August 2021
I have more then enough counter, but it still doesn't work for me. Tried in two different households, but in both one of them just stand around and doesn’t really do anything. I am sad it doesn’t work, because I was so excited about this feature.
August 2021
August 2021 - last edited August 2021
I thought this would actually speed up the cooking progress, after all more helpers is better than one, but it's far from the truth, in fact, I've never got it to work once. If I select Cook together, one just waits in the kitchen while the other just idles around in another room, and they probably idle all day if I don't cancel.
If you can get your group working everytime, then I take my hat off to you, well done!
For me, it's nothing but utteyr frustation that I no longer try it anymore and I just try to pretend that the option is no longer there, I only see it as another useless feature "added" to he game than just doesn't work.
August 2021
Same issue. Sims don't help when group cooking. They just stand and talk to the sim cooking which was always a feature.
August 2021
My sims do stand around a long time, but eventually do cook together. But initially I also thought they got stuck and wouldn't get around to the actual cooking...
August 2021
This is in my game too. Other one just stands there while other one is cooking...
August 2021 - last edited August 2021
I marked "me too" but honestly I'm unsure. It seems to be random in my game whether the other sim does a cooking animation, a reading cookbook animation, or a stand-there-and-talk-about-food animation. This is all with plenty of counter space. The standing looks idle, and seems like it's a bug, but the speech bubbles indicate conversation about food, and even when they are just standing there the meal does end up having the extra servings that are produced with "cook together" regardless of which animation appears.
I wonder if others with this bug still get the extra servings? That would help answer whether the "stand around and talk about food" is by design or whether it's buggy idling.
If it's by design, it seems like it would be better design to only have stand-and-talkers if the cooking group is more than 2 or 3 people.
August 2021
I have the same issue, but I noticed a work around that works 95% of the time. Once you click cook together, also send the group to the kitchen by click on 'go here together'. This often allows the sims to actually start cooking. There is still a bit of processing delay it seems, but as said with a bit of patience it seems to work most of the time.
September 2021
Product: The Sims 4
Platform: XboxOne
Which language are you playing the game in? English
How often does the bug occur? Every time
What is your current game version number? Not sure but it’s automatically updated
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? Get together, discover university, get famous, dine out, parenthood, pets, seasons, get to work, toddler stuff, kids room, magic realm, city living, cottage living, eco lifestyle,
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Group cook in a larger house with multiple stoves and fridges
What happens when the bug occurs? For starters, my sims are living in a huge mansion with 2 kitchens and 4 fridges on a 60x60 lot. If I try to cook a meal together, the sims will rarely gather in the same kitchen on their own and will stand around for a long time waiting for each other. Usually, one sim bugs out before they make it to the fridge and this stops everyone else from cooking. I now try to have sims in the same room before I initiate the action. Even then, one sim doesn’t gather and stands around. I have to remove cooking from The queue of that one sim so that the rest can cook. Again, I’m pretty sure it has to do with the fact that my house is so big with multiple fridges & I’m hoping EA fixed all the bugs that bigger home lots have to face
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? No
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? It’s been like that since the cooking together first became an option
September 2021
I have this problem too. With no mods and no cc. A huge kitchen with more than enough counter space. Plenty of room to move around. No BB.moveobjects. With 2 Sims I have seen it working as intended maybe 2-3 times out of 10 tries. With 3 or more Sims it has never worked. The Sims gather in the kitchen and stand there for quite some time doing nothing. Then eventually one of them start cooking while the others stand around doing nothing. I have tried with only adults, no children.