Cockatrice Meatballs

Taken all the way down to base materials, a batch of 3 Cockatrice Meatballs is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Flatbread ×1, Tomato Sauce ×1, Rye Flour ×1 and 1 other — which resolve to 9 distinct raw materials totalling 14 units, plus 15 crystals.

That bill outweighs 6,557 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 851 of the 1,058 Culinarian ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 10 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 5 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 5 Fire Crystal, 5 Water Crystal, 4 Fire Shard and 1 other kind.

Every step is Culinarian work, from a Lv 1 intermediate up to the Lv 58 finish, so one class covers the whole chain.

7 of the 9 raw materials come out of the ground, and one of them is time-gated: Abalathian Rock Salt (10:00, 22:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 12 Eorzean hours, about 35 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Table Salt has the widest use: 51 recipes call for it, all of them Culinarian recipes.