Leveling the cooking skill?

[oshizu]

Am I doing something wrong or is my game working as intended?

Whenever I try to get a sim to level Cooking, they must stop and eat every single dish they prepare.
It doesn't matter if they have a full Hunger meter; it doesn't matter if they're a Vampire with the Withered Stomach weakness (thanks for vomiting in the toilet afterward).
One way to avoid this, I guess, is to have the sim prepare only cakes, since they just move the cake to a different surface without eating it.

Just seems weird to me that a sim with a full stomach or a vampire with a Withered Stomach must sample every dish.
I guess a second option would be for me to enter Build mode as soon as each dish is completed then swoop it into family inventory. But that's a real pain, lol.

Oh well, only 4 more levels... but it will happen again in a different game with a different sim.

[Playalot]

Oh this is an older bug that was supposedly fixed! It would be worth making a bug report about this if it happens in a new game no cc/mods etc.

[oshizu]

I'm surprised to hear that it's been fixed because it's been an issue for me for as long as I can remember.
In my case, my workaround today is to have my sim cook only cakes and pies.

I'll test this again tonight in a different game that has no cc.

[CuriousSim]

If you make a dish, that's larger than a single serving, your Sim will be less likely to take a serving, if he's not hungry. At least, there will be enough of a delay, that you can queue up another dish.

[oshizu]

CuriousSim, do you sims do this as well?
Even with four- or eight-serving dishes, however, my sims will stop and sample every dish. 
The vampire with a Withered Stomach will next need to stop and vomit after eating, not to mention their Nauseated moodlet. *sighs

I'm playing an eight-sim household, so I don't have the desire or attention span to constantly supervise a single sim, lol.
This uncooperative vampire will be cooking only cakes and pies until he maxes Homestyle Cooking.
At least there's a workaround, though it's scarcely a healthy diet for growing children...

[Playalot]

It was one of those bugs that the fix was not retroactive, so only (supposedly) fixed in new games.

[CuriousSim]

@oshizu

Nope. My Sim will only occasionally chain sample, when I make single servings. Once in a while, he might take a bite out of a multi serving dish. If it helps, you can watch a cooking show, while you eat, to maximize your learning, when you ARE hungry. Morning or evening Sim reward traits are also helpful, for learning to bake.

[Nindigo]

My Sims (vampires or not) will always grab a dish from meals they make no matter the size - save for pie and cake. I've come across mods that supposedly stop this, but I don't use one. I simply cancel the eating action and have the Sim put it all away.