Lobster Bisque ★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, a batch of 3 Lobster Bisque is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 2 intermediates — Cooking Mezcal ×2 and Fermented Butter ×1 — which resolve to 6 distinct raw materials totalling 14 units, plus 21 crystals.

That bill outweighs 6,557 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 851 of the 1,058 Culinarian ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 6 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 15 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 8 Fire Crystal, 7 Fire Shard, 3 Fire Cluster and 1 other kind.

Every step is Culinarian work, from a Lv 53 intermediate up to the Lv 100 finish, so one class covers the whole chain.

2 of the 6 raw materials match a gathering node, none of them timed; the other 4 come from vendors, drops or content this site does not track.

Of the intermediates, Fermented Butter has the widest use: 32 recipes call for it, all of them Culinarian recipes.