Sandwich Basket

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Sandwich Basket is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Walnut Bread ×1, Smooth Butter ×1, Sunset Wheat Flour ×1 and 1 other — which resolve to 7 distinct raw materials totalling 18 units, plus 7 crystals.

That bill outweighs 7,380 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 984 of the 1,058 Culinarian ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 2 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 5 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 5 Fire Shard and 2 Water Shard.

Every step is Culinarian work, so one class covers the whole chain.

One intermediate outranks the result: Walnut Bread is a Lv 18 Culinarian recipe feeding a Lv 17 craft, so that step, not the last one, is the real gate.

5 of the 7 raw materials match a gathering node, none of them timed; the other 2 come from vendors, drops or content this site does not track.