Sweetfish Skewers

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Sweetfish Skewers is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 1 intermediate — Northern Sea Salt ×3 — which resolves to 2 distinct raw materials totalling 9 units, plus 24 crystals.

That bill outweighs 5,492 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 644 of the 1,058 Culinarian ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 16 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 8 Water Crystal.

Every step is Culinarian work, from a Lv 81 intermediate up to the Lv 90 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, Northern Sea Salt has the widest use: 18 recipes call for it, all of them Culinarian recipes.