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TL;DR

Crafters derived from the furnace prototype should show a recipe bar, like assembling machines

What?

Factorio 2 added a bar showing the current recipe to assembling machines. Show the same bar in crafters derived from the furnace prototype (including recyclers), obviously without the "set recipe" button.

Why?

Alt mode shows the icon of the current recipe (or the last used one, when idle) and the information pane on the right shows it's throughput information. When opening the furnace's UI, however, you get no information about the recipe. If you want e.g. the exact smelting time you need to locate the recipe in your crafting UI or factoriopedia. The lack of information also seems to get people confused occasionally.

https://mods.factorio.com/mod/ElectricF ... ingMachine

also furnace consume so much UPS (specially recycler)