Cooking — Mists of Pandaria

WoW Classic · Mists of Pandaria
Updated 21 October 2026

This page uses the Mists of Pandaria ruleset. The skill numbers below are profession skill, not character level. Train the next profession rank before reaching your current cap.

Leveling Cooking

At character level 85, Sungshin Ironpaw at Halfhill offers a shortcut from Cooking 1 to 520 using mostly her vendor ingredients, plus Golden Carp and Wildfowl Breast. Learn her next available recipe, cook while it awards skill, and train the next profession rank whenever you reach its cap. The table below continues from the usual expansion starting point of 500.

Skill	Recipe	Ingredients / farming links
500–520	Learn Sungshin Ironpaw’s next orange recipe; cook until it turns yellow, then learn the next recipe	Golden Carp; Wildfowl Breast; Instant Noodles; Needle Mushrooms; Pandaren Peach; Silkworm Pupa; Yak Milk; Rice; Red Beans; Farm Chicken; Barley; Ginseng
520–525	Complete So You Want to Be a Chef with five Sliced Peaches, then Ready for Greatness with five Rice Pudding	Pandaren Peach; Rice; Yak Milk
525–550	Ginseng Tea — unlock Way of the Brew with Bobo Ironpaw	Ginseng
550–576	Jade Witch Brew	Jade Squash; Witchberries
576–600	Banquet of the Brew	100 Year Soy Sauce; Green Cabbage; Witchberries

Ingredient links show where to gather the inputs. Quantities depend on the recipe and the number of attempts; use the recipe window for the amount consumed per craft. Buy vendor supplies such as thread, parchment, dyes and vials from profession suppliers.

Keep bolts, powders, grinding stones and other intermediate crafts for later recipes. Yellow recipes may require extra attempts. Vendor recipes and specialization recipes must be learned before you can use them.

Farm the materials

References: WoW-Professions

Other Classic expansions

How the six Ways work

Brew, Grill, Oven, Pot, Steamer and Wok each have a separate skill bar. Your overall Cooking skill follows your highest Way, so the Brew route above is enough to reach 600. You may learn the other Ways later for their different meals. Deliver one Ginseng to Bobo Ironpaw to begin Way of the Brew.

Gather ingredients near Halfhill