Pumpkin Potage ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, a batch of 3 Pumpkin Potage is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 1 intermediate — Northern Sea Salt ×2 — which resolves to 6 distinct raw materials totalling 11 units, plus 14 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 6 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 8 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 8 Fire Crystal, 3 Fire Cluster and 3 Water Cluster.

Every step is Culinarian work, from a Lv 81 intermediate up to the Lv 90 finish, so one class covers the whole chain.

4 of the 6 raw materials come out of the ground, and one of them is time-gated: Potent Spice (6:00, 8:00, 10:00, 18:00, 20:00, 22:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 8 Eorzean hours, about 23 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Northern Sea Salt has the widest use: 18 recipes call for it, all of them Culinarian recipes.