Breakfast of Champions

One allowance here buys 459,310 EXP, the best of the 3 Lv 54 Culinarian tradecraft leves that record EXP: the runner-up manages 316,760 EXP, 31% less.

Across that rung the return runs from 233,860 EXP to 459,310 EXP per allowance — 3 distinct figures spanning 96%, so the wrong pick leaves 225,450 EXP of the allowance unspent.

On whether to wait: the best Lv 56 Culinarian tradecraft leve returns 409,190 EXP per allowance, 11% less than the best on this rung, while the Lv 52 rung behind tops out at 310,610 EXP.

At Lv 54 this data holds 54 leves paying EXP across 3 categories: the 24 Tradecraft ones average 400,590 EXP per allowance, the 3 Fieldcraft ones 938,680 EXP and the 27 Grand Company ones 205,186 EXP, which puts this leve 15% above its own category's average.

Gil ranks it differently: 998 gil per allowance is 2nd of 3 on the same rung against 1st on EXP, with the best there paying 1,061 gil.

Emerald Soup ×3 is a Lv 56 Culinarian recipe, a single step, costing 9 units of raw material and 9 crystals.

Handing that in returns 51,034 EXP and 111 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows.