Spaghetti al Nero

Taken all the way down to base materials, a batch of 3 Spaghetti al Nero is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Vermicelli ×3, Squid Ink ×2, Frantoio Oil ×1 and 1 other — which resolve to 6 distinct raw materials totalling 20 units, plus 39 crystals.

That bill outweighs 7,876 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,010 of the 1,058 Culinarian ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 12 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 27 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 18 Fire Crystal, 15 Fire Shard and 6 Water Crystal.

Every step is Culinarian work, from a Lv 52 intermediate up to the Lv 73 finish, so one class covers the whole chain.

All 6 raw materials are gathered, and one of them is time-gated: Abalathian Rock Salt (10:00, 22:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 12 Eorzean hours, about 35 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Frantoio Oil has the widest use: 35 recipes call for it, all of them Culinarian recipes.