Cook

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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.

A guide to attaining Cook Mastery.

Required Tools


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.
  • 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.

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
T15 - Umbar Cook Recipe Index
A complete list of Cook recipes listed alphabetically:
An index of items that can be crafted using 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).[1]

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

Using Your Skills


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