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Comment by 153976

One of the cooking achievements to be added to the game in Wrath of the Lich King. For Alliance players, please see the Horde Version. This achievement encompasses a plethora of real-world references, not least its title being reference to the album "Hail to the Thief" by English alternative band Radiohead (or, as you'll read in JarBreaker's comment below, actually a reference to "Hail to the Chief", the official anthem of the President of the US, which Radiohead's offering is almost certainly in reference to - for missing this, I blame living in the wrong hemisphere).

Upon completing this achievement, players will be able to display the title "Chef" before their character name.

To complete this achievement, players are required to complete the following criteria:

Grand Master Cook: Become a Grand Master Cook. Players will need to obtain training allowing them to cook recipes up to a potential of 450 skill, the new maximum come Wrath.
The Cake Is Not A Lie: Make a Delicious Chocolate Cake. This is achieved by obtaining the recipe from either of Barrel of Fish or Crate of Meat, each a reward from one The Rokk <Master of Cooking>'s daily cooking quests (Manalicious, Revenge is Tasty, Soup for the Soul, Super Hot Stew). The exceedingly-low drop rate of the recipe from either container is intended to make reference to the often-quoted "The Cake Is A Lie!" line from first-person-puzzler Portal. And, of course, the character 'The Rokk' being a 'Master of Cooking' is intended to make reference to the former World Wrestling Entertainment star Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, particularly his catch-phrase "Can ya smell what The Rock is cookin'!".
Kickin' It Up A Notch: Complete each of The Rokk's daily cooking quests (Manalicious, Revenge is Tasty, Soup for the Soul, Super Hot Stew). This criterion item makes reference to one of the catch-phrases of famous chef Emeril Lagasse.
The Northrend Gourmet. Currently unconfirmed, though likely requires players to cook a fair chunk of the recipes listed in its prerequisite here.
Second That Emotion. Requires players to eat (not cook) four 'emotion' foods, Bad Clams, Haunted Herring, Last Week's Mammoth and Tasty Cupcake. The quest title is in reference to a Motown classic (and certainly other sources since), "I Second That Emotion".
Critter Gitter. Using Critter Bites, coerce 10 critters to be your pet within 3 minutes or less. Largely taken-as-read, this criterion item requires the player to gain control of 10 critters (that is, adorable little creatures found all over the game that you'll often unceremoniously kill when frustratedly trying to find a quest-mob) within 3 minutes. A list of available critters can be found in another achievement, To All The Squirrels I've Loved Before.
Our Daily Bread. Complete all of the daily quests offered by Katherine Lee, <Grand Master Cooking Trainer> in Dalaran, the new Neutral capital city in Northrend. These quests will be: Infused Mushroom Meatloaf, Convention at the Lederdemain, Sewer Stew, Cheese for Glowergold and Mustard Dogs!. This criterion item refers to an oft-cited Abrahamic-based religion prayer of thanks containing the phrase "...give us Lord our daily bread."

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EDIT: The Achievement now has additional criteria, shown below:

Captain Rumsey's Lager. (That's pronounced lah-grr - Captain Rumsey does not suffer from lag). Brew up some of Captain Rumsey's Lager. Simply achieved by obtaining the recipe, currently only available from the daily fishing quests in Outland, and brewing 'dat sucka up.
Sous Chef: Learn 100 cooking recipes. Rather self-explanatory, and part of an achievement-line involving learning 25/50/75/100/160 recipes. The title 'Sous Chef' is a quasi-French term used to denote lower-level chefs, often responsible for doing preparation/menial tasks their superior would choose not to.
Dinner Impossible. Present a Great Feast in each of the battlegrounds. Sure to be much-loved by downtrodden mages tired of feeding their battlegrounds day-in, day-out.
The Outland Gourmet. Cook each of the Outland cooking recipes listed here. As far as I'm aware, these are all the recipes added in BC, some being rare-drops, some not.

EDIT: Updated to reflect newest beta-tester information and prevailing levels of nitpickery. :)

Comment by 208142

" Hail to the Chief " is played when the President enters a press conference or some function.

