Trapper's Quiche

Taken all the way down to base materials, a batch of 3 Trapper's Quiche is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 5 intermediates — Cream Cheese ×1, Pie Dough ×1, Sunset Wheat Flour ×1 and 2 others — which resolve to 9 distinct raw materials totalling 13 units, plus 20 crystals.

That bill outweighs 6,426 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 825 of the 1,058 Culinarian ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 12 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 8 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 14 Fire Shard and 6 Water Shard.

Every step is Culinarian work, from a Lv 1 intermediate up to the Lv 50 finish, so one class covers the whole chain.

4 of the 9 raw materials match a gathering node, none of them timed; the other 5 come from vendors, drops or content this site does not track.

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