Maple Sugar

Taken all the way down to base materials, a batch of 3 Maple Sugar is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 1 intermediate — Maple Syrup ×1 — which resolves to 1 distinct raw material totalling 1 unit, plus 2 crystals.

That is the lightest raw-material bill on the site, tied with 3,129 other recipes, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 1 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 1 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 2 Fire Shard.

Every step is Culinarian work, from a Lv 1 intermediate up to the Lv 2 finish, so one class covers the whole chain.

Its single raw material is gathered, and no spot for it is timed, so nothing in the tree waits on the Eorzean clock.

Maple Sugar is itself consumed by 17 further recipes, all of them Culinarian recipes.