Beet Soup

Taken all the way down to base materials, a batch of 3 Beet Soup is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 1 intermediate — Sour Cream ×1 — which resolves to 6 distinct raw materials totalling 12 units, plus 14 crystals.

That bill outweighs 6,221 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 773 of the 1,058 Culinarian ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 7 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 7 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 7 Fire Shard, 4 Fire Crystal and 3 Water Crystal.

Every step is Culinarian work, from a Lv 51 intermediate up to the Lv 54 finish, so one class covers the whole chain.

4 of the 6 raw materials come out of the ground, and 2 of them are time-gated: Abalathian Rock Salt (10:00, 22:00) and Pearl Sprouts (10:00, 22:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 12 Eorzean hours, about 35 real-world minutes.

Beet Soup is itself consumed by 1 further recipe, all of them Culinarian recipes.