Chef crafting

[JasonLa]

I was curious about the chef and so I looked on the wiki to see what it could make. Well seeing as there appear to be like possible 100 different items I figure to better fulfill the curiosity and understand what kinds of stuff the chef makes I would ask on the forum here for someone familiar with the chef to give some basic run down of the kinds of stuff. For instance in lotro there are basically just basic stat buff foods and health/power regen foods. I get the feeling from seeing how many different things the chef makes it's a bit more complex than that.

[Fae]

The food you make from cooking is two different types:

* Combine ingredients together to make another type of ingredient. (Eg, craft white frosting, which lets you craft chocolate frosting, which lets you craft cake! )
* Combine ingredients together to make food. (eg, Cake)

Food gives buffs which ranges anywhere from extended condition duration to 40% more gold dropped. All food will give an XP boost alongside one or two other random effects and can last anywhere from a few minutes to an hour.

[JasonLa]

Is it tedious and or expensive to get the mats for chef? It sounds like it might be worthwhile if it doesn't take significant time dedication to obtaining mats alongside doing content and or drain you of your hard earned coin to learn all the stuff.

[Fae]

There was a massive overhaul to the cooking profession in last night's update so things are slightly different now. They took some ingredients from Karma vendors and put them into loot bags across the world instead. So you can't bulk buy things like butter for karma, which was used in a lot of food for easy crafting. A lot of ingredients are account bound now, and there's the random element from the loot bags.

I reckon that if you have a well traveled character who was harvesting everything and anything, then you shouldn't have many problems with it. I liked cooking a lot more than the other crafting disciplines, that's for sure. If you like exploring and chasing jotun out of their cabbage patches, then cooking is for you.

[JasonLa]

I'm just overwhelmed looking at the wiki page and it's like where do you start? Unlike with the other professions it's not so obvious where the mats are coming from either other than the plant nodes. So I'm concerned I'm going to have to hunt down mats a lot in order to make anything. But the stuff you can make seems like it would be of benefit to have. And earlier than later.

[RabidCoqui]

Butter is dropping like crazy... I'm gonna grease myself up and run nekkid through Ascalon!

I just started my chef today and it's been fun since I can actually discover several recipes from the start.

[nkuvu]

A lot of the base ingredients (flour, sugar, water, salt, et cetera) are sold by the master chef for coin. The vendor also sells some items for karma, but as Fae noted it's a lot less than it was a day or two ago.

Lots of ingredients are sold from heart NPCs. For instance, I finally looked up where to buy celery this evening, because I hadn't found it -- turns out I simply overlooked it. Doh. Other ingredients will be drops and/or gathering. Slabs of red meat or poultry come from killing beasties. Cinnamon and black peppercorns come from gathering wood. Butter shows up in the bags you get -- typically from killing bandits or centaurs or the like.

If you have a fair bit of money, you could simply buy anything that's a drop through the trading post. You'd still have to get the karma sold items for yourself, though, as those are all account bound when you buy them. But you can mouse over the items in the collectible tab. Anything that's listed as "account bound" is from a karma vendor, anything that isn't... either sold by a vendor for coin, or a drop.

Honestly I think it's the single most fun profession. But I'm also not trying to max it out quickly, just puttering around here and there when I find a new ingredient.

[Ora]

I'm just overwhelmed looking at the wiki page and it's like where do you start? Unlike with the other professions it's not so obvious where the mats are coming from either other than the plant nodes. So I'm concerned I'm going to have to hunt down mats a lot in order to make anything. But the stuff you can make seems like it would be of benefit to have. And earlier than later.

Actually there is a ton of info on your questions in the internet. Enough to get my chef to lvl 400 within a few days before the recent fix.
Some of the info is outdated now, some of the recipes don't work, but most is still valid. Whats missing in the update notes is: the ingredients that moved from vendor to drops aren't bound anymore. So expect seeing them in the Trade Post
Besides, butter, one of the key ingredients for fast levelling drops like crazy, (edit, someone was faster there...)

This list of cooking recipes is a good start, than you simply look up where to find the ingredients. The official wiki has a lot of the info where to find ingredients.

Spoiler

list of cooking recipes: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/...kE&output=html

[JasonLa]

Thanks for the link that list looks like it will help out a lot since it is sorted by crafting rank/lvl. I think that plus the wiki should get me a good start.