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I have always hated carrying stacks and stacks of rations. Running out and having to go buy more stacks. With that in mind I took up baking to solve this problem. Jolo did a great guide to go from a skill of 1 to 135. His guide has little diagrams and maps to where everything was. However, even with a map in front of me I got lost (go go bard sense of direction). What I hope to do here is simply share the path I took (in some cases should not have taken) on my way through this skill. This guide will show progression through a skill of 191 using store bought items. I also give some explanation of higher level items, but those require either foraged or dropped items. I have added two extra steps in the middle that are not necessary, but I used those two steps simply to be able to get some minor stat food.
Baking has been the cheapest skill I have found so far (unless you count fishing). I was able to get to a skill of 135 in under 30pp. Moving from that skill upwards get more expensive, as all trade skills do, but not unbearable.
Before you begin The joys of starting a trade skill are such a pain. If you have the practice points to spare, drop the maximum of 20 points into baking. If you don’t have enough points or just don’t want to spend them, don’t worry about it, just drop 1 point into baking. This step only saves some time, it doesn’t make or break you. Get as much Int/Wis gear as you can. If you are price sensitive you should also get Cha gear. Clear out as much inventory space as possible. The more space you have in your inventory, the fewer trips between vendors you’ll have to make. I recommend you buy a spit. You can use the ovens within the cities, but I have always found the portable spit much more convenient. If your friendly neighborhood enchanter is around when you sit down to actually do your combines get any Int/Wis buffs they may have.
There are some tools of the trade you will need to buy and/or make. I recommend buying a spit so you are not limited to the cities for your baking fun. These are bought in many locations throughout Norath and Luclin. See EQ Traders for specific locations. You also need a non-stick frying pan, which is made through smithing and has one component that is made with pottery. You can buy the frying pan or make it yourself. I cover in the specific section how to make it if that is your desire. If you will be taking the two smaller steps between fish rolls and patty melts you will also need a filleting knife, dairy spoon, and mixing bowl. The mixing bowl is bought in many of the same places the spit is. The filleting knife and dairy spoon are both made through smithing with trivial levels below 100. Both items can be bought if that is your desire and the recipes for make them are in their respective sections.
Baking 1 – 135 I assume you have enough faction that you can buy from the merchants in East Commons and West Commons. If you can’t, you’ll have to get someone to purchase them for you. Your first stop will be the Inn in East Commons right by the West Commons zone. The single hut (not the three huts as one building) is a merchant that sells peridots. Load up on batwings from her. I bought stacks until I only had my spit and 4 other spaces open. Your next stop is the barbarian fishing hut in West Commons. The hut is by itself and is where the Modern Fisherman is outside fishing. Go inside and there you can buy fresh fish. Buy 3 stacks of fresh fish and have a seat.
Now comes the fun part. Combine one fresh fish and one batwing in the spit to attempt to create a fish roll. A stack of fish rolls will only weigh .1 and each individual fish roll will last about an hour and a half real time. You will fail repeatedly until your skill gets much closer to the trivial of 135. Keep buying fresh fish as needed. When you run out of supplies stock up on fish and head back to East Commons and buy more batwings. I generally gave away the stacks of fish rolls as I made them, but you can sell them back to the vendor to help cover a small portion of the costs. This is now a simple process of repetition until you trivial fish rolls at 135.
Baking 135 – 143 There are many ways you can proceed from this point. I will cover the steps I took and then a simple overall strategy to go from 135 up to 191. However, at this point, I started doing fillets of wolf/lion/bear. The first thing you’ll need at this point is a filleting knife. This is created using the smithing skill and the filleting knife trivials at 76. Make 3 metal bits by combining 2 unstacked small pieces of ore in the forge with a flask of water. Then take the 3 metal bits (unstacked) and combine them in a forge with a scaler mold and a flask of water. This will give you a filleting knife. The knife will not be destroyed while baking regardless if you are successful or not in the baking. The next step is to take a walk up to Shadow Haven. If you zone in from the Nexus, turn to your right and walk to the edge. Take a right again and a small way down the road you will see a female gnome vendor. She sells unlimited quantities of various kinds of meat. I choose bear meat since it was the first I came across, but any bear/lion/wolf meat will work. Combine the meat in the spit with the filleting knife. Bear and lion meat will return 1 bear/lion fillet and the filleting knife on a success and only the filleting knife on a failure. Wolf meat will return 10 wolf fillets and the filleting knife on a success and only the filleting knife on a failure. You can sell/destroy/whatever the fillets if you don’t want to do the annoying step next. If you are doing the small steps then keep the fillets.
Baking 143 – 152 Now comes an annoying step. The good news is the trivial combines needed for the next steps returns large quantities of the items. This step will return foods with some minor stats.
The first thing you need is a dairy spoon that is made using the smithing skill and becomes trivial at 74. It is almost the exact same as the filleting knife discussed earlier. Make 2 metal bits by combining 2 unstacked small pieces of ore in the forge with a flask of water. Then take the 2 metal bits (unstacked) and combine them in a forge with a scaler mold and a flask of water. This will give you a dairy spoon. The dairy spoon will not be destroyed while baking regardless if you are successful or not in the baking.
