Ishgardian Culinary Essentials

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Ishgardian Culinary Essentials is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 1 intermediate — Ishgardian Culinary Materials ×2 — which resolves to 1 distinct raw material totalling 2 units, plus 12 crystals.

That bill outweighs 3,130 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 389 of the 1,591 Alchemist ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 6 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 6 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 4 Water Crystal, 4 Wind Crystal, 2 Ice Crystal and 1 other kind.

The chain crosses two disciplines — Alchemist to Lv 66 and Carpenter to Lv 66 — so no single class can finish it unaided.

The single raw material does not appear in the gathering data, so the whole bill comes from vendors, drops or content this site does not track.

Of the intermediates, Ishgardian Culinary Materials has the widest use: 8 recipes call for it, spanning eight of the eight crafting classes.