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What the allowance actually buys
One allowance here buys 2,041,900 EXP, which places it 2nd of the 2 Lv 94 Culinarian tradecraft leves that record EXP. The best of them, Creative Chocolate, returns 2,382,950 EXP for the same allowance, 17% more.
On whether to wait: the best Lv 96 Culinarian tradecraft leve returns 2,952,300 EXP per allowance, 24% more than the best on this rung, while the Lv 92 rung behind tops out at 2,230,900 EXP.
At Lv 94 this data holds 18 leves paying EXP across 2 categories: the 16 Tradecraft ones average 2,447,593 EXP per allowance, the 2 Fieldcraft ones 5,803,754 EXP, which puts this leve 17% below its own category's average.
Gil ranks it differently: 5,100 gil per allowance is 1st of 2 on the same rung against 2nd on EXP, with the best there paying 5,100 gil.
Spaghetti al Olio e Peperoncino ×3 is a Lv 94 Culinarian recipe, 2 steps deep through 3 intermediates, costing 19 units of raw material and 36 crystals.
Handing that in returns 107,468 EXP and 268 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows.