Cooking games turn a small kitchen into a puzzle. You take orders, combine ingredients and decide what to do first, so the skill on show is timing and order rather than knife work. Most rounds last a few minutes, which suits a metro ride or the gap before a coffee goes cold.
Start with Piece of Cake: Merge & Bake if you like planning ahead: you combine matching pieces to build bigger bakes, and the board punishes careless merges. Hedgies is the calmer end of the shelf, a stack of hedgehogs to sort without toppling. For something busier, Burger Restaurant Simulator 3D has you assembling burgers and keeping a queue moving. Bubble Tea Cocktail Maker Mix Drinks is the one to try when you would rather invent a drink than serve one.