Why does my sims always put the food they make on the counter?

[crashhat69]

When I tell them to make breakfast, lunch, or dinner, they make it and then put it on the counter instead of automatically eating it. It's starting to get really annoying. Is this a glitch or something? How can I fix it?

[Hosfac]

Are you making group meals or single servings?  And if you're making single serving meals...why?  Group meals have the same requirements as single servings, and you can eat off of them for a while if you put them in the refrigerator.

But, to answer your question:  a lot of times a sim will put down a meal they cook if they're not exceptionally hungry.  Group meals, of course, have to be put down before your sim can grab a serving of it.

[crashhat69]

I always use the single serving to raise the cooking skill. It's like if there hunger isn't in the orange or red they put the food on the counter.

[Hosfac]

I always use the single serving to raise the cooking skill.  It's like if there hunger isn't in the orange or red they put the food on the counter.

Ok I can see that. 

And if they don't have a "Hungry" moodlet, there's a good chance that they will put it on the counter.

[crashhat69]

This never used to happen, why is it happening now?

[Hosfac]

To be strictly honest, my only real experience with the Sims comes from the PC version.  But I can't imagine that base game mechanics like this would be handled any differently.

With that said, the only explanation that I can really come up that would make any sense to me is that perhaps their hunger bar was slightly lower when it wasn't happening.  Sims also have a good deal of autonomy (unless you turn it off), and simply decide things on their own sometimes, based on their needs.  Thus, if they don't have one of the "Hungry" moodlets, it's possible that they simply decide that eating it themselves wasn't the intent behind cooking it.  And so, they put it down until you tell them that they should eat it.

I wouldn't honestly think that this is a bug, unless they keep setting it down while they do have the "Hungry" moodlet.

[Pam]

I agree with Hosfac.  It's probably just coincidence that you are having your Sim cook when he isn't actually hungry enough to eat it on his own.  I don't think it's a glitch.