The Frier Never Lies
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What the allowance actually buys
One allowance here buys 149,970 EXP, which places it 3rd of the 3 Lv 62 Culinarian tradecraft leves that record EXP. The best of them, Hunger Is No Game, returns 416,270 EXP for the same allowance, 178% more.
Across that rung the return runs from 149,970 EXP to 416,270 EXP per allowance — 3 distinct figures spanning 178%, so the wrong pick leaves 266,300 EXP of the allowance unspent.
On whether to wait: the best Lv 64 Culinarian tradecraft leve returns 326,200 EXP per allowance, 22% less than the best on this rung, while the Lv 60 rung behind tops out at 323,710 EXP.
At Lv 62 this data holds 27 leves paying EXP across 2 categories: the 24 Tradecraft ones average 417,590 EXP per allowance, the 3 Fieldcraft ones 1,118,055 EXP, which puts this leve 64% below its own category's average.
Cottonseed Oil ×3 is a Lv 63 Culinarian recipe, a single step, costing 5 units of raw material and 7 crystals.
Handing that in returns 29,994 EXP and 99 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 449,910 EXP and 1,488 gil for the 1 allowance it costs, or 449,910 EXP per allowance.