All You Can Stomach

One allowance here buys 238,780 EXP, which places it 3rd of the 3 Lv 60 Culinarian tradecraft leves that record EXP. The best of them, Loquacious, returns 323,710 EXP for the same allowance, 36% more.

Across that rung the return runs from 238,780 EXP to 323,710 EXP per allowance — 3 distinct figures spanning 36%, so the wrong pick leaves 84,930 EXP of the allowance unspent.

On whether to wait: the best Lv 62 Culinarian tradecraft leve returns 416,270 EXP per allowance, 29% more than the best on this rung, while the Lv 58 rung behind tops out at 453,870 EXP.

At Lv 60 this data holds 27 leves paying EXP across 2 categories: the 24 Tradecraft ones average 415,953 EXP per allowance, the 3 Fieldcraft ones 1,098,783 EXP, which puts this leve 43% below its own category's average.

Baklava ×3 is a Lv 61 Culinarian recipe, 2 steps deep through 2 intermediates, costing 12 units of raw material and 13 crystals.

Handing that in returns 19,898 EXP and 56 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 716,340 EXP and 2,028 gil for the 1 allowance it costs, or 716,340 EXP per allowance.