I think you can also cook an apple with a fire arrow, no? And food items freeze in the snow areas. There is a bunch of physics in BotW that simple are not in Okami. Okami is a horrible example.
There is a bunch of stasis things that can be performed as well, such as a fast travel. I also liked putting out metal items at an enemy base camp during a lighting storm. Glide, shoot a fire arrow, create a drift, continue gliding. The examples go on and on.