Baked Megapiranha

Taken all the way down to base materials, a batch of 3 Baked Megapiranha is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 1 intermediate — Fermented Butter ×1 — which resolves to 4 distinct raw materials totalling 11 units, plus 20 crystals.

That bill outweighs 5,999 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 734 of the 1,058 Culinarian ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 13 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 7 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 7 Fire Crystal, 7 Fire Shard and 6 Water Crystal.

Every step is Culinarian work, from a Lv 53 intermediate up to the Lv 76 finish, so one class covers the whole chain.

2 of the 4 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, Fermented Butter has the widest use: 32 recipes call for it, all of them Culinarian recipes.