I know that at the end people only care about cheese and sausages, but it would be nice to have a kitchen strucutre (with it's own huge inventory space) where you can just put ingredients and kitchen tools (and even fuel like an oven) in it and then your hearthling only has to "cast a recipie" on it or something.
Example
Let's say you have to make an LC worth of Beeted Bird Breast, which is pain in the ass to make because it needs (per unit):
1 x Raw chicken meat
2 x Beetroots
0.2L of vinegar
0.2L of wine
4 x dried pepper drupes
4 x yellow onions
1 x butter
...AND it also needs a frying pan equipped (so your invenory size is reduced !!!) and a fireplace to cook. I think it took me like half an hour just to make an LC of those and after that i said "fuck this recipie !".
So, i was thinkning, why not having a kitchen where you can only put recipie items, kitchen tools and fuel (and in huge quantities, maybe quantity is fucntion of kithcen Q, like the barter stand). Once all ingredients (and tools/fuel if necessary) are in place, your hearthling only has to approach the kithcne and execute the recipie. The resulting meal appears in the character's inventory.