107376-any-cooks-out-there-have-any-good-guides

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So lately I've been farming mats for my Brightlands stew that I learned for raid food, but I'd like to fill out some more of the tech tree to have the perks of mat refunds etc...
 
Well I'm completely lost! I figured I would go back to Celestion/Algoroc and buy the recipes of the chef, but none of the recipes have to do with the zone, so I can't cook 50x of those meals for my tier point! Where do I even start getting the recipes for each zone? 
 
I've heard some of them are world drops, but I have no idea where to start filling out the tech tree, hopefully some chefs have a good guide somewhere.	
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Most of the zone recipes come from reputation vendors, not the Chef NPC. For the ones that only drop, see either the AH or here.
Apart from that, I think at level 50 your progression should be:Generic bulk cooking (300 of every type) => Hybrid Cooking => Cooking I - V  and THEN the regional recipes. They're the most difficult ones (because of the rare materials required), so you want all the talents you can get to complete them.
 
When you've reached that stage, look at which regional recipe's ingredients are the easiest to acquire, then cook 50 of it.
 
And the very last step is regional discovery completion. 
 
All of this is kind of common sense in hindsight, but I guess as a novice chef, it can be hard to wrap your head around it. :)	
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I disagree. You should do cooking 1-4 first-if you are level 50 anyway. Those completions give you the extra components that actually help you to hit the targets easier.
 
When I first started cooking, I would make whatever I had the ingredients to make. However, this resulted in some unreachable recipes in the upper levels. When I finally completed the cooking 1 box, I had more options in the moves that got me further into the target areas. 
 
Also of note: the 300 food items, everything that is meat based counts under meat chef etc. So, it would really make sense to try to complete it last. While you are discovering meat, poultry, seafood and vegetarian meals, they are counting towards the end goal.
 
As mentioned, there are lots of faction based recipes. If the faction vendor sells the meal, chances are they have the recipe. Make sure you do your dailies (at 50) and do the r12 containment event as much as you can. That is my bottleneck right now-Malgrave Initiative faction that ONLY comes from the r12 containment event.
 
Lastly, there are a few talents I would recommend specifically. First, reduced meat costs. This is particularly helpful when you need to do a meal that requires low drop rate meats (or whatever) that you need more than 1. Unfortunately, you are screwed for poultry as it is at the bottom of the tree and unfortunately, one of the most frustrating meats you need is poultry. Just remember there are some meats that drop off of 1 mob name only rather than the whole subset of say birds in that zone. So, jabbithole is your friend! The other talent I would highly recommend is the one that allows you 4 moves instead of 3. That helps a lot! If you are leveling up, the talents to increase effectiveness of moves helps also. There were a few elder meals/special meals that I just could not hit the target. My screen was so full of arrows, I was no longer sure where I was hitting or where the target might be relative to my arrow! So, I respecced for accuracy and I found it in like 2-3 tries (after I turned off my addon that keeps the arrows on the board after you close it).
 
It's a frustrating "hobby" for little gains though. The most wanted food is the 67 stat food that requires no skill to make (just hit craft!) and is easily gained from festivals. No one wants your food! Fair warning!	
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I disagree. You should do cooking 1-4 first-if you are level 50 anyway. Those completions give you the extra components that actually help you to hit the targets easier.
 
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Farming Roan steaks has proven to be one of the most frustrating wildstar activities thus far :P
 
What is the main appeal of leveling cooking?
As far as I can see there is no talent or perk that can make my food 'stronger' (e.g. more than +67 to a stat). The choice meat and Heartichoke required to make my +67 food drops often enough during dailies. 
I'm skilling up cooking just for the sake of skilling it up, as I'm a 'completionist', but I struggle to see a decent reward for achieving it.	
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			Expert Chef is one of the last non-raid achievements you can get realm first on. I know I got mine.  B)	
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			Do you actually get a notification that you are realm first?	
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			Yep you do. 	
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Shame they messed it up for dominion, we can't get Algoroc soup as its BoP/rep item.
There are 2 datascape meals too I don't have, does anyone have them?
 
I have cooking 1-5 and all the 300's done and hybrid meals done, regional ones look a nightmare so haven't started on them.  I'm just storing food on alts, mostly the high level food from thickets.	
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Then you can get started on Cooking I-V. You'll unlock Experimental Chef after just Cooking I, which will make the other tiers that much easier.
Depending on the price of fish, you can delay the Seafood Chef bulk talent I guess. Holding off on all of them is just silly though.
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Hmm...my posts don't like quotes! So, Tenner, I can't quote your post in response to mine. You do make good points, but, you also get sooo much of the generic meat farming that it is pretty easy to do w/o the AH. It's the only meat you can get tons of anyway lol.
 
But, then all your failures in finding recipes are pointless ha ha. I just found cooking 1-4 more useful and doing 300 meals at a time tedious. Of course, at some point, you just have to do them to finish them.
 
I was actually really surprised that I got the realm first cooking achievement. At that point, I still lacked the grimvault 50 meals as well as the class cooking one (which I still lack-darn malgrave initiative faction!) and the raiding boxes. It was fairly late in the game. But, yeah, you get the notification and about a million tells from your server mates congratulating you and/or asking you questions about it!	
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When you've reached that stage, look at which regional recipe's ingredients are the easiest to acquire, then cook 50 of it.
 
 
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I'm at this part and missing one talent to get reduced meat on recipes. Tried farming with a survivalist on lower areas and, honestly, dunno what is easier to acquire. The drop rate is so low on everything....
 
What did you guys farm?
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Yes, I got what he meant. I just asked what region only ingredient you guys farmed (easily) to get 50 done so I could get the next talent, making it easier to complete everything else.
Maybe I didn't read it well, but all region recipes require some sort of ingredient that is not the basic type of meat/vegetable/seafood/bug/poultry. The AH doesn't have those local ingredients in quantity, thus my need to farm them.
 
You can count! I followed his and your advice and got I-V, all the 300, both hybrids and special diet chef (AH had ingredients...)
 
 
Just asked advice on what was easier to farm...
 
In the end I farmed stumpkin root, which was not that painful. Got my meat chef talent. Also finished Algoroc recipes. Now 4 more talents for Bug Chef.	
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I found Algoroc one of the toughest ones tbh.
 
Idk if this is because it was my first one, and I hadn't expected low droprates, or if it's because of low Roan spawnrates.
 
Either way, next zones are easier until you get to Farside and Hookfoot meat.
 
Protip: use catalyst for anything that involves Hookfoot meat :D
 
In fact use catalysts for any recipes that require hard to get meat.	
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Thanks!
 
Any trouble going to dominion areas to get recipe drops?	
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Thanks!
 
Any trouble going to dominion areas to get recipe drops?
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