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Master of Pandaren Cooking

Obtain 600 skill points in all six Ways of Pandaren cooking.

Criteria

	Master of the Grill
	Master of the Pot
	Master of the Oven

	Master of the Wok
	Master of the Steamer
	Master of the Brew

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You shall be granted the title ", Master of the Ways"

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Comment by Syio

I was hoping the new Cooking title would be 'Iron Chef', but this'll do nicely!

Comment by Puthir

A title that can be used in many ways.
The ideal brag moment when your in a battleground with 0 deaths, wich also in a way will make you "The Master Of The Ways"

Personally I can't wait till this title goes live, I'll be cooking as if my stomach is aching of hunger.

Comment by Netn

I earned this yesterday on october 4th. It takes alot of farming but you can speed up the process a lot by creating Bundle of Groceries and turning them in for Ironpaw Tokens. The empty Bundle of Groceries can be bough from Merchant Cheng in Halfhill.

You exchange Bundle of Groceries for one Ironpaw Token by talking to Nam Ironpaw at Halfhill.

You can then exchange your Ironpaw Tokens for various other cooking materials which you will need to max out all the different ways of cooking.

In my case, i fished my way there but you can hand in almost any cooking ingridient.

Here's a list of items you can combine into Bundle of Groceries:

Fishes:
Emperor Salmon x20
Jade Lungfish x20
Giant Mantis Shrimp x20
Reef Octopus x20
Redbelly Mandarin x20
Tiger Gourami x20
Jewel Danio x20
Krasarang Paddlefish x20
Golden Carp x60

Meats:
Wildfowl Breast x20
Raw Tiger Steak x20
Raw Turtle Meat x20
Raw Crab Meat x20
Mushan Ribs x20
Crocolisk Belly x20

Vegetables:
Juicycrunch Carrot x100
Scallions x100
Green Cabbage x100
Mogu Pumpkin x100
Red Blossom Leek x100
Witchberries x100
Striped Melon x100
White Turnip x100
Jade Squash x100
Pink Turnip x100

Comment by Soeroah

Presumably, due to account-wide achievements, you can specialise in a different Way across different characters- Grill for Strength users, other Ways for other primary-stat classes- and get the achievement without doing it all on a single character.

If anyone has confirmation?

Comment by tinytimterokkar

Just a heads up for anyone that doesn't already know.
You can trade in Spirits of Harmony for Ironpaw Tokens from the Spirits of harmony vendor in Shrine of the Seven Stars and Shrine of the Two Moons.

Comment by Cowoth

From 575 cooking skill to 600, you need to start cooking banquets. The required ingredients are a handful to farm or grow. I made a list that itemizes the ingredients by each Way and the sum total below when I started stocking up for the achieve. You will also need Ironpaw tokens for the 100 year soy sauce.

Banquet of the Grill
5x 100 Year Soy Sauce
50x Redbelly Mandarin
50x Raw Crab Meat
250x White Turnip

Banquet of the Wok
5x 100 Year Soy Sauce
50x Giant Mantis Shrimp
50x Raw Crocolisk
250x Red Blossom Leek

Banquet of the Pot
5x 100 Year Soy Sauce
50x Reef Octopus
50x Mushan Ribs
250x Juicycrunch Carrot

Banquet of the Steamer
5x 100 Year Soy Sauce
50x Emperor Salmon
50x Wildfowl Breast
250x Jade Squash

Banquet of the Oven
5x 100 Year Soy Sauce
50x Krasarang Paddlefish
50x Raw Turtle Meat
250x Mogu Pumpkin

Banquet of the Brew
5x 100 Year Soy Sauce
250x Green Cabbage
250x Witchberries

Total ingredients required to get all Ways to 600

30x 100 Year Soy Sauce

Fish
50x Redbelly Mandarin
50x Giant Mantis Shrimp
50x Reef Octopus
50x Emperor Salmon
50x Krasarang Paddlefish

Meat
50x Raw Crab Meat
50x Raw Crocolisk
50x Mushan Ribs
50x Wildfowl Breast
50x Raw Turtle Meat

Vegetables
250x White Turnip
250x Red Blossom Leek
250x Juicycrunch Carrot
250x Jade Squash
250x Mogu Pumpkin
250x Green Cabbage
250x Witchberries

Comment by la7eralus

After completing the intro to MOP cooking quests at Halfhill, and 6 required quests to learn the various "Way" specializations, you should be at approximately 535 cooking skill (Assuming you started at 525 cooking). The following are the TOTAL materials required to raise all specializations from 535 to 600. Details pertaining to 576-600 skill and banquet material #'s are taken from Cowoth's posting.

