Burned Food :p

Ooooo!

Going ahead and serving the burned food and the Other option are now tied! :smiley:

Which one will take the lead!? :mrgreen:

Can't believe how many people feed their Sims burnt food!! Maybe because I'm a Foodie IRL....I find the thought of it disgusting and could never do that to my sims.

"Stormkeep;c-16933984" wrote:
Can't believe how many people feed their Sims burnt food!! Maybe because I'm a Foodie IRL....I find the thought of it disgusting and could never do that to my sims.

Lol, to be honest it never even occurred to me I could make them eat it :D What happens when you do? Do they get sick?

@JoAnne65 Nah, they just get a bad moodlet. I think they also make gagging sounds or something, but can't remember if that's in TS3 or one of the other versions of the game...I pretty much never feed my sims burned food, but have seen non-active sims eating it in all of the various sims games.

@Stormkeep, I'm just EVIL. Hey... If they buy food and then burn it... well... can't let food go to waste. :mrgreen:

This thread it's making me feel like a monster... I believe my sims are starting to forget what food tastes like :cold_sweat:

I went with "I go ahead and serve them the burned food. They're all starving and one nasty meal won't kill them.". But there are times when I might throw away the burnt food and have my Sims eat a quick meal instead or eat leftovers from the frig or fix something else depending on how I feel and how low their hunger meter is.

I always toss burned food. My Sims rarely get to the point of being extremely hungry, so there’s plenty of time for them to prepare another meal if they were to randomly burn one and if I don’t have any leftovers available. But I usually do have leftovers, as I often have a couple meals prepared in advance. That way, Sims who may end up on a different schedule than the rest of the household can still have a nice home-cooked meal.

My Sims rarely burn food though. There’s usually someone in the house that’s the designated cook with enough experience to be decent, if not always great. If at first they have little or no skill, I have them prepare autumn salad and PB&Js until they’ve improved, and only then are they allowed to cook on a stove. Any children in the house practice on the toy oven so they will have some skill when they’re older. I also avoid using cheap stoves and refrigerators.

I prefer my Sims to have good quality meals, but there are a few special cases. For example, I don’t use the quick meal option as a general rule, but sometimes make the exception for Sims at Uni. I also have played homeless Sims that lived off caught fish and whatever they could scrounge from local gardens, roasted over a fire pit. And I have a save with a bachelor PI Sim who has never made even a single meal himself. In the beginning he lived off hot dogs from competing in the eating contests at the festival, lol. Sometimes he’d win and get a free group serving of hot dogs to tide him over. Now that he’s earning better, he lives off discount diner meals and takeout. But no matter the situation, nobody eats the burned stuff! :tongue:

I usually work on cooking skills pretty early on- so this doesn't happen often. If it did- I would either order pizza or try for something less ambitious like a garden salad. Garden salad and fruit salad are my best friends when a sim can't cook. One because they don't burn stuff- and two because I don't want the sim household to burn down.

I use a combination of Serve It and Trash It. They eat the burned food at the time, but the leftovers get trashed.