Persuasion of a Higher Power

One allowance here buys 219,570 EXP, which places it 3rd of the 3 Lv 56 Culinarian tradecraft leves that record EXP. The best of them, It Goes Down Smoothly, returns 409,190 EXP for the same allowance, 86% more.

Across that rung the return runs from 219,570 EXP to 409,190 EXP per allowance — 3 distinct figures spanning 86%, so the wrong pick leaves 189,620 EXP of the allowance unspent.

On whether to wait: the best Lv 58 Culinarian tradecraft leve returns 453,870 EXP per allowance, 11% more than the best on this rung, while the Lv 54 rung behind tops out at 459,310 EXP.

At Lv 56 this data holds 54 leves paying EXP across 3 categories: the 24 Tradecraft ones average 390,755 EXP per allowance, the 3 Fieldcraft ones 1,032,386 EXP and the 27 Grand Company ones 195,640 EXP, which puts this leve 44% below its own category's average.

Baked Pipira Pira ×3 is a Lv 58 Culinarian recipe, 2 steps deep through 1 intermediate, costing 9 units of raw material and 17 crystals.

Handing that in returns 24,397 EXP and 45 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 658,710 EXP and 1,218 gil for the 1 allowance it costs, or 658,710 EXP per allowance.