What does it cost to level Cooking right now?

4.4kg in reagents at today's TW auction prices, over about 174 crafts. Sell the results and it comes back to 4.4kg.

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 17:54 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 · Kul Tiran Cooking · TW · prices as of 17:54 UTC

Cooking leveling 1 → 175 · Kul Tiran Cooking

4.4kg in reagents over about 174 crafts. Sell what you make and it comes back to 4.4kg.

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

Total4,358

Step 1 · Skill 1 → 175

Orange

Unagi Skewer

needs the recipe item

About 174 crafts.4,358

per skill point25

Viper Fish×870

Mauve Stinger×870

Skill 175 — done. Now sell what you made.

Crafted itemUnitsEachTotal

Unagi Skewer8701

8708

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

Back in your pocket4,358

What's worth crafting with Cooking right now

Questions

How this route is built

What does it cost to level Cooking right now?: 4.4kg in reagents at today's TW auction prices, over about 174 crafts. Sell the results and it comes back to 4.4kg.
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 17:54 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.