The Eats of Authenticity (L)

At 10 allowances a run, this leve's 389,780 EXP works out to 38,978 EXP per allowance, which places it 3rd of the 3 Lv 54 Culinarian Grand Company leves that record EXP. The best of them, Emerald Soup for the Soul (L), returns 252,623 EXP for the same allowance, 548% more.

Across that rung the return runs from 38,978 EXP to 252,623 EXP per allowance — 3 distinct figures spanning 548%, so the wrong pick leaves 213,645 EXP of the allowance unspent.

On whether to wait: the best Lv 56 Culinarian Grand Company leve returns 225,055 EXP per allowance, 11% less than the best on this rung, while the Lv 52 rung behind tops out at 170,838 EXP.

At Lv 54 this data holds 54 leves paying EXP across 3 categories: the 27 Grand Company ones average 205,186 EXP per allowance, the 3 Fieldcraft ones 938,680 EXP and the 24 Tradecraft ones 400,590 EXP, which puts this leve 81% 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.