Electric Grill not showing Gristle Berry until harvested, but shows other unavailable recipes

I saw the same thing. I think it only shows recipes for items on the map (as with say smelting). Since bristle blossom requires light to grow, typically none are produced naturally, whereas pepper and wheat are naturally produced. Hence the recipe doesn't appear.

I wondered about that too. However, the recipe for Pepper Bread is visible, yet I couldn't find any Sleet Wheat Grains on the visible map. It's possible that some were buried under tiles, but none visible as far as I could see... Perhaps Pepper Bread appears in the recipe list because there are already Pincha Peppernuts on the map. But that is still quite inconsistent with Gristle Berry, and I feel it would be better to see all recipes or none at all.

Edited April 20, 2019 by Theoretician

Gristle Berry only requires 1 ingredient, so since none of it exists, it doesn't show.

The other has 2 ingredients, of which you probably have 1 (Pincha Peppernut), so it shows but can't be made due to lack of resources.

It makes sense. It's just inconvenient if you have played before and know what you can make.

Personally, it's more annoying then helpful/interesting as you don't get a notification that you have new recipes (AFAIK), they just magically appear in the grill recipes when you have the ingredients. It would probably be fine if it would notify you somehow kinda like how you get the badges when you unlock new tech from research, or even the popup notification for skill/research/etc.

I also hate that you can't click on construction-based things if you lack resources to compare stats (out of gold amalgam? oh well, you can't check the overheat temp, etc). I could understand not being able to build it, but I would prefer being able to place the construction job and the construction job having a badge to show it's lacking resources. At the very least, be able to do everything but place it and give me a naughty sound/msg that I dont have the resources.