Pretty sure it was around before Radiohead, bubba =/

Comment by 36691

This achievement should give you a Chef's hat, or a Chef's apron (as a tabard).

Comment by Mairin

I'm sure they missed a "Fel iron chef" pun in there somewhere...

Comment by Gryph667

"Sous chef

The sous-chef de cuisine (under-chef of the kitchen) is the direct assistant of the executive chef and is second in command. They may be responsible for scheduling, and filling in when the executive chef is off-duty. The Sous Chef will also fill in for, or assist the chef de partie (line cooks) when needed. Smaller operations may not have a sous chef, while larger operations may have multiple."

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chef

Comment by rottenzombie

Sadly it seems this achievement is not yet obtainable, since one of these requirements The Northrend Gourmet requires 45 different kind food from Northrend recipes to be cooked, yet only 42 Northrend recipes are available in game right now.

Comment by 251070

anyone notice that wowhead put "critter gitter" twice. if you hover over the first one it says "our daily bread" but the link says "critter gitter."

Comment by Mairin

Seems fixed in 3.0.8 from what I've just seen on the PTR. The 3rd gourmet has dropped to 44, fish feast is available for 5 daily tokens and kungaloosh is learnable from the washed up mage in Dalaran sewers.

Chefs rejoice =)

Comment by katora

Think it will stay at 45, as they have added an additional recipe - Worg Tartar:

* Worg Tartare (3 x Dalaran Cooking Awards)- Restores 15000 health and 12960 mana over 30 sec. If you spend at least 10 seconds eating you will become well fed and gain 40 Hit Rating and 40 Stamina for 1 hour. This delicacy is best served raw and thus requires no cooking fire.

Don't think you'll catch me eating too much raw Worg meat.

Comment by 37106

In 3.0.8, as some people have already mentioned, 3 new recipes are added, and the Northrend Gourmet achievement is still 45 recipes.

A note on getting Fish Feast cooked, as this requires 450 skill: I was scrambling to level my cooking to 450 before the patch to get my title as fast as possible. However, after going on the test realm, I noticed a sneaky change: Both small and gigantic feast don't go green until 450 anymore. So instead of wasting a ton of spices, just stock up on the meats for one of these (small is smart, as it shares 2 of 3 of the meats with fish feast) and be ready for the patch.

Comment by 229488

To elaborate:

Patch 3.0.8 notes:

Cooking

A recipe has been added for Kungaloosh. You can learn this recipe from an NPC in the Dalaran sewers once you have completed the quest 'The Taste Test' in Sholazar Basin.
A recipe for the incredible Fish Feast can now be purchased for Dalaran Cooking Awards.
Succulent Orca Stew and Shoveltusk Soup have been removed from the requirements for any cooking achievements as they will not be added to the game.
A new recipe for Worg Tartare is now available for purchase with Dalaran Cooking Awards. This delicacy imbues hit rating and Stamina upon those brave enough to eat it.

Comment by ShyOblivion

Obtained this title just a few minutes ago. Biggest pain by far was getting the 160 recipes. With the addition of the three new recipes in 3.0.8, Fish Feast, Worg Tartare, and Kungaloosh, I was able to hit 161 recipes. To my knowledge I have every one, except Thistle Tea and Dirge's Kickin' Chimaerok Chops.

There is a very helpful list posted here, which states that it is for horde, but you'll need to be transferring recipes from one faction to another regardless.

Edit: Another list here show's a complete list of all the recipes to compare your own list against. And the Ackis Recipe List addon can be used in-game to find your missing recipes as well.

Armory with title/achievements

Comment by 166472

For those of you who have managed to nab this wonderfully challenging achievement I think you should dress the part!

I just picked it up on my Tauren druid (sadly not the best looking "chef" race....more apt to be something found in the kitchen...hanging from a meathook) but this is what I'm using at current:

One blank guild tabard, purchased by a city tabard vendor (apronish in appearance), or
One sleeveless T-shirt thusly labelled
One plain silk headband
and your choice of simple linen pants or kilt

Makes for great roleplaying chef clothing imho.

