Dzo Steak ★★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, a batch of 3 Dzo Steak is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 2 intermediates — Algae Salt ×1 and Cottonseed Oil ×1 — which resolve to 4 distinct raw materials totalling 12 units, plus 18 crystals.

That bill outweighs 6,221 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 773 of the 1,058 Culinarian ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 4 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 14 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 14 Fire Shard, 2 Fire Cluster and 2 Water Cluster.

Every step is Culinarian work, from a Lv 62 intermediate up to the Lv 70 finish, so one class covers the whole chain.

2 of the 4 raw materials match a gathering node, none of them timed; the other 2 come from vendors, drops or content this site does not track.

Of the intermediates, Cottonseed Oil has the widest use: 13 recipes call for it, spanning two of the eight crafting classes.