There was once an iOS app called "Baking with Dorie" that had a similar presentation. It caught my attention because I was interested in novel ways to represent recipes. It's no longer in the app store, but there are a few reviews out there with screenshots, e.g.

http://omgyummy.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/image-4.jpg

It seems to me that if you added time to one of these wiring diagrams (for the recipe use case), you would have a Gantt chart. This might also be leveraged to plan parallel processes in a recipe (e.g. making the second part of a mole sauce while waiting for the chilis to soak).

For complex recipes or meals, I could also see using the wiring diagram to represent a high level flow between sub-recipes, and then drilling down into a node to view the diagram for that sub-recipe. You might be able to mock this up with "milanote".

In the past I've built a dependency diagram for a complex dinner (dishes from the Eleven Madison Park cookbook) by scanning my markdown transcription of the recipes and generating a 'dot' file for graphviz. For planning meals like this, I think a Gantt-like representation would be useful. Some components were made a day or two ahead, some same day, and some steps had to be executed at the last minute.

You may be interested in the book "How to Bake Pi: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics" by Eugenia Cheng. It's a book that relates concepts from cooking to Category theory.

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Here’s a wiki page for that book

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Bake_Pi

Not exactly the same but Cooking For Engineers[1] has a format that reminds me of this. I've no personal affiliation besides liking the Mac and Cheese recipe.

1: http://www.cookingforengineers.com/