Cooking Guide

[Carl]

All right, I spent over 10 hours on this bad boy yesterday, and I'm looking for opinions, corrections and suggestions again.

http://www.carls-sims-3-guide.com/skills/cooking/

I expect the cooking guide is in a near-perfect state, but people never surprise me with their corrections. Oh, the simple little things I miss!

[Snooty]

Nice guide! A small addition: Kids can make muffins on the little cooking stove.
Also, Natural Cook sims can also learn recipies by eating in the restaurants. This is, just as learning from the tv, pretty rare.

[Carl]

Good additions, thanks!

[SenPain]

After children reach a certain level on the toy oven they can make pies too.  And also store them in the refrigerator as leftovers.  I don't know if there's any other snack after that.

When mentioning Deathfish it might be good to mention that where there are Deathfish there will be a slight fog over the water, they come out usually when ghosts come out, 11a-4p.  Ambrosia brings the dead back to life, and it should be linked or mentioned, right?

[Carl]

Thanks gang, and SenPain I added the info about pies, where exactly do you think it is I should be linking to Ambrosia.. I made a page dedicated to that recipe, and it is linked on the fish list and several other places throughout the guide (aka the entire site).

[wildredchild]

According to your fishing guide, Death Fish are level 10 fish, so therefore you can't catch them unless you are a level 10 fishersim?  My sims have not been able to catch Death Fish until they were at level 10 either.

[Carl]

Ack! They can be caught as soon as you can use live bait, but you'll need angelfish in order to catch them at such a low level!

This has been changed in the guide, to reflect that you can catch them at level 5. That is a really big error, I apologize to everyone who was misled. I forgot to fix the info in the fishing guide itself but added it to the guide to making ambrosia when I learned of it.

[Pam]

After children reach a certain level on the toy oven they can make pies too.  And also store them in the refrigerator as leftovers.  I don't know if there's any other snack after that.

I discovered tonight that children can make cakes when they reach level 3 cooking on the toy oven.

[wildredchild]

That is awesome Pam!!

[Swede1992]

Funny find! (Oops didn't see that it was an alliteration until after I wrote it!

[Sammijo]

Hi. I've learned a lot from your guides and thought I could give back with some hints on learning recipes. Natural cooks can also learn from talking with other natural cooks. Like TV and restaurant learning, this is pretty rare.  However, in WA, natural cooks can learn from eating at the cafes.  This is more common because you can choose what you're eating.  The rule for learning is it needs to be an unknown recipe below your cooking skill. 
It surprised me the first time my sim learned a recipe on vacation.  In the basic game it will pop up a window saying that she learned to make cobbler, or whatever.  It doesn't in WA.  She just got a wish to get the ingredients for making crepes.  I thought, "And what'll you do with those? You can't make crepes."

[wildredchild]

Thank you Sammijo and welcome to the forum.  Nice find on the learning the recipes from eating at the cafes in WA.

[Pam]

Welcome to the Forum, Sammijo!

I've found that you can get a new recipe from a natural cook or chef every day.  You can only get one a day, but you can definitely get one every day.  I had a Sim who was good friends with Emma Hatch and they got together often.  My Sim had a nice collection of recipes that she didn't have to buy.  It was also foreign recipes that she got from Emma, which was interesting.

wildredchild -

Try uploading your signature image again.  All I see is a red X at the bottom of your posts.

[wildredchild]

Thanks Pam, looks like I need to make a new one.

[Jonna]

I've found that you can get a new recipe from a natural cook or chef every day.  You can only get one a day, but you can definitely get one every day.

This is also per natural cook.  If you know two natural cooks, you can get two new recipes a day.  However, Trade Kitchen Secrets does not work with natural cooks living in your household. 

I usually have my sims move into the lot next to the Frio brothers in Sunset Valley.  Jared is a natural cook, your sim only needs to know that he has that trait and then they can Trade Kitchen Secrets once each day.  This is how I have my sims learn all the recipes.  When your sim cannot tell that he is talking with a natural cook, if he talks about cooking enough, the option to trade kitchen secrets might appear... but rarely.

Also, I haven't seen noted that a perfect pie that a child cooks in the oven gives a +50 moodlet.  Neither a perfect muffin nor a perfect cake give that big of a boost to a sim's mood.