Creamy Salmon Pasta ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, a batch of 3 Creamy Salmon Pasta is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Frantoio Oil ×1, Sweet Cream ×1, Vermicelli ×1 and 1 other — which resolve to 8 distinct raw materials totalling 19 units, plus 26 crystals.

That bill outweighs 7,589 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 994 of the 1,058 Culinarian ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 4 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 22 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 16 Fire Shard, 6 Fire Crystal, 2 Fire Cluster and 1 other kind.

Every step is Culinarian work, from a Lv 6 intermediate up to the Lv 80 finish, so one class covers the whole chain.

6 of the 8 raw materials come out of the ground, and 2 of them are time-gated: Abalathian Rock Salt (10:00, 22:00) and Mist Spinach (0:00, 12:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 10 Eorzean hours, about 29 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Frantoio Oil has the widest use: 35 recipes call for it, all of them Culinarian recipes.