Popotoes au Gratin

Taken all the way down to base materials, a batch of 3 Popotoes au Gratin is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Cream Cheese ×1, Upland Wheat Flour ×1 and Sweet Cream ×1 — which resolve to 7 distinct raw materials totalling 12 units, plus 26 crystals.

That bill outweighs 6,221 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 773 of the 1,058 Culinarian ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 14 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 12 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 14 Fire Crystal, 7 Water Crystal and 5 Fire Shard.

Every step is Culinarian work, from a Lv 6 intermediate up to the Lv 77 finish, so one class covers the whole chain.

4 of the 7 raw materials come out of the ground, and one of them is time-gated: Russet Popoto (8:00, 20:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 12 Eorzean hours, about 35 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Upland Wheat Flour has the widest use: 61 recipes call for it, all of them Culinarian recipes.