Snowy Escape Recipes

There is a post on Answers HQ about some of the SE recipes. Apparently, your sin needs gourmet cooking skill to make the Maki roll (all variants) & Nigiri (all variants).

"EternalSunshine;c-17731774" wrote:
I was never able to find a clear answer regarding whether the SE recipes had to be learned or if they're just automatically unlocked when your Sim reaches a certain skill level. None of the reviews that I checked addressed the food items in the pack with any specificity. From your post, it sounds like they're automatically unlocked which is disappointing.

It is disappointing because I was so looking forward to unlocking those recipes my self in the game. Back when I first learned that we getting new recipes in SE. And I thought for certain that I heard a Maxis team member say that these recipes had to be unlocked before our sims can make them at home. But to my surprise, I have found them on the list of dishes that my sim can cook at home already. Hopefully a member of the team reads this and will chime in with the answer.

I'm really surprised they didn't put hot chocolate in. That was a missed opportunity.

"catloverplayer;c-17731794" wrote:
I'm really surprised they didn't put hot chocolate in. That was a missed opportunity.

Do they even sever hot chocolate in Japan? SE has a Japanese inspired theme to it. So they had to stay with what ever is severed in Japan.
Apparently they do have hot chocolate in Japan. I was just looking how to say hot chocolate in Japanese. It's hotto chokoreeto in Japanese.

The requirement of learning a recipe is a small thing, but as a goal oriented Sims player, it's something that helps extend my interest in a pack. It gave me another reason to keep going to the festivals in CL, take additional trips to Salvadorada in JA, & go out to restaurants in DO. It's especially disappointing to hear that the food items in SE are automatically unlocked given that many of the other activities in the pack are refreshes of things that I can already do in game thanks to other packs.

"EternalSunshine;c-17731805" wrote:
The requirement of learning a recipe is a small thing, but as a goal oriented Sims player, it's something that helps extend my interest in a pack. It gave me another reason to keep going to the festivals in CL, take additional trips to Salvadorada in JA, & go out to restaurants in DO. It's especially disappointing to hear that the food items in SE are automatically unlocked given that many of the other activities in the pack are refreshes of things that I can already do in game thanks to other packs.

For me it's the thrill of my sims discovering these recipes no matter what pack they are from. And having them automatically unlocked takes that thrill/ that joy of unlocking them away.

I understand, I feel much the same way. I get enjoyment from my Sims learning new things & participating in new activities, while they grow their families.

Maybe they just added them into Cooking skill instead of unlockables, because there's a lot of new recipes there.

No I am noticing this too and I’m wondering if it’s a glitch. Some of the vendor foods are not the same as the ones sims can make at home. There are more sushi items sold by the vendors that seem like sims should be able to learn them just like in City Living after they eat them, but nothing is happening. My sims have high cooking skill and I don’t think it should take them this long to know how to make sushi when they can make Onigiri at level one.

My sim has maxed out both cooking skills and the baking skill. And still I get nothing that tells me that my sim has learned a recipe from Snowy Escape, even after having tried them at the stalls and vending machine. And yet all the recipes are in the list of recipes that my sim can cook at home. Including the ones that my sim hasn't ordered from these places and machines. Now either this is a glitch of some kind or they have been unlocked prior to the launch of Snowy Escape.