Mesquite Soup

Taken all the way down to base materials, a batch of 3 Mesquite Soup is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 2 intermediates — Frantoio Oil ×1 and Turali Corn Oil ×1 — which resolve to 6 distinct raw materials totalling 16 units, plus 30 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 14 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 22 Fire Crystal and 8 Water Crystal.

Every step is Culinarian work, from a Lv 71 intermediate up to the Lv 100 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, Frantoio Oil has the widest use: 35 recipes call for it, all of them Culinarian recipes.