Finger Sandwich ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, a batch of 3 Finger Sandwich is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Smooth Butter ×2, Walnut Bread ×1, Sunset Wheat Flour ×1 and 1 other — which resolve to 7 distinct raw materials totalling 14 units, plus 8 crystals.

That bill outweighs 6,557 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 851 of the 1,058 Culinarian ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 2 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 6 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 5 Fire Shard, 1 Fire Cluster, 1 Water Cluster and 1 other kind.

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

5 of the 7 raw materials come out of the ground, and one of them is time-gated: Volcanic Rock Salt (17:00). That window comes round once per Eorzean day, every 70 real-world minutes.

Finger Sandwich is itself consumed by 2 further recipes, spanning two of the eight crafting classes.