Cook

A Cook crafting

Professions
Gathering:
Farmer, Forester, Prospector
Producing:
Cook, Jeweller, Metalsmith, Scholar, Tailor, Weaponsmith, Woodworker
Crafting Guide, Crafted Items

"A long march can be made all the easier with the promise of a good meal at the end. While it may seem a mundane talent, a good cook is every adventurer's best friend!"

Cooking is essential for the survival for all peoples of Middle-earth - but especially Hobbits. Any adventurer can tell you that travelling with Hobbits can be a tiresome task if proper meals have not been provided! However, no matter what your race, a cook can provide food that can help you recover from setbacks like wounds and diseases, increase your Power and Morale regeneration in and out of combat, and even give boosts to your Might and Vitality, or other characteristics.

Associated Vocations: Tinker, Yeoman

A guide to attaining Cook Mastery.

Required Tools

• Cooking Supplies (e.g., Bronze Cooking Supplies)
• Oven
• Campfire may be used for Trail Food recipes, see its article for locations

Materials

A list of all component items that are used to craft Cook recipes: Cook Components

• Novice Cooks sell common cooking ingredients for Apprentice, Journeyman, and Expert tier recipes, and are found near normal ovens.
• Expert Cooks sell rare ingredients for Artisan, Master, and Supreme tier recipes, and are found near Superior Ovens.

NPC Vendors do not sell crops: fruits, vegetables, grains, and tea leaves. These items must be crafted by/obtained from a player character. A Yeoman (a cook who is also a farmer and a tailor) will be able to grow these cooking ingredients using his farming profession, or find them using the Track Crops skill while adventuring. A Tinker (a cook who is also a jeweller and prospector) is not so lucky; he will need to obtain his crop ingredients from another player that has the Farmer profession.

Fruits and Vegetables

These items may be cultivated by Farmers, using a Vegetable field crafting area. They are used by Cooks in crafting food. Cultivating a well-tended field of vegetables (a Critical success result) may also produce special by-products that can be used by Cooks to create special or improved food recipes, or by Scholars to create dyes. Note that locations in the following table are where the crops are commonly found; all wild crops may be found, at times, in all areas of Middle Earth. Critical result crops used for dyes may be seen in the Dyes table.

Crop Type	Item Name	Tier	Standard / Critical Result	Commonly Found Location(s) in the Wild
Blackberry	Bunch of Blackberries	5 Master	Standard	Eregion, Forochel, Angmar, Misty Mountains
Blackberry Honey	Blackberry Honey	5 Master	Critical	Not found in the wild
Blueberry	Bunch of Blueberries	2 Journeyman	Standard	Eregion, North Downs and Lone-lands
Cabbage	Cabbage	1 Apprentice	Standard	Bree-land, The Shire, Ered Luin
Carrot	Fresh Carrot	1 Apprentice	Standard	Bree-land, The Shire, Ered Luin
Cauliflower	Head of Cauliflower	3 Expert	Standard	Lone-lands, Trollshaws, North Downs, Evendim
Golden Shire Tater	Golden Shire Tater	5 Master	Standard	Trollshaws, Angmar, Evendim, Misty Mountains
Green Onion	Green Onion	3 Expert	Standard	Lone-lands, Trollshaws, North Downs, Evendim
Mint	Bundle of Mint Leaves	6 Supreme	Standard	Not found in the wild
Mushroom	Mushroom	1 Apprentice	Standard	Bree-land, The Shire, Ered Luin
Raspberry	Bunch of Raspberries	4 Artisan	Standard	Eregion, Trollshaws, Angmar, Evendim, Misty Mountains
Royal Tater	Royal Tater	6 Supreme	Standard	Not found in the wild
Pea	Green Peas	6 Supreme	Standard	Not found in the wild
Shire Apple	Shire Apple	4 Artisan	Standard	Trollshaws, Angmar, Evendim, Misty Mountains
Strawberry	Bunch of Strawberries	4 Artisan	Standard	Eregion, Trollshaws, Angmar, Evendim, Misty Mountains
Tater	Tater	2 Journeyman	Standard	Eregion, North Downs, Lone-lands
Tea	Bundle of Tea Leaves	6 Supreme	Standard	Not found in the wild
Special Tea Leaves	Fine Tea Leaf  Perfect Tea Leaf  Young Tea Leaf	6 Supreme	Critical	Drops rarely from level 51+ creatures
Yellow Onion	Yellow Onion	1 Apprentice	Standard	Bree-land, The Shire, Ered Luin

* NOTE: Most of these dye plants may drop randomly in a Westfold Farmer's Wild Flower Field, including those that can't otherwise be cultivated.

Grains and Hops

These items may be cultivated by Farmers, using a Grain field crafting area. They are used by Cooks in crafting food and drinks. They are never found in the wild.

Crop Type	Item Name	Tier
Black Barley	Bundle of Black Barley	7 Westfold
Golding Hops	Bunch of Golding Hops	2 Journeyman
North Downs Hops	Bunch of North Downs Hops	1 Apprentice
Oats	Bunch of Oats	2 Journeyman
Pride of Chetwood Hops	Bunch of Pride of Chetwood Hops	3 Expert
Spring Barley	Bundle of Spring Barley	1 Apprentice
Umbel Hops	Bunch of Umbel Hops	5 Master
Winter Barley	Bundle of Winter Barley	1 Apprentice

* NOTE: Most of these dye plants may drop randomly in a Westfold Farmer's Wild Flower Field, including those that can't otherwise be cultivated. Note that the Tier column in the table above refers to the farming tier at which the item is cultivated, and the cooking tier at which the item is introduced. However, crops may also be used for higher tier recipes. For example, Winter Barley is produced by a tier 4 (Artisan) farmer, and Winter Barley Flour is first used by a tier 4 cook to make Chicken Barley Soup, but it is also used in tier 5 (Master) to make Cream of Barley Soup, and in tier 6 (Supreme) to make Lamb and Barley Soup.

Spices and Critical Success

To critically succeed while crafting an item, a Cook must have achieved proficiency in the crafting tier for that item. After gaining proficiency, the base chance to achieve critical success is 5%.

• Using player-crafted Cooking Supplies increases that base chance.
  Click through to the tools index to view the percentage for any given tool.
• Scrolls of crafting lore (produced by a Scholar) give a 1-minute buff, further increasing the chance of a critical success.
  These scrolls provide tiered increases to the critical chance, but they are tiered by player level, not crafting level. Thus, a level 6 Westfold Master Cook can only use the Minor Cooking Lore that gives a 1% critical chance increase, but a level 65 Master Apprentice Cook can use a Scroll of Supreme Cooking Lore that gives a 12.5% increase.
• Campfire Kits give a critical chance increase for 2 minutes, with higher tiers of Kits giving higher bonuses, up to 8%.
• Certain recipes have an optional ingredient, plant sprigs (spices); the type of spice used is based on the crafting level of any given recipe, but using a spice in any level gives a flat (not tiered) increase of 45% to the critical chance.

Spices are special, rare crop ingredients that can be used by a cook to improve the flavor of food, producing critical results. They are infrequently produced in fields of other crops from the same tier (e.g. a Tier 1 Sprig of Allspice can be harvested from any of the other Tier 1 fields, such as carrot and mushroom fields). They can also be rewarded as loot from foes; the spice received is determined by the level of the foe that was defeated.

Item Name	Tier	Levels Dropped	Field Types for Cultivation
Sprig of Allspice	1 Apprentice	1 - 12	Carrot, Lily-of-the-Valley flower, North Downs Hops, Longbottom Leaf, Mushroom, Rushlight Pipe-weed, Spring Barley, Southlinch Pipe-weed, Stonecrop Leaf, Sweet Lobelia Pipe-weed, Yellow Onion
Sprig of Mugwort	2 Journeyman	13 - 23	Blueberry, Cabbage, Golding Hops, Hornblower Pipe-weed, Iris flower, Muddy Foot Pipe-weed, Oat, Southern Star Pipe-weed, Tater, Tighfield Choice Pipe-weed
Clump of Chives	3 Expert	24 - 34	Bluebottle flower, Cauliflower, Dragon's Breath Pipe-weed, Green Onion, Lengalenas Pipe-weed, Old Toby Pipe-weed, Pride of Chetwood Hops, Roper's Twist Pipe-weed, Shire Sweet-leaf, Sweet Galenas Pipe-weed,
Sprig of Parsley	4 Artisan	35 - 43	Amaranth flower, Eagle's Nest Pipe-weed, Gamwich Braid Pipe-weed, Raspberry, Saffron flower, Shire Apple Tree, Strawberry, Winter Barley
Sprig of Thyme	5 Master	44 - 50	Bloodwort, Blackberry, Elder, Golden Shire Tater, Summer Green-weed, Umbel Hops, Wizard's Fire Pipe-weed
Sprig of Woolly Mint	6 Supreme	51 - 65	Fungo's Fuzzy-leaf Pipe-weed, Gold-fire Pipe-weed, Green Pea, Mint, Royal Tater, Tea
Pinch of Westfold Herbs	7 Westfold	65+	Bilberry, Black Barley, Leek

* NOTE: Most of these dye plants may drop randomly in a Westfold Farmer's Wild Flower Field, including those that can't otherwise be cultivated.

