Popoto Chips

Taken all the way down to base materials, one Popoto Chips is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 2 intermediates — Turali Corn Oil ×2 and Mountain Salt ×1 — which resolve to 3 distinct raw materials totalling 15 units, plus 32 crystals.

That bill outweighs 6,735 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 891 of the 1,058 Culinarian ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 16 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 8 Water Crystal.

Every step is Culinarian work, from a Lv 92 intermediate up to the Lv 100 finish, so one class covers the whole chain.

All 3 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, Mountain Salt has the widest use: 22 recipes call for it, spanning two of the eight crafting classes.