Tab across to the right to 'Recipes Known' with the LS. Scroll down to Cooking and hit 'A' to open the skills journal. Here's how to find out what level your recipes are currently at: Here's the order of the descriptive words used to describe the quality of food: Having a sim with the gardening skill to provide ingredients may be a good idea. If you use normal quality apples to make apple pancakes, it will be of a lesser quality than one made with perfect quality apples. Simply have your sim only ever cook one kind of meal for each mealtime, and they should get better at it eventually.įor the meals that you can provide ingredients for (see in-game skill journal) the higher the quality of ingredients will result in higher quality food.
The more a sim prepares a meal, the better they get at making it. Any recipes you don't learn from the cooking channel you can also buy from the bookshop. You need to max out the cooking skill to learn the last recipe. As well as improving the cooking skill level, you will pick up recipes from time to time. Simply have your sim watch the cooking channel whenever possible. Menu Maven is an easy enough challenge to complete. You can also use the lifetime reward 'Mid-life Crisis' to re-choose your traits. If trying for this achievement with a new sim, choose these traits.
The 'Natural Cook' trait and the 'Perfectionist' trait.
Note that if a sim has high repair skills, you can improve some kitchen appliances to result in better food. In buy mode, each appliance tells you the quality of that item. You can improve your cooking skill by reading cooking book available from the library and bookshop, watching the cookery channel on tv, and by actually cooking! There are several factors which affect the quality of a meal that your sims can prepare. takuto neko notes that this must be as you create it: you cannot create a less-than-perfect meal and then 'kick it up a notch'. To get the achievement, prepare a meal of perfect quality.