Cornbread

Taken all the way down to base materials, a batch of 3 Cornbread is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 3 intermediates — Cornmeal ×1, Olive Oil ×1 and Sunset Wheat Flour ×1 — which resolve to 6 distinct raw materials totalling 14 units, plus 11 crystals.

That bill outweighs 6,557 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 851 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 7 intermediate up to the Lv 31 finish, so one class covers the whole chain.

3 of the 6 raw materials match a gathering node, none of them timed; the other 3 come from vendors, drops or content this site does not track.

Of the intermediates, Sunset Wheat Flour has the widest use: 29 recipes call for it, all of them Culinarian recipes.