Help With Coffee Beans

In order to make beverages out of the beans (and herbs), you need to use the Uni EP barista station rather than a regular coffee maker. But it can't be on a commercial lot that is supposed to be staffed by a barista, you have to add the station to your home lot. The different options for brewing are then on the barista station coffee maker, not on the beans.

Or, since that doesn't fit in well in many cases and most of us don't really want pastry displays in our own kitchens, this mod allows the regular coffee makers to make the beverages also.
http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=523680

The beans also make decent crops for gardening, for sims whose skills are high enough. Some of them are very profitable as harvestables.

"Sonshine77;c-16590666" wrote:
I'm using the "Elitissimo At-Home Barista." Is there any other Barista station that I'm missing?

That's a regular coffee maker regardless of the name it was given. What is required, unless you have the mod I linked to, is the entire barista counter complete with commercial coffee maker and pastry display all attached as you would see it in a Uni coffee barista shop.

It's a huge piece of furniture, not a small appliance, and probably shows up under Surfaces in Build/Buy (sorry, not in-game at the moment) either under Counters or Misc (or both). Although I think it should show up somewhere under Kitchen when looking by room as well. It might help you see it if you filter Build/Buy to the Uni EP.

Thanks again Igazor! I did finally find it and it's not really that big or at least the coffee maker part is not that big. It's only 2 tiles wide and has another tile deep to stand behind it to make the drinks. The one I found is called the "Quick Croissants Coffee Bar" and has all of the options to make all of the herb teas and energy drinks as well as buy the snacks. I found it under function/misc surfaces I will go ahead and get the mod though, so that I can get the same menus on the small coffee machines.

No, it's not that large for a counter but I meant it's not an object you can hold in your hands like a standalone coffee maker is.

Love that mod. As much as I would enjoy having a never-ending supply of cheese danish in my (not overly large) apartment in real life, it just never seemed very realistic in the game and the surface object just doesn't fit in everywhere, even if turned back to front. ;)

LOL I think we'd ALL love to have an endless supply of "goodies" regardless of what they are, but I don't think we'd like the consequences of that, lol. It (the barista) would fit into my sim's home (I kind of went overboard on expanding the house, lol), but still....

@Sonshine77 This is the Barista Bar that @igazor is talking about.

https://s5.postimg.cc/4mkfrx153/RC_RTN_002.jpg

Herbs brewed into tea (not coffee) using the UL Barista station or the mod should provide the same benefits as eating them raw or in food, only more subtly and perhaps for not as long.

Herb nausea is caused by low to medium quality herbs such as one finds in a grocery store. Growing your own higher quality herbs if any of your sims have the gardening skill or being lucky enough to find them for sale on the Al Fresco produce carts if you have that set will not do this or not nearly as often, am pretty sure that Perfect quality herbs never will. There is also an LTR that combats herb nausea, I believe it's the one called Simmunity. And one can also eat Sweet Grass (or drink Sweet Grass tea) to get rid of the nausea as well as buzz crashes, but then one still doesn't have the benefit that the original herb was supposed to produce so a third helping of herbs is required to try again. Weight gain can happen if the sim becomes Stuffed while working through all of this. :)

"igazor;c-16589563" wrote:
In order to make beverages out of the beans (and herbs), you need to use the Uni EP barista station rather than a regular coffee maker. But it can't be on a commercial lot that is supposed to be staffed by a barista, you have to add the station to your home lot. The different options for brewing are then on the barista station coffee maker, not on the beans.

Or, since that doesn't fit in well in many cases and most of us don't really want pastry displays in our own kitchens, this mod allows the regular coffee makers to make the beverages also.
http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=523680

The beans also make decent crops for gardening, for sims whose skills are high enough. Some of them are very profitable as harvestables.

Thanks for that! As much as I love that uni counter, I think it’s not really suitable for a normal kitchen with its display of cakes and pies.

"JoAnne65;c-16656920" wrote:
Thanks for that! As much as I love that uni counter, I think it’s not really suitable for a normal kitchen with its display of cakes and pies.

I used to just turn it the wrong way around on residential lots so that the pastry display was not visible. The coffee barista machine was still usable that way. But that was before icarus released his mod, I was able to regain all of that space back again and go back to using regular looking coffee machines since then. And sometimes, well quite often really, I still want to be able to serve regular coffee so with the mod the same device can do either. :)

While on the subject, I also have to highly recommend Sandy's CC coffee makers from Around The Sims. Some of them look like what we here in the US would call "regular" drip coffee machines. There has never been nor likely will there ever be a single serving coffee pod device (Keurig) in my kitchen. I make coffee by the pot thanks, high quality weak dishwater coffee like we Americans are supposed to drink in large mugs. Her drip machines fit in very nicely and come with animations that look like the carafe is filling up as the pot brews. My sims don't care of course, it all tastes the same to them, and they can get single cups or use the mod on her devices just like the EA ones. ;)

Thanks Igazor, but I DO have the barista station on my home lot and there is still no option to use the beans in anything. My only options are "drink half-caf caramel soy frothiccino ...." and "serve hot beverages." Under "try something else," there is "cinnamon lite....," lite chai....," "strawberry lite latte...," "soy chai....," "lite chai," and "strawberry frothiccino...." That's it. When I clicked on "serve hot beverages, there is nothing else. They just serve normal beverages that are hot. It does not use any of the ingreds in her inventory at all. There are a couple of other menus, but none have any options to use the coffee beans or herbs.