Starting at 535 skill in each way:
Cook the first learned recipe for each way 15 times to 550 skill.
Cook the second learned recipe for each way 13 times to 576 skill.
Cook the third learned recipe (a LESSER banquet) for each way 5 times to 600 skill.

30x 100 Year Soy Sauce
15x Raw Tiger Steak
350x Juicycrunch Carrot
28x Jade Lungfish
65x Giant Mantis Shrimp
78x Wildfowl Breast
15x Ginseng
76x Krasarang Paddlefish
65x Witchberries
315x Jade Squash
63x Reef Octopus
63x Emperor Salmon
65x Scallions
63x Raw Turtle Meat
65x Striped Melon
50x Redbelly Mandarin
50x Raw Crab Meat
50x Raw Crocolisk Belly
50x Mushan Ribs
250x White Turnip
250x Red Blossom Leek
250x Mogu Pumpkin
250x Green Cabbage

Comment by Chenpochi

As a Pandaren Monk with the Gourmand racial passive, i can, as of Patch 5.1, now train each of the "Ways" of Pandaren cooking at 600 skill points, instead of 615 like before. However, the achievements for obtaining 600 skill points in each of the "Ways", such as Master of the Oven, still isn't giving me credit until, (i'm assuming) 615 skill points. I have as yet to try cooking any of the max level recipes that require 600 skill points to train, such as Chun Tian Spring Rolls, since the patch, but the only criteria mentioned in any of the achievements is to reach 600 skill points, (not reach 600 skill points and train/cook the 600 skill point recipe!) Am i just not understanding? and maybe having one of my brain farts? Future edits forthcoming, i'm sure!

*Edit - I didn't feel like posting this under each of the "Ways" achievement pages, so i put it here, where all 6 of them are shown as criteria above! ;-) Also, i didn't bother submitting a ticket to a WoW GM because of the length of time involved to get a response of, "We are aware of this issue, and are currently....blahblahblah..."

*Edit #2 - Just got 615 skill points in Way of the Steamer and received Master of the Steamer, confirming my above assumption! Another minor achievement bug for Blizzard to fix! Wonder how long this one will take?

Comment by jilted

I made a google docs spreadsheet with this info to track items as I fished, farmed, and harvested. It definitely came in handy since so many items are needed to make 5 of each!

Comment by aalwein

To keep track of all these resources and to find out exactly how many more I needed to complete most of the achievements, I built a comprehensive spreadsheet covering Friend on the Farm, Master of Pandaren Cooking, ! To Be a Master, and various additional quests that revolve around Pandaren cooking. This spreadsheet will track a complete listing of all the ingredients required to accomplish maxing out your farmer friendships, hitting 600 in all Ways of cooking, and becoming a Master cook by cooking each of the six 600-skill recipes. The spreadsheet should expand over time as I complete more quests.

Tillers and Pandaren Cooking Reference Guide

This spreadsheet was inspiried by Thaildl over in the WoWhead comments.

Comment by luxary

If you are pandaren you need to obtain 615 skill points in all of ways to get this achievement.

Comment by tibbyjudy

How to get the stuff! (since people seem to be relying on Ironpaw Tokens...)

100 Year Soy Sauce - Can only be bought from Nam Ironpaw in Halfhill. 1 Ironpaw Token = one soy sauce.

Fish!
You will need Redbelly Mandarin, Emperor Salmon, Krasarang Paddlefish, Jade Lungfish, Giant Mantis Shrimp, and Reef Octopus. For the first four (freshwater) fish, I recommend first traveling to the pool on one of the big islands in northwestern Townlong Steppes. That's the only place I was able to find Redbelly Mandarin, and schools of Emperor Salmon and Krasarang Paddlefish spawned there even more frequently than the Mandarin. You can fish those while you're waiting. Once you've exhausted that pool, a great place to find Paddlefish is in the river bordering Krasarang Wilds and Valley of the Four Winds. I just flew along the river (carefully avoiding Galleon) and looked for spawns. Jade Lungfish is most easily found in the Jade Forest and I was done with that pretty quickly (again, rivers). For saltwater fish, your best bet is to fly along the edge of the continent, especially the Jade Forest and Krasarang Wilds.

