Cooking: A Taste of Skill
Advancing in cooking isn’t all just collecting ingredients and pushing buttons. In order to advance through the tiers of Cooking and emerge a Grand Master, you must complete the following five quests.
Journeyman: A Taste of Skill, Part I
You get this quest from any Novice Cook (list). To complete this quest you must talk to Alken Chubb at Green Dragon Inn, Bywater in the Shire (31.80S, 69.64W). After you speak with him you will receive Craft Cook Complete Proficiency Tier I which allows you to advance to the next Cooking tier. Pretty simple, huh?
Expert: A Taste of Skill, Part II
You also get this quest from any Novice Cook (list). But for this quest you will be required to learn and use a new recipe, Serene Stew.
To get the recipe for Serene Stew and advance along this quest you must once again talk to Alken Chubb at the Green Dragon Inn (31.80S, 69.64W). It is a lot easier to to gather the ingredients for this quest before you talk to him.
Make sure to pick up 1x Water, 1x Cut of Beef and 2x Taters and 1x Shire Seasonings (for the Spiced Potatoes) before leaving your Novice Cook. You will also need a Yellow Onion which you can farm or buy from the Auction House. The difficult-to-get ingredient for this recipe is a sprig of Mountain Basil found on Weathertop in the Lone-Lands. Weathertop is located northwest of the Forsaken Inn.
For completing this quest you will receive Craft Cook Complete Proficiency Tier II.
Artisan: A Taste of Skill, Part III
To unlock the next cooking skill tier, Tier III, you will once again receive a quest from any Novice Cook (list). This time you must talk to Rollo Hamson who lives in Buckland near the Brandywine Bridge (31.79S, 62.67W). For doing this you will receive Craft Cook Complete Proficiency Tier III.
Superior: After completing the Artisan Quest, Rollo Hamson gives you the following quests, known collectively as The Short Order Cook quest.
- Fill Alken Chubb’s order at The Green Dragon in Hobbiton-Bywater (31.80S, 69.64W).
- 3x Pork Sausage
- 2x Vegetable Medley
- Fill Ruby Hollowbanks’ order at The Floating Log in Frogmorton(31.66S, 68.04W).
- Fill Rollo Bunce’s order at the The Plough and Stars in Brockenborings (27.64S, 68.08W).
- 1x Mushroom Pie
- 3x Stuffed Cabbage
- 1x Spiced Apple Pie
- Fill Pansy Proudfoot’s order at The Golden Perch in Stock (31.98S, 63.79W).
- Fill Esmerelda Burrows’ order at The Bird and Baby, in Michael Delving (33.38S, 75.36W).
When you have completed all these quests return to Rollo Hamson to gain the trait that allows access to the Superior Ovens in Michel Delving. Completing this quests will also allow you to complete the next and final quest below.
Master: A Taste of Skill, Part IV
Jewel Underhill, the Expert Cook in Michel Delving (34.58S, 75.52W), will ask you to speak with Pasco Grubb in Michel Delving (34.6S, 75.6W). He wants you to cook a Roast of Heroes, which is composed of 1x Savory Seasonings and 1x Giant Boar Flank.
The Giant Boar Flank comes from the level 37 Giant Grey Stonehoof boar which you can find in the northern part of Giant Valley in the Trollshaws (6.6S, 34.8W). While the boar itself is not the hardest beast to defeat, this area is exceedingly dangerous so you should bring some friends.
And finally you will receive Craft Cook Complete Proficiency Tier IV, the top tier of Cooking in LOTRO.
Great info. Wish I had the chance to see this a couple of months ago for my alt.
Yes, great info. Thank you for putting this together in such an organized manner.