I see this is a very old conversation, but i’m a new player so whatever ^^
By the time you where talking about this topic i whas brewing potions/poisons in Skyrim. And I have to say that these cooking mechanics are fairly simple compared to the Skyrim alchemie. Ofcourse it’s not just putting flesh on a furnace like in minecraft, but you don’t have a chance of failure, you don’t have a chance to mix a rare item in a crap-potion, you even know how many possibilities there are left!
I just want to say that they did a really good job on the cooking and the other crafts, and that searching for specific ingredients is just (and needs to be!) as challenging as regular events. If they didn’t make these things a kittenallenging you may as wel play runescape.
(and i also have way to few eggs :p)