Hmm... I guess I was seeing a recipe as something much more easily ruined than improved... but yeah, if they try to burn your egg salad but wind up actually toasting your egg salad sandwich, that's an interesting risk...! Maybe have the benefit of an added ingredient be worth way more points than the points removed for having an 'interfering' one, so the person interfering is taking a much larger risk unless they're sure they've figured out their opponent's recipe :)

I'm thrilled you were there to hear it -- I'm excited just to be involved in this! :D