An often-overlooked feature withinThe Sims 4is food. With a variety of dishes that look delicious,some have hidden effects or have the benefit of impressing other Simmerswith their difficulty to cook. Cooking effectively inThe Simsis an unsaid life hack, and with so many options, it can be hard to filter the good recipes from the bad, making improving the cooking skills a pain.
From the Easter egg finder to theCooking Mamafan, this list sorts through over a hundred dishes,narrowing down what everySimsplayer needs to try, for every situation.Each dish lists the required ingredients to make, the cost, and skill needed for the recipe, as well as any hidden effects.Every Simmer will find these dishes key to playing The Sims 4 while also elevating their cooking for Sims, navigating the kitchen with ease.
10Halo Halo Requires No Ingredients
A Refreshing Dessert
Halo Halo was ontroduced originally inThe Sims 4: For RentExpansion Pack,an add-onattempted to diversify the food choices better while also bringing the night market and other appliancessuch as the rice cooker and electric kettle. It is possible to cook a range of meals, but for Halo Halo from Tomarang,it does not require a specific appliance.
This Halo Halo dish is traditionally made using shaved or crushed ice and fresh milk, topped with preferred toppings, such as sweetened saba and nata de coco. WithinThe Sims 4,Halo Halo is a great trick for when Sims have no ingredients, no cooking skills, and if they need something nourishing in a rush. It’s delicious and aesthetically pleasing, making it a great sweet meal that costs barely any simoleons, with no risk of a fire. This dish is also vegetarian!
9Bhel Puri Is Easy To Make
Street Food At Home
Unlike Halo Halo, this recipe does require two ingredients.But with just two ingredients, Sims can make this Mumbai street food at homewith any level of cooking. Typically made with puffed rice, three chutneys, and tomatoes, it is simply made with one potato and one chili powder in the game.
To make Bhel Puri,Sims must eat it at a food stall to unlock the recipe. Food stalls are only available with theCity LivingPack, and using other packs, such as Island Living, it unlocks different types of food stalls. This dish can be found at San Myshuno at the Spice Market, specifically on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Friday, and Saturdays, using only theCity LivingPack. Just be sure to come after 2am that day in order to come for the correct rotation. Cost-efficient for only five simoleons, this filling, vegan, sustainable dish is a must for anyone when just starting.
8Knafeh Makes A Great Group Meal
An Upgraded Cheesecake, But Way Better
This dessert has been going viral for its usage in the Dubai Pistachio Kataifi Bars,adding texture to the bars. This Middle Eastern dessert is made with two types of cheese, such as Akkawi and Nabulsia, but it depends on what region, and kataifi dough to make the crust with a syrup infused with orange blossom water and rose water.
Mouthwatering as is,the dish does not require any added Packsand can be used with only the base game. Requiring three ingredients and a cooking skill of four, Sims can easily make this wonderful dessert in no time – just be sure to share. It is extremely filling too, which can be very helpful when a Sim is starving.
To level up a Sim’s cooking, using the MultiTab 600 teaches a Sim fast. A cooking class can also progress with the skill.
7Dishes Made With Obsidian & Golden Eggs
Do Not Kill The Chicken That Lays The Golden Eggs
This is not exactly a single dish, but using either obsidian or golden eggs,players can make eggs and toast, an omelet, or scrambled eggs with bacon.With just two of either egg, Sims can have a hearty breakfast, with a twist. With theCottage LivingPackintroducing self-sustaining features, such as the chicken-coop, it’s important to also knowhow to get flourwhen cooking andwhere to forage in Henford-On-Bagley.
Using an obsidian egg from the evil chicken gives Sims an Evil Chicken moodlet with the Evil Glare interaction, zapping people to be angry, with the intent of serving the chicken, to be evil. Sims will also get red, glowing eyes like the evil chicken for two hours. On the other hand, with golden chickens’ eggs, players will unlock the Golden Impulse interaction for two hours, allowing them to zap things to perfection, such as plants, even instantly growing them.Just be sure to have theCottage LivingPack, as the chickens are only available with it.
6High Energy Protein Plate For An Extra Boost
It’s Not Just White Rice And Ground Beef
This is every gym person’s dream come true; everything they need for their goals on a plate. The high-energy protein plate requires at least a cooking skill of two, butonly costs 8 simoleons and needs only meat.If a vegan version of the dish is preferred, it is possible to make it with a meat substitute.
As much as this dish can seem intimidating, it boosts Sims’ energy levels,giving them the moodlet Protein Power with Energized +2, but it does require the Sim to be already energized. It is especially helpful on the days when they need an extra boost, like the days when Sims are pushed to work hard at their job, or trying to achieve a new goal when working out.
5Acarajé Requires Some Skills, But Is Worth It
Anything Deep Fried Is A Favorite
This Nigerian and Brazilian dish makes great comfort food; a fritter is made with black-eyed peas with flour and a filling like shrimp.The Sims 4recipe only requires onion with the option of adding seafood, allowing this dish to be either vegan too, butSims needs at least level five cooking to make it.
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Unlike Bhel Puri, it is not required to go to a food stall to unlock the recipe;the recipe is a part ofThe Sims 4’s base game,making it accessible for any Sim to try this delicious dish. Just this year, with EA’s laundry list, it patched Acarajé to hold it right away when eating rather than having it on a plate, but it lacks a description in-game still.
4The Plant Matter Ice Cream Flavor Is Great For Testing Being A Plant Sim
All That Is Needed Is An Ice Cream Machine and Cooking Skills
Using the ice cream machine fromThe Sims 4: Cool Kitchen Stuff,Simmers can make this specific flavor for an Easter egg.With its steep price of 47 simoleons, players do get a full carton of the flavor, but it does require at least a level eight cooking skill.
The effort it takes to make it is worth it;once consuming it, it transforms the Sim into a Plant Sim for 4 hours,with the moodlet Green Life. This is great for anyone who wants to try out the Plant Sim experience without committing to it, allowing players flexibility with their Sims. If a Sim is looking for a permanent effect, be sure to follow the steps to transform them into a Plant Sim using forbidden fruits, rather than this ice cream flavor.
3Dragon’s Breath Adds Fun To Dining
For The Chaotic Evil Player
Like the plant matter flavor,Sims must use an ice cream machine to make the Dragon’s Breath ice cream.This flavor is also another Easter egg, like Plant Matter and the other advanced-level ice cream recipes, but when consuming this ice cream, Sims won’t have a great time for four hours.
This ice cream flavor will give Sims the Dragon’s Wrath moodlet with Uncomfortable +1but also has the chance of making them confident. With this moodlet, Sims will also breathe fire, making the experience worth it. Be warned, it has the risk of setting them on fire as well, which can lead to them dying, but using another recipe in this list can bring them back.
Any super spicy dish inThe Sims 4will make Sims breathe fire too.
2Pufferfish Nigiri Kills Sims
For the Evil The Sims Player
Every Simmer at one point has forced their Sims to die, whether using a pool with walls and no ladder or “accidental” fire.This dish is another way to kill Sims that is both a shortcut and fun. In reality, pufferfish can be extremely dangerous to consume; it must be prepared with skill, knowing what part of the pufferfish is poisonous.
InThe Sims 4, it is also essential that the dish is prepared by an experienced chef for it to be safe to eat, but following this guide byGame Rant,players can purposely make poisonous pufferfish nigiri, which has a 50% death rate.Sims will gag and start choking till they collapse after consuming this dish dramatically, which can be darkly fun to watch.
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For the Goody Two Shoes Simmer
This is the hardest recipe to make; it requires a Sim at level 10 cooking and gourmet cooking skills, fully completing these skills. Even though it costs nothing to make, it requires a lot of expensive ingredients, one being the Potion of Youth, which requires 1,500 satisfaction points that are typically earned through completing aspirations.
Otherwise, the recipe also calls for angelfish and a death flower, but with this dish,it is possible to revive ghostswithout using cheats. For fishing, it depends on luck, but for the death flower,it requires grafting, which unlocks in level five gardening.Cooking this dish takes a lot of time and skill, but once made, it is quite an achievement for any Simmer, especially those who avoid cheating in-game. Reviving ghosts can help with bringing back a Sim’s lost loved one, or help players out with accidental deaths.
