Roast Canard ★★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, a batch of 3 Roast Canard is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 2 intermediates — Honey ×1 and Smooth Butter ×1 — which resolve to 6 distinct raw materials totalling 9 units, plus 5 crystals.

That bill outweighs 5,492 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 644 of the 1,058 Culinarian ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 3 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 2 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 2 Fire Cluster, 2 Fire Shard and 1 Water Cluster.

Every step is Culinarian work, from a Lv 4 intermediate up to the Lv 50 finish, so one class covers the whole chain.

4 of the 6 raw materials come out of the ground, and one of them is time-gated: Blood Orange (7:00). That window comes round once per Eorzean day, every 70 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Smooth Butter has the widest use: 33 recipes call for it, all of them Culinarian recipes.