These are guides and notes that Sylore found in various forum posts, which he found quite helpful for raising his cooking skill.
0-4 Carrot Broth - You'll lose a little bit of money on this one.
4-11 Sliced Sardines - Get Adv. synthesis and craft on Windsday/Lightsday for your first couple levels in this item. Expect some breaks early on. Depending on who's cheaper, get these at the AH or the fishing guild. You'll prolly break even on this one, maybe lose a little money. If you can, sell to the fishing guild, as they'll pay more for the items.
11-19 Pet Food Beta - Buy the Sheep Meat at the AH, bird eggs at the cooking guild, and distilled water at the rarab hotel place right by the cooking guild. Also, Horo flour doesn't stack, and isn't available at the guild (you have to get this from the goblin shop in Jeuno, or a regional vendor). The best way is to buy some with a mule if it's in another city from Windurst, and camp him at the delivery, and transfer items 8 at a time. Use 'em, send more, repeat. If it's in Windurst, buy 12 from the vendor, then go to the cooking guild for support and such. Get Adv. synthesis and craft on Earthsday/Lightsday for your first couple levels in this item. Expect some breaks early on as well. 14 or 15 should be ok to do on another day. You'll probably lose some money on the first few levels of this due to breaks, but by the time you hit 19, you'll be in the positive, as this makes money by crafting/selling to NPCs.
19-20 Selbina Butter - Save the butter for later.
20-29 Pet Food Gamma - Buy the Dhalmel Meat at the AH, see Pet Food Beta for details on bird eggs, horo flour, and distilled water. Again, you'll lose money early on due to breaks, but you'll make it back in the end. Early on, try only crafting on Earthsday/Lightsday with Adv. Synthesis Support. You should also be getting a feel as to when you can stop crafting only on Earthsday/Lightsday w/Support at this point. You'll profit in the end leveling up on this.
29-39 Pet Food Detla - Buy the Crab Meat at the AH, the flour changes now to Rye flour, which you can get at the Cooking Guild. This makes this pet food MUCH more convienient to craft. Buy bird eggs and water from the usual, and do the earth/lightsday thing with support as usual for the early levels. You'll profit in the end leveling up on this as well.
39-40 Pie Dough - Use your butter from earlier on the pie dough. Personally, I just got the San d'Orian flour at the cooking guild for convienence, even though it's usually a little cheaper at the regional vendor. Same with rock salts. Save the pie dough. If you need more butter, get it at the AH in stacks.
40-46 Pickled Herring - Buy the Herring at the AH, usually about 3k - 3.5k a stack. I just bought the Dried Marjoram at the Cooking Guild -- dunno if regional vendors sell it or not, but its cheap at the guild, and you make money on leveling this, so I didn't bother with looking. Craft with support and/or certain days as you feel comfortable. You should know your limits by now. Sell them to the Cooking Guild, as they'll pay more than regular vendors on this item, usually.
46-50 Apple Pies (bird egg recipe) - Sometimes cinnamon is cheaper at the AH than from the regional vendor. If its more than 3k/stack at the AH, buy from regional vendor. Sometimes its 250ea. at the guild - about the same price as vendor, making it a little more convienent. Use your pie dough saved from earlier, buy bird eggs at the guild. Buy maple sugar at the AH for between 600-900/stack usually, and after you run out of pie doughs, you can either make more yourself and save a very little amount of money, or buy 'em from the AH for 600/stack.
50+ is a little harder:
50-53 Eel Kabob - Finding the black eels for this is a pain, but its the only thing you can make/vendor off and come out even, if you buy the eels for about 7k/stack. Sell them to the Cooking Guild, as they'll pay more than regular vendors on this item, usually.
If you don't want to do eel kabobs (as finding the eels is hard), you can probably make mulsum earlier on, but you'll break more often, and lose more $$, as mulsum is fairly expensive.
50/53-56 Mulsum - Buy the grape juice from the AH for 500-600 each, or make your own for about 500-600 each. Buy honey from the AH, and you know where to get Distilled Water. You can sell Mulsum in the AH to break even, maybe make a little $$ -- Jeuno usually is the fastest mover on this item.
56-60 Yagudo Drink - I won't go into details on this yet, as I'm not actually to this point yet, but in theory, I imagine you can slowly level on this and sell 'em in your bazaar/AH and make a little money. You should be able to figure out where to get the materials at the best price at this point.
