for some reason, when i hot deposited my inventory, all of the smoothies I made went into a chest and completely disappeared. I looked in every other chest in my base and there was no sign of the smoothies. 

actually just found them - still a bug though since they hot deposit into a random chest rather than the chest you tried hot depositing the stuff into.

it looks for the same items in all nearby connected chests, for example if you have a food chest and a crafting material chest even tho you hot deposit in the material chest, every item that you have in your inventory that is also present in a nearby chest will get hot deposited.