Bon appétit! Here are 12 tasty Player Housing decor items you can craft with the cooking profession

If you’re seeking the perfect spread for your Player Housing dining room, look no further than the Cooking profession. Your World of Warcraft culinary skills will allow you to craft several appetizing dishes, with more to surely be added in Midnight and beyond.

Unfortunately, your guildmates will have to bring their own snacks to your post-raid shindigs, because housing decor looks better than it tastes. The required reagent, Perfect Preservatives, is available from most vendors who sell cooking supplies. While quite cheap, they do cause your dishes to be of the look-but-don’t-eat variety.

Ingredients for food-based decor also include plenty of lumber. It doesn’t truly make sense to require eight wood planks to create a passable bowl of noodles, but at least the requirements for expansion-specific lumber are mostly quite low.

Other components can be farmed, cooked, or purchased. I found it was much cheaper and easier to purchase sub-dishes like Iridescent Ravioli with Apple Sauce on the Auction House than gather or purchase the individual components, but it all depends on market prices, the contents of the ingredients tab of your Warband Bank, and your willingness to go off and fish for an hour.

Dornic Spiced Mineloaf is one of three recipes you can pick up from Athodas by the fire at Dornogal’s main inn, Stonelight Rest, at skill level 80. It is a braided bread with a few slices already chopped off — perfect for accompanying an array of cheeses or wines.

Earthen Hospitality Cheese-like Brick is a large wheel of cheese with a wedge removed and should be a staple for any fancy gathering. The recipe is also taught by Athodas, and is probably the quickest and easiest entry on this list if you’re planning a last-minute get together with neighbors.

Kaheti Predator’s Assortment is the final meal available from Athodas, and it’s a full setting. The pointed, six-sided plate is festooned with sushi and mushrooms in addition to some sauces and a nice wedge of lemon. This one will require some skilled preparation and valuable ingredients, but is certainly worth it if you’re planning on hosting any eight-legged guests.

Dornic Mine and Cheese Platter can be learned at skill level 80 for 3,000 Resonance Crystals from Auditor Balwurz, the Renown Quartermaster for the Council of Dornogal, at Renown rank 22. It has a little bit of everything — cheese, bread, honey, sausages, shiny rocks — and is ideal for a quick outdoor picnic.

Bruffalon Rib Platter is one of three recipes you can learn from Erugosa inside the Roasted Ram in Valdrakken at 80 skill points in Dragonflight Cooking. I would craft this piece for the exquisite serving dish itself, but it comes loaded with hornswog steaks, gigantic ribs, and basilisk eggs.

Drake Kebab Platter sports chunks of bruffalon and veggies on Draconium Ore spears atop a bed of leafy greens and tomatoes. While the lumber cost is steep, it could be worth it to craft several as this dish looks great served individually as opposed to buffet-style.

Valdrakken Blossomfruit Platter pushes the boundaries of the culinary arts, with the first step in the recipe being “slay players of the opposing faction”. For this unique serving dish full of flowery snacks, you’ll need to pick up five Wild Dragon Fruit — a bind on pickup PvP item. You can buy a stack of five for 500 Honor in the Valdrakken Gladiator’s Refuge, which isn’t a lot in the grand scheme of things, but is a great deal of Battleground participation to cook an appetizer.

Caramel Mint Noodle Dish is the sole housing decor entry on the Shadowlands menu, and is taught by Chef Au’krut in the Hall of Shapes in Oribos at skill level 60. I’m almost glad that it’s not edible given the ingredient list of fish-stuffed ravioli and ghostly meats, but the end result is a side dish that satisfies the eye.

Boralus-Style Lobster Platter stands alone as the only Battle for Azeroth culinary decor, requiring a cooking skill of 140 and taught by cooking trainers in Boralus and Dazar’alor. It promises what it delivers as a single plate with a an entire still-steaming crustacean on a bed of leafy greens. Bring your own butter.

Hungry Human’s Platter is a hilariously named recipe that can be learned from your Warlords of Draenor Garrison food and drink vendor at skill level 80. A wedge of cheese, an apple, and a drumstick crowd this small battle-scarred plate. I guess it’s a good thing that the Orcs at least asked what kind of food that Humans typically need?

Mushan Dumpling Stack is probably my favorite entry on this list. It is taught by Yan Ironpaw in the Halfhill Market at Pandaria skill level 60. It requires some rare ingredients, so expect to complete some cooking dailies or pay out the nose on the Auction House. I certainly considered a visit to my old farm worth it for this bamboo basket of steaming deliciousness.

Eversong Party Platter is a bonus entry, as you’ll need to complete a Cooking daily quest to earn the decor. Keep an eye out in Northrend’s version of Dalaran for Cheese of Glowergold to pop up to instantly earn a Blood Elf-inspired board of cheese and grapes. Since there’s no skill required and any character can learn Northrend Cooking from the quest-giver, you can run several alts through the quest in one day to stock up on appetizer layouts.