60-64 Melon Pies (bird egg recipe) - See Yagudo Drink for more info. Crystal Usage
To make +1 items craft on the day opposite to your crystals element or the day before your crystals element… this lowers success % but increases +1 % ie; Fire Crystal used on Iceday or Darksday
Chart:
Crystal ----> Day
Water ----> Firesday
Wind ----> Earthsday
Lightning ---> Watersday
Ice ----> Windsday
Fire ----> Iceday
Earth ----> Lightningday
Dark ----> Lightday
Light ----> Darksday
To have the highest % success at crafting something craft on the day of your crystal ie; Fire Crystal on Firesday (Paid guild support helps)
To gain the most skill craft an item on the day before your crystal using and ensure the item your crafting is above your current cooking level ie Fire Crystal on Darksday
Belot's Cooking Philosophy ….
First Always craft in Windurst at the cooking guild located in Windurst Waters using the Paid advanced Imagery Support!
ALWAYS USE ADVANCE IMAGRY SUPPORT (PAID SUPPORT) IN THE COOKING GUILD IN WINDURST
Level 0-2.8
Make Carrot Broth and sell to NPC … buy carrots from your respective NPC
Level 2.8-9
Make Orange Juice ..
Oranges can be purchased in windurst waters extremely close to the cooking guild at the exit to W. Saru. Across from the W.W. from an NPC named "Baehu-Faehu"
Buy a "Pumpkin Pie" for 400 gil (+40 MP +3 INT) and Level all your jobs from 1-7 in an hour buy subbing your level 4 BLM and using "Stone" and "OJ" to nuke monsters at a NONSTOP rate
(NOTE: AT LEVEL 8 TALK TO THE COOKING GUILDMASTER BUY A SALMON SUB FROM THE COOKING GUILDSHOP NEXT DOOR AND PASS YOUR FIRST COOKING TEST, REPEAT THIS PROCESS AT 18, 28, 38, 48, and 58
Level 9-10.7
Sliced Sardines Buy sardines from NPC or your fellow fishing fool
Level 10.7 - 19
Make Selbina Butter a lot … BUY SELBINA MILK FROM NPC
Make Apple Juice using juice philosophy above
Level 19-28
MAKE INSECT BALLS
Earth Crystal = 30 gil
Little Worm = 5 gil (Fishing Guild Port Windurst)
Distilled Water 11 gil (Npc near the pickle lady in windurst waters)
Millioncorn = Cheap anywhere you buy it … sold in sandy or from regional NPC
Level 28-30
PINEAPPLE JUICE
Buy pineapples as soon as you get off the airship in kazham at the little shop there…. Or from the regional vendor for whoever controls elishmo lowlands
NEVER pay 1000 gil for a stack of pineapples .. they sell for like 600-700 a stack
1 water crystal 40 gil 2 kazham pineapples 140 gil = 180 gil per synth
Level 30-34.7
Make Meatballs
Again ingredients are cheap EARTH CRYSTALS sell using same method as insect balls you can profit a little here also … this takes longer a bit because sandoria flour does not stack usually you can buy sandoria flour cheaply from cooking guild never pay more than 80 gil per bag … buy from sandoria or from regional merchant Windurst's regional merchant is Bin Stejihna right outside windurst woods mog house exit
Level 34.7 - 37
BUBLE CHOCOLATE Relatively cheap … I made it because I ate it while leveling my BLM for the mana regeneration bonus …. I always keep this food on me to GIVE FREELY to mages in my lower level parties who don't have food … 1 synth yields 12 pieces CHEAP … sell extra to NPC at MINIMAL LOSS … buy ingredients from respective NPC vendors
Level 37-39
Melon Juice - I made Melon Juice because I used it for my White Mage. It is relatively expensive even though it uses water crystals … if you don't want to use it yourself sell it in jeuno at a slight loss and it will roll out of your bazaar at a rate of about 1 per minute
CONGRATULATIONS NOW YOU CAN MAKE MITHKABOBS
Level 39 - 43
Tomato Juice … Juice philosophy … sell bazaar or fast to NPC
Level 43-47
I made Apple Pies … they sell decent in bazaar in jeuno or on auction house … commonly used by mages ….
