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Chef - A Guide To Cooking Achievements (WoW)  

So you like food? Maybe you've got a few thousands fishes laying around from following some other guide? Maybe you're tired of mooching from your guildies at raid time for that buff? Well, you could do worse than learning to cook.

But what about those of us with a passion for the culinary art? Well, there's only one thing to do, and that's to become a Chef. And here's the guide to show you how to get there.

I highly recommend being a fisherman, and maybe even using Salty - A Guide To Fishing Achievements as you progress through your cooking career. Even if you are not interested in earning the Salty title, many of the cooking achievements will requires a steady supply of fish and some of the best buff food in the game are from fish meals. So you might as well pick fishing up, or you'll basically be short changing yourself.

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Disclaimer

This guide is not a guide to show how to level up cooking or to explain how cooking works in World of Warcraft. It assumes you already know and understand the basic of the tradeskill. While it's not a bad idea to knock those achievements off the board while leveling cooking - in fact some achievements are easier to do while leveling! - you will have to look elsewhere to find answer to questions concerning the basics.

As always, I do not claim this is the only way or even the best way to get the achievement, only that this way works.

Achievements: How to get them done

Cook

This is actually five achievements, each one folding into another. Each give 10 Achievements point, for a total of 50. They split up as follows:
  • Journeyman Cook
  • Expert Cook
  • Artisan Cook
  • Master Cook
  • Grand Master Cook

All you need to do to earn those is reach the proper skill level and train to get to the next step. You'll get those without really trying, so just see them as 50 free achievement points.

Ironically, there is no achievement for maxing out Cooking at 450/450, so it would be possible (if extremely unlikely) to earn the Chef title without being capped.

The Cake Is Not A Lie

Gathering the ingredient to cook the cake should not be a challenge for anybody who's high enough level to cook it. The problem is that the cake is a rare recipee only awarded from doing cooking dailies (Both Northrend's and Outland's). Once you have the recipee, getting the achievement is just a matter of cooking the cake.

Kickin' It Up a Notch

This one involves completing all 4 cooking daily given out by The Rokk in Shattrath City. The quest reward can give you some rare recipes which are needed to complete other cooking achievements, so odds are you'll be doing those dailies long after you've completed the achievement.
  • Revenge is Tasty - Just fly over to Skettis in Terrokar Forest and kill some Warp Stalker until you have enough to cook all the required warp burgers. Then go kill the huge kaliri bird until you get a wing.
  • Soup for the Soul - Clefthoof meat is easy enough to obtain, simply kill a bunch of Clefthoof in Nagrand. Then use the pot near one of the fire in the Ancestral Ground in Nagrand.
  • Super Hot Stew - You have to gather the ingredient for crunchy serpent and mok'nathal short ribs from Blade's Edge Mountain. Than go kill an Abyssal south of Ogri'la and cook it over its corpse.
  • Manalicious - Oddly enough for a cooking daily, this one doesn't even require you to cook. Just fly to Netherstorm and go pick the berries in any eco-dome but the one by Stormspire.

The Northrend Gourmet

Another achievement that is many achievement folded into one. You'll get first one at 15 recipe, the second at 30 and the last 45 recipe cooked. 45 is essentially all the available Northrend recipe. Gathering the mats isn't the challenge here, the challenge is learning all of those recipes. You can get the first 15 simply from the trainers, but after that you'll need to buy them with Dalaran cooking awards. At 3 awards for a recipe, it will take you a while to get them all. There's also 4 recipes that are random world drop, more on those under Second That Emotion.

Second That Emotion

The 4 recipes of this achievement are pretty much there just for the achievement - eating the food does nothing but give you an amusing buff with no in-game effect. You do not need to actually cook the food in under to earn this achievement, merely eat it. However, you need to cook all 4 in order to get The Northrend Gourmet. Those recipes cannot be bought, they are random (BoP) world drops. They have a fairly high drop rate, but if you didn't get them while leveling to 80, you'll need to go grind some mobs in order to get them.

Critter Gitter

You'll need some Critter Bites, which is a Northrend Cooking recipe. Than you need to find a spot with plenty of critters in order to get it in time. Here's a short youtube video of someone doing in the Deeprun Tram. Pun intended.

Our Daily Bread

Dinner Impossible

Sous Chef

Captain Rumsey's Lager

The Outland Gourmet

Optional Achievements

Dalaran Cooking Awards

Chef de Cuisine

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