Cooking

Cooking is one of the skill points to be gained in both The Sims and The Sims 2.

A higher Cooking skill prevents a Sim from accidentally causing a fire while cooking. The lower the Sim's Cooking skill, the higher the chance a fire will start. Some careers require Cooking skills, most notably the Culinary career.

To increase your Sim's Cooking skills, have him or her sit down and read a few cookbooks. In Sims 2, cooking food also increases the skill, but it's best to have a few skill points before actually attempting to cook, lest you want a fire to break out.

In Sims 1, the Cooking skill determines how satisfying a meal is when a Sim has made it. The better your Sim's Cooking skill, the faster the Hunger bar will be filled.

The Sims: Makin' Magic
In The Sims: Makin' Magic, Cooking is vastly improved, with Sims able to collect ingredients and bake bread, pie, or cake. Several new appliances included in the expansion pack can increase a Sim's Cooking skill, such as the Old-Fashioned Butter Churn and the Wax 'n' Honey Maker.

In Makin' Magic, the Cooking skill also determines how many charges a magical Sim will get when making a spell.

The Sims 2
Cooking skill can be gained from the bookshelf, by preparing a meal, the Culinary career reward object, which is the chocolate maker, or by watching the cooking channel (Yummy Channel) on television.

While Cooking skill does not actually determine amount of satisfaction of the same food, a higher cooking skill means the Sim can cook other things, with a higher satisfaction, and less of a chance of fire or burning.

Foods by Cooking Level
* Sims with the Grilled Cheese aspiration or Secondary Aspiration can make Grilled Cheese at all times, with any Cooking skill.

Recipes
{| border=1 !Level||Recipe||Ingredients||Note
 * 0||Mac and Cheese||Cheese|||
 * 0||Autumn Salad||Lettuce|||
 * 0||Waffles||Egg|||
 * 0||Hot Dogs||Links|||
 * 1||Peanut Butter and Jelly||Fruit|||
 * 1||Pancakes||Fruit|||
 * 1||Ratatouille||Tomato|||
 * 2||Grilled Cheese||Cheese|||
 * 2||Goopy Carbonara||Onion|||
 * 3||Cookies||Egg|||
 * 3||Fish and Chips||Fish|||
 * 4||Sushi||Fish|||
 * 4||Spaghetti||Tomato|||
 * 4||Fruit Parfait||Grapes and Apple|||
 * 5||Cheesesteak||Steak and Cheese|||
 * 5||Stu Surprise||Any Ingredient and Any Ingredient|||
 * 6||Cobbler||Egg and Fruit|||
 * 6||Hamburger||Onion and Patty|||
 * 7||Eggs Machiavellian||Watermelon and Egg|||
 * 7||Key Lime Pie||Egg and Lime|||
 * 8||Tri-Tip Steak||Steak and Potato and Vegetable|||
 * 8||Grilled Salmon||Garlic and Potato and Salmon|||
 * 9||Stuffed Turkey||Roast and Fruit and Fruit|||
 * 9||French Toast||Apple and Apple and Egg|||
 * 9||Dim Sum||Fish and Fish and Fih|||
 * 10||Lobster Thermidor||Garlic and Lobster and Bell Pepper|||
 * 4||Fruit Parfait||Grapes and Apple|||
 * 5||Cheesesteak||Steak and Cheese|||
 * 5||Stu Surprise||Any Ingredient and Any Ingredient|||
 * 6||Cobbler||Egg and Fruit|||
 * 6||Hamburger||Onion and Patty|||
 * 7||Eggs Machiavellian||Watermelon and Egg|||
 * 7||Key Lime Pie||Egg and Lime|||
 * 8||Tri-Tip Steak||Steak and Potato and Vegetable|||
 * 8||Grilled Salmon||Garlic and Potato and Salmon|||
 * 9||Stuffed Turkey||Roast and Fruit and Fruit|||
 * 9||French Toast||Apple and Apple and Egg|||
 * 9||Dim Sum||Fish and Fish and Fih|||
 * 10||Lobster Thermidor||Garlic and Lobster and Bell Pepper|||
 * 7||Key Lime Pie||Egg and Lime|||
 * 8||Tri-Tip Steak||Steak and Potato and Vegetable|||
 * 8||Grilled Salmon||Garlic and Potato and Salmon|||
 * 9||Stuffed Turkey||Roast and Fruit and Fruit|||
 * 9||French Toast||Apple and Apple and Egg|||
 * 9||Dim Sum||Fish and Fish and Fih|||
 * 10||Lobster Thermidor||Garlic and Lobster and Bell Pepper|||
 * 9||French Toast||Apple and Apple and Egg|||
 * 9||Dim Sum||Fish and Fish and Fih|||
 * 10||Lobster Thermidor||Garlic and Lobster and Bell Pepper|||
 * 9||Dim Sum||Fish and Fish and Fih|||
 * 10||Lobster Thermidor||Garlic and Lobster and Bell Pepper|||
 * 10||Lobster Thermidor||Garlic and Lobster and Bell Pepper|||