Alligator Salad

Taken all the way down to base materials, a batch of 3 Alligator Salad is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Dark Vinegar ×1, Olive Oil ×1 and Table Salt ×1 — which resolve to 6 distinct raw materials totalling 12 units, plus 11 crystals.

That bill outweighs 6,221 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 773 of the 1,058 Culinarian ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 6 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 5 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 8 Fire Shard and 3 Water Shard.

Every step is Culinarian work, from a Lv 1 intermediate up to the Lv 31 finish, so one class covers the whole chain.

5 of the 6 raw materials match a gathering node, none of them timed; the other 1 comes 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.