Let's Not Get Sappy

One allowance here buys 170,500 EXP, which places it 3rd of the 3 Lv 58 Culinarian tradecraft leves that record EXP. The best of them, Soup That Eats Like a Knight, returns 453,870 EXP for the same allowance, 166% more.

Across that rung the return runs from 170,500 EXP to 453,870 EXP per allowance — 3 distinct figures spanning 166%, so the wrong pick leaves 283,370 EXP of the allowance unspent.

On whether to wait: the best Lv 60 Culinarian tradecraft leve returns 323,710 EXP per allowance, 29% less than the best on this rung, while the Lv 56 rung behind tops out at 409,190 EXP.

At Lv 58 this data holds 54 leves paying EXP across 3 categories: the 24 Tradecraft ones average 443,090 EXP per allowance, the 3 Fieldcraft ones 1,079,567 EXP and the 27 Grand Company ones 228,371 EXP, which puts this leve 62% below its own category's average.

Gil ranks it differently: 1,186 gil per allowance is 2nd of 3 on the same rung against 3rd on EXP, with the best there paying 1,248 gil.

Birch Syrup ×3 is a Lv 59 Culinarian recipe, a single step, costing 3 units of raw material and 8 crystals.

Handing that in returns 56,833 EXP and 395 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows.