So most of the 20 million adventurers have already reached guru cooking by now. However to be able to obtain some money from it, we need to camp at the NPC. 
a small fix like increases the MAX boxes per reset, since playerbase rose since launch, can increase the people being able to obtain money from this lifeskill. 

Does anyone else know any options on how to not let cooking die like trading?

Awnser

And time yourself with the reset hours.

no, it should stay as it is.

I agree that something should be done. As it is right now its just on the tipping edge of being worth my time or not. I've spent time gathering all the meat and milk, processing the ingredients, cooking the part dishes, cooking the main dish and then packing those into boxes just to get cucked at the last step? No ty.

I do 1 attempt at turning in per day unless im doing stuff in town and spening a lot of time there anyway. Not worth taking time out of other activites from a monetary or enjoyment standpoint.

Another cook who sits at Heidal/Calpheon at prime time........

Yes, something needs to change. Its an unnecessary inconvenience to begin with. Even Valencia sells out quick @Khondo.
Having limited time to play a video game doesnt help as well. Its just dumb to "time yourself with the reset hours" and even thats not a guarantee anymore since they sell out instantly.

So you want to make it that everyone can make 200-250 mil a day for doing very little work via imperials?

These "inconvenience" things are in game for a reason.  How you dedide to spend your time in game to make money is what half the fun is.  If it was so easy to make "xxx" mil an hour doing nothing, the game would get very boring.

I get where youre coming from and I agree that restrictions exist for a reason. But take me for an example:
I work fulltime and as soon as I come home, everything is sold out. Including Val. Even if I manage to turn them in right after the Imperial reset, its sold out within a minute. Guess I'll wait another 3 hours right..

I switched to Alchemy for exactly that reason, but its such a pain in the *** and not even comparable to cooking in terms of income / work you have to do. Maybe balancing those two might solve the problem, I dont know.

Lol, they already changed it.... to Guru Boxes and then they added more turnins.
There was a time when you only had an item specific box, like Milk Tea or Honey Wine.
Be thankful for what you have, you can literally cook in any city, Valencia, Grana, Duvencrune... go there or deal with Pasvinder who's sold out 95% of the time. 

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*declares that you can make 200-300m with very little effort everyday*

*has 1500+ mastery in cooking*

*spends 2+ hours fucking off in cooking/processing/packing*

*spends more time trying to turn them in....*

iMpERIAL TUrn-IN;s arE SoO0o mUch SiLver!!!