Sims 3: learning bar food recipes?
hi all, I've been spending the past 2 days scouring the internet for information on how sims can learn the bar food recipes such as onion rings, nachos, shrimp cocktail and hot wings and I found many varied answers, so I wanted to know if anyone has experienced this?
while I've seen some say it's not possible, I'm almost 100% sure it is possible because one time my sim threw a house party and 2 of her guests brought a platter of onion rings and nachos, I know they didn't buy it from a bar and bring it over to her home because I've tried that myself and the bar food doesn't have the option to place in inventory so they must've learned the recipe and then cooked it in their own home and then brought it over to her party.
the most common answers I have found are
- learn them by eating it
- trade kitchen secrets
- watching cooking channel on TV
I've had my sim eat onion rings multiple times and still hasn't learned it...I had her fiancé watch the cooking channel an entire week and nothing...
I also tried to chat with other sims but the trade kitchen secrets interaction never shows up...
anyone have any ideas? my sims do not have natural cook trait, and both their cooking skill is level 10 and they've learned all the other recipes available in the books.
I even tried just today using lifetime rewards to give one of my sims the natural cook trait, and then had her eat more onion rings at a bar (I did this about 5-6 times while she had the natural cook trait) and she still didn't learn it...
thoughts?
thanks!
@Kya10 The bar recipes can't be learned. The fact that other sims bring them over doesn't mean they actually prepared the plates; the game is just spawning a group serving of something for the guests to provide. The list of meals that are allowed to be shared this way doesn't have to correspond exactly with the list of meals that can be cooked, and, in fact, I'm reasonably certain that the game doesn't check whether an inactive sim "knows" a recipe before allowing them to bring it over.
By the way, it's been my experience that only Natural Cooks can learn recipes from watching the cooking channel. To trade kitchen secrets, both sims need to have the trait, and there's a cooldown of a day or two before the interaction can be used again. But in this case as well, the inactive sim sharing the recipe definitely doesn't need to know that particular recipe.
