Pagan Pastries

One allowance here buys 44,930 EXP, which places it 6th of the 6 Lv 40 Culinarian tradecraft leves that record EXP. The best of them, Good Eats in Ishgard, returns 96,130 EXP for the same allowance, 114% more.

Across that rung the return runs from 44,930 EXP to 96,130 EXP per allowance — 5 distinct figures spanning 114%, so the wrong pick leaves 51,200 EXP of the allowance unspent.

On whether to wait: the best Lv 45 Culinarian tradecraft leve returns 126,270 EXP per allowance, 31% more than the best on this rung, while the Lv 35 rung behind tops out at 79,780 EXP.

At Lv 40 this data holds 52 leves paying EXP across 2 categories: the 48 Tradecraft ones average 72,545 EXP per allowance, the 4 Fieldcraft ones 560,212 EXP, which puts this leve 38% below its own category's average.

Pastry Fish ×3 is a Lv 40 Culinarian recipe, 3 steps deep through 4 intermediates, costing 11 units of raw material and 14 crystals.

Handing that in returns 4,085 EXP and 16 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 134,790 EXP and 531 gil for the 1 allowance it costs, or 134,790 EXP per allowance.