Summoning Smoke
Summoning Smoke is an olfactory method for alerting a large group of people across a wide area. Conceptually, it's like a tornado siren, church bells, and the odorant added to natural gas. Its roots go way back, even before the Theophany, when the shaman of a shire would add more wood to her bonfire, producing a large amount of fragrant smoke. After the Theophany, hearthkeepers developed incense that would be added to the fire to call the shire to liturgy.
Its liturgical use is much less prevalent at the time of First Contact, though it is used during the proclamation of the Gospel of First Meeting when the Dewfall makes contact with humans on Earth.
Different formulations of summoning smoke have been developed to serve secular purposes as well, with different odors and occasionally colors signifying different things, usually to warn of impending natural disaster or industrial accident.
Dish Storage
Yinrih, especially planetside, may store dishes and cooking utensils in something that washes, dries, and stores the dishes when not in use. The dishes are taken out of storage, used, then put directly back into storage to be washed. This minimizes the need to touch the dishes to move them from a dishwasher to a cabinet.
If they had a separate dishwasher and cabinets, they'd have to wash their paws before moving the dishes from dishwasher to cabinet, and waddle around on their hind feet to transport them so their forepaws don't touch the ground.
In general, cooking employs a lot of the same strategies as surgery, though cooks don't shed their fur the way healers do. In restaurants they may work with glove boxes.
One may be asking why they bother with manual cooking at all if they're a K2 civilization. Canonically, AI hits a hard limit near where it is today on Earth, so fully autonomous robots for complex tasks don't exist. They could use remotely operated robots similar to those seen in telemedicine.