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At 10 allowances a run, this leve's 389,780 EXP works out to 38,978 EXP per allowance, which places it 6th of the 6 Lv 54 Culinarian tradecraft leves that record EXP. The best of them, Breakfast of Champions, returns 459,310 EXP for the same allowance, 1078% more.

Across that rung the return runs from 38,978 EXP to 459,310 EXP per allowance — 6 distinct figures spanning 1078%, so the wrong pick leaves 420,332 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 2 categories: the 48 Tradecraft ones average 296,533 EXP per allowance, the 6 Fieldcraft ones 622,778 EXP, which puts this leve 87% below its own category's average.

Dhalmel Fricassee ×3 is a Lv 57 Culinarian recipe, 2 steps deep through 1 intermediate, costing 9 units of raw material and 16 crystals.

Handing that in returns 43,309 EXP and 147 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 2,338,680 EXP and 7,956 gil for the 10 allowances it costs, or 233,868 EXP per allowance.