Rise and Dine
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What the allowance actually buys
One allowance here buys 79,780 EXP, the best of the 6 Lv 35 Culinarian tradecraft leves that record EXP: the runner-up manages 68,670 EXP, 14% less.
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 29% above its own category's average.
Gil ranks it differently: 250 gil per allowance is 4th of 6 on the same rung against 1st on EXP, with the best there paying 532 gil.
Cheese Souffle ×3 is a Lv 37 Culinarian recipe, 3 steps deep through 3 intermediates, costing 7 units of raw material and 14 crystals.
Handing that in returns 11,397 EXP and 36 gil for every unit of raw material the order swallows.