cooking aborts off grid

Hi cindi_mckay​ 

Could you please provide the following information

-  Are you using mods/cc in your game ? Please remove them and test without them if you do.
- Please also provide any LastException/LastCrash files in your documents folder. Upload them to either google or oneDrive and post the link here.

I am using mods and cc, as I'm trying to play Morbid's Ultimate Decades Challenge, so am going for a medieval theme at the moment. I tested it in a new game with mods disabled and my sim was able to make grilled cheese, so I don't know if its the stove or the recipe my medieval sims are using that is causing the issue.  Grr. I don't have any LE/LC files, sorry. 

Do you have issues with other recipe on your modded save ?

cindi_mckay​ 

Yes, although because I have just started this save, and am playing with both simple living and off grid enabled, I've only been able to try gruel and pottage. But the same issue occurs with both recipes. The sim prepares the food, but is unable to complete it.

cindi_mckay​  Typically, on a OTG lot, you can't cook any group meals on a stove and nothing in the oven since the stove has no power.  The only things you can cook are single servings such as 1 grilled cheese and maybe a couple of other single serving meals.  So, to get a group meal you have to use a grill, fire pit or the IL pit.  You might also be able to get mac and cheese using the RoM cauldron, but I am unsure about that as I've never tried that.  Tbh, you really don't want to do group meals anyway since leftovers don't last very long and spoil without power for the fridge.

If you want to cook full meals on OTG lots on any of the stoves, then you'll need to add either solar panels, wind turbines or power generators until you have enough power to run the stove and any other electrical devices you have on the lot.  

Hope this helps.

Thanks for your help.  I actually like to make family meals, as I generally play with large family households and more historical story lines, and having each sim have to prepare their own meals doesn't really fit my stories. Yes, sometimes food goes to waste, but not usually, as I add ice to the fridge. It would be very nice to have more cooking options available for off-grid life, as well as more realistic.  I mean, people were making family meals and baking bread way before electricity was discovered and harnessed.

Thank you so much! I was trying to figure out how to hide power-generating items on my lot. This is genius!