Sweet Tooth

One allowance here buys 391,120 EXP, which places it 3rd 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, 82% 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 34% below its own category's average.

Caramels ×3 is a Lv 72 Culinarian recipe, 2 steps deep through 3 intermediates, costing 13 units of raw material and 32 crystals.

Handing that in returns 30,086 EXP and 85 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 1,173,360 EXP and 3,324 gil for the 1 allowance it costs, or 1,173,360 EXP per allowance.