Lava Toad Legs ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, a batch of 3 Lava Toad Legs is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 1 intermediate — Sunset Wheat Flour ×1 — which resolves to 6 distinct raw materials totalling 9 units, plus 3 crystals.

That bill outweighs 5,492 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 644 of the 1,058 Culinarian ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

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

Every step is Culinarian work, from a Lv 7 intermediate up to the Lv 50 finish, so one class covers the whole chain.

All 6 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, Sunset Wheat Flour has the widest use: 29 recipes call for it, all of them Culinarian recipes.