Zurek

Taken all the way down to base materials, a batch of 3 Zurek is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 1 intermediate — Dark Rye Flour ×1 — which resolves to 4 distinct raw materials totalling 10 units, plus 23 crystals.

That bill outweighs 5,754 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 690 of the 1,058 Culinarian ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 15 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 8 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 16 Fire Crystal and 7 Water Crystal.

Every step is Culinarian work, from a Lv 81 intermediate up to the Lv 81 finish, so one class covers the whole chain.

All 4 raw materials are gathered, and one of them is time-gated: Broad Beans (0:00, 12:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 12 Eorzean hours, about 35 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Dark Rye Flour has the widest use: 23 recipes call for it, all of them Culinarian recipes.