I went to make a cake from the gourmet menu but it's empty of everything except for one salad, my Sim has gourmet cooking level 10 and has made cakes before but now it's gone. I tried right clicking on sims 4 from origin menu and hitting repair, yet still nothing.
Hi @kiradarkstar ! In the image you shared, the "fresh ingredients" box is checked? If you uncheck that box, do you see more options?
No it doesn't help, it was the first thing I tried.
@kiradarkstar Oh! Okay. May I ask what your sim's regular cooking skill level is?
@kiradarkstar Okay. Sorry for the dumb questions. I'm just trying to work through it logically. In my test save, I cheated a sim to level 10 gourmet cooking but she was not able to access that menu until she had level 5 cooking skill. At that point, the full gourmet cooking menu was available. Hmmm...
Perhaps you could try deleting the localthumbcache.package file from your Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 4 folder, then repair the game again. I'm wondering if something glitched in there?
@kiradarkstar Good grief! That's rather frustrating. So my next question is whether or not you have any mods or CC in your game. If so, try moving the mods folder to your desktop, delete the localthumbcache.package, and repair the game again.
If that's not it, then I'm at a loss. Hopefully @puzzlezaddict won't mind the tag. They're bloody brilliant and always very helpful.
@JonaO703 I'm flattered, but my knowledge and ability to help pretty much end where Sims 4 gameplay begins. Other than the very basics, I tend to avoid questions like this because I don't have anything helpful to add.
Having said that, @kiradarkstar if the above doesn't pan out, I'd try a factory reset. How to do one is explained here:
It would also be useful to know whether this happened to other sims within the same save, or just the one.
@kiradarkstar I'm really sorry for failing you here. I could not replicate the issue in my game. The only two times my sim could not cook gourmet meals were when electricity was unavailable; power out from unpaid bills, "off the grid" lot. In both cases, I couldn't even open the gourmet cooking menu because that requires electricity. If the issue isn't caused by mods or cc and repairing doesn't help, then I'm really not sure what it could be. The only other thing I can suggest is maybe a full clearing of the cache files. There are several posts / articles about how to do this but I like this one on Carl's Guide.
The Sims 4: Clear Cache, Manage Saves & Fixing Broken Games (carls-sims-4-guide.com)
That one also has links to other potentially useful tips, including how to do the factory reset / reinstall.
I have the same issue, after my sim reached level 10 gourmet cooking the only option in the gourmet menu was the caprese salad. Levels 1 through 9 worked fine. I'm trying your suggestions now
