Cooking

Cooking went from a hobby to a requirement. In Forever, food gives an experience bonus and stat buffs across the whole skill range, and Cooking owns the campfire that every other profession’s camp object plugs into. A Journeyman Campfire (5 slots) needs Cooking 90; an Expert Campfire (10 slots) needs 200. Level it early, on every character.

What it makes

Food that restores health, food that buffs stats, food that gives XP, six herbal teas and six Spirit smoothies, the Cozy Sleeping Bag, and the campfires. 42 new recipes per foreverchanges (44 per zockify), 6 on the Merchant’s Favor vendor. verified

Who wants it

Everyone. Four designated cooks at 200+ for the guild so an Expert Campfire is always available at the raid entrance, plus everyone at 90 for their own dungeon groups. Fishers feed cooks; see Fishing.

Forever changes and new recipes

Item	Skill	Effect	Evidence
Gingerbread Cookie	1	Stat food	verified
Herb Baked Egg	30	Stat food	verified
Roasted Kodo Meat	35	Stat food	verified
Murloc Fin Soup	90	Stat food	verified
Goblin Deviled Clams	125	Stat food	verified
Six herbal teas (Peace Tea to Sage’s Tea)	various	Not stated	verified names
Six Spirit smoothies	various	30 to 90 Merchant’s Favor each at the trade camp	verified
Cozy Sleeping Bag	not stated	Lie in it 3 minutes: +3% XP for 2 hours	verified
Cookie’s Feast	140	Stamina food at camp, needs a Cooking Fire	verified
Fishing foods	various	Six foods that buff Fishing, e.g. Rockscale Cod “+12 Fishing for 15 min”	verified

Which stat each food gives and how much was not captured. The stat categories are Agility, Intellect, Stamina, Strength, spell damage and armor “across the whole skill range.” verified

The campfire

Item	Skill	Slots	Source
Basic Campfire Kit	1	3 objects	Any Cooking trainer: Simple Wood + Flint and Tinder
Journeyman Campfire Kit	90 (Wowhead, classicwowforever) or 140 (foreverchanges) conflict	5 objects	Blueprint (item 273087)
Expert Campfire Kit	200 (Wowhead) or 220 (foreverchanges) conflict	10 objects	Blueprint (item 273101)
Iron Oven	300	“Required for the most advanced cooking recipes”	Blueprint (item 273115)

The level conflict is probably drift between beta builds. Plan for 90 and 200 and be pleasantly unsurprised. classicwowforever: “Level Cooking early: every camp needs a campfire, and the Journeyman and Expert Campfires need 90 and 200 skill.” Full system on Camping.

Leveling path 1 to 300

Beta route per foreverchanges to 225, only 5 Mild and 10 Hot Spices needed. verified The 225 to 300 bracket is vanilla baseline. Trainers in every capital.

Skill	Craft	Mats (rough)	Trainer
1 to 46	Slitherskin Mackerel	~50 Raw Slitherskin Mackerel (fish it in any starter zone)	Any capital. Journeyman at 50
46 to 75	Smoked Bear Meat	~30 Bear Meat, Hot Spices
75 to 100	Rainbow Fin Albacore	~30 Raw Rainbow Fin Albacore	Expert at 125, via the vanilla Expert Cookbook vanilla baseline
100 to 150	Bristle Whisker Catfish	~60 Raw Bristle Whisker Catfish
150 to 175	Bristle Whisker Catfish or Curiously Tasty Omelet	~30 Raptor Egg, Hot Spices
175 to 191	Rockscale Cod	~20 Raw Rockscale Cod	Artisan at 200 via Dirge Quikcleave’s quest (Gadgetzan): 12 Giant Egg, 10 Zesty Clam Meat, 20 Alterac Swiss vanilla baseline
191 to 225	Mithril Head Trout	~40 Raw Mithril Head Trout
225 to 250	Monster Omelet or Spotted Yellowtail	~30 Giant Egg or Raw Spotted Yellowtail, Soothing Spices	vanilla baseline
250 to 275	Grilled Squid or Nightfin Soup	~30 Winter Squid or Raw Nightfin Snapper	vanilla baseline
275 to 300	Runn Tum Tuber Surprise or Lobster Stew	~30 Runn Tum Tuber (Dire Maul) or Darkclaw Lobster	vanilla baseline

Most of the beta route is fish, which is why Cooking and Fishing level together.

Specializations

None.

Best recipes

Journeyman and Expert Campfire Kits: the group’s buff platform.
Cozy Sleeping Bag: +3% XP for 2 hours from a 3-minute lie-down. Best leveling consumable in the game after the Camp Tent.
Cookie’s Feast (140): raid Stamina food at camp.
Stat foods by role: whichever of the Agility / Strength / Intellect / spell damage lines is at your level.
Nightfin Soup and Grilled Squid: vanilla raid food, mp5 and Agility. vanilla baseline
Gourmand (Legacy): food buffs last 100% longer. See Legacy.

Camp objects

Cooking’s camp contribution is the campfire itself (Basic at 1, Journeyman at 90, Expert at 200), Cookie’s Feast at 140, and the Iron Oven at 300. verified

Tips

Buy Mild and Hot Spices in bulk from any cooking vendor; First Aid’s healing potions want them too, so non-cooks will be buying. verified
Level to 90 by the time you run your first dungeon and to 200 by 50 so you are never the group without an Expert Campfire.
Master Chef (Legacy, 50% chance of an extra item) makes the raid’s food supply nearly free.
Fish while waiting for groups. The whole beta route is fish.
The Artisan quest needs 20 Alterac Swiss, sold by cheese vendors in capitals, and Giant Eggs from Hinterlands or Feralas owlbeasts and Zesty Clam Meat from Feralas or Azshara giants. vanilla baseline

Unknown as of 2026-09-24

The food XP bonus percentage.
Per-food stat values.
Journeyman / Expert Campfire skill levels (90 / 200 vs 140 / 220).
Cozy Sleeping Bag skill level and mats.
Whether the Artisan quest is unchanged.
Everything above skill 225.