I don't normally let my sims who aren't naturally talented or skilled with cooking cook meals. Of course there is always that one sim who has zero cooking skills and burns a meal, because they are above eating leftovers or couldn't wait for the autumn salad. I make that one sim eat the burnt meal, while everyone else eats a nice meal. Then I cackle while taking pictures of that sim's expression as he/she eats the meal. >:) It gives me the same satisfaction some teachers get when a student copies another classmate's test only to fail because their are four different tests!!! >:)