Erm, what? I've been able to cook the meals fine; the xml for the meals was copied over from vanilla. Vanilla meals don't have the recipeUsers tag and I don't believe it's needed for basic stuff.

...Vanilla recipes are literally hardcoded into the stove.

Oh, i see the issue there. For some reason the recipes require the sushi table if it exists. Even though it makes no sense whatsoever to switch.

If you have VCE - Sushi installed, yes they move over to the sushi table to lessen bloat on the stove.

It is very much late, but one big downside patching the recipes in instead of using normal ways has is that it's impossible to craft them on any fancier modded stoves.