Cheese Risotto

Taken all the way down to base materials, a batch of 3 Cheese Risotto is 3 crafting steps deep and needs 2 intermediates — Cottage Cheese ×1 and Cider Vinegar ×1 — which resolve to 6 distinct raw materials totalling 6 units, plus 7 crystals.

That bill outweighs 4,542 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 531 of the 1,058 Culinarian ones, and 337 recipes nest deeper.

Only 5 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 2 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 5 Fire Shard and 2 Water Shard.

Every step is Culinarian work, from a Lv 16 intermediate up to the Lv 27 finish, so one class covers the whole chain.

4 of the 6 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, Cottage Cheese has the widest use: 5 recipes call for it, spanning two of the eight crafting classes.