Food Quality: where it is and how we'd like it to be

[Waffleloffle]

it's not really a big mechanic predominantly because all chefs follow the book, so there's not a huge reason to improve the system (besides having it there as a punishment for not following the book)

I'd like to make cooking more fun and accessible for people who don't necessarily wanna pull up the wiki page, so I aim to redo the system to make it tied less to that. I think a big part of what makes cooking feel kinda bad right now is that there's so many exact variables you need to think about to make ANYTHING, and also memorizing arbitrary cook times isn't really fun in my experience

I'll have a look at what condiments actually do and maybe have them directly improve (or degrade) a food's quality if applied accordingly, but I'm really wondering what the mechanical benefit to these hoops are in the first place, y'know