Idle Cooking Emperor

I'm in the process of playing it to get a pet for Shugasu's other game (a good one), Idling to Rule the Gods.

Once I have the pet, I'll uninstall it and try my best to forget it ever existed.

I've been playing ICE on Kongregate since early 2018, and I have to say the game has come quite a long way.

As far as incremental games go, you can approach it as an extreme idler and eventually make progress, or you have the option of playing more actively and progressing more quickly.

Pros:
You get to cook for clients, fairies and pets.
If you like active play, you can definitely be busy during cooking battles.
Everything is achievable without paying, but paying for magic tokens will definitely speed you up.
There are plenty of areas to look into for optimization for folks who enjoy this like myself.
If you make a mistake, you can kill your clients and judges under specific circumstances.
Anime-style graphics for those who appreciate the art-form.
Generally helpful / friendly community - even newer players will jump in on chat to try to help newer players out when more experienced players aren't around.

Cons:
2 minute cooking battles can wear on you (you can see how many I've done on the leaderboard).
If you aren't a fan of cooking theme games, this definitely isn't for you.
The game is complicated if you skip reading tutorial information and tool-tips (from hovering over almost anything in the game).
Anime-style graphics for those who do not appreciate the art-form.

Eh. It's not terrible, it's just not good either. I played it to get the golden dragon in Idling to Rule the Gods, and my time is basically the minimum you'll need to play it to unlock it. Outside of cheesing the recipe system to break the difficulty over my knee, I did not have any fun while playing this.

Honestly, there's a good framework for a game here and it's not too odorous if you're just trying to get the dragon, but it's basically a pay-to-skip-the-grind idler without any of the charm that Idling to Rule the Gods has. No campaigns, no unlockable bonuses to amount to anything (secrets are boring, so I don't count them), and the pets are a shell of their big brother's options. The biggest flaw with this game is that it's basically a sequel to an infinitely better game, and it doesn't even try and copy the notes.

Tl;dr: If it had about 5 years more love put into it I think there'd be something fun here, but as it is you should probably only play it to unlock the pet dragon in Idling to Rule the Gods.