Peperoncino ★★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, a batch of 3 Peperoncino is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 2 intermediates — Vermicelli ×1 and Highland Flour ×3 — which resolve to 7 distinct raw materials totalling 11 units, plus 20 crystals.

That bill outweighs 5,999 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 734 of the 1,058 Culinarian ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 5 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 15 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 15 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.

5 of the 7 raw materials come out of the ground, and one of them is time-gated: Abalathian Rock Salt (10:00, 22:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 12 Eorzean hours, about 35 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Highland Flour has the widest use: 16 recipes call for it, all of them Culinarian recipes.