Gourmet Supper ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Gourmet Supper is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 7 intermediates — Dzemael Gratin ×1, Knight's Bread ×1, Sauteed Coeurl ×1 and 4 others — which resolve to 16 distinct raw materials totalling 23 units, plus 26 crystals.

That bill outweighs 8,647 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,031 of the 1,058 Culinarian ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 2 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 24 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 13 Fire Shard, 9 Water Shard, 2 Fire Cluster and 1 other kind.

Every step is Culinarian work, from a Lv 4 intermediate up to the Lv 50 finish, so one class covers the whole chain.

10 of the 16 raw materials come out of the ground, and 2 of them are time-gated: Dzemael Tomato (13:00) and Volcanic Rock Salt (17:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 20 Eorzean hours, about 58 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Smooth Butter has the widest use: 33 recipes call for it, all of them Culinarian recipes.