Risotto al Nero

Taken all the way down to base materials, a batch of 3 Risotto al Nero is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 2 intermediates — Frantoio Oil ×1 and Squid Ink ×1 — which resolve to 6 distinct raw materials totalling 14 units, plus 26 crystals.

That bill outweighs 6,557 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 851 of the 1,058 Culinarian ones, and 4,464 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 19 Fire Crystal and 7 Water Crystal.

Every step is Culinarian work, from a Lv 71 intermediate up to the Lv 78 finish, so one class covers the whole chain.

All 6 raw materials are gathered, 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, Frantoio Oil has the widest use: 35 recipes call for it, all of them Culinarian recipes.