Level 47-52
Crayfish Balls
USE CRAYFISH X 3 NOT LOBSTER
crayfish can be bought at fishing guild and at auction house and from your local fishing buddy (He got a promotion from fool to buddy because he sold you crayfish)
Level 52-55
Beaugreen Sautee (it is the only practical thing to make … sell it to vendors)
DO NOT MAKE YAGUDO DRINKS UNTIL YOU ARE LEVEL 59 THE INGREDIENTS ARE EXTREMELY EXPENSIVE
Level 55-60
STONE CHEESE - I sold this to the vendor at a profit of 72 gil a stack woot
CONGRATULATIONS YOU ARE NOW A MASTER CHEF YOU CAN MAKE WITCH KABOBS AND CHIEF KABOBS AND JUICE WHILE FIGHTING Carrot broth till lv 3 in Sandoria (yep sandoria) 1 water crystal and 4 sandy carrots. dead cheap to make in sandoria.
Orange juice till lv 10 in sandoira (uber cheap) there is a gorcery shop in south sandoria (close to the npc who sell fishing gear) who sell oranges around 35 gil.
from lv 10 head to windy and do the sub u have to do to open the next 10 levs of cooking and once again HEAD TO SANDORIA.
Bug broth. This is the 1st time in cooking you actually make a profit. 1 water crystal 2 lug worms and 2 shell bugs.
a stack usually goes for 1k to 1.k5 in sandoria and bastok. Bug broth caps at lv 15 so u wont make many mistakes at lv 10 compared to tons of mistakes making butter and apple juice. bug broth comes in packs of 4 and you can sell it in shops for 100+ gil ea. if you manage to make 12 crystals worth u make around 4800 gil and u make a 1500 to 2500 gil profit per crystal stack. so the more you make the more money you get. and if you make a stack of the ultra rare quadav broth (the +1 version, which u will start making when ur cookings lv 14) u can make a trip to jenuo and sell them for 20k.
once your cooking is lv 15 make apple juice in Sandoria (the same grocery that has oranges at 30+ gil has apples) u will raise to lv 20 with few flaws and spend a small amount of cash.
But here is the way to use the proper crystal for each day :
Water ----> Firesday
Wind ----> Earthsday
Lightning ---> Watersday
Ice ----> Windsday
Fire ----> Iceday
Earth ----> Lightningday
Dark ----> Lightday
Light ----> Darksday
Basically use the crystals that defeats the element of the current day.
For cooking you will need the following about 12 Dozen Wind, 12 Dozen Fire, 12 Dozen Earth, 15 Dozen Water and about 10 Dozen Ice
First our cooking career takes us to the beautiful city of San Doria. There you will find the old lady selling the carrots and you can use 2 dozen of your water crystals to get your skill to a 3 then we are headed back to Windurst for good.
During the power crafting sessions specially during the LVL gaps you will need Advanced Image Support from the cooking guild.
You can buy the Bastore Sardines from the fishing guild in Port Windurst. One sardine will cost ya 54 gil on certain days and it will produce 2 slices of sardine which can be sold back to NPC vedors for 63 gil a pop.
cooking LVL of about 10 or 11 Selbina Butter. Muhara 10 Dozen Rock Salt. make the Selbina Butter, till 13 or 14 cooking skill then keep the butter and use it with Fire Crystals and Potato's to make the Baked Potatos (Do not buy the Potatos from the guild, they can be purchased at Odins Gate Vendor for much less). After reaching LVL 18-20 after you get your next promotion you can start grinding out the doggie treats. Pet Food Gamma- Earth Crystal, Horo Flour, Dhamel Meat, Bird Egg and Distilled Water.
Jeuno send the flour to your crafter since it does not stack. Lower Jeuno. Horo Flour for 40 gil Goblin Shop in Lower Jeuno. farm the Dhamel Meat if you wish from Tarongi canyon. Making doggie biscuts will turn a tidy profit as well.