Other Meat!
Raw Crab Meat is best farmed on the southern shore of Krasarang Wilds. You can just sit there killing Viseclaws to your heart's content. It took me about an hour to farm the crab meat I needed there.
Raw Crocolisk Belly is a little more difficult, but there are areas on the southern shore of the Jade Forest that are great for farming. Most of the spawns there are low-level and passive as well :)
Mushan Ribs, Wildfowl Breast, and Raw Turtle Meat can all be found just north of Halfhill in Valley of the Four Winds. If you go to the area west of the Pools of Purity, there are a TON of passive turtles near a pool. They have a really fast respawn rate so I just ran around killing them for like an hour and a half to get the turtle meat I needed. Nearby are Mushan fighting each other, also passive. If you're lazy like me you can wait for one to get the other's health down a little ways before pulling it and you won't pull the other. For Wildfowl Breast, look in the area for Glade Runners, Singers, etc. There are a bunch of them. Not passive, but fast respawn.

Crops!
Honestly, the best way to do this is to use Sunsong Ranch to farm. If you have the gold by all means go to the auction house, but this is more cost-effective.

Hope this helps!

Comment by mrsbaker

I just want to say, Pandaren Cooking is a huge pain in the butt.

Comment by naet17

Similar post to ones that have come previously, but with a few tweaks.

To get from 525-600 Cooking, you will need:

355x Juicycrunch Carrot
315x Witchberries
315x Jade Squash
250x Mogu Pumpkin
250x White Turnip
250x Green Cabbage
250x Red Blossom Leek
83x Wildfowl Breast
76x Krasarang Paddlefish
70x Giant Mantis Shrimp
65x Striped Melon
65x Scallions
63x Raw Turtle Meat
63x Emperor Salmon
63x Reef Octopus
50x Redbelly Mandarin
50x Mushan Ribs
50x Raw Crab Meat
50x Raw Crocolisk Belly
33x Jade Lungfish
30x 100 Year Soy Sauce
20x Ginseng
20x Raw Tiger Steak
1x Rice (1g 40s) - Rice
1x Yak Milk (1g 60s) - Yak Milk

If you were to do this without farming/growing/buying a single item (apart from the rice and the yak milk of course), only using Ironpaw Tokens (http://www.wowhead.com/currency=402/ironpaw-token) you would need 274 (Assuming my calculations are correct)

And just tacking on from other posts, so all relevant information is in one area:
If you are a Pandaren, you will need to get to 615 skill, which will require quite a few more mats! Just to balance getting double the buff from the food i guess! :)

Comment by Ironshield

Way of the Grill
15x Charbroiled Tiger Steak - Raw Tiger Steak
13x Eternal Blossom Fish - Jade Lungfish, Striped Melon (5)
5 x Banquet of the Grill -

100 Year Soy Sauce
10x Redbelly Mandarin
10x Raw Crab Meat
50x White Turnip

Way of the Wok
15 x Sauteed Carrots - Juicycrunch Carrot (2)
13 x Valley Stir Fry - Reef Octopus, Wildfowl Breast
5 x Banquet of the Wok -

100 Year Soy Sauce
10x Giant Mantis Shrimp
10x Raw Crocolisk
50x Red Blossom Leek

Way of the Pot
15 x Swirling Mist Soup - Jade Lungfish
13 x Braised Turtle - Raw Turlte Meat, Juicycrunch Carrot (5)
5 x Banquet of the Pot -

100 Year Soy Sauce
10x Reef Octopus
10x Mushan Ribs
50x Juicycrunch Carrot

Way of the Steamer
15 x Shrimp Dumplings - Giant Mantis Shrimp
13 x Fire Spirit Salmon - Emperor Salmon, Scallions (5)
5 x Banquet of the Steamer -

100 Year Soy Sauce
10x Emperor Salmon
10x Wildfowl Breast
50x Jade Squash

Way of the Oven
15 x Twin Fish Platter - Krasarang Paddlefish (2)
13 x Wildfowl Roast - Wildfowl Breast
5 x Banquet of the Oven -

100 Year Soy Sauce
10x Krasarang Paddlefish
10x Raw Turtle Meat
50x Mogu Pumpkin

Way of the Brew
15 x Ginseng Tea - Ginseng (purchased)
13 x Jade Witch Brew - Witchberries (5), Jade Squash (5)
5 x Banquet of the Brew -

100 Year Soy Sauce
50x Green Cabbage
50x Witchberries

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