Persona non Gratin

One allowance here buys 213,220 EXP, which places it 3rd of the 3 Lv 52 Culinarian tradecraft leves that record EXP. The best of them, Such a Butter Face, returns 310,610 EXP for the same allowance, 46% more.

Across that rung the return runs from 213,220 EXP to 310,610 EXP per allowance — 3 distinct figures spanning 46%, so the wrong pick leaves 97,390 EXP of the allowance unspent.

On whether to wait: the best Lv 54 Culinarian tradecraft leve returns 459,310 EXP per allowance, 48% more than the best on this rung, while the Lv 50 rung behind tops out at 343,900 EXP.

At Lv 52 this data holds 54 leves paying EXP across 3 categories: the 24 Tradecraft ones average 337,743 EXP per allowance, the 3 Fieldcraft ones 868,208 EXP and the 27 Grand Company ones 177,755 EXP, which puts this leve 37% below its own category's average.

Dhalmel Gratin ×3 is a Lv 54 Culinarian recipe, 2 steps deep through 2 intermediates, costing 14 units of raw material and 21 crystals.

Handing that in returns 15,230 EXP and 23 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows.

The record carries a repeats value of 2. This site reads that as 2 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 639,660 EXP and 945 gil for the 1 allowance it costs, or 639,660 EXP per allowance.