No Margarine of Error (L)

At 10 allowances a run, this leve's 1,708,380 EXP works out to 170,838 EXP per allowance, the best of the 3 Lv 52 Culinarian Grand Company leves that record EXP: the runner-up manages 151,146 EXP, 12% less.

Across that rung the return runs from 35,536 EXP to 170,838 EXP per allowance — 3 distinct figures spanning 381%, so the wrong pick leaves 135,302 EXP of the allowance unspent.

On whether to wait: the best Lv 54 Culinarian Grand Company leve returns 252,623 EXP per allowance, 48% more than the best on this rung, while the Lv 50 rung behind tops out at 189,149 EXP.

At Lv 52 this data holds 54 leves paying EXP across 3 categories: the 27 Grand Company ones average 177,755 EXP per allowance, the 3 Fieldcraft ones 868,208 EXP and the 24 Tradecraft ones 337,743 EXP, which puts this leve 4% below its own category's average.

Fermented Butter ×9 is a Lv 53 Culinarian recipe, a single step, costing 15 units of raw material and 21 crystals over 3 crafts.

Handing that in returns 113,892 EXP and 270 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows.