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 5th of the 6 Lv 56 Culinarian tradecraft leves that record EXP. The best of them, It Goes Down Smoothly, returns 409,190 EXP for the same allowance, 155% more.

Across that rung the return runs from 36,595 EXP to 409,190 EXP per allowance — 6 distinct figures spanning 1018%, so the wrong pick leaves 372,595 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 2 categories: the 48 Tradecraft ones average 284,330 EXP per allowance, the 6 Fieldcraft ones 684,949 EXP, which puts this leve 44% below its own category's average.

Gil ranks it differently: 468 gil per allowance is 4th of 6 on the same rung against 5th on EXP, with the best there paying 1,123 gil.

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.