Go Ahead and Dig In
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What the allowance actually buys
One allowance here buys 9,990 EXP, which places it 2nd of the 6 Lv 10 Culinarian tradecraft leves that record EXP. The best of them, The Bango Zango Diet, returns 10,480 EXP for the same allowance, 5% more.
Across that rung the return runs from 3,220 EXP to 10,480 EXP per allowance — 5 distinct figures spanning 225%, so the wrong pick leaves 7,260 EXP of the allowance unspent.
On whether to wait: the best Lv 15 Culinarian tradecraft leve returns 19,270 EXP per allowance, 84% more than the best on this rung, while the Lv 5 rung behind tops out at 6,280 EXP.
At Lv 10 this data holds 52 leves paying EXP across 2 categories: the 48 Tradecraft ones average 8,265 EXP per allowance, the 4 Fieldcraft ones 43,676 EXP, which puts this leve 21% above its own category's average.
Mole Loaf ×3 is a Lv 13 Culinarian recipe, 3 steps deep through 4 intermediates, costing 12 units of raw material and 7 crystals.
Handing that in returns 833 EXP and 14 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows.