I was just curious if there was a way to disable the experimenting feature in the game?

Lock the Workbench inventory when it spawns.

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void OnEntitySpawned(BaseNetworkable entity)
{
	if (entity is Workbench)
	{
		Workbench bench = entity as Workbench;
		bench.inventory.SetLocked(true);
	}
}

Bad idea, use hook and return false

private object CanExperiment(BasePlayer player, Workbench workbench)​

Forgot there was a hook for that.  Could also give the player some feedback using that method.