You need to head to Halas to make cream next (or another place you can buy alchemy supplies and milk). The merchants on the right side outside of the shamans’ guild sell alchemy supplies. Pick up a 5 benzoin. Then head over to the main market and buy 10 bottles of milk and a mixing bowl. Combining 2 milk (unstacked) and 1 benzoin will create 8 creams. This combine trivials at 83, so you should succeed almost all the time. This takes up a lot of inventory room since you get 8 creams on a success. If you are successful in all these combines you should have 40 creams. The next item to make is creamy fennel sauce which trivials at 75. Head back to the shamans’ guild and on the other alchemy vendor, purchase a 2 stacks of fennel (or 1 for every cream you have if you didn’t succeed in all the combines). Then head back to the baking supplier and buy 2 stacks of flour (or 1 for every cream you have if you didn’t succeed in all the combines). In the mixing bowl, combine 1 cream, 1 fennel, and 1 flour. A successful combine will return 6 creamy fennel sauces. In the end you can end up with 240 creamy fennel sauces. This step takes up lots of inventory room really fast. Use bank slots or only do 1 stack at a time if you need to.
Now you finally get to get back to working on the skill. In the spit, combine 1 creamy fennel sauce and the wolf/bear/lion fillet. This will return a wolf/bear/lion fillet in cream. The wolf will give +3 Sta; bear will give +3 Str, -1 Int; lion will give +3 Agi. I used bear since it is the meat I was able to buy from the vendor in Shadow Haven. This recipe does not trivial until 152. I had more creamy fennel sauce than it took to raise my skill these 10 points. I simple kept the creamy fennel sauce and made more stat food as I came across the meat until I ran out.
Baking 135 – 191 Many people will come straight to this step after making fish rolls trivial. I did the previous two steps because I wanted to make some stat food to make me feel like all the clicking was actually worth something.
The next step will require many, many patty melts to be made. Like the previous two steps, it requires a tool made by the smithing skill. Unfortunately, the smithing combination also requires a component that is made with pottery. You will need to make a non-stick frying pan that is made using smithing and trivials at 91. The first step is to make a ceramic lining which trivials at a pottery skill of 36. Combine a small block of clay, a ceramic lining sketch, and a flask of water in the pottery wheel. This will give you an unfinished ceramic lining. Combine the unfinished ceramic lining in the kiln with a quality firing sheet to get a finished ceramic lining. Using smithing, make a metal bit by combining two pieces of ore and a water flask in a forge. Then place the metal bit, a frying pan mold, a flask of water, and the ceramic lining in a forge and combine them. It took me three tries before I was successful with the non-stick frying pan with my smithing skill of 87. The pan is not no drop, so, like the other smithed baking tools, you can simply get someone else to make them for you.
The next combination will take your baking skill up to 191. This will involve two vendors: the meat vendor in Shadow Haven and a vendor in Jagged Pine. As a non-porting class this can be a pain going between the two, but with a small donation, you can usually find someone willing to port you. I stocked up all my available inventory slots except for 3 with bear meat from the female gnome vendor in Shadow Haven. Then head to the outpost in Jagged Pine for the next items. The baking vendors are in the same building as the banker. The male vendor in a red shirt will be your friend here. Buy a stack of cheese (looks like a yellow pile of powder) and a stack of bread. In you spit, combine 1 cheese, 1 bread, 1 meat, and your non-stick frying pan. On a failure you will get your non-stick frying pan back. On a success you will get 1 patty melt and your non-stick frying pan. Repeat until your baking skill gets to 191.
Baking 191+ The rest of the way to 200 or 250 is much slower. You can no longer simply buy everything needed. When looking for recipes to further my skill from 191 I looked for recipes that did not require subtrivial items as components or foraged items. I am currently using 4 different recipes. These recipes do not trivial before 240, with one of them not becoming trivial even at 250. The first 2 recipes are griffon melts and anaconda melts. Both recipes require 1 bread, 1 cheese, 1 non-stick frying pan, and 1 meat. Griffon meat is required for griffon melts and anaconda meat is required for anaconda melts (duh). Both of these meats drop in Jagged Pine off of the various griffons and the anacondas.
The other 2 recipes result in stat food, but the items are a little harder to come by. Anaconda stir-fry and griffon stir-fry are harder by the items needed, but they have stats with them. The recipes for these are 1 non-stick frying pan, 1 vegetables (foraged in many places), 1 plant shoot (foraged in Jagged Pine), and 1 meat (griffon or anaconda depending on which stir fry you want). Anaconda stir fry is a banquet meal (about an hour and a half real time each) and gives +3 Str and +3 Agi. Griffon stir fry is a banquet meal (about an hour and a half real time each) and gives +3 Int and +3 Agi. If you are not a foraging class, these can be costly to buy in large quantities. I routinely check vendors since many people will sell extra meats, plant shoots, and vegetables to them.
I did not discover any of these recipes that I used. I obtained the recipes from EQ Traders, which is the best spot for trade skill information. This is simply the method that I used in raising my skill with the least amount of effort. I’d also like to thank Jolo for use of his baking guide to get me started and up to a skill of 135.
Quick Progression Chart
Other Easy Stat Food Recipes
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