What does it cost to level Cooking right now?

556g in reagents at today's US auction prices, over about 113 crafts. Sell the results and it comes back to 476g.

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 15:57 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 · US · prices as of 15:57 UTC

Cooking leveling 1 → 100 · Dragon Isles Cooking

556g in reagents over about 113 crafts. Sell what you make and it comes back to 476g.

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

Thaldraszian Cocoa Powder×303

102

×30102

Thousandbite Piranha×492

×4998

Assorted Exotic Spices×10770

Pebbled Rock Salts×2474

×2417

Conveniently Packaged Ingredients×1599

×1514

Maybe Meat×2524

×25210

Ribbed Mollusk Meat×3227

×328

Pastry Packets×2036

×207

Mighty Mammoth Ribs×2363

×2367

Three-Cheese Blend×807

×805

Salt Deposit×164

×1664

Total556

Step 1 · Skill 1 → 50

Orange→Green

Thrice-Spiced Mammoth Kabob

needs the recipe item

About 59 crafts.16

per skill point33

Maybe Meat×236

Mighty Mammoth Ribs×236

Step 2 · Skill 50 → 57

Orange→Yellow

Impossibly Sharp Cutting Knife

needs the recipe item

About 8 crafts.20

per skill point2

Salt Deposit×16

Serevite Ore×16

Step 3 · Skill 57 → 72

Orange→Yellow

Filet of Fangs

needs the recipe item

About 16 crafts.95

per skill point6

Thousandbite Piranha×32

Assorted Exotic Spices×32

Ribbed Mollusk Meat×32

Step 4 · Skill 72 → 80

Orange

Deviously Deviled Eggs

needs the recipe item

About 8 crafts.95

per skill point11

Basilisk Eggs×32

Maybe Meat×16

Pebbled Rock Salts×24

Assorted Exotic Spices×24

Three-Cheese Blend×80

Step 5 · Skill 80 → 95

Orange→Yellow

Revenge, Served Cold

needs the recipe item

About 17 crafts.204

per skill point13

Aileron Seamoth×17

Thousandbite Piranha×17

Assorted Exotic Spices×51

Islefin Dorado×17

Step 6 · Skill 95 → 100

Orange

Ooey-Gooey Chocolate

needs the recipe item

About 5 crafts.124

per skill point24

Conveniently Packaged Ingredients×15

Thaldraszian Cocoa Powder×30

Pastry Packets×20

Skill 100 — done. Now sell what you made.

Crafted itemUnitsEachTotal

Thrice-Spiced Mammoth Kabob23620

23647

Revenge, Served Cold6820

6813

Filet of Fangs6420

6412

Deviously Deviled Eggs2420

244

Ooey-Gooey Chocolate520

Impossibly Sharp Cutting Knife86

850

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

Back in your pocket476

What's worth crafting with Cooking right now

Questions

How this route is built

What does it cost to level Cooking right now?: 556g in reagents at today's US auction prices, over about 113 crafts. Sell the results and it comes back to 476g.
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 15:57 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.