Caramel Popcorn ★★★★

Taken all the way down to base materials, a batch of 3 Caramel Popcorn is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Turali Corn Oil ×2, Fermented Butter ×1 and Palm Sugar ×1 — which resolve to 6 distinct raw materials totalling 20 units, plus 29 crystals.

That bill outweighs 7,876 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,010 of the 1,058 Culinarian ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 6 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 23 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 16 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.