One ofThe Sims 4’s most extensive features is food. With dishes from all over the globe ranging from tikka masala to bibimbap to caprese salad, there’s plenty to learn about cuisine. Pursuing the Master Chef aspiration, your Sim will learn countless recipes and produce breathtaking dishes for the entire family.

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Watch as they host dinner parties, head to work in a restaurant, and read about worldly cuisine, slowly improving their culinary craft. The Master Chef aspiration’s mix of career, skill, and event requirements can prove challenging. To help you along the way, we’re dishing out our juiciest tips on finishing quickly and easily.

What Is The Master Chef Aspiration In The Sims 4?

The Master Chef aspiration invites your Sim to learn the art of cutting-edge cuisine in both personal and professional kitchens.

Considering that your Sim must cook food to sustain themself and their family, the Master Chef aspiration isone of the most applicable aspirations out of them all.

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As they earn their chops, they’ll learn how to cook and prepare gourmet food and make their way in the Culinary career.

Your Sim willearn 4,675 satisfaction pointsover the course of the entire aspiration and obtain theFresh Chef reward traitfor their hard work.

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How To Complete The Master Chef Aspiration

The Master Chef aspiration is a valuable experience for any Sim, but it doesn’t come cheap. It will take a good amount of elbow grease to complete, requiring your Sim to climb the culinary ladder, build skills, and whip up excellent meals.

To make the Master Chef aspiration faster and easier, consider choosing one of these traits for your Sim:

Investing in an expensive fridge pays off. Invest in ahigh-end refrigeratorfor aboost to your food quality.

Cook Five Excellent Meals (50 Satisfaction Points)

Cook Two Meals While Inspired (75 Satisfaction Points)

The first milestone of the Master Chef career is the easiest. In fact,you can accomplish both goals at once.First, get your Sim Inspired, thenclick on the fridge to get cooking.

Being Inspired will improve the quality of your meals, so your Sim is more likely to cook an excellent meal while Inspired.

You’ll also build the Cooking skill more quickly while Inspired, which will give you a head start on the second milestone.

Earn Silver At A Dinner Party (250 Satisfaction Points)

Cook A Gourmet Meal (250 Satisfaction Points)

Focus your attention on the easiest tasks (like simple social interactions with guests) during the dinner party to rake in as many points as possible and earn a silver medal before time runs out.

Hovering over the stove top isn’t the only way your Sim can build the Cooking skill. Instead of flipping grilled cheeses, try flipping the pages of a book. Cooking skill books can be purchased by clicking on any bookcase.

Inexperienced chefs frequently cause fires as they attempt to learn their craft, ruining countertops and potentially killing innocent Sims.Reading a Cooking skill bookis a great way to build your skills whileavoiding disaster.

Reach Level Four In The Culinary Career (500 Satisfaction Points)

Create Three Types Of Excellent Food (500 Satisfaction Points)

Reaching level four of the Culinary career is much easier with the Connections reward trait. With Connections, your Simautomatically jumps to the fourth level of any career.

Fulfilling whims is a great way to stockpile satisfaction points, which you’ll need quite a few of; the Connections trait costs 3,000 in the rewards store. In this case, it’s worth it.

Level Four: Master Chef

Requirements

Achieve Level Five In The Gourmet Cooking Skill (750 Satisfaction Points)

Achieve Level Eight Of The Culinary Career (1000 Satisfaction Points)

Cook Three Gourmet Meals During An Event (1000 Satisfaction Points)

Building your Sim’s Gourmet Cooking skill and getting promoted to level eight of the Culinary career will take time, but it will be simple enough.

Cooking three gourmet meals during an event will only be challenging if you allow your Sim to get distracted and socialize instead of cooking.

The six in-game hours of an event should be plenty of time to cook three meals, as long as your Sim stays focused.

Master Chef Aspiration Reward Trait: Fresh Chef

Once your Sim masters the art of cooking and completes the Master Chef aspiration, they’ll be rewarded with the Fresh Chef trait.

With the Fresh Chef trait, your Sim willconstantly make excellent food that never spoils.That’s right, it never expires!

Fresh Chef is one of the most useful reward traits in the entire game, making Master Chef worth completing just for the trait.

That means your Sim won’t need to prep food for days or even weeks at a time. Plus, the excellent quality of the food will offer positive moodlets to the entire household.