Making a single meal or a group meal

"Dannydanbo;15412995" wrote:
The first thing I do with all adult sims in a new household, is sit them down and watch the cooking channel until each sim gets to the first level. That way there is less of a chance that the kitchen will be set on fire.

That's the great tip for me. Thanks! :D

I have found having our Sims read or watch the cooking channel will get them to skill up much faster as opposed to just having them cook. As for what meal size you cook, I don't think that matters as far as skills go.

I really like the cooking skill. And especially in the beginning, I will never have a sim cook when not inspired. I either use "take thoughtful shower" or "cloudgaze / stargaze" action and then have them cook. If their fun is down, I will have them watch the cooking channel while eating, making additional use of the inspired moodlet that way.

I always make the group meal, usually on a Sunday. Then it becomes a matter of telling the kids that we're having leftovers this week.

Invite friends over to hang out then call to meal.

"Inna Minnit;15413645" wrote:
Invite friends over to hang out then call to meal.

This is what I would do. The food isn't wasted if it's shared with others.

There's no difference between the meals but if you cook single meals you'll have to cook more often and since you improve the skill with every time you cook single meals would be the better option.

"Erica87;15413854" wrote:
There's no difference between the meals but if you cook single meals you'll have to cook more often and since you improve the skill with every time you cook single meals would be the better option.

Yeah that's the way I'm doing for improving skill faster. :)

Also, for anyone wondering or just wants a tip, your sim can watch the cooking channel while they're cooking. I'm trying to make the ambrosia, which requires level 10 cooking skill and level 10 gourmet cooking skill, so I put a TV in the kitchen so he can level up his cooking skill by watching the cooking channel while levelling up his gourmet skill by cooking gourmet meals. I expect if you cooked (non-gourmet) meals while watching the cooking channel, it would probably level up the regular cooking skill faster?

"Aerihk;c-16206633" wrote:
Also, for anyone wondering or just wants a tip, your sim can watch the cooking channel while they're cooking. I'm trying to make the ambrosia, which requires level 10 cooking skill and level 10 gourmet cooking skill, so I put a TV in the kitchen so he can level up his cooking skill by watching the cooking channel while levelling up his gourmet skill by cooking gourmet meals. I expect if you cooked (non-gourmet) meals while watching the cooking channel, it would probably level up the regular cooking skill faster?

It’s similar to listen to music while cooking. The cooking skill levels up when ur sim is cooking but it stops and fun bar goes up when ur sim listen to music. So I think it still has the same speed. The cooking skill goes up while cooking and the speed is still same while watching cooking channel because your sim just watch without cooking motions while watching tv. I don’t like the multi actions when I have my sims improve skills because those multi actions make slower down the learning speed.

But for listening to cooking skill on multipad in the sims 3, sims are cooking and listening at the same time, so my sims 3 sims learn cooking skill on double speed. Now I can’t live without multipad. :D