At current, it takes too many steps to make butter, and it's not worth making, even for the few recipes that it's in.

You need two milk to make one cream. And you need one cream to turn into one butter. It feels like the extra step is just adding too much complexity to cooking. Maybe just use a milk and a salt to make butter?

To make yogurt, you need two milk to make a cream, and another milk to make the yogurt. Simplify the recipe to just need three milk. All the extra steps makes cooking more complicated than it needs to be. These are just the two recipes that stand out to me as being extra extra.

Alternately, rather than it being on a one to one basis for each of those recipes, make it so you get like two butter from one cream, or two yogurt from that recipe.

Mathematically for the cooking time/slots vs stamina per food per hour, none of the cooking recipes except the raw fish and meat have ever made sense... The way this should have been fixed was to make the cooked food more worth it and attractive to engage with, in terms of either stamina regen or how many items you got per finished product, not by nerfing the existing food. As it stands, in terms of time and effort, if the changes go through the way they are thinking about implementing them, it will honestly just be more efficient to use the raw food items now and completely ignore cooking, lol.

Tl;dr I heavily support your recipe change suggestions and even think it should go further. If they want us to engage with cooking so bad, make it more attractive by buffing the cooked food more, not nerfing everything else into the ground.