Rich Tomato Relish ★★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Rich Tomato Relish is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Spicy Tomato Relish ×1, Dark Vinegar ×1 and Table Salt ×1 — which resolve to 5 distinct raw materials totalling 9 units, plus 48 crystals.

That bill outweighs 5,492 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 644 of the 1,058 Culinarian ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 23 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 25 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 27 Fire Shard and 21 Water Shard.

Every step is Culinarian work, from a Lv 1 intermediate up to the Lv 50 finish, so one class covers the whole chain.

4 of the 5 raw materials come out of the ground, and one of them is time-gated: Dzemael Tomato (13:00). That window comes round once per Eorzean day, every 70 real-world minutes.

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