Soup's On (L)

At 10 allowances a run, this leve's 243,260 EXP works out to 24,326 EXP per allowance, which places it 6th of the 6 Lv 50 Culinarian tradecraft leves that record EXP. The best of them, The Next to Last Supper, returns 343,900 EXP for the same allowance, 1314% more.

Across that rung the return runs from 24,326 EXP to 343,900 EXP per allowance — 6 distinct figures spanning 1314%, so the wrong pick leaves 319,574 EXP of the allowance unspent.

On whether to wait: the best Lv 52 Culinarian tradecraft leve returns 310,610 EXP per allowance, 10% less than the best on this rung, while the Lv 45 rung behind tops out at 126,270 EXP.

At Lv 50 this data holds 54 leves paying EXP across 2 categories: the 48 Tradecraft ones average 176,840 EXP per allowance, the 6 Fieldcraft ones 553,899 EXP, which puts this leve 86% below its own category's average.

Baked Onion Soup ×3 is a Lv 52 Culinarian recipe, 3 steps deep through 6 intermediates, costing 19 units of raw material and 24 crystals.

Handing that in returns 12,803 EXP and 49 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows.

The record carries a repeats value of 5. This site reads that as 5 further turn-ins on the same leve — an assumption, because the source data defines no meaning for the field — which would put the ceiling at 1,459,560 EXP and 5,616 gil for the 10 allowances it costs, or 145,956 EXP per allowance.