What does it cost to level Cooking right now?

184.2kg in reagents at today's KR auction prices, over about 123 crafts. Sell the results and it comes back to 184.1kg.

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 17:26 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 · Pandaria Cooking · KR · prices as of 17:26 UTC

Cooking leveling 1 → 75 · Pandaria Cooking

184.2kg in reagents over about 123 crafts. Sell what you make and it comes back to 184.1kg.

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

Juicycrunch Carrot×125018

23,437

×125023,437

Krasarang Paddlefish×47100

Total184,165

Step 1 · Skill 1 → 10

Yellow→Green

Red Bean Bun

trainer

About 26 crafts.260

per skill point28

Red Beans×26

Step 2 · Skill 10 → 25

Yellow→Green

Krasarang Fritters

needs the recipe item

About 47 crafts.4,717

per skill point314

Krasarang Paddlefish×47

Step 3 · Skill 25 → 75

Orange

Spicy Vegetable Chips

needs the recipe item

About 50 crafts.179,187

per skill point3,583

Jade Squash×1250

Pink Turnip×1250

Juicycrunch Carrot×1250

Skill 75 — done. Now sell what you made.

Crafted itemUnitsEachTotal

Spicy Vegetable Chips25014

25035

Red Bean Bun2613

263

Krasarang Fritters473

471

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

Back in your pocket184,125

What's worth crafting with Cooking right now

Questions

How this route is built

What does it cost to level Cooking right now?: 184.2kg in reagents at today's KR auction prices, over about 123 crafts. Sell the results and it comes back to 184.1kg.
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 17:26 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.