Cooking for Noobies by Ayashe

Carrot Broth (0-3) AH

Yield: Carrot Broth x4
HQ 1: Famous Carrot Broth x2
HQ 2: Famous Carrot Broth x4
HQ 3: Famous Carrot Broth x8

Water Crystal
4x San d'Orian Carrot

This is a pretty basic synth. Buy the San d'Orian Carrots from an NPC.

Salmon Sub (8) AH

Yield: Salmon Sub
HQ 1: Ilm-long Salmon Sub

Earth Crystal
1x Crying Mustard
1x Black Bread
1x Apple Vinegar
1x La Theine Cabbage
1x Smoked Salmon
1x Mithran Tomato

Test Item for Recruit!
Buy the ingredients from the Culinarians' Guild (Windurst). When I did this synth, I only bought one ingredient of each to make one Salmon Sub for my rank. You can buy 12 if you would like to sell the other 11 subs on the Auction House.

Sliced Sardine (3-11) AH

Yield: Sliced Sardine x2

Wind Crystal
1x Bastore Sardine

Make sure you get Advanced Synthesis Image Support from Kipo-Opo in the Culinarians' Guild (Windurst). Without that, your synthesis will fail because it caps at level 11. I highly recommend fishing the Bastore Sardines using a Halcyon Rod and a Sabiki Rig in Port Jeuno or Mhaura. This will save you money and will help you get fishing skilled up as well, even if your fishing skill is 0. (Note: You can get a "Line Break" with Level 3 fishing in Port Jeuno with a Sabiki Rig, might want to be careful of how quickly the energy drains from your catch. If it drains really fast, it's probably an item and can break your line. Give up instead and save your Rig)

Bug Broth (11-15) AH

Yield: Bug Broth x4
HQ 1: Quadav Bug Broth x2
HQ 2: Quadav Bug Broth x4
HQ 3: Quadav Bug Broth x8

Water Crystal
2x Shell Bug
2x Lugworm

You can farm the Shell Bugs or you can buy them from the Auction House. When I bought the bugs from the Auction House, they were 500 gil per stack. Purchase the Lugworms from merchants for about 8-12 gil per worm. I bought my worms for about 108 gil per stack from Babubu in Port Windurst at the Fishermans' Guild. I liked this synth a lot, and I made a good profit from it when I sold my items to an NPC.

Pea Soup (18) AH

Yield: Pea Soup
HQ 1: Emerald Soup

Fire Crystal
3x Blue Peas
1x Wild Onion
1x Dried Marjoram
1x Distilled Water

Test Item for Initiate!
I would suggest farming the Wild Onions and buying the rest of the items from NPC's. You can buy the rest of the items from Kopopo in the Culinarians' Guild (Windurst). I only made one bowl of soup to turn in for the ranking. If it works for you, then make these until cap and continue on with the butter.

Selbina Butter (15-20)
AH

Yield: Selbina Butter x4
HQ 1: Selbina Butter x6
HQ 2: Selbina Butter x9
HQ 3: Selbina Butter x12

Ice Crystal
1x Selbina Milk
1x Rock Salt

File:Selbina butter.jpg

Buy the Selbina Milk from an NPC or farm them from the sheep, and you can either farm or buy the Rock Salt from the Auction House. I bought both of these items and sold mine to an NPC. The proft was maybe a little loss or an even break. Save about 3, 4, or even 5 stacks of butter for the next synth.

Baked Popoto (20-22)
AH

Yield: Baked Popoto x1
HQ 1: Pipin' Hot Popoto x1

Fire Crystal
1x Popoto
1x Selbina Butter

Extremely easy synth. This is where the butter you made before comes in handy! Buy the Popotos from the Culinarians' Guild (Windurst) and sell the Baked Popoto back to the guild. You should make a pretty decent profit from this synth.

Vegetable Gruel (26) AH

Yield: Vegetable Gruel x1
HQ 1: Medicinal Gruel x1

Fire Crystal
1x San d'Orian Flour
1x Chamomile
1x Frost Turnip
1x Rarab Tail
1x Beaugreens
1x Distilled Water

Test Item for Novice!
I bought enough materials for one synth. I didn't want to make this synth because they don't stack. The next synth was better to make it to cap since they sold decently well on my server.

