I think the idea of cooking as a YANI is best handled with an extract from
Ada Lovelace's correspondence;                     
                                    
"Charles, I am much taken with your idea for a diverfion utilifing the
Difference Engine. I am sure that the challenges you outline - strange
monfters and deadly traps alike - will provide the operator with many 
hours of harmless amufement. However, if I might offer one small    
suggeftion, I feel the experience could be greatly enchanced if the  
operator's alter-ego could prepare tafty repafts with the aid of fire or
flame and simple cooking implements such as grace any kitchen in England.
                                
I myfelf propofe a similar diverfion where the operator is challenged to
guide a difc or spherelike being through a labyrinth confuming small dots
while purfued by malicious ghofts [...] "