What does it cost to level Cooking right now?

1.8kg in reagents at today's KR auction prices, over about 97 crafts. Sell the results and it comes back to 1.8kg.

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 16:27 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 · Khaz Algar Cooking · KR · prices as of 16:27 UTC

Cooking leveling 1 → 100 · Khaz Algar Cooking

1.8kg in reagents over about 97 crafts. Sell what you make and it comes back to 1.8kg.

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

Spiced Meat Stock×1021

153

×102153

Crunchy Peppers×23066

151

×230151

Total1,832

Step 1 · Skill 1 → 35

Orange→Green

Simple Stew

trainer

About 51 crafts.153

per skill point4

Spiced Meat Stock×102

Step 2 · Skill 35 → 100

Orange→Green

Beledar's Bounty

needs the recipe item

About 46 crafts.1,679

per skill point25

Portioned Steak×690

Crunchy Peppers×230

Coreway Dust×1840

Skill 100 — done. Now sell what you made.

Crafted itemUnitsEachTotal

Beledar's Bounty13833

13846

Simple Stew1536

1539

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

Back in your pocket1,776

What's worth crafting with Cooking right now

Questions

How this route is built

What does it cost to level Cooking right now?: 1.8kg in reagents at today's KR auction prices, over about 97 crafts. Sell the results and it comes back to 1.8kg.
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 16:27 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.