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

[Kotlol]

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

My biggest complaint with cooking is that 90% of it is just throw it into the oven to get the desired results.

Only with sandwiches (wich are oven only)
And Soups (Atleast it's not oven based)
can you sorta customize it for fun.

I want to make banana panckes already but throwing some batter and banana's in a cooking pan and cooking it on the stove.