We need to make like a minimum of 5 food items per craft. Or perhaps food needs to persist through death. It's just such a monumental time sink every single week for regular raiding. I literally helped every single person in my raid group get to 50 culinarian (I got to 50 first then just made them HQ food for the triple turn-in leves) so that everyone would be able to make their own food instead of having one or two guys spend several hours per week making enough for everyone.

It's patently ludicrous.