It's dinnertime...all the sims in your household are
STARVING...so you promptly send one of them to cook dinner.
But uh oh, their cooking level is low and they burn the food.
The adults are holding their bellies and whining and the kids and babies are screaming with hunger...
*Do you go ahead and feed them the burned food OR.........?
Let me know below.
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Meals are cooked well in advance so if one gets burned there's time to prepare another. My sims have eaten sushi or salad when time has been limited but pizza is out of the question as the quality is not to my liking. That goes for quick meals - they are NEVER eaten in my sim homes. My sims have ordered pizza on a few occasions but it's usually because a wish has been rolled and I am all about the wishes.
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Other:My SS is a natural cook so do not have to worry about it. Cooking is one of my favorite things in sims the more food stuff recipes and premium content the better.And having a nice kitchen is important even if the rest of the house is lame.
If the household has one sim with decent cooking skill available, then they take over. If not, then it's either pizza delivery or the Unskilled Klutz/Chef of the Day tries again with something that is impossible to burn like Autumn Salad or Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwiches. If those don't turn out edible either or maybe instead, if they can afford it, some or all of them go out to eat or hit up a local Bakery Display for some takeout platters as many of mine by way of the NRaas Cupcake mod carry regular full meals in addition to baked goods.
But no one eats burned, spoiled, or horrifying quality food unless there really is no alternative available or the sims preparing it have the Evil trait and are only pretending to be kind to their fellow household members and guests -- this remote possibility is why I had to go with "Other."
TCE to cheat the hunger motive would only be for when something unexpected and surprisingly wrong happened with the game, not typically to compensate for poor planning.
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Thankfully I don't have new sims very often to worry about. It's all long running games and everybody is very good at cooking after so long. Except Alex. He still can't even microwave hot dogs. But his wife is a fantastic cook so she does all the cooking. Or the butler when she's not around because the kids should not eat dad's cooking. .
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So if a Sim is burning food, it's because they are unpracticed, and not my usual cook, but have a Wish to Improve Cooking Skill. Once hunger is sated, I may well send them back to the kitchen for another attempt, until they get it right.
I actually would never have this happen in the first places; I never have an active sim with such a low cooking skill prepare a meal desperately needed by the whole household. Getting a cooking skill with a few points on a sim is nearly my top priority in any household I play, and I do it when the sims are NOT desperately hungry, so that once it is a hunger-need thing, they won't be burning things.
I also always prepare meals ahead of time and have left-overs in the refrigerator. And, in desperate situations where there are no leftovers its easy enough to eat an apple (or whatever other produce is lieing around) to tide them over until a real meal that is decent quality is ready...as @Igazor said, you have quite a long time once the hunger sets in before it's actually damaging.
I don't think I've had a sim burn a meal needed to feed hungry sims since the original the Sims 1. . .
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@Mikezumi I thought of you when typing the 3rd option because I know how you feel about burned food and how you'd never serve it to your lovely sims. I appreciate your explanation on how very well you take care of them. And I am always impressed by your sims genetics!
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^Well explained my friend.
And thanks for the tips!!
@cwaddell ^You must have some very healthy sims. (Well, before you mentioned the mac n cheese and waffles, but I'm sure they don't go overboard on those. )
@IreneSwift ^Clever! Thanks for sharing.
(Can you tell I've never given a lot of thought to cooking on the sims. )
@dreamerz13 ^LOL!
I was blessed to marry man who can cook and DANG can he cook!!
@Pary ^LOL! That's kind of always been my rule too.
@Hejix ^OMGosh that moodlet has stuck with me over the years too!
And see growing up in my family of 7 children (including myself and plus mom and dad that made 9) you didn't waste ANY food! Whatsoever! I mean obviously we didn't keep around moldy food or anything like that, but y'all know what I mean. I was just raised in an environment where you ate that food whether you liked it or not and you didn't waste it!
I guess that's why I allow my sims to eat a burned meal every now and then. Like I said, it won't kill them.
@TinySpaceFox ^Ditto. I do the same many times.
I love Martin's cute, little "disappointed in my horrible cooking" face.
@Sindocat Awesome meal preparation! I like it!
@Stormkeep Yeah I don't usually allow my sims to get in the red, even pure yellow, before cooking, but I guess I sorta went a little overboard with the scenario.
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I wonder which option will ultimately take the lead!
Usually when I start a new file, I will have a Sim make Autumn Salad until they get a few levels of cooking in. I try and have children level the child cooking skill so when they are teens, they already have some skill. Now in my Ultimate Sim save, I have Brittany cook all the food as she is level 10 and a natural cook. Sometimes, I do let my sims get too hungry but I try not to.
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