So could be a questline or I would be happy for it to be a Pearl Store item

A cupboard seperate from storage or could utilise storage slots where you keep ingredients for known recipes. Your cooking/alchmey utensil then uses this as an autofeeder. All you do is select the recipe, tap batch and off it goes.

e.g. Meal1 has five components. In the cupboard you have a combination of regular and HQ components the recipe just pulls in what it needs rather than the endless searching through stores to find the parts for combos amongst 6 different meals components

im all for useful stuff that you can pay for, but it seems to me that PA is too prideful releasing pearl items for inconveniences THEY didn't create.