Boiled Alpaca Steak

Taken all the way down to base materials, a batch of 3 Boiled Alpaca Steak is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 2 intermediates — Northern Sea Salt ×2 and Cooking Mezcal ×1 — which resolve to 5 distinct raw materials totalling 14 units, plus 31 crystals.

That bill outweighs 6,557 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 851 of the 1,058 Culinarian ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 15 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 16 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 24 Fire Crystal and 7 Water Crystal.

Every step is Culinarian work, from a Lv 81 intermediate up to the Lv 91 finish, so one class covers the whole chain.

3 of the 5 raw materials come out of the ground, and one of them is time-gated: Lemonette (6:00, 18:00). The widest gap between consecutive opening times is 12 Eorzean hours, about 35 real-world minutes.

Of the intermediates, Northern Sea Salt has the widest use: 18 recipes call for it, all of them Culinarian recipes.