Buttons in a Blanket

Taken all the way down to base materials, a batch of 3 Buttons in a Blanket is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 2 intermediates — Table Salt ×1 and Tomato Sauce ×1 — which resolve to 7 distinct raw materials totalling 10 units, plus 14 crystals.

That bill outweighs 5,754 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 690 of the 1,058 Culinarian ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 12 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 2 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 8 Fire Shard and 6 Water Shard.

Every step is Culinarian work, from a Lv 1 intermediate up to the Lv 49 finish, so one class covers the whole chain.

All 7 raw materials are gathered, and not one of their spots is timed, so nothing in the tree waits on the Eorzean clock.

Of the intermediates, Table Salt has the widest use: 51 recipes call for it, all of them Culinarian recipes.