Teetotally

One allowance here buys 308,380 EXP, which places it 3rd 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, 124% 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 59% below its own category's average.

Masala Chai ×3 is a Lv 77 Culinarian recipe, a single step, costing 5 units of raw material and 14 crystals.

Handing that in returns 61,676 EXP and 249 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 925,140 EXP and 3,729 gil for the 1 allowance it costs, or 925,140 EXP per allowance.