Recipes

A complete list of Cook recipe indexes by tier:

Cook Recipe Index
	T1 - Apprentice Cook Recipe Index
	T2 - Journeyman Cook Recipe Index
	T3 - Expert Cook Recipe Index
	T4 - Artisan Cook Recipe Index
	T5 - Master Cook Recipe Index
	T6 - Supreme Cook Recipe Index
	T7 - Westfold Cook Recipe Index
	T8 - Eastemnet Cook Recipe Index
	T9 - Westemnet Cook Recipe Index
	T10 - Anórien Cook Recipe Index
	T11 - Doomfold Cook Recipe Index
	T12 - Ironfold Cook Recipe Index
	T13 - Minas Ithil Cook Recipe Index
	T14 - Gundabad Cook Recipe Index

A complete list of Cook recipes listed alphabetically:

• Cook Recipes

An index of items that can be crafted using Cook recipes

• Cook Items

Crafting Guild

Crafting Guilds are Reputation factions that grant advantages in recipe execution. Reputation is increased by bartering special crafted items. Membership in a Crafting Guild used to be exclusive - you can be a member of 2 crafting guilds at a time (as of Update 25).

Cooks of all levels are eligible to join the Cook's Guild, but the guild recipes require Expert tier and above. To join a crafting guild one must first speak to a Master of Crafting Guilds, and they are always found in the vicinity of a guild hall and at many other locations. Then, travel to Michel Delving's Craft-fair in the Shire and speak with Guild Leader Aesseledh to continue the quest. The Cook's Guild Hall is found at the south-western corner of the craft-fair.
NOTE: since Update 27, players may find the guild NPCs located in the House of Craft in Minas Tirith (Midsummer) ^{[23.2N, 54.9W]} to be preferable to Michel Delving, especially since a Cook's second guildable profession -- Tailor for Yeoman or Jeweller for Tinker -- can also be guilded in the same location in Minas Tirith (Midsummer), thus obviating a separate trip. Minas Tirith (Midsummer) is available to characters of all levels. At Minas Tirith (Midsummer), the repast (Reputation Item) recipes are purchased from the Guild-leader; there is no separate NPC for guild-reputation-item recipes, as there is in other locations. The only downside of Minas Tirith (Midsummer) is that the "Introduction" quests for each guilded profession cannot be turned into the Guild-leader, since those quests require a specific named NPC, who does not reside there.

Quests

Class Quests

• [1] Introduction to Cooking
• [1] Introduction: Cook's Guild

Using Your Skills

• [10] Crafting: Camping Preparations
• [10] Crafting: The Great Pie Crust Robbery
• [10] Crafting: Ned in a Pickle
• [10] Crafting: Mudbottom's High Standards
• [10] Crafting: Steambeard's Hungry Work
• [15] Crafting: Seward Proudfoot's First Breakfast

NPCs

Novice Cooks

Name	Location	Region
Esilia Diggerly	Combe Crafting Hall	Bree-land
Gil Greenbush	Three-farrow Crafting Hall	Bree-land
Myrtle Brandybuck	Buckland	Bree-land
Dofri	Gondamon	Ered Luin
Faengamil	Celondim	Ered Luin
Gamall	Thorin's Hall - The Maker's Hall	Ered Luin
Islífur	Thorin's Gate, Crafting Hall	Ered Luin
Bess Harpham	Ost Forod	Evendim
Ruby Peabody	Tinnudir (Keep)	Evendim
Wilibald Goodchild	Oatbarton	Evendim
Elin	Great Lodge of Sûri-kylä	Forochel
Aesbrennil	Craft-hall of Esteldín	North Downs
Novice Cook	Trestlebridge	North Downs
Jaspera Noakes	Bywater	The Shire
Petunia Greenhand	Michel Delving's Craft-fair	The Shire
Walkelin Bolger	Brockenborings	The Shire
Wanno Proudfoot	Budgeford	The Shire
Filegnaneth	The Hall of Fire	Trollshaws

Expert Cooks

Named Expert Cook NPCs. There are numerous unnamed cooks as well.

NPC	Location	Region
Aessel	Caras Galadhon	Lothlórien
Aesseryn	Three-farrow Crafting Hall (Bree)	Bree-land
Aeswë	The Vineyards of Lórien	Lothlórien
Bróthir	Twenty-first Hall	Moria
Déorthryth	Ost Guruth	Lone-lands
Jewel Underhill	Michel Delving's Craft-fair	The Shire
Minainir	Ost Galadh	Mirkwood