Baked Alien Soup

Taken all the way down to base materials, a batch of 3 Baked Alien Soup is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 4 intermediates — Chicken Stock ×1, Garlean Cheese ×1, Northern Sea Salt ×1 and 1 other — which resolve to 8 distinct raw materials totalling 22 units, plus 42 crystals.

That bill outweighs 8,402 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 1,028 of the 1,058 Culinarian ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 16 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 26 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 31 Fire Crystal, 8 Water Crystal and 3 Fire Shard.

Every step is Culinarian work, from a Lv 28 intermediate up to the Lv 90 finish, so one class covers the whole chain.

5 of the 8 raw materials match a gathering node, none of them timed; the other 3 come from vendors, drops or content this site does not track.

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