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[[File:Cook.jpg|thumb|200px|left| A Cook crafting]]
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''"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 [[Wound|wounds]] and [[Disease|diseases]], increase your [[ICPR|Power]] and [[ICMR|Morale]] regeneration in and out of combat, and even give boosts to your [[Might]] and [[Vitality]], or [[Character Stats|other characteristics]].

A guide to attaining [[Cook Mastery]].
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== Required Tools ==

* [[Cooking Supplies]] (e.g., [[Item:Bronze Cooking Supplies|Bronze Cooking Supplies]])
* [[Oven]]
* [[Camp-fire]] may be used for Trail Food recipes, see its article for locations

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== Materials ==
''A list of all component items that are used to craft Cook recipes:'' [[:Category:Cook Component Items|Cook Components]]

* [[NPC Novice Cook|Novice Cooks]] sell common cooking ingredients for Apprentice, Journeyman, and Expert tier recipes, and are found near normal ovens.
* [[NPC Expert Cook|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 ===
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=== Grains and Hops ===
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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 [[Critical success|critically succeed]] while crafting an item, a Cook must have achieved [[Crafting#Proficiency|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. <br />''Click through to the tools index to view the percentage for any given tool. ''
*[[Crafting Lore Index|Scrolls of crafting lore]] (produced by a [[Scholar]]) give a 1-minute buff, further increasing the chance of a critical success. <br />''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 [[Item:Scroll_of_Minor_Cooking_Lore|Minor Cooking Lore]] that gives a 1% critical chance increase, but a level 65 Master Apprentice Cook can use a [[Item:Scroll_of_Supreme_Cooking_Lore|Scroll of Supreme Cooking Lore]] that gives a 12.5% increase.''
*[[Camp-fire Kits Index|Camp-fire 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.

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== Recipes ==
{{:Cook Recipes}}

== 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).<ref name="update25">LOTRO Forums: [https://forums-old.lotro.com/forums/showthread.php?676557-Update-25-Crafting-Change-Notice Update 25 Crafting Change Notice]</ref>

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 [[:Category:Master of Crafting Guilds NPCs|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.<br>
'''NOTE''': since [[Update_27_-_June_30,_2020|Update 27]], players may find the guild NPCs located in [[the House of Craft]] in [[Minas Tirith (Midsummer)]] {{Tooltip Coords|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 ==
{{:Category:Cook Quests}}

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== NPCs ==
=== Novice Cooks ===
{{:Category:Novice Cook NPCs}}

=== Expert Cooks ===
{{:Category:Expert Cook NPCs}}


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