Crab Cakes ★★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, a batch of 3 Crab Cakes is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 1 intermediate — Upland Wheat Flour ×1 — which resolves to 5 distinct raw materials totalling 9 units, plus 11 crystals.

That bill outweighs 5,492 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 644 of the 1,058 Culinarian ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 4 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 7 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 7 Fire Crystal, 2 Fire Cluster and 2 Water Cluster.

Every step is Culinarian work, from a Lv 74 intermediate up to the Lv 80 finish, so one class covers the whole chain.

3 of the 5 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, Upland Wheat Flour has the widest use: 61 recipes call for it, all of them Culinarian recipes.