What does it cost to level Cooking right now?

1.4kg in reagents at today's KR auction prices, over about 109 crafts. Sell the results and it comes back to 1.4kg.

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 · Outland Cooking · KR · prices as of 16:27 UTC

Cooking leveling 1 → 75 · Outland Cooking

1.4kg in reagents over about 109 crafts. Sell what you make and it comes back to 1.4kg.

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

Furious Crawdad×897

776

×8776

Huge Spotted Feltail×3200

Total1,390

Step 1 · Skill 1 → 20

Orange

Buzzard Bites

needs the recipe item

About 19 crafts.2

per skill point15

Buzzard Meat×19

Step 2 · Skill 20 → 65

Orange→Green

Kibler's Bits

needs the recipe item

About 79 crafts.11

per skill point26

Buzzard Meat×79

Step 3 · Skill 65 → 72

Orange→Yellow

Spicy Crawdad

needs the recipe item

About 8 crafts.776

per skill point110

Furious Crawdad×8

Step 4 · Skill 72 → 75

Orange

Fisherman's Feast

trainer

About 3 crafts.600

per skill point200

Huge Spotted Feltail×3

Skill 75 — done. Now sell what you made.

Crafted itemUnitsEachTotal

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

Back in your pocket1,388

What's worth crafting with Cooking right now

Questions

How this route is built

What does it cost to level Cooking right now?: 1.4kg in reagents at today's KR auction prices, over about 109 crafts. Sell the results and it comes back to 1.4kg.
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.