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Recipe
Steamed Crab Surprise
Reagent cost, the crafted item's lowest listed price and the estimated profit at that price, from current US Auction House listings - recalculated every snapshot.
Crafting estimate at current listings
At current lowest listed prices the reagents cost more than the crafted item lists for: an estimated loss of 399 gold10 silver per craft.
- Reagent cost (lowest listed)
- 403 gold85 silver
- Crafted item, lowest listed price (each)
- 1 gold
- Items per craft
- 5
- Listed value of one craft
- 5 gold
- Auction House cut (5%)
- 25 silver
- Estimated profit at that listed price
- −399 gold10 silver (-99%)
- Evidence: 44 current listings holding 400 units of the crafted item in the US region. We see listings, not sales, so how many sell and at what price is unknown.
- Items per craft: the game’s spell data creates 5 per craft, so the listed value of one craft is that many times the lowest listed price.
Recipe facts
- Item level
- 35
- Reagent slots
- 4
- Cast time
- 2 sec
Crafts
Reagents
1Rice Flour150 gold10 silver
5Jewel Danio19 gold
5Raw Crab Meat8 gold
25White Turnip4 gold75 silver
Cost per reagent
| Reagent | Qty | Each | Cost | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rice Flour Cooking · 276 on the Auction House | 1 | 150 gold10 silver | 150 gold10 silver | 37% |
| Jewel Danio Cooking · 10,447 on the Auction House | 5 | 19 gold | 95 gold | 24% |
| Raw Crab Meat Cooking · 8,005 on the Auction House | 5 | 8 gold | 40 gold | 10% |
| White Turnip Cooking · 6,305 on the Auction House | 25 | 4 gold75 silver | 118 gold75 silver | 29% |
| Total per craft | 403 gold85 silver | 100% |
About Steamed Crab Surprise
One craft takes 1 Rice Flour, 5 Jewel Danio, 5 Raw Crab Meat and 25 White Turnip. It is taught by Recipe: Steamed Crab Surprise, which needs Pandaria Cooking 50. Steamed Crab Surprise is itself a reagent in 2 other recipes (Cooking).
Steamed Crab Surprise tooltip
How to learn Steamed Crab Surprise
Recipe: Steamed Crab Surprise- Teaches
- Teaches you how to prepare Steamed Crab Surprise.
- Requires
- Pandaria Cooking (50)
- Binding
- Binds when picked up
Steamed Crab Surprise is a reagent in
Steamed Crab Surprise: lowest listed price, last 30 days
The current lowest listing is 10% below its 30-day median. Over these 30 days the lowest listing moved more than tenfold, so a single snapshot, including the one the estimate uses, can sit far from typical.
- Now
- 90 silver
- 30-day low
- 20 silver Sep 13
- 30-day high
- 1,878 gold98 silver Sep 14
- 30-day median
- 1 gold
- 7-day median
- 2 gold
- Hourly snapshots
- 684
US region, the cheapest listing at each hourly Auction House snapshot. These are asking prices, not sales.
Where the reagents come from
Rice Flour. Rewarded by the quest A Present for Teacher. Also a required reagent in 1 other recipe (1 Cooking); Mushan Dumpling Stack takes the most, 1 per craft.
Jewel Danio. Rewarded by the quest Test Quest. Also a required reagent in 2 other recipes (2 Cooking); the most per craft: Great Pandaren Banquet (Cooking, 20 per craft) and Pandaren Banquet (Cooking, 10 per craft).
Raw Crab Meat. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it.
White Turnip. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it.
Reading these numbers
At current lowest listed prices the 4 reagents for one craft of Steamed Crab Surprise cost 403 gold85 silver. Most of that is Rice Flour - 1 at 150 gold10 silver each, 150 gold10 silver, 37.2% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.
Break-even is 425 gold10 silver per craft, 85 gold2 silver per item at 5 items a craft - below that listed price the craft loses gold once Blizzard’s 5% cut is taken. The crafted item’s lowest listed price is 1 gold, which does not clear it.
The crafted item currently lists for less than its reagents cost: −398 gold85 silver before fees, and the Auction House would still take 25 silver of a sale, so a craft loses 399 gold10 silver at these prices. At current listings, buying the crafted item costs less than making it. That is an estimated -98.8% return on the gold you put into reagents.
Listing depth right now: 400 units across 44 auctions region-wide. Depth separates a market price from a single asking figure, but listings are not sales, so read it alongside the estimate.
Costs use each reagent’s lowest listed price; the estimate is the crafted item’s lowest listed price, times the items one craft makes, minus those reagents and Blizzard’s 5% sale cut. Listings are asking prices, not sales. Recalculated every snapshot and left blank rather than guessed when a price is missing. How we estimate crafting profit →