Cottage Cheese

Taken all the way down to base materials, a batch of 3 Cottage Cheese is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 1 intermediate — Cider Vinegar ×1 — which resolves to 3 distinct raw materials totalling 3 units, plus 2 crystals.

That bill outweighs 3,373 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 427 of the 1,058 Culinarian ones, 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 16 intermediate up to the Lv 17 finish, so one class covers the whole chain.

1 of the 3 raw materials matches a gathering node, none of them timed; the other 2 come from vendors, drops or content this site does not track.

Cottage Cheese is itself consumed by 5 further recipes, spanning two of the eight crafting classes.