Insect Ball (22-29) AH

Yield: Insect Ball x12

Earth Crystal
1x Millioncorn
1x Little Worm
1x Distilled Water

Simple synth and you will make tons of it. Use the Advanced Synthesis Image Support until you reach level 24 or so. If you are fishing, you will need these to fish up Moat Carps for the quest: "The Rivalry - The Competition". It is a cheaper synth than purchasing it off of the Auction House. If you sell them on the Auction House, you will make a decent profit. However, if you want to make a good profit from this, be patient. Although these do sell well on the Auction House, you'll want to be patient when selling them since you can only put 7 items up for sale at a time. But if you're looking just to hurry up and get to level 29, then sell the paste back to an NPC.

Pineapple Juice (29-30) AH

Yield: Pineapple Juice

Water Crystal
2x Kazham Pineapple

Easy synth and you only need it to get to level 30. This is a good Refresh food, so it's good for mages. Buy the Kazham Pineapples from Ghemi Sinterilo in Kazham.

Jack-o'-Lantern (31-38) AH

Yield: Jack-o'-Lantern

Fire Crystal
1x Ogre Pumpkin
1x Beeswax

Easy synth and you make a decent profit. Buy the Ogre Pumpkins (stackable) from an NPC and as for the beeswax, you can sign up for Alchemy and craft it yourself after you farm the Beehive Chips or you can get a high level alchemist to craft it for you since they can HQ. You'll spend less time farming the Beehive Chips and more time making money! The only downer on this synth is that they don't stack. Make sure to get Advanced Synthesis Image Support for this synth. Sell the Jack-o'-Lanterns on the AH or in your bazaar for nice profit.

Meat Mithkabob (38) AH

Yield: Meat Mithkabob x6
HQ 1: Meat Mithkabob x12
HQ 2: Meat Chiefkabob x6
HQ 3: Meat Chiefkabob x12

Fire Crystal
1x Kazham Peppers
1x Cockatrice Meat or Ziz Meat
1x Mhaura Garlic
1x Wild Onion

Test item for Apprentice!
You can either synth this yourself or buy it. Trade it to Piketo-Puketo for your new rank.

Pie Dough (38-42) AH

Yield: Pie Dough x4
HQ 1: Pie Dough x 6
HQ 2: Pie Dough x 9
HQ 3: Pie Dough x 12

Water Crystal
1x Rock Salt
1x San d'Orian Flour
1x Selbina Butter

Synth some Selbina Butter for this synth. Buy the Rock Salt from an NPC and buy the San d'Orian Flour from one of the guild merchants, which is not stackable. You will be making a lot of dough, so make sure you have a significant amount of inventory space and save most of the stacks for the next synth.

Apple Pie (42-50) AH

Yield: Apple Pie x4
HQ 1: Apple Pie +1 x 4

Fire Crystal
1x Bird Egg
1x Cinnamon
1x Faerie Apple
1x Maple Sugar
1x Pie Dough

Test Item for Journeyman!
Make sure to grab Adv. Synthesis Support from the guild until you hit level 45 so you don't break synths. Use the Pie Dough you just made and buy the rest of the ingredients from a guild seller or NPC. Try to keep as much inventory space as possible, as you will be making a lot of these.

Beaugreen Saute (50-55) Saute AH

Yield: Beaugreen Saute
HQ 1: Monastic Saute Fire Crystal
1x Beaugreens
1x Selbina Butter

You can use up some more of the Selbina Butter that you crafted for the Pie Dough earlier, or you can just make some more. Buy the Beaugreens from the Guild Merchant.

Stone Cheese (55-61) AH

Yield: Stone Cheese x4
HQ 1: Rock Cheese x4 Dark Crystal
1x Selbina Milk
1x Rock Salt

File:StoneCheese.JPG

Good synth to cap this craft out at 60. Buy the ingredients from an NPC and craft away!

NOTE: If you plan on taking this craft past 60, you can make Yagudo Drinks instead of this, which cap at 60. The drink is the next TEST ITEM but DO NOT turn it in unless your are planning on taking this craft to 100.