Originally posted by Kraft51:

Originally posted by Mozzy:

yes and no, that was my main point about why oddly wood is better.

iron one has 5 hooks, true - vs just 2 slots for wooden. So on 1:1 basis, iron holds more and is better.

but iron is so large, you can fit 10+ wooden ones on same hearth space that you can put 1 or at max 2 iron ones. So total capacity is 5 vs 20, or best case 10 vs 20 if you squeeze in iron in same space as 10 wood.

idk i managed to get 2 onto one hearth just fine, plus you can cook ALL meat variants on it vs the limitations on the wood version.

so it has at least 2 advantages over the wood version.

Right, you can fit 2 iron cooking stations on 1 hearth - but on that same hearth, you could have put 10+ wood stations.

2 iron = 10 meat at once
10 wood = 20+ at once

even aside the need for rare chain for iron station, you're getting easily double capacity or more per hearth with wood.