Cooking question

[DarkSerge]

I know autumn salad is the quickest to cook.  Which recipe takes the longest/gives the biggest skill gain to cooking?  Do the recipes you learn at higher skill levels raise the cooking skill quicker?

[hitch82]

I think ambrosia takes the longest from my experience. I think that angel food cake would give the biggest boost once you figure in time to gather ingredients... because it takes less time to get the ingredients for angel food cake than for ambrosia. Same thing with gaining cooking skill, to me the longer it takes a sim to cook a dish the more skill gain it has to me because I am not having to reaffirm the action every few seconds. If it takes time to continuously make them go back to the fridge to redo their action then that takes time out of gaining the skill.

 I looked online to see if there were any lists of how many sim hours each recipe takes. I would be interested to see one actually.

[Ricalynn]

It depends on what you're trying to do.   To get the most skill I would almost suggest reading the book versus cooking a lot of recipes.  If you're trying to supermax cooking as well as max it, then I suggest horse granola, cheese plate or autumn salad since you need to do it 75 times to get the third skill challenge. 

Also take into effect whether or not this person is a natural cook, genius, has fast learner LTR and/or is a vampire.



Supermax on this forum means to max the skill as well as get all of the related skill challenges within the skill journal.