*Cuisine
Crafting window
activate search, then type
c:carrot
That’ll list all the recipes that use carrot as an ingredient (component). Do it while near your book collection. Sure, that search function isn’t perfect but it helps a lot.
Personally, over time I got stuck with certain recipes, and stopped bothering myself with trying to optimize the ingredient use to perfection.
The only imaginable downside of filling a 60L tank with some exotic liquid is that if you have to see a lot of effort to produce it, then you’ll risk losing it all if something happens to the tank. Of course I’m not saying that a 60L tank full of beer would be a bad idea, oh no. Quite the contrary - it is necessary.
If you go heavy with mutagens, you could fill a few tanks with like ammonia, bleach or mutagen. Or salt water.
Currently the universal tanks serve no huge purpose, but they might in the future. And it was a sensible solution to having specific tanks for each liquid.