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Cooking Skill Tests


Vysala at the Cooking Guild

Anyone who wishes to start cooking as a craft, before level 10, must speak to Piketo-Puketo in Windurst Waters (north, E-9). This enables you to sign up to be a cook. In doing so, you can raise your cooking skill level by turning in test items at each cap.

You must take a skill rank test every 10 levels to raise your skill cap. With each test you move your cap up another ten levels. If you do not do these tests your skill will cap and no longer move up no matter what you synth. You can only do one test at a time and only when your skill rank is two levels or less away from the test cap.

All tests are at the 10’s of each level so you take a test at level 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80 and 90. You may take the test two levels before cap so you can take the tests at 8, 18, 28, 38, 48, 58, 68, 78 and 88.

Below is a list of all the test items you need to make, what level you must turn them into the guild at and their recipes.

Level Item Rank
10 Salmon Sub Sandwich Recruit
20 Pea Soup Initiate
30 Vegetable Gruel Novice
40 Meat Mithkabob Apprentice
50 Apple Pie Journeyman
60 Yagudo Drink Craftsman
70 Raisin Bread Artisan
80 Whitefish Stew Adept
90 Seafood Stew Veteran

Below are all of the skill test items and recipes.

  • Salmon Sub Sandwich
    Level Cap: 8
    Rank: Recruit
    Recipe: Earth Crystal, Crying Mustard, Black Bread, Apple Vinegar, La Theine Cabbage, Smoked Salmon, Mithran Tomato
    Purchase: Can be sold from the Cooking Guild in Windurst Waters North. Not always available.


  • Pea Soup
    Level Cap: 18
    Rank: Initiate
    Recipe: Fire Crystal, Blue Peas x3, Distilled Water, Dried Marjoram, Wild Onion
    Purchase: From Gylke, in Upper Jeuno, in the Marble Bridge Tavern (must meet requirements to enter the Tavern) for 1400 gil. Can be sold from the Cooking Guild in Windurst Waters North. Not always available.


  • Vegetable Gruel
    Level Cap: 26
    Rank: Novice
    Recipe: Fire Crystal, San d'Orian Flour, Chamomile, Frost Turnip, Rarab Tail, Distilled Water, Beaugreens

    Alternative Recipe for Vegetable Gruel:
    Level Cap: 28
    Recipe: Fire Crystal, Chamomile, Frost Turnip, Tarutaru Rice, Batagreens, Rarab Tail, Distilled Water
    Purchase: Crafted only.


  • Meat Mithkabob
    Level Cap: 38
    Rank: Apprentice
    Recipe: Fire Crystal, Kazham Peppers, Mhaura Garlic, Wild Onion, Ziz Meat

    Alternative Recipe for Meat Mithkabob:
    Level Cap: 38
    Recipe: Fire Crystal, Kazham Peppers, Cockatrice Meat, Mhaura Garlic, Wild Onion
    Purchase: Can be sold from the Cooking Guild in Windurst Waters North. Not always available.


  • Apple Pie
    Level Cap: 48
    Rank: Journeyman
    Recipe: Fire Crystal, Pie Dough, Maple Sugar, Cinnamon, Lizard Egg, Faerie Apple

    Alternative Recipe for Apple Pie:
    Level Cap: 50
    Recipe: Fire Crystal, Cinnamon, Pie Dough, Maple Sugar, Bird Egg, Faerie Apple
    Purchase: Can be sold from the Cooking Guild in Windurst Waters North. Not always available.


  • Yagudo Drink
    Level Cap: 60
    Rank: Craftsman
    Recipe: Dark Crystal, Yagudo Cherry, Buburimu Grape x3
    Purchase: Crafted only.


  • Raisin Bread
    Level Cap: 67
    Rank: Artisan
    Recipe: Fire Crystal, San d'Orian Grape, San d'Orian Flour, Selbina Butter, Maple Sugar, Rock Salt, Distilled Water
    Purchase: Crafted only.


  • Whitefish Stew
    Level Cap: 77
    Rank: Adept
    Recipe: Fire Crystal, San d'Orian Carrot, Selbina Milk, Bastore Bream, Black Pepper, Popoto, Wild Onion, Rock Salt, Distilled Water

    Alternative Recipe for Whitefish Stew:
    Level Cap: 77
    Recipe: Fire Crystal, Popoto, Black Pepper, Rock Salt, Selbina Milk, Wild Onion, San d'Orian Carrot, Distilled Water, Mercanbaligi
    Purchase: From Taajiji, in Windurst Waters North, at the Timbre Timbers Tavern (F-10) for 6064 - 6855 gil (only when Windurst is first or second in the weekly conquest results).


  • Seafood Stew
    Level Cap: 87
    Rank: Veteran
    Recipe: Fire Crystal, Gysahl Greens, Gold Lobster, Shall Shell, Nebimonite, Black Pepper, Popoto, Rock Salt, Distilled Water

    Alternative Recipe for Seafood Stew:
    Level Cap: 87
    Recipe: Fire Crystal, Popoto, Black Pepper, Rock Salt, Distilled Water, Gysahl Greens, Istakoz, Ahtapot, Istiridye
    Purchase: Crafted only.