Smarter Cooking Please!!

[BeautifulRainn1]

Smarter Cooking:

• Ability for ALL (or MOST) foods to be served in multiple amounts. Example: French toast- 1 serving, 2 servings, 4 servings, 8 servings, 12 servings,…

• Ability to automatically serve the food cooked on each spot on the table after cooking for multiple Zoi’s.

  • Animations/ Visuals of Serving Food: the serving plate with multiple servings on it has visually larger amounts of food on it. In one hand the Zoi holds up the large serving plate and the other hand takes a single serving from it and puts it on the table. They go around the table as they set down each plate.

• Calling to Meals: After setting out the plates, there should be an ability to call everyone to sit at the table and eat (We can already do this! This is just a good feature to expand to all ways of cooking!)

• Smarter AI for Cooking:

  • Zoi’s automatically assess the amount of household Zoi’s present and will automatically place that amount of plates of food on each table spot after cooking. If they’ve cooked more servings than the amount of Zoi’s present it will be saved as leftovers.

  • Autonomously Cooking For The Time of Day: Zoi’s who have at least skill 5 in cooking can autonomously cook meals that coincide with the time of day AND the amount of Zoi’s present. (Ex: a parent Zoi wakes up during breakfast time and because they have skill 5 cooking they will be more autonomously inclined to make breakfast for the family.) Only 1 Zoi will cook a multi serving meal per meal time while the rest of the household waits. No Zoi’s should try to eat when there’s a Zoi already cooking a multiserving meal!

  • Organize meal types in the fridge so this may work more effectively- Example:

    • 6-10am is breakfast time so a “Serve Breakfast” option should pop up after clicking the fridge and clicking it will open up all of the breakfast food options.

    • Brunch time: 10am-12pm (“Serve Brunch” option)

    • Lunch time: 12pm-2pm (“Serve Lunch” option)

    • Dinner time: 5pm-9pm (“Serve Dinner” option)

[jonathonhargrove33]

YESSS!!! The game needs there to be an option for more than one serving to be prepared at a time!

[Samuriko]

Also, since we’re on the subject of SMARTER cooking… Zois should prioritize food with proper calories depending on how depleted the food bar is. If they are starving, they will make the most juicy/fat/sweet/meaty meal from what is available in their current skill level. Especially if they cook for themselves only that specific time.

A looooong time ago it used to be this way (pre-0.20), where my child zoi would ask for food whild being 1/3rd depleted only and father would give her a mango (low calorie food). If she was starving, she’d get or get served a Bibimpap (because she liked vegetables), the father would pick another food because he hated veggies.

That kind of “Smart cooking” and “smart picking favorite foods depending on calories” would be welcomed back additions.

[patricia.f21]

Yes, that would be great!

So that you could choose how much you need and wouldn’t have to cook almost every meal again.

Or a function at the table with multiple meals.

So far, only soup is possible; maybe it could be made possible to include ice cream or fruit snacks.

[sebascorachan]

And tables with more capacity, for 6-7-8… diners. As far as I can see in my game, the maximum is 4 at a table. If you have a family of 5, for example, they can no longer sit together to eat at a single table, you have to put two tables together, and the “eat together” option is maximum for four sims, please extend it so that all the sims in the house can “eat together,” and even guests…

[EllaEstella]

Totally agree to this! Especially with the current maximum of 4 meals per dish it is crazy that you would need to cook twice to have enough food for the entire family in larger households.

And please also give us larger tables as well. At the moment I haven’t found a table where you can normally place more than 4 chairs at. Table for 6 and / or 8 Zois should be possible. Only way to do this now is to place 2 tables next to each other as seamlessly as possible with the Alt key but a real table for more Zois would be be much nicer.

[LennyOgg]

That would be awesome!

I’d also like optional eating animations, the one we have now is more for children/younger folks imo
Can’t wait for multitasking while eating!

For the tables, I want smaller options for 2 Zois, for small kitchens/spaces
And yes, bigger ones too, something between the Large Conference Table and the current ones ^^’

[EllaEstella]

You`re right! Did not think about it but yes of course we also need a table for only 2.

Never saw this conference table. Can you use it as a dining table and where is it in the build mode? Nevertheless it looks really huge for a normal dining room.

The kind of bigger tables I would wish for would rather be this size (these are 2 tables combined to look like one at the moment):

[LennyOgg]

The Large Conference Table can be found in the ‘Other’ category under ‘Large Indoor’.
You can also just start typing ‘Large Con…’ until it shows up.