Getting the butler to cook

My butler cooks and I like having to request it of him- that way if I have a culinary sim that wants to cook I can have them prepare the meal instead and not have wasted food.

I just solved the problem. #1 make sure you have an empty counter available and #2 it has to be an EA counter. I still use cc counters, but I added an EA counter and that's the one the butler uses to give the player the option to have him cook.

"Cyberqueen13;15418676" wrote:
I just solved the problem. #1 make sure you have an empty counter available and #2 it has to be an EA counter. I still use cc counters, but I added an EA counter and that's the one the butler uses to give the player the option to have him cook.

Hello
Thankyou for your helpful suggestions :) They will help other simmers who are having this issue.

"taydev;c-15893253" wrote:
I'd like to know how get my butler to STOP cooking. They cook meal after meal after meal, and my sim can't eat it all so the food spoils.

Make sure you have testingcheats on (open cheat window with Ctrl Shift C, type in cheat window). Shift-click on the Butler, select Reset Sim, should work. I use it whenever needed to make Sims "STAHP" whatever behavior that does not align with My Will. :D

"DeadFishy;c-15387460" wrote:
Cooking doesn't appear in his duties. Just gardening, minors, cleaning and fixing. And maybe attending to guests.

You don't click on the butler but the Sim in control, right? I can't remember or is it vice versa?

oops, I see this thread OP made is Dec. 2016..guess they figured it out.

I can confirm that I had this problem and solved it indefinitely. First, the Butler sometimes cooked just by himself, but not always, and there were long times without food in the fridge or on any of the counters, and he still didn't cook until it was too late. Secondly, I resolved the issue by buying a pure default fridge and a stove, avoiding any custom content, mods, or even fridges and stoves from the expansions that I have installed. When I did this, returned to live mode, and waited a few seconds, I was suddenly able to ask the Butler to Cook Meal, Family Meal, or Party Meal, the options that charge money.

Later on, I can put either the stove or the fridge in the family inventory, then experiment by adding an improved one that uses an expansion or whatever until I can pinpoint what works and what doesn't. For now, though, I know that if I use everything from the default, original game, things work just fine.

I had just started replaying a game that I hadn't touched in 2 years. As a habit, I don't install mods, but thought there might be something that came in or that was buggy. I deleted everything in my kitchen and rebought everything (luckily, this sim is rich). It worked. I was able to get my butler to cook. ;)

"DeadFishy;906720" wrote:
Is this possible??? I can't see it in the pie menu under responsibilities nor when I click on the Butler, fridge or stove.

Same here

All I have are assign tasks are make drink, play violin, piano & guitar and then comedy routine.

Seriously they can't cook!?? What is even the point?? I'm sure I saw them cooking in the live play??