Tomato Pie ★

Taken all the way down to base materials, a batch of 3 Tomato Pie is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Pie Dough ×1, Rolanberry Cheese ×1, Table Salt ×2 and 1 other — which resolve to 8 distinct raw materials totalling 13 units, plus 14 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 5 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 9 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 9 Fire Shard, 3 Fire Crystal and 2 Water Crystal.

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

6 of the 8 raw materials come out of the ground, and one of them is time-gated: Dzemael Tomato (13:00). That window comes round once per Eorzean day, every 70 real-world minutes.

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