Grinding them t make gil... it something odd when I did my first turn-ins of the leve. All told, they took more fire crystals to make in the 2 of the intermediary steps used only fire, but the cookies used equal amounts of fore & water. On turning the leves in I saw it was only awarding water (I had expected a little of each to replace what I had used). Never took into account such an imbalance. THEN it was only fire crystals in the reward. Even odder, current inventory showed the same number of water that I started with before making the cookies, but a lot more fire ones.
Is the game smart enough to actually know this (doubtful)? In fact, overall it takes a lot more fire than wager given given totals meeded (i.e. making the intermediary mats uses only fire). How IS this supposed to work?