Afternoon Tea Set ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Afternoon Tea Set is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 11 intermediates — Acorn Cookie ×1, Chamomile Tea ×1, Honey Muffin ×1 and 8 others — which resolve to 14 distinct raw materials totalling 32 units, plus 28 crystals.

That bill outweighs 10,750 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,040 of the 1,058 Culinarian ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 2 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 26 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 18 Fire Shard, 6 Water Shard, 2 Fire 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.

8 of the 14 raw materials come out of the ground, and one of them is time-gated: Prickly Pineapple (9:00). 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.