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Cooking

Cooked fish.

Most fish can be cooked. You will need to know how to cook, and have sufficiently high cooking skill to learn the recipe. To cook, you will need to stand next to a cooking fire (including many braziers in towns and cities). Almost all cooking recipes can be purchased from vendors. If you are training your fishing skill, it is highly recommended that you train cooking at the same time.

While tasty, many cooked fish only recover health and mana when eaten. Consequently they have no special value, and should not normally be auctioned.

Some cooked fish gives a "buff", such as an improvement to attributes, or health or mana regeneration. Many of these dishes are highly valued. Catching, cooking, and selling them at the auction house is often the best way to make gold from fishing.

The prices listed here are for single fish. It is common to sell fish in stacks of 5, 10 or 20. Most people prefer to buy cooked fish. Raw fish may also sell, particularly where the cooking recipe is rare, as is the case for Savory Deviate Delight.

Valuable Buff Food

These cooked fish are often eaten, particularly by those venturing into the most difficult dungeons. All the dishes here are recorded by the scribe Alla' with a median auction house value of at least 2g. Use these prices as a rough guide only: They will vary a lot.

High Value Fish-based Food that Gives Buffs
FishCooked FoodBuffDuration (minutes)Auction Value (cooked - prices vary)Catching
Bonescale SnapperBonescale SnapperSnapper ExtremeSnapper Extreme [NS]40 Hit, 40 Stamina605gWhere to catch »
Darkwater ClamDarkwater ClamDalaran Clam ChowderDalaran Clam Chowder60 Attack Power, 35 Spell Power, 30 Stamina604gWhere to catch »
Deep Sea MonsterbellyDeep Sea MonsterbellyGigantic FeastGigantic Feast [NS]Become larger603gWhere to catch »
Deviate FishDeviate FishSavory Deviate DelightSavory Deviate DelightPirate ("Yaaarrrr") or Ninja ("Flip Out") [2]602gWhere to catch »
Dragonfin AngelfishDragonfin AngelfishBlackened DragonfinBlackened Dragonfin [NS]40 Agility, 40 Stamina608gWhere to catch »
Dragonfin FiletDragonfin Filet [NS]40 Strength, 40 Stamina606g
Fangtooth HerringFangtooth HerringSpicy Fried HerringSpicy Fried Herring [NS]16 MP5, 40 Stamina603gWhere to catch »
Giant Darkwater ClamGiant Darkwater ClamDalaran Clam ChowderDalaran Clam Chowder60 Attack Power, 35 Spell Power, 30 Stamina604gWhere to catch »
Glacial SalmonGlacial SalmonFirecracker SalmonFirecracker Salmon [NS]46 Spell Power, 40 Stamina606gWhere to catch »
Fish FeastFish Feast [NS]80 Attack Power, 46 Spell Power, 40 Stamina6011g
Small FeastSmall Feast [NS]Become smaller602g
Smoked SalmonSmoked Salmon35 Spell Power, 40 Stamina602g
Imperial Manta RayImperial Manta RayBaked Manta RayBaked Manta Ray30 Haste, 40 Stamina602gWhere to catch »
Imperial Manta SteakImperial Manta Steak [NS]40 Haste, 40 Stamina604g
Moonglow CuttlefishMoonglow CuttlefishCuttlesteakCuttlesteak [NS]40 Spirit, 40 Stamina604gWhere to catch »
Musselback SculpinMusselback SculpinFish FeastFish Feast [NS]80 Attack Power, 46 Spell Power, 40 Stamina6011gWhere to catch »
Grilled SculpinGrilled Sculpin60 Attack Power, 40 Stamina602g
Poached Northern SculpinPoached Northern Sculpin [NS]80 Attack Power, 40 Stamina605g
NettlefishNettlefishFish FeastFish Feast [NS]80 Attack Power, 46 Spell Power, 40 Stamina6011gWhere to catch »
Poached NettlefishPoached Nettlefish30 Critical Strike, 40 Stamina603g
Small FeastSmall Feast [NS]Become smaller602g
Spicy Blue NettlefishSpicy Blue Nettlefish [NS]40 Critical Strike, 40 Stamina605g
Rockfin GrouperRockfin GrouperGigantic FeastGigantic Feast [NS]Become larger603gWhere to catch »
Looking for other tasty dishes? The Fish Finder contains a complete list of all Cooked Fish Foods That Give Buffs, including less valuable dishes.

Feasts are party dishes: Place the dish on the ground, and anyone in your group can eat from it. Feasts require cooking skill (425 for Fish Feast, 375 for Gigantic/Small Feasts) and level 70 to use. Since patch 3.1, feasts can be traded.

Many of the best dishes use Northern Spices. These are marked "NS" in the table. Northern Spices can only be gained by completing the Dalaran Cooking daily quests. One quest each day, starting from the cooking trainers in the faction areas of Dalaran. Completing a daily quest gives 1 or 2 Dalaran Cooking Awards, plus a Small Spice Bag. The bag normally contains a few spices, and each Dalaran Cooking Award can be exchanged for 10 Northern Spices. Awards are also used to buy recipes. Read more about the Dalaran Daily Cooking Quests.

Cooking is not the only profession to use materials that can be caught by fishing.

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