Pixie Apple Basket

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Pixie Apple Basket is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 1 intermediate — Grape Juice ×1 — which resolves to 2 distinct raw materials totalling 8 units, plus 17 crystals.

That bill outweighs 5,254 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 623 of the 1,058 Culinarian ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 14 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 3 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 7 Fire Crystal, 7 Water Crystal, 2 Fire Shard and 1 other kind.

Every step is Culinarian work, from a Lv 21 intermediate up to the Lv 80 finish, so one class covers the whole chain.

Both raw materials are gathered, and no spot for either is timed, so nothing in the tree waits on the Eorzean clock.

Of the intermediates, Grape Juice has the widest use: 2 recipes call for it, all of them Culinarian recipes.