I seriously wish that you could add all veggies picked into the fridge in one go instead of this endless take one out of your inventory , click the fridge and put in
Also then the ability when cooking to use ingredients direct from the fridge instead of take one out , IE a tomato or pumpkin and then use it in the cooking recipe
Finally that recipes go up to level 10 not just to 5
Yes! I was very surprised when, after I stacked all the vegetables in the fridge one by one, they became unavailable for cooking. I think this is a bug. This can’t be intentional.
Also, I would like to be able to store the harvest in some kind of cabinet or box.
Oh, I haven’t tested this yet, but from your descriptions it sounds a lot like a bug 
To Heinz , if you put veggies in your fridge then you have to take one out first each time you need one in a recipe you cannot use them straight from the fridge and has always been like that
100% on both. At this point, there is no point in putting the ingredients into the fridge, especially with the featherbag cheat where you have endless inventory space.
AND I’m always up for new recipes of any kind. For baking, cooking and especially mixing/blending.
Yes, I can confirm the same as @Robert and @Minthyuyu have said . Putting the veggies into fridge is a complete waste of time as they become unusable for cooking.
We are asking for a better inventory and storage system since end of last year, see here: Make Zois inventory larger & easier to handle (select from inventory, not take out every single item to use it)
And I agree on the recipies: these should go up to level 10 if there are 10 levels of cooking. Does not make any sense that it ends at 5. And also I would wish that we would be able to use more ingredients for the dishes. But this only really makes sense once there is a proper storage / inventory system. At the moment this is just painful to handle.
Well, with 5 levels — it’s obvious that it’s because of early access. I’m confident they’re planning to add a lot of dishes, especially since Kjun was asking about it during the brainstorming and feedback session, specifically about ethnic dishes. Apparently, all these dishes will be unlocked at the highest difficulty levels when the game is ready for release.
But they could have given at least 1-2 dishes for each level even now, of course. Just so we can see that leveling up this skill to 10 isn’t pointless.
Totally agree! Though I think some players won’t love that much realism, so it’d be nice if cooking from ingredients could be turned off. Also, a related thought – zoi shouldn’t level up cooking if he/she just cooks the same thing all the time. Or maybe he/she gets very little XP up to a point, and then has to cook different recipes to level further.
I agree completely with the OP, and have to add that since the last update I have been unable to take anything back out of the fridge once I put it in, which means all the veggies I have grown have been lost.
So from now on I will have to keep them in my inventory or I will not be able to use them at all - may as well be putting them in the bin!
Edit: This is also true for meals, which now seem to go off in the inventory. Not helpful when the fridge eats them for you.
Yes please, the current fridge and backpack system is very tedious, I think they should review that.
Or have a different appliance (call it a freezer, half as high as the fridge but twice as long which holds all the produce necessary for cooking. Any produce in there would be shared for the entire household to cook with/from, and it should have huge capacity (2000 total produce? Maybe more) and when manually taking produce out, we should be able to enter a number from 1-100, like when buying ingredients at the stores. This would help removing excess of one type to make room for the other types, or to sell our excess at the store.
That would be really fun and practical.
Something else i thought of if you can store a group meal in the fridge it would be handy to be able to just take one helping out and eat it instead of having to remove all the helpings of that meal put it on the table then choose to eat a portion
This would be awesome. This is how it works in Paralives already.