What does it cost to level Cooking right now?

8kg in reagents at today's TW auction prices, over about 136 crafts. Sell the results and it comes back to 7.9kg.

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 15:54 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 · TW · prices as of 15:54 UTC

Cooking leveling 1 → 100 · Dragon Isles Cooking

8kg in reagents over about 136 crafts. Sell what you make and it comes back to 7.9kg.

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

Temporal Dragonhead×5769

Pebbled Rock Salts×1713

Thousandbite Piranha×571

Ohn'ahran Potato×1184

×1184

Total7,965

Step 1 · Skill 1 → 50

Orange→Green

Charred Hornswog Steaks

needs the recipe item

About 59 crafts.217

per skill point4

Maybe Meat×236

Hornswog Hunk×236

Ohn'ahran Potato×118

Step 2 · Skill 50 → 60

Orange→Green

Salad on the Side

needs the recipe item

About 20 crafts.420

per skill point42

Lava Beetle×40

Hochenblume×20

Saxifrage×20

Step 3 · Skill 60 → 100

Orange→Green

Feisty Fish Sticks

needs the recipe item

About 57 crafts.7,327

per skill point183

Temporal Dragonhead×57

Thousandbite Piranha×57

Pebbled Rock Salts×171

Islefin Dorado×57

Skill 100 — done. Now sell what you made.

Crafted itemUnitsEachTotal

Charred Hornswog Steaks23620

23647

Feisty Fish Sticks22820

22845

Salad on the Side206

201

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

Back in your pocket7,870

What's worth crafting with Cooking right now

Questions

How this route is built

What does it cost to level Cooking right now?: 8kg in reagents at today's TW auction prices, over about 136 crafts. Sell the results and it comes back to 7.9kg.
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 15:54 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.