Can we get an overhaul to cooking already?

"ddd994;c-17274064" wrote:
What about the cooking system from sims 2 on console??
You picked your ingredients from the fridge, and chose which appliance to use, wether to chop it up on the counter, chuck it in the processor (RIP food processor lol), straight in the oven etc.. and you’d get a different meal at the end of it, according to what and how you choose to make it? You could experiment with your own recipes which obviously led way to some crazy concoctions lol.. There was a recipe book dependant on your cooking skill .

Everything else OP was saying sounds great though and would be a great cooking overhaul :)

I absolutely adored the cooking "crafting" system in the Sims 2 for the PS2, I remember it well. Some foods even had hearts pouring because they offered special buffs. But since we are far into the TS4's life now I don't think they would change the whole cooking system and the already existing recipes to that extend. Adding/changing the qualities of the food like they did with the plants in gardening seemed like a much more realistic request for a patch which is what I mainly suggested in the thread.

I would adore if we could have grocery stores, actual grocery stores not just the ones we can kind of make with GTW. With special objects where sims can buy ingredients for recipes like shrimp, oysters, chicken meat, pork meat, tofu, etc, things you can't harvest or fish. They could even have those registers with NPC's, with the moving carpets where the grocery basket/bag slides. And update recipes to use those ingredients. Similar to TS3. But again, it would probably be too much for them, if we are being realistic.