Feeding Frenzy

One allowance here buys 30,230 EXP, which places it 6th of the 6 Lv 35 Culinarian tradecraft leves that record EXP. The best of them, Rise and Dine, returns 79,780 EXP for the same allowance, 164% more.

Across that rung the return runs from 30,230 EXP to 79,780 EXP per allowance — 6 distinct figures spanning 164%, so the wrong pick leaves 49,550 EXP of the allowance unspent.

On whether to wait: the best Lv 40 Culinarian tradecraft leve returns 96,130 EXP per allowance, 20% more than the best on this rung, while the Lv 30 rung behind tops out at 72,430 EXP.

At Lv 35 this data holds 52 leves paying EXP across 2 categories: the 48 Tradecraft ones average 61,959 EXP per allowance, the 4 Fieldcraft ones 378,392 EXP, which puts this leve 51% below its own category's average.

Acorn Cookie ×3 is a Lv 34 Culinarian recipe, 2 steps deep through 2 intermediates, costing 6 units of raw material and 9 crystals.

Handing that in returns 5,038 EXP and 15 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 90,690 EXP and 273 gil for the 1 allowance it costs, or 90,690 EXP per allowance.