Sweet Gnomefish ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Sweet Gnomefish is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 1 intermediate — Birch Syrup ×1 — which resolves to 2 distinct raw materials totalling 4 units, plus 22 crystals.

That bill outweighs 3,935 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 468 of the 1,058 Culinarian ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 14 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 8 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 8 Fire Shard, 7 Fire Crystal and 7 Water Crystal.

Every step is Culinarian work, from a Lv 59 intermediate up to the Lv 60 finish, so one class covers the whole chain.

Both raw materials are gathered, and no spot for either is timed, so nothing in the tree waits on the Eorzean clock.

Of the intermediates, Birch Syrup has the widest use: 13 recipes call for it, all of them Culinarian recipes.