Lentil Curry

Taken all the way down to base materials, a batch of 3 Lentil Curry is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 2 intermediates — Coconut Milk ×1 and Upland Wheat Flour ×1 — which resolve to 6 distinct raw materials totalling 16 units, plus 31 crystals.

That bill outweighs 6,959 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 943 of the 1,058 Culinarian ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 16 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 15 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 23 Fire Crystal and 8 Water Crystal.

Every step is Culinarian work, from a Lv 74 intermediate up to the Lv 86 finish, so one class covers the whole chain.

All 6 raw materials are gathered, and not one of their spots is timed, so nothing in the tree waits on the Eorzean clock.

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