Stewed River Bream

Taken all the way down to base materials, a batch of 3 Stewed River Bream is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 1 intermediate — Cottonseed Oil ×1 — which resolves to 6 distinct raw materials totalling 10 units, plus 18 crystals.

That bill outweighs 5,754 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 690 of the 1,058 Culinarian ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 11 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 7 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 7 Fire Shard, 6 Fire Crystal and 5 Water Crystal.

Every step is Culinarian work, from a Lv 63 intermediate up to the Lv 70 finish, so one class covers the whole chain.

5 of the 6 raw materials come out of the ground, and one of them is time-gated: Ala Mhigan Salt Crystal (0:00, 12:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 12 Eorzean hours, about 35 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Cottonseed Oil has the widest use: 13 recipes call for it, spanning two of the eight crafting classes.