The butler's lost her mind! The Sim I was playing this weekend drove past another house of mine that I've left on it's own for a Sim week or two and I noticed something odd in the yard…
So I switched households, searched inside, and holy cow! There were pans EVERYWHERE. Mostly the kitchen and parlor, but there were other small collections in several outbuildings and the main entrance.
Well over 60 pans total. It took forever to find them all and get rid of them -- For hours my Sims would keep getting more "finish cooking" bubbles and they would ferret out another one that I'd missed. Needless to say, I fired the butler. Even though the culprit turned out to be a faulty stove in the end (which I uncovered days later.) Oops.