For "weapons" I vary between the "Dark Herring" and "Cookie's Tenderizer"

Comment by Zazkia

If you haven't been that active in cooking in TBC and you're going for this title, start doing the TBC dailies as soon as possible, as you will need several random recipe drops for The Outland Gourmet from the dailies.

I only missed one recipe, but it became the limiting factor in getting the Chef title. I finally got the recipe after two weeks of doing the dailies, so that's not too bad, but in hindsight I wished I would have started earlier.

Comment by 324048

Yay, got it today ^^ Took kind of a long time to get the last green recipe from the Outland quests, BUT it was worth it :D

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Comment by 339499

You should receive "Chocolate salty balls" recipe by gaining this Achievement, too.

Say everybody, have you seen my balls?
They're big and salty and brown!
If you ever need 'em quick,
Pick me up.
Just stick my balls in your mouth!

Comment by Lysistrata

Completing this achievement requires accumulating enough Dalaran Cooking Awards to purchase all of the recipes available from the vendor next to your faction's Cooking Trainer in Dalaran - 74 Awards to purchase all 24 recipes, 174 in total to get the Chef's Hat as well.

Comment by 485859

my hannah monta cak is the bomb it may win yayay

Comment by morillus

Going for this for about 2 weeks now and got all of the recipes, but still haven't gotten two of the dailies (mustard dogs and one of the outland ones). Can't believe that this is all that's holding me up when I was paranoid about getting stormchops and the cake. :P

Comment by iard

I checked requirements and it need Northrend Gourmet (30 recipe version) of it.

Comment by 946101

The Chef title is one that I think any level can receive.

Comment by 945343

YOU DONKEY, IT'S RAW!

Comment by 921346

Don't forget the secret cooking achievement:

Kitchen Nightmare!

With Chef title selected, don your Chef's Hat and verbally /berate all Chefs, Cooks, Cooking Trainers, Sous Chefs, and Apprentice Chefs available to your faction.

Remember: Switching factions negates all previous berating, and you must start again with your current faction!

Comment by 433189

This achievement now requires the 45 recipe version of Northrend Gourmet, up from 30. This was confirmed prior to patch 5.2, and still requires 45 after the patch.

Comment by SoCalWoWGal

As an alternative to doing the cooking dailies, during the various Timewalking Holiday Events, you can use 25 Timewarped Badge to purchase:

Barrel of Fish
Crate of Meat
from Cupri during the Outland Timewalking Dungeon Event

-or-

Small Spice Bag

from Auzin during the Northrend Timewalking Dungeon Event

These items have a chance to drop Recipe: Delicious Chocolate Cake needed to cook Delicious Chocolate Cake for the following achievements:

The Cake Is Not A Lie
The Outland Gourmet
Hail to the Chef

For a detailed guide to Timewalking, see Guide to Timewalking Holidays and Rewards

Comment by Longfeng

Proud owner of this achievement since 24/03/2015. Also, I have the full cooking gear, so i can cook extremely fast on my monk.

Comment by phonicaubade

My question is: I have a character with all criteria completed except the storm chop one, which I have been doing the Outland cooking daily relentlessly with no luck in obtaining the recipe. Do I have to do that one on that character, or can I try for the recipe on all of my others in hopes of getting it to then complete the achievement? I'm guessing the answer is no since that cooking achievement is not showing up as nearly completed on my other characters, but I am hopeful.

Any confirmation?

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Hail to the Chef

Complete the cooking achievements listed below.

Criteria

	Northrend Cook (1)
	Kickin' It Up a Notch (1)
	Second That Emotion (1)
	Our Daily Bread (1)
	Our Daily Bread (1)
	Our Daily Bread (1)
	Sous Chef (1)
	The Outland Gourmet (1)

	The Cake Is Not A Lie (1)
	The Northrend Gourmet (1)
	Critter Gitter (1)
	Dinner Impossible (1)
	Captain Rumsey's Lager (1)

Gains

You shall be granted the title "Chef"

Guides

BrekeMart: Your Cooking Achievements One Stop Shop! [Updated for Warlords!] The Entitled: A Guide to Titles

Hail to the Chef

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