Better Cooking Menu Mod
Thought I'd work on a quick project to get some inspiration back and it turned out to not be so quick... but I finished it now and I think it's a neat little mod.
The Mod
This mod is a replacement for the EA cooking interaction(s) (they are actually one interaction made to look like many) to have them under one interaction which displays a dialogue window rather than the pie menu.
With this mod, the fridge's pie menu is much less cluttered: Have [meal], Serve [meal], Serve Dessert, Have Quick Meal, and Make Gourmet Pet Food are replaced with just one "Cook From Menu" button.
From here, you can cook a meal (regardless of the time of day, single or group serving), serve dessert, have a quick meal, and make gourmet pet food. You can filter by meal type, and choose to show or hide recipes you don't have the ingredients for.
Other than getting rid of the time of day limitation, recipes should be available (or not available) just the same as without the mod, and there's no other functionality. If you have mods that add new recipes, adjust ingredients, add ingredients to Quick Meals etc, they should work the same. The selected recipe should be cooked as normal by the sim :)
No Fridge Shopping This mod also takes into consideration whether or not you have ani's NoFridgeShopping mod installed, and if so, you need to have the required ingredients in order to cook the recipe.
Strings & Translations
I tried to use EA strings wherever possible, but there are a few added with the mod. There's a text file provided for translators as usual.
Conflicts, Notes, Issues
No strict conflicts as this mod adds a new interaction and only edits the tuning of the original cooking interaction. However, you won't be able to use icarus_allsorts' Cook With Any Ingredient mod as normal with it, because this mod will hide that one when you click on the fridge. I think sims will technically be able to use CWAI autonomously, but that's probably not what you want. This mod is really for people who want the cooking menu but not the extra functionality of CWAI anyway.
Other cooking mods which add new interactions (such as my Homebaked Bread mod interaction pictured above) will appear on the fridge as normal in pie-menu form, and won't appear in this mod's cooking menu. This is also the case for the Store's Baker's Station and similar objects. Basically, if a recipe won't show up in the EA fridge cooking interactions, it won't show in this menu.
One issue is that the cooking interactions from other appliances such as the stove don't work anymore (the sim will just do nothing when you select a recipe). This is because the real cooking interaction isn't allowed for user-directed, but when selecting the interaction from an appliance, it's set to that, so it fails. Hopefully this doesn't bother you too much as the cooking menu is better anyway! However, if you really don't like this, you can use NRaas Retuner to change the tuning of the original cooking interaction (will be called something like Have Breakfast / Pancakes in the NRaas menu) to reset Disallow User-Directed back to False - then the original cooking interactions will appear on the fridge again alongside "Cook From Menu", and will allow you to use the old cooking interactions on other appliances.
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