The Goldmine of Cooking Dailies
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Heartbourne on Tuesday, March 10, 2009 - 14 Comments Tags: cooking, crafting, gold, profession, raiding
Heartbourne on Tuesday, March 10, 2009 - 14 Comments Tags: cooking, crafting, gold, profession, raiding 
The daily cooking quest varies from day to day. You may have seen Dr. Dorkins recently complete one for Achivementology. However, achievements are not the only benefit of doing a cooking daily quest.One of the greatest draws of the daily cooking quests are the rewards of Northern Spices. All of the best food buffs come from items that are cooked using Northern Spices. And the cooking daily quest is the only way to get them!
If you are doing any serious raiding where you are required to have consumables, it can get expensive. Buying potions, elixirs or flasks, and food can really add up quickly - especially if you are progressing through new content and are subject to dying or wiping. A typical cooking daily will get you between 2 and 6 Northern Spices depending on your luck. If you have extras, you can use Dalaran Cooking Awards to buy Northern Spices in stacks of 10. However, for many players this is not enough. Thus, a market is born for Northern Spices for players who either don't bother to do the cooking dailies or who need more than they can get themselves. Depending on your server, you can get different deals on these. The typical range is 2-6g. If you can get 4 spices a day from luck and 10 more from trading in a Dalaran Cooking Award, you are looking at getting a good 40 gold.
Even if you aren't raiding, there is a good profit to be made in doing your cooking dailies. Any character of level 65 and up with a cooking skill of 375 can cash in, so start early and cash in. Stock up on Chilled Meats and Rhino Meat to prepare for whatever daily might come your way - Awilo Lon'gomba and Katherine Lee await your service!
Reader Comments (14)
I currently have 90 Northern Spices and m going to sell them i had no idea they sold for so much.
oh by the way, First!
wow they sell for alot..glad i am a cook...ty for the blog...ps bob no one really gives a damn if your first
It's good that you point out how good it can be to do daily cooking quests, cause this is helping everyone, if people do them some more after reading this of course. Personally I do the cooking quest every day so I can cook some more, not to earn gold.
If non-cooks (those who are high enough to do the dailies, but doesn't care about cooking) does it for the golds and cooks does it so they can get more recipes and then buys the spices of the ah, then everyone is happy :)
Ugh cooking bores me to shit, but im rich cuase of it... can barely stay awake when cooking or farming anything for it, but my guild loves there fish feast so i keep cookin.
40 gold per day, wouldn't call that a 'goldmine'. :\
@blubbapaul
true, i haven't made much more then 50g a day myself from it, but on the other hand every bit of gold adds up. And it's 40-50g more than i would've had if i didn't do my cooking dailies etc.
they sell for 10g a spice on my server, continuosely, i know cause i'm one of the idiots buying them
lightenings blade eu,
PS do us cooks a favour, sell them in stacks of at least 5 per pop, Any serious cook will buy much more then just one and its a bitch having to click so many buyouts
Aww, and I sold the 90x Chilled meat I had in my bag to the vendor.
yup folks please dont skill your cookin' n dont do those cooking daylies ...go to your local AH n buy my overpriced food, your gold got me 73 mounts so far hehe
Not first!
i myself am not even trained in the first lvl of cooking, but now i wish i were 450(ish)
Well im 450 Cooking and did that in one day, went from 0-450, Alot of running around because i was tired of buying my raiding food. I was looking into this as well Fishing is a big market as well, just the fish you need too make that Fish Feast cost a fortune. But i have tryed too make money off my cooking yet, i mainly supply the guild Raids with it.
Once I get all the cooking recipes, I will most likely look into the market at that time. I still have a ways to go though, so I'm not going to rush it.