stormwind if Alliance, buy clams and eggs from AH and cheese from Trais Cheese...

Or if you have a high level main or alt, just use that to collect the items...

Took me like 10 minutes to get all the items from farming with my 70 lock

I was able to buy the cheese with my lvl 25 alt in Stormwind at that Trias Cheese place.

This probably won't help anyone, but hey.

Easy as a level 60. I made a comment in trade about cooking being an easy skill to level up, and someone said "lol wel if u think it so ez then u do the artsitan cookin qst". So I did. Long story short, I went from 70 Cooking to 300 after working on it and fishing for about six or seven hours straight.

Anyway, bought the cheese from Freewind Post, the Innkeeper there sells it for 36s for 5. Farmed clams off of the turtles in Hinterlands, about one in three dropped one. Then farmed the Owlbeasts, also in Hinterlands, for the eggs. About one in four dropped there.

Of course, if you're picking up this quest at 35, that isn't possible for you to do without help. The turtles are 49-51 and the owlbeasts 42-45.

Zesty Clam Meat drops off of Southern Sand Crawlers (level 40-43) on the beach South West of Booty Bay.

This was much easier for me than some of the other mobs listed that dropped the zesty clam meat. Plus there is an FP and/or boat ride to the area.

Nizzre

I realize that by saying what I am going to say.. many of you are gonna trash me and tell me Im a worthless player cause I had a hard time at this quest...

Here are the facts!
I just turned level 40 hunter. My pet is still a level 39 which means he doesnt have growl 6 yet. I am sure growl 6 would help since my cat cant keep the aggro off me. Hinterlands is not a place I should be. Everything here is lvl 42 and up. Yes there are owlbeast and yes they drop eggs.. but nothing close to what has been stated here. I need 12 eggs and after killing around 50 or so I gave up trying at 10 eggs. There are wolves EVERYWHERE which range from 42 to 45. At 40, a lvl 45 is red and HARD as heck. It is VERY hard not to get aggro from either the trolls, wolves, gryphons, etc etc...

I am not sure how all of you did this quest solo at level 35-40 but I would like to see it to believe it. Since I have been there and seen what is in store.. I am more confident to believe that some post here may have exagerated their abilities.

This is just to let those that are wanting to do this quest at level 35-40 to stay away from the hinterlands unless you have a friend that wouldnt mind helping you out.

Hopes this saves a few of you some trouble and pains in the lower extremities

Can get alterac swiss in the caverns of time now on both sides,, so this entire quest can be finished in zone.

I just want to say you guys are great with all this information. I was lvl 225 in cooking at lvl 30, with all the info i finally made lvl 35, and completed the quest from org to gadget, recieved 975 for org and 3900 xp in gadget. On my way to completing my fishing with nat. ty for the comments posted.

Horde folks can get the cheese from the Innkeeper at Freewind post.

As a horde:

I went to Arathi, the innkeeper sells cheese. I then went to Hinterlands, killed turtles for the clam meat, owlbeasts for the eggs.

Wrong continent, I know, but I wanted to camp out in Kargath for raids tonight.. I'll turn it all in tomorrow :)

Is this quest repeatable? I haven't had the chance to check it out yet. Would really like to gets me some more of this..... mmmmmm

Sooo much zesty clam meat and nothing to make with it. wtf?? (well, nothing *worth* making anyway)

Got the Quest at level 35,

Just completed it at level 38 - reward:

20xClamlette Surprise
Cooking (allows you to go to 300 skill)
3900 exp