These will give you ingredients that help boost the quality of food and reduce its cost, while also allowing your Sim to pursue cooking the Ambrosia Recipe. The Gardening and Fishing Skills are both obvious complementary Skills for Cooking and Gourmet Cooking. While you can cook any meal at any time, the hours for Breakfast, Brunch, Lunch, and Dinner are: Unlocking Gourmet Cooking via Skill books is a waste of time that could be better spent practicing regular Cooking. So, to do this, just work on your Cooking Skill and provide your Sims with better meals as you go. If you read a Skill Book, you can level this Skill before reaching that point, but won't be able to cook Gourmet Meals until your actual Cooking Skill is at level 5. Gourmet Cooking unlocks automatically at level 5 of the Cooking Skill. All Sims can later Research Cooking Techniques This will sometimes be half a level's worth of Skill XP. Upon completing a recipe, your Sim will get a big bump in Experience. In order to level the Skill faster, try to always cook while Inspired, and cook the highest level dishes. Sims with the Creative Trait will get random Inspired Moodlets, and those with the Foodie Trait can watch Cooking Show for Ideas or Search for Recipe Ideas on the Computer (found under Web). An easy way for Sims to get Inspired is to take a Thoughtful Shower or Browse Art from the Computer. To learn how to get Inspired, see the page on Inspired or Emotions Guides. Being Inspired will not only help you level the Skill faster, it also increases the likelihood your Food will be made in Excellent Quality, which is the highest quality in The Sims 4. You can now set your skill level with t_skill_level major_homestylecooking or major_gourmetcooking x (fill in 1-10) - we also have a full listing of Skill Cheats and a master list of Cheats in The Sims 4 ->īoth Cooking and Gourmet Cooking are Creative Skills, therefore their Ideal Mood is Inspired. Press Control + Shift + C then type testingcheats on and press enter. How to: Cooking and Gourmet Cooking Cheats

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