Alpine Tea Set

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Alpine Tea Set is 4 crafting steps deep and needs 5 intermediates — Ishgardian Tea ×2, Pineapple Ponzecake ×2, Maple Sugar ×1 and 2 others — which resolve to 9 distinct raw materials totalling 18 units, plus 22 crystals.

That bill outweighs 7,380 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 984 of the 1,058 Culinarian ones, and 1 recipe nests deeper.

Only 9 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 13 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 9 Fire Crystal, 7 Water Crystal, 4 Fire Shard and 2 other kinds.

Every step is Culinarian work, from a Lv 1 intermediate up to the Lv 57 finish, so one class covers the whole chain.

6 of the 9 raw materials come out of the ground, and 3 of them are time-gated: Coerthan Tea Leaves (0:00, 8:00, 10:00, 12:00, 20:00, 22:00), Cloud Banana (4:00, 16:00) and 1 other. The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 4 Eorzean hours, about 12 real-world minutes.

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