What does it cost to level Cooking right now?

907g in reagents at today's EU auction prices, over about 113 crafts. Sell the results and it comes back to 822g.

Where do these numbers come from?

The skill thresholds are read from the game client data for build 12.1.0.68914. The prices are the region-wide auction house, refreshed every few minutes; these are the snapshot taken at 16:31 UTC.

Why does the route change when I reload?

Because the prices did. The cheapest recipe for a stretch of skill is whichever one's reagents are cheapest at that moment, and that moves through the day.

Profession leveling · Dragon Isles Cooking · EU · prices as of 16:31 UTC

Cooking leveling 1 → 100 · Dragon Isles Cooking

907g in reagents over about 113 crafts. Sell what you make and it comes back to 822g.

Start skill

Trainer recipes only

Recipe names carry the colour the profession window gives them: orange is a point every craft, yellow is three in four, green is one in four.

Before the first craft — buy it all at once

One trip to the auction house. Vendor lines are cheaper from the profession vendor than from the board.

ReagentNeedEachTotal

Islefin Dorado×409

384

×40384

Thousandbite Piranha×573

192

×57192

Cerulean Spinefish×253

×2586

Braised Bruffalon Brisket×155

×1585

Roast Duck Delight×154

×1574

Pebbled Rock Salts×8536

×8530

Saxifrage×82

×818

Assorted Exotic Spices×4225

×4210

Maybe Meat×2364

×2369

Mighty Mammoth Ribs×2363

Ribbed Mollusk Meat×324

×321

Total907

Step 1 · Skill 1 → 50

Orange→Green

Thrice-Spiced Mammoth Kabob

needs the recipe item

About 59 crafts.16

per skill point33

Maybe Meat×236

Mighty Mammoth Ribs×236

Step 2 · Skill 50 → 57

Orange→Yellow

Salad on the Side

needs the recipe item

About 8 crafts.26

per skill point3

Lava Beetle×16

Hochenblume×8

Saxifrage×8

Step 3 · Skill 57 → 72

Orange→Yellow

Filet of Fangs

needs the recipe item

About 16 crafts.117

per skill point7

Thousandbite Piranha×32

Assorted Exotic Spices×32

Ribbed Mollusk Meat×32

Step 4 · Skill 72 → 95

Orange→Yellow

Thousandbone Tongueslicer

needs the recipe item

About 25 crafts.437

per skill point19

Thousandbite Piranha×25

Cerulean Spinefish×25

Pebbled Rock Salts×75

Islefin Dorado×25

Step 5 · Skill 95 → 100

Orange

Hoard of Draconic Delicacies

needs the recipe item

About 5 crafts.310

per skill point62

Islefin Dorado×15

Braised Bruffalon Brisket×15

Roast Duck Delight×15

Pebbled Rock Salts×10

Assorted Exotic Spices×10

Skill 100 — done. Now sell what you made.

Crafted itemUnitsEachTotal

Thrice-Spiced Mammoth Kabob23620

23647

Thousandbone Tongueslicer10020

10020

Filet of Fangs6420

6412

Hoard of Draconic Delicacies51

Salad on the Side86

850

Capped at what the market takes in 3 days, so a route never pretends to sell hundreds at once.

Back in your pocket822

What's worth crafting with Cooking right now

Questions

How this route is built

What does it cost to level Cooking right now?: 907g in reagents at today's EU auction prices, over about 113 crafts. Sell the results and it comes back to 822g.
Where do these numbers come from?: The skill thresholds are read from the game client data for build 12.1.0.68914. The prices are the region-wide auction house, refreshed every few minutes; these are the snapshot taken at 16:31 UTC.
Why does the route change when I reload?: Because the prices did. The cheapest recipe for a stretch of skill is whichever one's reagents are cheapest at that moment, and that moves through the day.

A first craft pays Knowledge, not skill, so it is shown as a badge and left out of the craft count. Vendor reagents are priced at the lower of the vendor and the auction house.