Crafting estimate at current listings

At current lowest listed prices one craft shows an estimated profit of 22 gold37 silver, but the crafted item’s listing is far from its 30-day median (see below).

Reagent cost (lowest listed): 2 gold90 silver
Crafted item, lowest listed price (each): 8 gold87 silver
Items per craft: 3
Listed value of one craft: 26 gold61 silver
Auction House cut (5%): 1 gold33 silver
Estimated profit at that listed price: 22 gold37 silver (+772%)

Evidence: 6 current listings holding 76 units of the crafted item in the US region. We see listings, not sales, so how many sell and at what price is unknown.
Outlier: the crafted item’s lowest listing is 21 times its 30-day median of 42 silver, so this estimate rests on a listing far above its usual level.
Items per craft: the game’s spell data creates 3 per craft, so the listed value of one craft is that many times the lowest listed price.
Not included: the recipe also accepts 1 finishing reagent slot, which are not required and are left out of the cost.

Verified priceAuction House1 hr agoUS region

Recipe facts

Profession: Cooking
Requires skill: 1
Expansion tier: Khaz Algar Cooking
Item level: 80
Reagent slots: 4
Cast time: 2 sec

Crafts

Sweet and Sour Meatballs8 gold

Reagents

Cost per reagent

Reagent	Qty	Each	Cost	Share
Portioned Steak Food & Drink · 6,918 on the Auction House	5	23 silver	1 gold15 silver	40%
Spiced Meat Stock Cooking · 2,989 on the Auction House	2	6 silver	12 silver	4%
Khaz Algar Tomato Cooking · 11,632 on the Auction House	10	13 silver	1 gold30 silver	45%
Granulated Spices Cooking · 8,586 on the Auction House	3	11 silver	33 silver	11%
Total per craft			2 gold90 silver	100%

About Sweet and Sour Meatballs

One craft takes 5 Portioned Steak, 2 Spiced Meat Stock, 10 Khaz Algar Tomato and 3 Granulated Spices.

Recipe category: A Full Belly (Khaz Algar Cuisine)
Skill-up colours (Khaz Algar Cooking skill): Orange below 45 · Yellow 45 to 49 · Green 50 to 54 · Grey 55 and up
Skill points per craft: 2

Sweet and Sour Meatballs tooltip

Sweet and Sour Meatballs

Item Level 80

Consumable

Requires Level 68

Use: Refreshment

Sell price: 29s 55c

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Sweet and Sour Meatballs: lowest listed price, last 30 days

The current lowest listing is 21 times 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: 8 gold87 silver
30-day low: 10 silver Sep 1
30-day high: 22,221 gold88 silver Sep 20
30-day median: 42 silver
7-day median: 42 silver
Hourly snapshots: 689

US region, the cheapest listing at each hourly Auction House snapshot. These are asking prices, not sales.

Where the reagents come from

Portioned Steak. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 14 other recipes (14 Cooking); Feast of the Midnight Masquerade takes the most, 60 per craft.

Spiced Meat Stock. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 12 other recipes (11 Cooking and 1 Skinning); the most per craft: Empress' Farewell (Cooking, 20 per craft), Outsider's Provisions (Cooking, 20 per craft), Everything Stew (Cooking, 15 per craft), Feast of the Midnight Masquerade (Cooking, 15 per craft) and Dornic Sliced Mineloaf (Cooking, 10 per craft).

Khaz Algar Tomato. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 8 other recipes (8 Cooking); the most per craft: Outsider's Provisions (Cooking, 30 per craft), Sizzling Honey Roast (Cooking, 15 per craft), Ginger-Glazed Fillet (Cooking, 10 per craft), Marinated Tenderloins (Cooking, 10 per craft) and Rib Stickers (Cooking, 10 per craft).

Granulated Spices. No recipe, Blizzard quest reward or dungeon journal drop in our game data produces it. Also a required reagent in 16 other recipes (15 Cooking and 1 Skinning); the most per craft: Mycobloom Risotto (Cooking, 20 per craft), Exquisitely Eviscerated Muscle (Cooking, 10 per craft), Angler's Delight (Cooking, 5 per craft), Authentic Undermine Clam Chowder (Cooking, 5 per craft) and Beast Lure Scent (Skinning, 5 per craft).

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Reading these numbers

At current lowest listed prices the 4 reagents for one craft of Sweet and Sour Meatballs cost 2 gold90 silver. Most of that is Khaz Algar Tomato - 10 at 13 silver each, 1 gold30 silver, 44.8% of the whole basket. Watch that one price and you have watched most of this recipe.

Break-even is 3 gold5 silver per craft, 1 gold1 silver per item at 3 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 8 gold87 silver, which clears it.

At that listed price the gross margin before fees is 23 gold71 silver; the Auction House would keep 1 gold33 silver of a sale, leaving 22 gold37 silver. That is an estimated 771.7% return on the gold you put into reagents, after the cut has taken 5.6% of the gross.

Listing depth right now: 76 units across 6 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 →

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