Fastest/cheapest cooking up to 250 : EQ1 EverQuest 1 Discussion

Skill to 143
Bear or lion meat filets
1.Buy a lot of Bear or Lion meat which is sold in Shadow Haven (the merchant is near the bank)
2.Get filleting knife (player made smiting)
3.Combined one piece of meat with filleting knife in oven or and viola bear filets

Skill 143-191
Patty Melts
1.Buy our old friend bear or lion meat
2.Buy loafs of bread
3.Buy Cheese which is sold in Jagged Pine Forest by Chef Brargus (he is a dark paw gnoll)
4.Get Non-stick frying pan (player made smithing cost bought 100pp in bazaar)
5.Combine 1 bear or lion meat, 1 loaf of bread, 1 cheese, and non-stick frying pan in oven or spit

Here is where things get tricky up to here you have been able to get skill ups without farming now you must farm or go to bazaar, or constantly shop the vendors. I see pop baking as the best way to hit 250.

Skill 191-202
Candied Cockroach
1.Get Cockroaches (foraged in Cod)
2.Cup of Sugar (sold in Pok)
3.Water flask
4.Combine 4 cockroaches, 1 cup of sugar, and 1 water flask in a tanaan oven and viola 4 candied cockroaches
Candied Cockroach: Snack sv disease +5 weight .5

Skill 202-250
Assuming you can hunt in Bastions of Thunder you have two options Jord Meat Pie or Vann toe stew
Jord Meat Pie
1.Jord Meat (dropped by Jords in Bot)
2. Clumps of Dough (player made baking) recipe: 1 egg( snake, drake, avaik dragon¡_..) , bottle of milk, and cup of flour combine in mixing bowl
3.Get a Pie tin
4. Combine 1 Jord meat, 1 clump of dough, and a pie tin in tanaan oven and viola one jord meat pie
Jord Meat Pie: Feast Hp + 10 Mana +10 weight 3.0

Vann Toe Stew
1.Vann toes (dropped by Vanns in Bot)
2. Buy bottle of Milk
3.Buy spices
4.Combine 1 Vann toes, 1 bottle of milk, and spice in tanaan oven and viola one Vann toe stew
Vann Toe Stew: Feast Str +3 Mana +45 weight 1.0

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