Cooking items not available to cook!

Have you tried actually clicking on it anyway? I know that if I don't have the ingredients, except for a few particular dishes that really do require you to have it, it'll still let me cook it, anyway. Could you get a screenshot to show us what you're talking about?

My first step, whenever I'm having an issue, is to close completely out of the game, right-click on the box art for TS4 in Origin, and choose "Repair Game."

Check to see if your stove is not blocked or broken. The only time options were greyed out like that for me is when I can't use the appliance they are cooked on. Or if I don't have fish. For some reason you can sort of buy other ingredients, but have to actually have fish.

Edit: make sure you have counter space available, too.

You can still cook it without the ingredients. If not, just click on the fridge and choose "serve lunch..." > "mac and cheese".

Sounds like you might have 'use fresh ingredients' checked. Just uncheck that and you can cook whatever you like.

"NZsimm3r;15068689" wrote:
Sounds like you might have 'use fresh ingredients' checked. Just uncheck that and you can cook whatever you like.

Even with "use fresh ingredients" checked, you can still cook foods that you don't have the ingredients for (again, minus some that actually require the ingredients be in the fridge or your inventory).

Are you using any mods that affect cooking? Some of those may have been broken with the Dine Out patch.

"NZsimm3r;15068689" wrote:
Sounds like you might have 'use fresh ingredients' checked. Just uncheck that and you can cook whatever you like.

You can still cook most items even if you don't have the ingredients - I've found that if you check Use Fresh Ingredients, having those ingredients in your inventory or refrigerator will lower the cost of food preparation a bit. Which makes sense in a way.

"smoothyrus129;15069380" wrote:

"NZsimm3r;15068689" wrote:
Sounds like you might have 'use fresh ingredients' checked. Just uncheck that and you can cook whatever you like.

Even with "use fresh ingredients" checked, you can still cook foods that you don't have the ingredients for (again, minus some that actually require the ingredients be in the fridge or your inventory).

Exactly! So uncheck it and you can cook whatever you like...

Make sure you have an available stove, if you don't then you will not be able to cook certain items. If that doesn't work you might have to repair the game via origin

Orr how about this for q real basic - did you pay your bills? The power gets shut off and you can't cook then.

I also have the same problem even if i turn off fresh ingredients they still can't cook some reciepes (not the ones with fish).
Also some reciepes they dont show me the ingredients they need just (0/1) and i have to guess what they need

and i have another problem too that my harvestables (and general items too) in my inventory don't have name so i really don't know which ones i have

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ps: i've been searching on google for 2 hours and i reset the sims folder and i ended up unistall and install the game again because i've been this frustrated nothing happened though

I have all dlcs and some mods although i did check without them and the problem still exists :( i'm desperate