Pea Soup

Taken all the way down to base materials, a batch of 3 Pea Soup is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 1 intermediate — Table Salt ×1 — which resolves to 5 distinct raw materials totalling 5 units, plus 5 crystals.

That bill outweighs 4,201 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 491 of the 1,058 Culinarian ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 4 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 1 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 3 Fire Shard and 2 Water Shard.

Every step is Culinarian work, from a Lv 1 intermediate up to the Lv 26 finish, so one class covers the whole chain.

3 of the 5 raw materials match a gathering node, none of them timed; the other 2 come from vendors, drops or content this site does not track.

Of the intermediates, Table Salt has the widest use: 51 recipes call for it, all of them Culinarian recipes.