I think that if more progression were added to cooking in the game as a whole, we could find more uses for a mechanic like you're talking about. I think Valheim,, with its health and stamina being food-based progression, or The Long Dark, with its new foods adding things like healing or skill buffs could be good. Or we could look at something like the feast mechanic in Valheim, where you put a lot of work in to make one big meal that can be placed and act as a communal meal and might have a longer satiation-free period. These meals could use something that only can be obtained through domestication, validating that effort.
