Apple Strudel ★★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, a batch of 3 Apple Strudel is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Birch Syrup ×1, Fermented Butter ×1 and Highland Flour ×1 — which resolve to 6 distinct raw materials totalling 17 units, plus 27 crystals.

That bill outweighs 7,161 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 967 of the 1,058 Culinarian ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 5 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 22 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 22 Fire Shard, 3 Fire Cluster and 2 Water Cluster.

Every step is Culinarian work, from a Lv 52 intermediate up to the Lv 60 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: Vanilla Beans (6:00, 18:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 12 Eorzean hours, about 35 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Fermented Butter has the widest use: 32 recipes call for it, all of them Culinarian recipes.