Ginger Salad ★★★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, a batch of 3 Ginger Salad is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 1 intermediate — Olive Oil ×1 — which resolves to 5 distinct raw materials totalling 11 units, plus 5 crystals.

That bill outweighs 5,999 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 734 of the 1,058 Culinarian ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 4 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 1 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 2 Fire Cluster, 2 Water Cluster and 1 Fire Shard.

Every step is Culinarian work, from a Lv 11 intermediate up to the Lv 70 finish, so one class covers the whole chain.

4 of the 5 raw materials come out of the ground, and one of them is time-gated: Jhammel Ginger (4:00, 16:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 12 Eorzean hours, about 35 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Olive Oil has the widest use: 19 recipes call for it, all of them Culinarian recipes.