How to Cook Excellent Meals in The Sims 4
If you want to be a master chef you’ll need to cook excellent meals in The Sims 4.
These meals are awesome because they’ll give your sims great moodlets that will make them happy.
Happy sims are easier to care for and spend more time being productive!
How to Cook Excellent Meals in The Sims 4
Each meal your sim cooks has a quality ranking and the higher the quality, the more positive moodlets your sims can get from it.
There are a whole bunch of factors that go into creating high-quality meals from traits, to skills to the mood your sim is in. Let’s go over each!
Your Sim’s Traits
The first thing that can have an impact is your sim’s traits. There are a few traits you can give to get higher quality meals:
- Creative: The ideal mood for cooking is inspired and you’ll get random inspired moodlets with this trait.
- Perfectionist: Perfectionist sims take longer to make things but it will come out higher quality.
- Essence of Flavor: This is the trait your sim gets when they start with a food aspiration and it gives a quality boost to food and drinks the sims makes.
Giving your sims any of these traits is so helpful to make them have a higher chance at creating high quality meals. You can also add some lot traits to improve your chances too!
- Homey: The homey trait gives a skill boost gain to the cooking skills and your sim needs a high level of the cooking skill to make high-quality dishes.
- Chef’s Kitchen: This traits comes with City Living and gives sims lots of inspired moodlets and a skill boost gain.
Your Sim’s Mood and Needs
You also need to make sure that your sim is well taken care of and in the right mood! The first thing you should do is click on your sim’s needs panel and make sure they are well taken care of. Imagine trying to cook an excellent quality meal when you have to pee and smell bad and are tired? It wouldn’t work!
You should also make sure that your sim is in the right mood. The ideal mood for cooking is inspired and being inspired will help them create better meals.
To easily get your sim inspired you can take a thoughtful shower right before you start cooking. Your sim will get a 4 hour long +1 inspired moodlet called shower inspiration that will help!
Your Sim’s Skills
Of course your sim’s level of the cooking skill is important to the quality of their food. A low cooking skill level is going to result in mostly poor or normal quality meals.
When your sim is able to get to level 5 of the cooking skill they’ll also be able to start cooking gourmet meals.
If you want to cook excellent quality gourmet meals you’ll also need a high level of the gourmet cooking skill.
If you want to cheat the cooking skills you can use the below cheats. If you want a lower level just change the 10 at the end to another number from 1-10.
| Skill | Skill Cheat |
|---|---|
| Cooking | stats.set_skill_level Major_homestylecooking 10 |
| Gourmet Cooking | stats.set_skill_level Major_gourmetcooking 10 |
Using Fresh Ingredients
Another way you can improve the quality of your sim’s food is to use high-quality fresh ingredients. This requires your sims to start getting fresh items from fish to produce by jumping into other skills.
You can use the fishing skill to catch fresh fish to use in recipes like Pan Fried Tilapia and with higher quality fish you’ll have a higher chance of that dish being higher quality.
You can also work gardening into the cooking experience. Your sim can grow fresh produce in their yard and increase it’s quality by evolving it when it sparkles.
You’ll need a high level of the gardening skill and a lot of patience to get excellent quality produce to use in recipes.
All of these factors go into the quality of your sim’s meals so doing one or two of these things can get you to excellent quality!
Now that you can cook excellent quality dishes you are able to finish the master chef aspiration and get that fresh chef trait so your food never spoils!
