What does it cost to level Cooking right now?

11.4kg in reagents at today's KR auction prices, over about 277 crafts. Sell the results and it comes back to 11.1kg.

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 · Kul Tiran Cooking · KR · prices as of 16:27 UTC

Cooking leveling 1 → 175 · Kul Tiran Cooking

11.4kg in reagents over about 277 crafts. Sell what you make and it comes back to 11.1kg.

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

Wild Flour×18622

4,194

×1864,194

Aromatic Fish Oil×18615

2,966

×1862,966

Great Sea Catfish×10502

Questionable Meat×49610

×49649

Total11,359

Step 1 · Skill 1 → 15

Orange

Grilled Catfish

About 14 crafts.175

per skill point12

Great Sea Catfish×70

Step 2 · Skill 15 → 35

Orange

Grilled Catfish

trainer

About 20 crafts.250

per skill point12

Great Sea Catfish×100

Step 3 · Skill 35 → 50

Orange

Grilled Catfish

needs the recipe item

About 15 crafts.187

per skill point12

Great Sea Catfish×75

Step 4 · Skill 50 → 67

Yellow

Grilled Catfish

trainer

About 23 crafts.287

per skill point16

Great Sea Catfish×115

Step 5 · Skill 67 → 80

Yellow

Grilled Catfish

needs the recipe item

About 18 crafts.225

per skill point17

Great Sea Catfish×90

Step 6 · Skill 80 → 100

Green

Grilled Catfish

trainer

About 80 crafts.1,000

per skill point50

Great Sea Catfish×400

Step 7 · Skill 100 → 110

Green

Grilled Catfish

needs the recipe item

About 40 crafts.500

per skill point50

Great Sea Catfish×200

Step 8 · Skill 110 → 170

Orange→Yellow

Dubious Delight

research

About 62 crafts.7,260

per skill point121

Questionable Meat×496

Aromatic Fish Oil×186

Wild Flour×186

Fresh Potato×248

Step 9 · Skill 170 → 175

Orange

Unagi Skewer

needs the recipe item

About 5 crafts.1,474

per skill point294

Viper Fish×25

Mauve Stinger×25

Skill 175 — done. Now sell what you made.

Crafted itemUnitsEachTotal

Grilled Catfish166112

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

Back in your pocket11,113

What's worth crafting with Cooking right now

Questions

How this route is built

What does it cost to level Cooking right now?: 11.4kg in reagents at today's KR auction prices, over about 277 crafts. Sell the results and it comes back to 11.1kg.
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.