Pan-fried Mahi-mahi ★

Taken all the way down to base materials, a batch of 3 Pan-fried Mahi-mahi is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Olive Oil ×3, Sunset Wheat Flour ×1 and Table Salt ×1 — which resolve to 4 distinct raw materials totalling 10 units, plus 8 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 5 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 3 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 3 Fire Crystal, 3 Fire Shard 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.

All 4 raw materials are gathered, and one of them is time-gated: Mahi-mahi (10:00). 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.