Urchin Loaf ★

Taken all the way down to base materials, a batch of 3 Urchin Loaf is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 1 intermediate — Sour Cream ×1 — which resolves to 6 distinct raw materials totalling 9 units, plus 10 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 7 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 7 Fire Shard, 2 Fire Cluster and 1 Water Cluster.

Every step is Culinarian work, from a Lv 51 intermediate up to the Lv 60 finish, so one class covers the whole chain.

3 of the 6 raw materials come out of the ground, and one of them is time-gated: Morel (4:00, 16:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 12 Eorzean hours, about 35 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Sour Cream has the widest use: 15 recipes call for it, all of them Culinarian recipes.