Cooking Recipes - Cost to Craft & Profit

Cooking at current prices

Every figure is an estimate at current lowest listed prices: listings are asking prices, not sales. A craft is ranked here only when its finished item and every reagent have a current listing, the estimated profit survives Blizzard’s 5% Auction House cut, enough people are listing the finished item that its price is a market rather than one seller’s ask, and that lowest listing is within 3 times its own 30-day median.

64 of the 484 Cooking recipes clear that bar right now. Of the rest, 171 lose money at current prices, 47 show an estimated profit on a listing too thin or too far from its own 30-day median to rank and 202 have a reagent or an output with no current listing, so no estimate is claimed for them.

Ranked crafts

64of 484 recipes

Top estimated profit

734 gold73 silverone craft, after the cut

Typical ranked craft

1 gold76 silvermedian of the ranked list

No estimate

202a price is missing, so none is guessed

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 →

Where the money is

• Biggest estimated profitGoldthorn Tea734 gold73 silver estimated, per craftmaterials 21 gold · keeps 92% of the listed value
• Keeps the most of its listed valueSpiced Falcosaur Omelet4 gold27 silver estimated, per craftmaterials 10 silver · keeps 93% of the listed value
• Smallest material billHot Wolf Ribs89 silver10 copper estimated, per craftmaterials 4 silver · keeps 91% of the listed value

Best Cooking crafts right now

The 12 Cooking crafts with the highest estimated profit that clear the market bar, highest first. Listed value is the finished item’s lowest listed price times the items one craft makes; Break-even is the listed value that would cover the materials and the 5% cut; Keeps is the share of the listed value left after both. Listings are asking prices, not sales.

Recipe	Crafts	Materials	Listed value	Break-even	Estimated profit	Keeps
Goldthorn Tea	Goldthorn Tea	21 gold62 silver	796 gold16 silver (4 per craft)	22 gold75 silver	734 gold73 silver	92%
Unagi Skewer	Unagi Skewer	34 gold80 silver	169 gold50 silver (5 per craft)	36 gold63 silver	126 gold22 silver	74%
Pickled Stormray	Pickled Stormray	2 gold87 silver	36 gold40 silver (10 per craft)	3 gold2 silver	31 gold71 silver	87%
Spiced Mammoth Treats	Spiced Mammoth Treats	4 gold30 silver	33 gold51 silver	4 gold52 silver	27 gold53 silver	82%
Cheese and Quackers	Cheese and Quackers	2 gold52 silver	30 gold96 silver (4 per craft)	2 gold65 silver	26 gold89 silver	87%
Kul Tiramisu	Kul Tiramisu	8 gold41 silver	30 gold60 silver (10 per craft)	8 gold85 silver	20 gold66 silver	68%
Crispy Bacon	Crispy Bacon	6 gold80 silver	25 gold90 silver (10 per craft)	7 gold15 silver	17 gold80 silver	69%
Great Cerulean Sea	Great Cerulean Sea	4 gold56 silver	21 gold92 silver (4 per craft)	4 gold80 silver	16 gold26 silver	74%
Abyssal-Fried Rissole	Abyssal-Fried Rissole	2 gold41 silver	19 gold60 silver (10 per craft)	2 gold53 silver	16 gold21 silver	83%
Loa Loaf	Loa Loaf	7 gold42 silver	21 gold70 silver (10 per craft)	7 gold81 silver	13 gold19 silver	61%
Very Burnt Worg	Very Burnt Worg	1 gold45 silver	15 gold	1 gold52 silver	12 gold80 silver	85%
Fish Cake	Fish Cake	6 gold78 silver	19 gold8 silver	7 gold13 silver	11 gold34 silver	60%