Loquat Juice

Taken all the way down to base materials, a batch of 3 Loquat Juice is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 1 intermediate — Honey ×1 — which resolves to 3 distinct raw materials totalling 7 units, plus 6 crystals.

That bill outweighs 4,963 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 599 of the 1,058 Culinarian ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 5 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 1 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 3 Fire Crystal, 2 Water Crystal and 1 Fire Shard.

Every step is Culinarian work, from a Lv 4 intermediate up to the Lv 61 finish, so one class covers the whole chain.

All 3 raw materials are gathered, and one of them is time-gated: Heavens Lemon (6:00, 18:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 12 Eorzean hours, about 35 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Honey has the widest use: 9 recipes call for it, all of them Culinarian recipes.