Alright so, in reference to the railcraft steel options, it doesn't erase the recipe for refined iron. It adds two options, adding steel as an equivalent in Ic2 machines, and another to remove any refined iron from machines. Mainly my rationale is to remove refined iron as a whole.I also believe that the infamous Gregtech may be an issue here as it tends to mess with some other mods, since Gregtech ignores railcrafts iron setting.
Q: Could you expand your example about sporadic configuration ?
A: Well, I was able to remove the recipe of any item through commands, but refined iron. It stated that it wasn't found. It only seemed to work when I removed all id's from the list except 0; then it worked when I tried to use the remove command. However this only worked once each try, if I tried to add it again and remove... not found.
Also, sometimes it even said that the recipe was removed for smelting (I honestly only care about smelting with a normal furnace) and then it would proceed to smelt refined iron. The Pastamayo seems to have issues with ic2 items at least with my configuration.
Q: Did you use only configuration or in-game command too ?
A: I was testing with both commands the in-game command(mentioned earlier) would only work once or so. The configuration file would not work at all.
Q: Do you have the log of pastamayo when it doesn't work ?
A: http://pastebin.com/NXij9c4k
Q: Do you run it on a server ? on a client ? both ?
A: I tried the configuration via client, no luck. I tested the command and configuration via server, and most worked but refined iron smelting.
Q: On which version did you testing it ?
A: v1.1.3
I appreciate your effort on this resolution.