Saved by the Sauce (L)

At 10 allowances a run, this leve's 1,602,040 EXP works out to 160,204 EXP per allowance, which places it 2nd of the 3 Lv 56 Culinarian Grand Company leves that record EXP. The best of them, Quenching the Flame (L), returns 225,055 EXP for the same allowance, 40% more.

Across that rung the return runs from 36,595 EXP to 225,055 EXP per allowance — 3 distinct figures spanning 515%, so the wrong pick leaves 188,460 EXP of the allowance unspent.

On whether to wait: the best Lv 58 Culinarian Grand Company leve returns 249,631 EXP per allowance, 11% more than the best on this rung, while the Lv 54 rung behind tops out at 252,623 EXP.

At Lv 56 this data holds 54 leves paying EXP across 3 categories: the 27 Grand Company ones average 195,640 EXP per allowance, the 3 Fieldcraft ones 1,032,386 EXP and the 24 Tradecraft ones 390,755 EXP, which puts this leve 18% below its own category's average.

Hollandaise Sauce ×9 is a Lv 55 Culinarian recipe, 2 steps deep through 1 intermediate, costing 24 units of raw material and 42 crystals over 3 crafts.

Handing that in returns 66,752 EXP and 195 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows.