AI Villager Cook and horrific amounts of food waste

[SCRATCH]

my cook keeps wasting materials for stew on the smoking rack....

worse... he wont even collect the food he sets out on the smoker so they burn and so now everytime I come back to camp, there's 9 units of food burnt to ♥♥♥♥ sitting neglected on the smoking rack

this in turn uses up mushrooms I have as "top off' x10 at my Foraging Camp so one of my other villagers has to go out and re-forage the mushrooms my cook seems hell-bent on wasting,

Meanwhile I am out shooting more wild-life knowing damn well that he's gonna dump all of it on the smoker and burn it. rather than use it for the Stew I have the cauldron set to make

I've tried adjusting the Smoking rack priority to 9 and my Cauldron to 1 under the 'N' Settlement Menu but he wont stop wasting food and time

Cook's Priorities
Cooking 1
Delivery 2
Hunting 3

everything else is set to 'Null'

Is this a bug or am I missing a setting?

[Trien]

alot of people seem to have issue with cook, it's probboly something they should look into.

[Legadian]

Well, you can either set the smoker to another settlement or to the crossed through option in the "N" building tab. I.E. Set that smoker to null priority.

[jorvinn]

There is a lot of food waste yes. When the workers wake they go loot food.. but only take 1 item usually.. even if there are plenty of different foods available.. and my dudes just go HAM on the smoked mushrooms - most of which become future fertilizers to be honest - and only pay my cauldron firepit a lip service.. and there should also be a feature that stops cooking an hour before bedtime or something.. sometimes they load up 4 roasted mushrooms.. a whole rack of smoked mushrooms.. and then just go to bed and leave them to burn. Which would be fine if we had some sort of pig farm or any kind of animal husbandry that could utilize the spoiled food - most of which spoils faster than the already sped up gametime gives any credence to.

[Kiban]

You can try 2 Cauldron for worker and smoking rack use manual by you self. If you got enough worker forcus on delivery, they will carry any food when it done and your chef can quickly continue his job unless he go too far. Any food done after 22:00 will burned cause no1 take it