Peppered Popotoes

Taken all the way down to base materials, a batch of 3 Peppered Popotoes is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Sausage Links ×1, Garden Beet Sugar ×1 and Table Salt ×1 — which resolve to 8 distinct raw materials totalling 14 units, plus 34 crystals.

That bill outweighs 6,557 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 851 of the 1,058 Culinarian ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 14 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 20 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 20 Fire Crystal, 13 Water Crystal and 1 Fire Shard.

Every step is Culinarian work, from a Lv 1 intermediate up to the Lv 77 finish, so one class covers the whole chain.

6 of the 8 raw materials come out of the ground, and 2 of them are time-gated: Abalathian Rock Salt (10:00, 22:00) and Russet Popoto (8:00, 20:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 10 Eorzean hours, about 29 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Table Salt has the widest use: 51 recipes call for it, all of them Culinarian recipes.