Hollandaise Sauce

Taken all the way down to base materials, a batch of 3 Hollandaise Sauce is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 1 intermediate — Fermented Butter ×1 — which resolves to 4 distinct raw materials totalling 8 units, plus 14 crystals.

That bill outweighs 5,254 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 623 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 14 Fire Shard.

Every step is Culinarian work, from a Lv 53 intermediate up to the Lv 55 finish, so one class covers the whole chain.

2 of the 4 raw materials come out of the ground, and one of them is time-gated: Heavens Lemon (6:00, 18:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 12 Eorzean hours, about 35 real-world minutes.

Hollandaise Sauce is itself consumed by 5 further recipes, spanning two of the eight crafting classes.