Cooking recipes

Recipes in Cooking are used to craft various types of consumables, most of which are food. Many of them are learned from Cooking trainers, but the majority is learned by using recipe-items. As an item, a recipe may be obtained as a reward for completing a Cooking quest, found as loot or purchased from a vendor. It is usually named in the format of [Recipe: <consumable>], such as Recipe: Runn Tum Tuber Surprise. Most cooking recipes use the picture of a scroll.

No cooking recipe is restricted to either the Horde or the Alliance, but some are much easier to obtain for one of them than the other. This has several reasons - a recipe may be sold by a single faction-aligned NPC, rewarded from a faction-aligned quest, or perhaps dropped in a zone especially populated by a specific faction. Often, these recipes are available from a neutral auction house.

As of Pilgrim's Bounty (2009), the total number of recipes actually in the game was 169. With the recent implements of Cataclysm, the number of recipes increased to 202 with the additional three new recipes from Cooking Trainers, two Feasts from guild achievements, and 28 from new Cooking Dailies. For new players, however, the number of obtainable recipes is slightly less; not only were the quests yielding some recipes removed in 4.0.3a, some vendors selling recipes were also removed due to change to their location (some of these recipes returned in 4.0.6). In addition, one recipe turned out to be bugged and was removed shortly after the expansion launched to be worked on (it later returned in 4.0.6 as well). Some others were returned in 4.1.0. 4.2.0 removed another recipe and returned two more, which places the number of recipes currently available to new chefs (non-Rogues, see below) at 200. Also, keep in mind that some recipes are only available during seasonal events.

As of patch 4.2.0 - which removed one recipe - it's possible to know 202 cooking recipes at most. Non-Rogues are effectively limited to one less, since new copies of Recipe: Thistle Tea have been BoP since patch 1.3.0.

Nearly every recipe in Cooking is classified as "Food and drink". Feathered Lure is the only exception, being classified as "Other". The Cooking Fire is neither of them, being a separate ability.

• Note: Recipes marked with IconSmall RaidCross.png are very difficult or impossible to acquire. It is unlikely that the player will be able to learn them. This may change for each individual recipe.

Several Cooking-achievements focus on recipes. The most notable of them are:

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• Learning recipes:
• Lunch Lady (learn 25 recipes)
• Short Order Cook (learn 50 recipes)
• Chef de Partie (learn 75 recipes)
• Sous Chef (learn 100 recipes)
• Chef de Cuisine (learn 160 recipes)
• Iron Chef (learn 200 recipes)
• Ironpaw Chef (learn 240 recipes)
• Performing recipes:
• The Outland Gourmet (make 25 recipes)
• The Northrend Gourmet (make 15 recipes)
• The Northrend Gourmet (2) (make 30 recipes)
• The Northrend Gourmet (3) (make 45 recipes)
• The Cataclysmic Gourmet (make 15 recipes)
• The Cataclysmic Gourmet (2) (make 30 recipes)
• The Pandaren Gourmet (make 15 recipes)
• The Pandaren Gourmet (2) (make 30 recipes)
• The Draenor Gourmet (make 20 recipes)
• The Legion Menu (make 15 recipes)

• Hotfix (2010-12-04): Recipe: Feathered Lure which was purchasable but unlearnable, is removed from vendors.