Canning

"Simmerville;d-991337" wrote:
Can't wait to learn more about the canning! I do use a mod currently, and it is fun too, but I guess the new will be even more EA match, and also those small labels look kinda cute :)

Now I wonder how it will work in game, like if a produce can be served in various settings, like jam on bread and pickles as snack or whatever. I hope serving will transfer to a group meal, not like with the honey, that you simply eat the full glass/can. I also wonder if canned stuff will go spoiled over time (should take long, but might look weird if you can enjoy someting your greatgreatgranny canned 150 yeas ago ;) .

Canned stuff seems like the perfect gift, a way to make a little more money from selling your produce, and the best of all you can do it without running a big farm. In my game a sim living in a San Myshuno flat makes extra income from canning. In smaller apartments/houses it will be a good thing that canning is done on the regular stove.

I wonder if kids can learn canning, maybe it will be a no-kids thing due to dealing with very hot items.

Also think canned stuff will make for great decor in a kitchen as well as restaurant and store etc.

What do we actually know about canning, except being connected to the already existing cooking skill?

In the trailer it showed a jar of aubergine preserve, so I wonder if produce from the grocery store will be available only in season and whether fruits and vegetables will start to lose their quality over time. Until now it was possible to keep it indefinitely and we could buy the seeds from the pot or telephone but my sims used to eat them. So I do wonder if canning will change how vegetables and fruits work in game.

I don't think they've given us any information about how canning works yet, except that it's an extension of the cooking skill. (Thank goodness, we don't need another huge object.)

I agree that the labels are super cute! I am really looking forward to the addition of this skill, and I'm hoping they tell us more about how it works soon.

Will be interesting. Did @icemunmun say she worked on the EP?
Images from her canning mod
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UE2rfRDDgWg/YDFmxdPlNXI/AAAAAAAADYE/H1_nnaJUfIg7HA4gMxZO-kJ1CNMeViAPACLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Untitled-1.jpg

Also @Simmerville looks like that girl in the photo wants steak and eggs and now I do too, with some asparagus.

"troshalom;c-17922016" wrote:
Will be interesting. Did @icemunmun say she worked on the EP?
Images from her canning mod
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UE2rfRDDgWg/YDFmxdPlNXI/AAAAAAAADYE/H1_nnaJUfIg7HA4gMxZO-kJ1CNMeViAPACLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Untitled-1.jpg

Also @Simmerville looks like that girl in the photo wants steak and eggs and now I do too, with some asparagus.

Awww, that mod looks awesome! I thought I had icemunmun's canning mod, but it must be an early version. My sim can make preserves but I never saw those detailed servings.

I hope canning in Cottage Living is at least at the level of the Sims 3 Store Canning station and its products. In the Sims 1, there was a canning station but it was very basic. Using it produced a crate of 6 jam jars which your sim could sell immediately or give away as a gift (which did have the advantage of providing a healthy relationship boost in a game where it was notoriously hard to maintain relationships).

In the Sims 3, your sims could either can, preserve or pickle most produce in the game except for the life fruit and flame fruit (I assume because of their special properties). The resulting jars were each distinctive both in the interior of what you could see through the glass, and with a unique label/name. Most of the berries and fruits made jams, but tomatoes uniquely produced ketchup; oranges, lemons and limes produced marmalade; cucumbers could be made into either pickles or relish; eggs could be pickled; cocoa beans made chocolate spread. The jams could be spread on either toast or scones for "smothered toast" or "smothered scone" as a dish to be eaten. Unfortunately you couldn't sell any jams or preserves at the consignment store or through the bakery, but only directly from the sims inventory or the station.

I don't like when the developers take away a functionality that previously existed in an earlier game, so I hope that we can at least do all of that in Cottage Living, and hopefully more. Ideally I would like to have a host of unique jams and spreads (for every harvestable and for combinations of harvestables -- which you couldn't do in the Sims 3), with their own proper names and appearances, as well as the ability to spread jam or preserves on any bread, scone, or baked pastry in the game. It would also be nice if sims could take preserves with them tomb-exploring and adventuring in Jungle Adventure and eat them directly from the jar without any fear of them spoiling (because that desiccated grilled cheese has always looked so disgusting to me).

It would be even better if jams or preserves could also be ingredients in certain dishes, like varieties of jam being used in jam tarts or pies, or ketchup being added to fish and chips or hotdogs and hamburgers, etc. It would also be nice if there were a few new recipes that you could only make if you had jam or preserves in your sim's inventory such as jam-filled puff pastries, victoria sandwiches, cobblers, crostadas, black forest cake, etc. (We're only getting a few new English-style recipes like beef wellington so I rather doubt that there will be many new options for canned goods to serve as ingredients in new recipes, sadly). It would also be nice to be able to sell jams and preserves on Plopsy and through the sale table, as well as at the new grocery stall in the new town square.

I expect I will be disappointed in the amount of new foods we will get from canning, and we will only get jam on toast, and if we are lucky, on scones, but I am still glad that canning is coming back to the Sims 4 at last.

It sounds like the canned produce can be used in place of fresh produce -- so if you want to make spaghetti sauce but tomatoes are out of season you can use canned tomatoes instead. I wonder if quality will be determined by the quality of the produce, the Sim's Cooking skill, or a combination of both. And canned produce might make a good gift, particularly for Foodie Sims; that'll come in handy if we ever get an actual attraction system for matching up Sims.

If it's a skill, I hope it's an easier one to do than Herbalism which is the one skill that eludes me because I can't seem to find anything required. This does look like a lot of fun though and I agree with the labels being adorable. The jar is also cute.

"stilljustme2;c-17922942" wrote:
It sounds like the canned produce can be used in place of fresh produce -- so if you want to make spaghetti sauce but tomatoes are out of season you can use canned tomatoes instead. I wonder if quality will be determined by the quality of the produce, the Sim's Cooking skill, or a combination of both. And canned produce might make a good gift, particularly for Foodie Sims; that'll come in handy if we ever get an actual attraction system for matching up Sims.

Yes, and that's so cool that preserves can be used for cooking later. They c an also be packed into the picnic basket and it seems there will be some typical picnic meals made from it. Basically I love the decor value of these preserve jars, and will definitely build a pantry in many of my households where cooking or farming is essential :)

I LOVE when they come out with things that allows me to eliminate another mod?? love mods but (most) add glitches I prefer not to deal with. Almost lost a precious sim from a mod a few days ago. Luckily I was able to delete the mod and re-download my sim from the gallery with no farther issues. But yea, excited for this! I'm wondering now if simmers regret getting long meal times nerfed.? now that means picnics are over in 3 sec or less. And all that canning goodness will be consumed and over in 3 bites?

"summertaffy68;c-17922950" wrote:
If it's a skill, I hope it's an easier one to do than Herbalism which is the one skill that eludes me because I can't seem to find anything required. This does look like a lot of fun though and I agree with the labels being adorable. The jar is also cute.

Canning is based on the regular cooking skill.