What does it cost to level Cooking right now?

252g in reagents at today's TW auction prices, over about 124 crafts. Sell the results and it comes back to 247g. 88% of the route is priced

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 · Northrend Cooking · TW · prices as of 17:54 UTC

Cooking leveling 1 → 85 · Northrend Cooking

252g in reagents over about 124 crafts. Sell what you make and it comes back to 247g. 88% of the route is priced

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

Total252

Step 1 · Skill 1 → 20

Yellow

Rhino Dogs

trainer

About 26 crafts.17

per skill point94

Rhino Meat×26

Step 2 · Skill 20 → 75

Orange→Green

Hearty Rhino

needs the recipe item

About 98 crafts.234

per skill point4

Rhino Meat×98

Northern Spices×98

Skill 75 → 85

Every recipe over this stretch has a reagent nobody is selling right now, so it is left out of the totals.

Skill 85 — 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 pocket247

What's worth crafting with Cooking right now

Questions

How this route is built

What does it cost to level Cooking right now?: 252g in reagents at today's TW auction prices, over about 124 crafts. Sell the results and it comes back to 247g. 88% of the route is priced
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.