On a Full Stomach
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What the allowance actually buys
One allowance here buys 493,710 EXP, which places it 2nd of the 3 Lv 76 Culinarian tradecraft leves that record EXP. The best of them, A Good Omen, returns 689,550 EXP for the same allowance, 40% more.
Across that rung the return runs from 308,380 EXP to 689,550 EXP per allowance — 3 distinct figures spanning 124%, so the wrong pick leaves 381,170 EXP of the allowance unspent.
On whether to wait: the best Lv 78 Culinarian tradecraft leve returns 828,030 EXP per allowance, 20% more than the best on this rung, while the Lv 74 rung behind tops out at 419,490 EXP.
At Lv 76 this data holds 27 leves paying EXP across 2 categories: the 24 Tradecraft ones average 754,791 EXP per allowance, the 3 Fieldcraft ones 1,812,275 EXP, which puts this leve 35% below its own category's average.
Gil ranks it differently: 3,442 gil per allowance is 1st of 3 on the same rung against 2nd on EXP, with the best there paying 3,442 gil.
Sausage Links ×3 is a Lv 76 Culinarian recipe, 2 steps deep through 2 intermediates, costing 9 units of raw material and 20 crystals.
Handing that in returns 54,857 EXP and 382 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows.