As always with a Vortex Point game, I do it once to figure out the puzzles, then restart and do speed runs. My first completion was more than 20 minutes. The 2nd was 2:52, and by #10 I got it down to 1:45.
Something that I think would seriously improve user friendliness would be to gray out ingredients that you don't meet the requirements for when you hover over a craft spot.
just finished and tested that feature this week. it will be in the next version