How can you have your pudding if you don't eat your meat?

I don't bother with cooking in WoW. It's time consuming, and to be honest, a really boring activity. The same goes for fishing. I'll do first aid, but only on classes that don't have their own self-healing ability (so I generally don't level up first aid in my Paladin, for example). My primary professions are mining and skinning, although sometimes I'll mix in Herbalism. Then then just turn around and sell what I gather at the AH for gold. There are plenty of people in my guild who craft items and share them in the guild bank, or I can buy them from the AH as well.

 

I'm not too big on recipes and cooking. I stick to the basics when I choose to cook, but I'll otherwise take care of things in other areas instead. I know plenty of players that could tell you everything about cooking/recipes, and I would have no idea what some of them are talking about.

 

I wouldn't say cooking is as efficient as you're making it sound. Sure, it could be fun, but I'd rather cook a meal in real life and eat it while enjoying an arena match instead of leveling up my cooking skill. There are definitely better ways to make good use of your playtime.

 

Your title is from Pink Floyd.

Cooking is annoying as heck to level up if you try to do it normally. Just forget about it and do it all once you hit lvl 85 and go to pandaland. There are very easy and fast ways to pretty much level up in about 10 minutes from 0 to almost max. Gathering and storing materials as you level up is just too much of a pain in the butt.

 

I generally don't care too much about cooking because it's virtually useless at lower levels. There are certain perks to it if you like to collect achievements and titles, but overall the one thing that people with high cooking gun for are the Feasts and stat related boosts. The feasts gives the raid party a boost in their most beneficial stat such as strength/intelligence, ect. There's individual foods that cater to specific stats if there's no feasts present.