Cooking, meals and camp kits

Cooking does not take a primary profession slot. Every meal’s Well Fed buff adds 5% kill experience for 15 minutes.

Last checked: 2026-11-12

Wowhead’s cooking overview is the source for the bonus and the trainer path. Because the buff lasts 15 minutes, you cook often. Basic, Journeyman and Expert campfire kits raise the camp’s item cap to 3, 5 and 10. Cookie’s Feast is the stamina food named in that guide, and the Iron Oven is the advanced recipe. Apprentice and Journeyman ranks come from trainers. Expert, from 150 to 225, uses an Expert Cookbook that costs one silver, from Shandrina for Alliance or Wulan for Horde. Artisan, 225 to 300, is a quest reward. Fishing is the pairing, because the fish recipes sit on that side.

I do not have a fish-by-fish list or a map of pools. The query “how to cook fish” is real, and the honest answer is: catch fish with Fishing, then cook them for the same 5% buff every other meal gives. Named species stay off this page until a source lists them. Camping’s “The Great Outdoors” quest, around level 5, is what sends you to learn Cooking in the first place. That quest is described on the camping page.