24 or 25 we are gonna switch to Pineapple Juice. Head over to Kazham and buy about 20 dozen pineapple Sell it back to the vendor for a small loss (loss of 10 gil a bottle. Pineapple Juice will take you into your next promotion at LVL 28. Instead you can make Fish Broth or the other doggie biscuts Pet Food Delta - Earth, Land Crab Meat, Rye Flour, Bird Egg and Distilled Water. Even buying the crab meat off the AH for 3600 for a dozen you will still turn a profit cause the doggie biscuts sell for 100 gil Norvallen:
Ash log
Crying Mustard
Blue Pea
Pototo
G-9 - Machielle (S. Sand)
G-6 - Mille (Bastok Mines)
D-7 - Posso Ruhbini (Port Windurst)
Gustaberg:
Sulfur - 742
Eggplant - 42
Pototo - 46
Rye Flour - 38
K-9 - Apairemant (S. Sand)
J-7 - Evelyn (Port Bastok)
H-10 - Nya Labiccio (Wind Woods)
Vollbow:
Rock Salt - 15
Chamomile - 130
Sweet William - 1800
Fish Scale - 96
L-9 - Millechuca (N. Sand)
G-7 - Aulavia (B. Mines)
F-6 - Lebondur(Port Wind)
Sarubaruta:
Windurst Tea Leaf - 19
Saruta Orange - 30
Rarab Tail - 22
Lauan Log - 36
H-7 - Milva (Port Sand)
H-9 - Somn-Paemn (B. Market)
G-5 - Baehu-Faehu (North Wind Waters)
Kuzotz:
Watermelon - 200
Cactuar needle - 930
Thunder Melon - 325
G-9 - Patolle (Port Sand)
G-6 - Vattian (Port Bastok)
G-8 - Nhobi Zalkia (Wind Woods)
Zulkheim:
Giant Sheep Meat - 46
Dried Majoram - 46
Sandoria Flour - 58
Selbina Milk - 58
Rye Flour - 38
La Theine Cbg. - 23
K-9 - Phamelise (S. Sand)
J-7 - Rosswald (Port Bastok)
G-8 - Bin Stejihna (Wind Woods)
Lower Elshimo:
Kazham Pepper - 58
Kukuru bean - 116
Black Pepper - 247
Mithran Tomato - 38
Kazham pineapples - 58
Ogre Pimpkin - 93
Phalaenopsis - 1746
G-8 - Nimia (Port Sand)
J-7 - Zoby Quhyo (Port Bastok)
D-8 - Fomina (Wind Waters south)
Derfland:
Olive Oil - 15
Gysahl Greens - 68
Ginger - 158
Wijnruit - 122
Olive Flower - 1836
Derfland Pear - 142
J-9 - Pourette (S. Sand)
E-7 - Belka (Port Bastok)
K-10 - Taraihi-Perunhi (Wind Woods)
Ronfaure:
Sandoria Carrot - 32
Sandoria Flour - 58
Sandoria Grapes - 76
Chestnut - 120
G-9 - Corua (S. Sand)
J-9 - Faustin (Bastok Mines)
J-9 - Jourille (Waters North)
Elshimo Hihgland:
Cinnamon - 252
Cattleya - 1800
Pamama - 80
Rattan Lumber - 160
H-10 - Bonmaurieut (Port Sand.)
I-6 - Dhen Tevryukoh (Port Bastok)
M-4 - Sattsuh Ahkanpari (Port windurst)
Valdeaunia:
Frost Turnip - 32
Sage - 185
F-6 - Palguevion (N. Sand)
E-6 - Tibelda (Bastok Mines)
M-7 - Zoreen (Port Wind)
Li'Telor:
Holy water - 7000
Bay leaevs - 130
M-9 - Attarena (N. Sand)
E-6 - Galdeo (Bastok Mines)
J-8 - Otete (Wind Waters South)
Kolshushu:
Dahmel Meat - 244
Yegudo Cherry - 44
Mhuara Garlic - 80
Buburimu grape - 204
Casablanca - 1836
G-6 - Fiva (Port Sand)
I-5 - Yafafa (Bastok Markets)
H-10 - Ahyeekih (Wind Waters North)
Aragoneu:
Sunflower Seeds - 97
Holo Flour - 38
Millioncorn - 47
Yagudo Feather - 38
Roasted Corn - 124
J-8 - Antonian (North Sand)
I-9 - Oggodett (Bastok Market)
H-8 - Maqu Molpih (Wind Waters S)
Fauregandi:
Beaugreens - 100
Maple Log - 60
Fariae Apple - 42
F-4 - Vichuel (N. Sand)
H-7 - Rodellieux (B. Mines)
B-4 - Sheia Pohrichamaha (Port Wind)
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