Chilled Popoto Soup ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, a batch of 3 Chilled Popoto Soup is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Smooth Butter ×1, Sweet Cream ×1 and Table Salt ×1 — which resolve to 5 distinct raw materials totalling 7 units, plus 5 crystals.

That bill outweighs 4,963 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 599 of the 1,058 Culinarian ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 2 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 3 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 3 Fire Shard, 1 Fire Cluster and 1 Water Cluster.

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 5 raw materials come out of the ground, and one of them is time-gated: La Noscean Leek (8:00). 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.