Fish Soup

Taken all the way down to base materials, a batch of 3 Fish Soup is 2 crafting steps deep and needs 1 intermediate — Smooth Butter ×1 — which resolves to 6 distinct raw materials totalling 7 units, plus 11 crystals.

That bill outweighs 4,963 of the 13,602 recipes tracked here and 599 of the 1,058 Culinarian ones, and 4,464 recipes nest deeper.

Only 10 of those crystals go into the final step; the other 1 are burned by the intermediates, so the real crystal cost is 6 Fire Shard and 5 Water Shard.

Every step is Culinarian work, from a Lv 7 intermediate up to the Lv 43 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, Smooth Butter has the widest use: 33 recipes call for it, all of them Culinarian recipes.