The Sims 4 Cook Together Guide: Make a Shared Meal

Cook Together is a base-game way to make food with another Sim. For a first attempt, have an adult or teen cook and another Sim on the lot. You do not need Cottage Living to start the interaction. Its kitchen appears in our official footage because that video demonstrates the feature alongside the pack.

Our cream-and-sage kitchen art is an original illustration, not a screenshot. The menu examples are official 2021 gameplay: furniture, available dishes and some surrounding buttons may look different in your updated game.

Find a refrigerator, an ordinary empty counter and a stove. The fridge is the tall cabinet with food-storage doors; the counter is the flat work surface; the stove has burners on top. In the illustration, the empty counter sits between the fridge and stove. A sink or a decorative plant occupying that surface is not spare prep space.

Look at the floor in front of those objects. Move any chair, island or clutter that cuts off access. If you need to place missing kitchen furniture or move it, our first-home Build Mode guide shows how to use the catalog and check the room.

In Live Mode, select the portrait of the Sim who will lead the cooking. Select the refrigerator itself to open its choices. Find Cook Together With… and select it. In the official example it is the lower-right bubble beside the cream fridge. Cook… higher up is the separate solo-cooking option, not the same command.

If the bubble is not on the first set of choices, check More Choices on the same interaction menu. The feature can also start from a stove or an empty counter, but the fridge is the clearest entry point shown here.

A Cook Together With… window opens with Sims’ portraits and names. Choose the portrait of the person you want to help. A green selection marks the choice; in the example, Maira Watson is the selected helper. Confirm with the checkmark at the bottom right of that window.

If the person you want is not listed, make sure they are actually on the lot and available for the activity. An empty chooser is not a recipe problem: choose a nearby helper before moving on. Start with one helper so it is easy to see whether both Sims join the action.

The next window is a recipe table. Read the dish under Name, then check its Skill requirement, Price and Ingredients. Choose an available recipe your selected cook can make. If a row is unavailable, read the row or its tooltip before assuming the game is broken.

The demonstration uses Cottage Living dishes and the Simple Living lot challenge. That challenge requires ingredients, rather than merely making a dish cheaper. If your lot uses it, use the Ingredients column to check what is missing. You do not need to buy that pack or copy the pictured Yorkshire Pudding to cook together.

After selecting the recipe, let time run in Live Mode. Watch the counter and stove: the lead Sim prepares the food while the helper joins the activity. Avoid replacing their queued cooking with another command halfway through. The result you are waiting for is a completed meal, not just two Sims standing in the kitchen.

If they stop or wave because they cannot reach something, compare your room with the layout diagram: check the counter surface, appliance fronts and walking lane. If hunger, tiredness or another need keeps interrupting the activity, the Needs guide shows which bar to check and what object helps.

Add a small herb garden with the first-seeds guide, or use the Sims 4 guide hub for building, careers and household basics. The illustrations suggest a cozy style; matching the exact colors or buying extra décor is not needed for the cooking interaction.

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