It'd be great if there was some sort of crafting block which 'stored' a recipe and could run it automatically. Like if I had a furnace drying kelp, it could be collected by a hopper and sent across the preset crafting table which automatically formed it into a dried kelp block and another hopper system could run them into a furnace system as fuel. The crafting table could be set by leaving the recipe items in their formation on the table, and it'd store that set and not make it into a block, but you could remove them to stop, and anything not used in the recipe which ran into the hopper would just get stuck in the hopper like any other sorting system. It wouldn't fill in gaps.
It'd be great if there was some sort of crafting block which 'stored' a recipe and could run it automatically. Like if I had a furnace drying kelp, it could be collected by a hopper and sent across the preset crafting table which automatically formed it into a dried kelp block and another hopper system could run them into a furnace system as fuel. The crafting table could be set by leaving the recipe items in their formation on the table, and it'd store that set and not make it into a block, but you could remove them to stop, and anything not used in the recipe which ran into the hopper would just get stuck in the hopper like any other sorting system. It wouldn't fill in gaps.