Srsly's Complete Cooking Overhaul - PR1.2 (Patreon)
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I created Srsly's Complete Cooking Overhaul to make all of the cooking in the game to be more immersive and realistic. To me, cooking was very boring. I missed having to actually shop for my groceries and needing to think about what my Sim could afford. That is exactly what this mod does.
Built Using Game Version: 1.50.67
Grocery Shopping
With this mod, you are able to shop for groceries in The Sims 4.
You can purchase everything you would ever need for cooking with ease.
New "Shop for Groceries" Interaction found on:
- All Computers
- All Refrigerators
- All Stoves
- All Grills
- All Cash Registers (Get to Work)
- More to come!
Buying Cooking Ingredients
Not only do you have to cook with many different EA ingredients, but you also have 18 new maxis match ingredients that are required for most dishes. When you are shopping you can decide what you want quickly by picking directly from the following pie menus:
- Purchase Produce - Herbs, Fruits, and Vegetables
- Purchase Flowers - Just Flowers
- Purchase Fish - Just Fish
- Purchase Condiments - Honey
- Purchase Cooking Ingredients - New Ingredients
NOTE: If you use Custom Harvestables by IceMunMun and/or KingZace they will show up under the above purchase interactions.
New Custom Ingredients
All of the new ingredients can be bought by clicking on the "Purchase Cooking Ingredients" bubble when shopping for groceries. Most of the new ingredients when bought are in a package form. Just like you would buy from a real grocery store. I decided to package everything to bring more immersion into the actual grocery aspect of the mod. Since you would not go to the store and just buy one egg. Not only are the packages more aesthetically pleasing when decorating your own grocery stores, but your Sims will actually save some Simoleons by buying packaged ingredients over single ingredients.
You will need to open the packaged ingredients before cooking.
Each packaged items will give you 3-8 of the single ingredient once opened.
You can open packaged ingredients by clicking on them in the world or in your Sims Inventory.
New Ingredients List:
- Pork
- Poultry
- Red Meat
- Tofu
- Shrimp
- Milk
- Butter
- Cheese
- Eggs
- Flour
- Dough
- Bread
- Pasta
- Sugar
- Oil
- Flavor Extract
- Popcorn Kernels
- Marshmallows
All new ingredients are Base Game Compatible.
Most of the packaged ingredients also have a single small slot on top so they can be stacked.
(Example: Meat Packages in the photo above).
Some single ingredients can be eaten by Sims raw.
But be careful, some things are not meant to be eaten uncooked. You might just get sick.
EA Recipes Overhauls and Changes
I have changed all EA recipes to make them more realistic. So now you will need to use more of the EA harvestables as well as my new ingredients to cook all dishes. All packs that have added new recipes have been altered. I will continue to add new recipes upgrades as new packs are released.
I have made recipe changes to all:
- Cooking
- Gourmet Cooking
- Baking
- Grilled Food
- Campfire (Outdoor Retreat)
- Grand Meals (Seasons)
- Ice Cream Machine (Cool Kitchen Stuff)
- Popcorn Machine (Movie Hangout Stuff)
- More to Come!
Desserts as Baking
All desserts that were once found under cooking are now in the baking menu like they should be.
Any items that were not desserts that were in baking found a new home in the cook menu.
All of the items that had a category change also now give skill gain for their new category.
(ie. Cakes that are in baking now give baking skill exp.)
Additional Serving Sizes
All EA recipes now have a Small (1), Medium (4), and Large (8) serving size.
Including Desserts, Experimental Food, Market Stall Taste First Foods and more.
Ice cream now also has the default Large (8) carton size, and now a Medium (4) pint size!
Note: Cakes now have a Medium (4) servings size, this will come out baked with 1 piece missing out of the cake visually. I will be updating these meshes in the future to be full cakes. If you want a full cake visual, please be sure to make the Large (8) serving size until then.
Recipe Crafting Cost and Ingredient Costs
What is a crafting cost? Crafting cost is the price you pay to create the dish. Think of this as misc. ingredients your Sim might use to cook with that aren't required.
All serving sizes now have a set crafting cost:
- Small (1) = §5
- Medium (4) = §10
- Large (8) = §15
This means if you have all of the "Required Ingredients" for a dish.
It will only cost you §5-§15 depending on the serving size you create.
You can craft most foods without the required ingredients, but this will cost you more.
You are charged an extra §3 if you do not have the "Required Ingredients"
So in total, you will end up paying the Crafting Cost + Ingredient Cost + §3
Mod Compatibility Information
Compatible with all Icemunmun Harvestables
If you use her canning station or any custom harvestables, you will be able to purchase them directly while Shopping for Groceries. If you do not use her custom content, then they will not show up.
Compatible with all KingZace Harvestables
If you use any of his custom harvestables, you will be able to purchase them directly while Shopping for Groceries. If you do not use his custom content, then they will not show up.
Compatible with Custom Recipes
If you use either of the following mods that add custom recipes by new interactions:
Custom Food Interactions by TheFoodGroup or Crafting Enabler by Andrew
Not Compatible
With any mods that change any of the following tunings:
If you use any other mods for anything to do with changes to EA cooking, they are most likely not compatible with Srsly's Complete Cooking Overhaul.
If you use my Desserts as Baking mod or Groceries from Computers REMOVE THEM.
As both of these mods are included in SCCO.
Future Development of SCCO
Srsly's Complete Cooking Overhaul will be under constant development.
I will be adding more features to this mod over time.
Some features in planning are:
- Order Groceries from Phone
- Home Delivery Groceries
- More Maxis Friendly Recipes
- More Vegetarian Dishes
- More Occult State Dishes (Aliens/Vamps/PlantSim)
- Additional Appliances Support
- Drink Recipe Changes
- More in-depth Grocery Shopping
- Ownable Grocery Store + Career
- Calorie Changes
- EA Recipes Require Custom Ingredients Version
- and More!
How to Install
Download the .zip file.
Unzip the file using 7-Zip or WinRAR
You should now have a folder called: SCCO_(version #)
Move the SCCO folder directly to your Documents/The Sims 4/Mods folder.
Note: If you are missing any of the following packs, please go inside the SCCO folder and find the 'Recipe" folder. Remove any recipes for packs you are missing. If you have all packs installed ignore this note, and leave all recipes.
Get to Work - City Living - Cats & Dogs - Seasons
Outdoor Retreat - Spa Day - Dine Out - Vampires - Parenthood - Jungle Adventure
Luxury Party Stuff - Spooky Stuff - Movie Hangout Stuff - Cool Kitchen Stuff