Glad that i managed to convey my concerns about minigames potentially becoming too much of a distraction from the actual game.
Sry i'm struggling with good ideas for minigames while at the same time criticizing them.
Maybe let us do some mixing of the ingredients - then heat the whole thing up until it is done nicely - with the risk to burn it. The latter only for some dishes ofc. Similar to the eating contest perhaps?
There are countless cooking (mini)games already in existence, maybe borrow something from them.
... and plz no tetris variant XD