Cooking batch profit calculator

Select the food and recipe variant before entering a batch size. A recipe can produce multiple saleable items per craft. Ingredient quantities belong to the recipe, while an observed food price is a price per saleable item. Confusing the two can change the apparent margin dramatically.

Use the selected recipe’s output amount and returnable flags. Enchantment and rare ingredients can alter the cost mix. Apply returns to eligible ingredients, retain the full cost of non-returnable ingredients, and check the final station charge rather than treating the plot-tax input as a per-portion price.

Consider a teaching batch that produces ten portions from ingredients with an effective total cost of 8,000 silver and a 500-silver station charge. At 1,000 per portion and 4% sales tax, net batch revenue is 10 × 1,000 × 0.96 = 9,600. Profit is 1,100 per craft, or 110 per portion.

The break-even sale price is 8,500 ÷ (10 × 0.96), approximately 885.42 per portion before other selling charges. Comparing one portion’s 960 net revenue with the whole batch’s 8,500 cost would incorrectly show a large loss. The quantities and prices here are illustrative, not a current food recipe.

If you grow the ingredients, compare cooking with selling the harvest directly. If you buy them, check available quantities for the entire batch. Missing ingredients are unknown costs, so enter verified prices before trusting a profit result.

Compare focus and no-focus scenarios using the same prices. Account for empty journals where relevant and for setup or relisting charges in your selling plan. A positive per-portion margin needs enough buyers for every portion produced; reducing the batch is often more realistic than multiplying the cheapest observation.