Off The Grid Cooking Needs Revamp
I was really excited when I saw the Cottage Living pack was coming out and overall I am very happy with it. Paired with the new lot Challenges update I am finally able to live my dream of having an o...
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You are confusing two things being Off the Grid and Living simple.
The recipes are all because of living simple.
1. There are no chilis so you can not make Chilies meat or veg, You can get spicy mushrooms and make something similar.
2. In all these cases you lack either Eggs, Flour or Sugar I recommend that you hover over the recipe to see a list of required ingredients.
3. If you only have one of an ingredient you can only make one serving.
4. See 2.
No power of the grid comes from not having a stove or fridge that is marked as working of the grid.
I hope this clears it up for you. Perhaps you should choose only one of these challenges at a time until you have learned more about them.
I was not "confusing" the two. My sims are using both Off the Grid and Simply Living Lot challenges. Not one or the other. I understand the requirements of both but the fact remains that there are recipes that if I have all the ingredients for I should be able to cook them off the grid and I cannot. I am very familiar with both challenges requirements as I have used Off the grid as a lot trait many times before. As for the servings you are mistaken. I have plenty of ingredients and yet for the some of the recipes I can do I still am only given a single serving cooking option. I hope this clears things up for you on my position. And there are chilis btw. Those are recipes in the sims.
I was mistaken you can indeed make chili recipes if you are at least level 6 cooking and you have the necessary ingredients.. If you do have enough ingredients you can make more than single servings. Click the arrow down. You may have to scroll down a bit to see Family size(4) and Party size(8). You say you didn't confuse the two but the headline talks about of the grid cooking while the things with recipes you mention had to do with Simple Living. you say you have used off the grid a lot so it puzzles me that you did not know what the message no power of the grid meant.
I understand how cooking in the Sims works. You seem to be under the impression I was asking for help. I am not. I am giving feedback that I do not agree with some of the choices that were made regarding what can and cannot be cooked off the grid. I understand that currently there are many recipes that cannot be cooked off the grid. However, the choices made for that are not consistent with food history. It is not even consistent with what types of recipes are able to be cooked off the grid. I repeat, am not asking for help, I am commenting on a flaw in the way Off the grid has been set up. It should be more compatible with a lot of the recipes and Simple Living than it is.
The issues with servings were specifically only a couple of recipes and are not the main point of this post.
Just because today is the first time I bothered to make a forum account does not mean I am new to the game. I have been playing the sims for years. Please do not patronize me.
I agree with you 100%! I've just started this great challenge (huge lot, huge veggie patch, no water, no nothing) and I was so surpised that my sims can't bake off the grid, that I can't even express it. Btw I don't have Eco Living, so panels aren't an option.
So as I understand, if my sims don't have electricity, then their stoves are probable powered by gas. And since when people can't bake in gas ovens irl? Im 28 yo and I've only just recently moved to a place with an electric stove, meaning that I've been cooking and BAKING on gas my entire life. It's very much possible 🙂. I also agree that the devs probably didn't research the cooking part much. I'd very like to see this lot trait revamped, truly.
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