This is a big issue especially with stoves and ovens and also increasingly the computer. There's just too many options for the game to load all at once, and some menus either take 10+ seconds to load or they just freeze.
I've got a sim gaming computer, and it can't easily handle clicking on the oven with a sim that has level 10 cooking, gourmet cooking, and herbalism. Add in baking and the Cottage Living canning skill and it's a recipe for disaster for players with worse hardware.
I don't know how feasible it would be to change the loading behavior of things like this at this point of the game, but this is 100% going to cause more and more issues if more recipes and skills and computer interactions get added.
