Soup for the Soldier

One allowance here buys 677,510 EXP, which places it 2nd of the 3 Lv 72 Culinarian tradecraft leves that record EXP. The best of them, His Dark Utensils, returns 713,410 EXP for the same allowance, 5% more.

Across that rung the return runs from 391,120 EXP to 713,410 EXP per allowance — 3 distinct figures spanning 82%, so the wrong pick leaves 322,290 EXP of the allowance unspent.

On whether to wait: the best Lv 74 Culinarian tradecraft leve returns 419,490 EXP per allowance, 41% less than the best on this rung, while the Lv 70 rung behind tops out at 509,840 EXP.

At Lv 72 this data holds 27 leves paying EXP across 2 categories: the 24 Tradecraft ones average 590,811 EXP per allowance, the 3 Fieldcraft ones 1,405,338 EXP, which puts this leve 15% above its own category's average.

Broad Bean Soup ×3 is a Lv 72 Culinarian recipe, a single step, costing 9 units of raw material and 12 crystals.

Handing that in returns 75,279 EXP and 341 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows.