I wish those damn bastards would stop eating my honey.

[baram2007]

If you collect honey (and mushrooms) for cooking, you can eat it by itself or just grill the mushrooms over a torch and eat them.
I can’t make a fancy stew!!
I hired a chef, but I can't cook because these stupid proletarians eat the raw ingredients before he can cook!
If you increase the number of beekeeping containers, you can manage honey, but it is impossible to farm mushrooms!!
Can access to food ingredients be restricted?
Or can I only give the chef permission to cook?

[Tanyon]

You can not stop them from accessing food ingredients.

your people prefer cooked to raw foods.

You can do a couple things.

1) keep your raw good in a separate storage from your cooked goods.
2) Make sure the order of food in your storage has cooked food before raw food. Your villagers eat from top left to right in storage so if you put the food you want them to eat in the front of the row then they will not eat the food you do not want them to eat but yea if there is no cooked food available they will eat the mushrooms, berries and honey.

[rakugake]

This is not a game where you play as a small lord leading an army of excellent soldiers who understand every instruction using hand signals.

Be the parent of older kids who have to tell you everything from what to do today to what to eat. Fortunately, they seem to eat them in the order they are arranged. Let's start your work.
this is that kind of game

[baram2007]

If so, that's a missing part of the system. It's not a matter of understanding.
I have to make a suggestion.

[Fortigan]

you can technically make your cooking stations and a food storage an "outpost", with only the cooks as residents. Use the delivery system to teleport raw goods to that outpost daily and to teleport cooked food out. It's not a perfect system at all, but it means that only your cooks will have access to the raw food.

I've personally never had to do this. If you can't cook food because they are eating it raw too fast, then you are simply not gathering enough to keep up. Change your gathering priorities and invest gathering books into your gatherers. You can also build an additional hunting lodge if needed.

[baram2007]

Originally posted by Fortigan:

you can technically make your cooking stations and a food storage an "outpost", with only the cooks as residents. Use the delivery system to teleport raw goods to that outpost daily and to teleport cooked food out. It's not a perfect system at all, but it means that only your cooks will have access to the raw food.

I've personally never had to do this. If you can't cook food because they are eating it raw too fast, then you are simply not gathering enough to keep up. Change your gathering priorities and invest gathering books into your gatherers. You can also build an additional hunting lodge if needed.

I don't think there are any better tips than that right now.
I will keep this in mind. Thank you.