Ovim Meatballs ★★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, a batch of 3 Ovim Meatballs is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 1 intermediate — Frantoio Oil ×1 — which resolves to 6 distinct raw materials totalling 13 units, plus 10 crystals.

That bill outweighs 6,426 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 825 of the 1,058 Culinarian ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

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

Every step is Culinarian work, from a Lv 71 intermediate up to the Lv 80 finish, so one class covers the whole chain.

3 of the 6 raw materials come out of the ground, and 2 of them are time-gated: Ala Mhigan Salt Crystal (0:00, 12:00) and Russet Popoto (8:00, 20:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 8 Eorzean hours, about 23 real-world minutes.

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