Pot of Cream Stew

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Pot of Cream Stew is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 1 intermediate — Smooth Butter ×2 — which resolves to 6 distinct raw materials totalling 16 units, plus 7 crystals.

That bill outweighs 6,959 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 943 of the 1,058 Culinarian ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 6 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 1 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 4 Fire Shard and 3 Water Shard.

Every step is Culinarian work, from a Lv 7 intermediate up to the Lv 32 finish, so one class covers the whole chain.

3 of the 6 raw materials match a gathering node, none of them timed; the other 3 come from vendors, drops or content this site does not track.

Of the intermediates, Smooth Butter has the widest use: 33 recipes call for it, all of them Culinarian recipes.