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.

92 of the 484 Cooking recipes clear that bar right now. Of the rest, 162 lose money at current prices, 67 show an estimated profit on a listing too thin or too far from its own 30-day median to rank and 163 have a reagent or an output with no current listing, so no estimate is claimed for them.

Ranked crafts

92of 484 recipes

Top estimated profit

472 gold21 silverone craft, after the cut

Typical ranked craft

2 gold14 silvermedian of the ranked list

No estimate

163a 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 Tea472 gold21 silver estimated, per craftmaterials 17 gold · keeps 92% of the listed value
• Keeps the most of its listed valueCarrion Surprise1 gold2 silver estimated, per craftmaterials 3 silver · keeps 92% of the listed value
• Smallest material billGoretusk Liver Pie7 silver50 copper estimated, per craftmaterials 2 silver · keeps 75% 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	17 gold99 silver	516 gold (4 per craft)	18 gold93 silver	472 gold21 silver	92%
Spiced Rib Roast	Spiced Rib Roast	28 gold60 silver	150 gold (10 per craft)	30 gold10 silver	113 gold90 silver	76%
Dragonfin Filet	Dragonfin Filet	11 gold50 silver	74 gold36 silver	12 gold10 silver	59 gold14 silver	80%
Iridescent Ravioli with Apple Sauce	Iridescent Ravioli with Apple Sauce	2 gold23 silver	45 gold27 silver (3 per craft)	2 gold34 silver	40 gold77 silver	90%
Fishbrul Special	Fishbrul Special	26 gold16 silver	70 gold (10 per craft)	27 gold53 silver	40 gold34 silver	58%
Fortune Cookie	Fortune Cookie	10 gold78 silver	50 gold68 silver	11 gold34 silver	37 gold36 silver	74%
Baked Port Tato	Baked Port Tato	5 gold44 silver	36 gold30 silver (10 per craft)	5 gold72 silver	29 gold4 silver	80%
Riverside Picnic	Riverside Picnic	1 gold82 silver	22 gold40 silver (4 per craft)	1 gold91 silver	19 gold46 silver	87%
Tender Baked Turtle	Tender Baked Turtle	69 silver	20 gold96 silver	72 silver63 copper	19 gold22 silver	92%
Bil'Tong	Bil'Tong	1 gold73 silver	19 gold30 silver (10 per craft)	1 gold82 silver	16 gold60 silver	86%
Charred Hornswog Steaks	Charred Hornswog Steaks	1 gold32 silver	18 gold36 silver (4 per craft)	1 gold38 silver	16 gold12 silver	88%
Fragrant Kakavia	Fragrant Kakavia	23 gold85 silver	40 gold (5 per craft)	25 gold10 silver	14 gold15 silver	35%