Cooking is the cheapest profession to level. This road cooks fish all the way: raw fish is cheap at the Auction House and the fishing suppliers sell every recipe.
Do not fish? Switch to the meat road at the top of the step list: wolves, coyotes, clams and buzzards instead.
Good to know
Raw fish is cheap at the Auction House, and Cooking and Fishing suppliers sell the recipes.
Expert Cooking (skill 125): book Expert Cookbook, 1g from Shandrina (Alliance, Ashenvale) / Wulan (Horde, Desolace).
Artisan Cooking (skill 200, the quest at 225, character level 35): quest Clamlette Surprise from Dirge Quikcleave in Gadgetzan.
Orange always gives a point, yellow usually does, green only now and then. The counts include spares for the yellow and green crafts.
1–50Brilliant Smallfish
50–100Keepers
100–175Keepers
175–225Keepers
225–275Keepers
275–300Keepers
Step 1 of 6 · skill 1–50
Brilliant Smallfish
Stop at50
Make 49 to go from 1 to 50. It is orange until 45 and yellow after that. Most yellow crafts still give a point; the count has a few spares for the ones that do not. Buy the recipe from one of the vendors below for 42c.
The first step is open to everyone. The rest of the Cooking road, with every count, zone and vendor and the shopping list for the whole road, is for Ledger keepers. Keepers keep the addon free for everyone else.
Craft×49
Charred Wolf MeatOr this one
Materialsfor 49
Raw Brilliant SmallfishFishing×49
Recipe from
Catherine LelandFishing SupplierStormwind City55, 69.4
Sewa MistrunnerFishing SupplierThunder Bluff55.2, 48
Nyalah BrightfireCookZephras Isle60.6, 72.6
Also works here
Herb Baked EggKnown from the start
Where the materials come from
Fishing: Dun Morogh 60%, Mulgore 60%, Elwynn Forest 59%, Tirisfal Glades 45%, Teldrassil 26%