Cooking Basics Guide - Bosses, Fashion, Vendors, and more!

This is a guide detailing all the ins and outs of cooking. This will get you started cooking and familiarized with all the NPCs.

What is it?

Cooking is the new skill introduced in the Celtic Heroes Food of the Gods update on November 7, 2017.
This skill allows you to cook food that, when eaten, instantly replenishes health, energy, or offers a stat boost (examples: damage boost, stat boost, hp/energy regen).
As you cook higher level recipes, the food you cook will give more of a bonus.
Food that gives a stat bonus lasts for 5 minutes, and the effects are cancelled upon death.

Is there a Leveling Guide?

Yes there is! Click here to see a complete leveling guide from level 1 to 170, which takes you to the end of the cooking quest chain.

The Ability Bar Explained

The cooking ability bar has 3 sections

	What is it?	What does it let you do?	How do you increase it?
Cooking Lvl	The level of experience you have in cooking	Cook higher level food.	Successfully cook food. Do not burn it.
Proficiency	The amount of ability you have in cooking food	Not burn food as often.	Successfully cook food. Do not burn it.
Mastery	A critical success in cooking	Cook exquisite food more often.	Cook exquisite food.

Using a Knowledge elixir will make you gain Cooking XP faster
Using a Wisdom elixir will make you gain Cooking Proficiency faster
Using a Cooking Extract will make you gain Cooking Mastery faster

What do you mean I can burn my food?

Don't worry! Although there is a chance to ruin your food (which makes it inedible), there is also a chance of a critical success. As stated above, the cooking proficiency ability lowers the chance of burning our food, and the cooking mastery ability raises the chance of getting a success result above normal.
The table below shows the types of successes you can get while cooking food.

	Result Type	Stat boost	Stats Example using Bara Brith
Burnt	Fail	None	None
Normal	Success	Normal	+ 96 Dmg, +80 HP regen per tick
Exquisite	Critical Success	1.5 x Normal	+ 144 Dmg, +120 HP regen per tick
Perfected	Rare Success	2.0 x Normal	+192 Dmg, +160 HP regen per tick

Where do I start cooking?

Cooking takes place in the tavern. There are ovens in the kitchen that you will cook at.

Start at Gideon Ramsford. He is the cooking quest giver. He will get you started cooking, and he will send you in search of cooking ingredients.

Click here to see the level 1 to 170 cooking guide

Cooking Ingredients?

You need to gather ingredients to cook food. What ingredients you need depend on the recipe that you're cooking. The recipes come from cooking quests, buying from a vendor, and Cooking Bosses. This is a list of all the ingredients that you need to go from level 1-100.

Where do I get these ingredients?

Oats, barley, wheat, and lentils are free. You can find them in the fields by Highshore Village.

There are other supplemental ingredients you can buy from vendors.

Grocer Ian Cresse	Price	Farm Goods Erin Wyse	Price	Import Goods Kiandra Morven	Price
Onion	4	Butter	7	Ginger	12
Peas	9	Cheese	11	Sugar	15
Leek	10	Cream	21	Raisins	18
Carrot	12	Milk	23	Honey	20
King Bolete	26	Eggs	25	Dried Fruit	30
Spinach Leaf	20

Are there any other vendors?

Delia Dermont - Recipe Trader

Recipes	Level	Price
Rabbit Pie Recipe Book	1	25
Lamb Casserole Recipe	20	25
Roast Beef Recipe Book	30	50
Cheese Rarebit Recipe Book	40	50
Venison Stew Recipe Book	50	75
Cream of Pea Soup Recipe Soup	60	75
Black Pudding Recipe Book	70	100
Boar Roast Recipe Book	80	100
Cream of Carrot Soup Recipe Book	90	250
Spinach Pancake Recipe Book	100	250
Rare Fruit Salad Recipe Book	110	500
Granola Recipe Book	120	500
Warbeast Omelette Recipe Book	130	1000
Sweet Roll Recipe Book	140	1000
Wyvern Egg Souffle Recipe Book	150	2500
Bara Brith Recipe Book	160	2500

What are special ingredients (extracts)?

When you are cooking, there is a check box where you can add in a special ingredient called an Extract. This is to prevent your food from burning.
When your food burns, you receive no experience or ability points from cooking it, and you cannot eat it.
You buy special ingredients from the recipe trader Delia Dermont at the tavern bar
Your recipes start out needed Garnet Extract, and as you get more difficult recipes the type of extract you need will increase. See your recipe for its requirements.
Extracts DOUBLE the chance of creating exquisite food.

Special Ingredient	Price
Garnet Extract	10
Emerald Extract	20
Sapphire Extract	40
Ruby Extract	80
Crystal Extract	160

Are there any other cooking quests?

Daily Cooking Quest - Ashley Marriott (in kitchen)

You complete this quest by handing in exquisite food that is level appropriate.
You get xp and a cooking cache for completing it.
There is a rare chance at getting a cooking fashion token.

Repeatable Cooking Quest - James Fallow (Tavern Bar)

You complete this by handing in stacks of 5 regular food items.
This food is from the recipes in the quest chain.
You can repeat this as many times as you want, as often as you want.
This is a good way to level up. You get 10 times the amount of xp as if you cooked one.

Cooking Bosses?

There are bosses in Gelebron's tower that drop rare recipes (very rarely) and rare ingredients. The bosses respawn in 15 to 30 minutes. These recipes include:

Caviar (240 dex and pierce dmg)
Pavlova (240 foc and all resists)
Goose Liver (lvl 170; 240 vit and defence)
And many more!

These bosses are located at:

Culinarian Rajek - 190/5* - Infernal Armouries - Top North Mage room
Culinarian Bifron - 200/5* - Alchemical Quarters - North fork of hallway outside Krothur
Culinarian Forrus - 210/5* - Summoning Chambers - Top North Ironghast room
Culinarian Zephar - 220/5* - Forbidden Halls - Left prong of forked trail at entrance, by chest.

Cooking Fashion?

A rare reward from the daily quest is a Token of Dagdha. You turn these in to Desmond Kilpatrick just inside the tavern entrance to obtain cooking fashion. The more rare fashion requires more rare tokens.