I can't cook without catching fire in The Sims 4

[@ReamondReddington]

Gordon Ramsay: “I’ve spent my entire career learning how to perfect Beef Wellington.” Sims 4: level 2

[@rosameryrojas-delcerro1059]

Sims4 Beef Wellington is named after J. Wellington Wimpy. (I'd gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today) So sims4 Wellington is just cheap stovetop hamburgers.🤣🤣🤣

[@BladeFair]

I feel like the smarter move would've been to make him a spellcaster so he could Repairio the stove instead of replacing it with money, usually it's a pretty fast spell to learn with Scruberoo too, to clean the stove so that the sim isnt uncomfortable.

[@katbairwell]

Would repario work on fire damage, it's not something you can manually repair, so if the spell works that would be a huge benefit! I guess I know what I will be testing!

[@LeCobra992]

@@katbairwell if the stove was unbreakable and still damaged by fire, I would imagine the same would apply to Repario

[@RevasFen]

@@katbairwell Repario works, I've tested that :D

[@lealarsen2017]

or he could get that vacuum from eco lifestyle aspiration that repair burned items

[@lypreila7913]

Spellcasters deadass break the game lmao

[@Rainefaelyn]

This Scenario would be great if it offered a trait along with the standard reward. Something like fireproof. Never fear fire again.

[@robynmeyer4516]

That's probably not a thing because I believe it's a reward trait for one of the aspirations

[@johannajarnstrom5499]

My 4-year-old son started clapping when you went "Scenario complete!!" A 2nd generation fan of James in the making! 😀

[@irishduchess7577]

So cute! ❤️

[@Micyge]

My 1 year old likes watching his videos too haha 😊

[@ennaxorrr]

Ugh, I’m over here watching endless Blippi, and I could have taught my kids to watch James? I messed up.

[@ZeeBug15]

@@ennaxorrr Oh my god i hate blippi. Please do not remind of that… also i totally relate, would’ve made life ten times easier!

[@lydiasmith4687]

adorable 😊

[@crisiscat]

I've played this scenario and I found that when I got the grillmaster reward trait from the reward store, my sim had way less fires happening. So that's a little tip if you plan to try this scenario again

[@Rainefaelyn]

I've just started this scenario. So I really appreciate this. Thanks

[@Rainefaelyn]

Having now done this scenario. Baking. It completes the "Prepare food" requirement of the career. And (for me at least) never triggered the fire.

[@Shayoni]

@@Rainefaelyn my favorite since it usually says food or drinks is to just go to the bar and make 4 glasses of water for free. it's so fast rofl

[@Christine_990]

​@@Shayoni youre a genius lolol

[@ILuvAyeAye]

One of the packs let’s you buy gifts from your phone, and a SimRay is one of them. It doesn’t prevent fires, but it lets you put them out instantly, typically before they burn anything or affect your hygiene.

[@quaremoritor]

can’t believe it’s been 8 years and we finally got story progression

[@iciajay6891]

Yeah....-_-

[@ewilah]

My thoughts exactly! Maybe I'll finally start playing again thanks to this update 😅

[@indedgames4359]

@@ewilah and its still going to get ubdatet

[@Stettafire]

Don't get too excited, Sims still won't romance or progress relationships autonomously.

[@quaremoritor]

@@Stettafire you’re late, we know

[@lexilana04]

Ok...hear me out...this challenge, gremlins, cursed, simple living, off the grid....high maintenance Sim. Muahahahaha

[@PeaceNLoveNRockNRoll88]

Now THAT is Difficulty Hard! 😂 Especially if You start without money!

[@lily6606]

I need this to happen 🤣

[@flowerbombdiamond]

Evil! Haha

[@Al0neStillAlive]

Only works if you're not allowed to visit other lots.

[@ellerybeelendorf2098]

I love how in true chef fashion James only renovated the kitchen while neglecting the rest of the house. Love that touch of realism. Lol

[@jules-are-us]

what if you snagged always welcome from the rewards store and did your cooking in other people's houses? get the perks of the landgraabs' fancy stove and, oh, it burned up? whoops, sorry friends, on to the caliente's hehe

[@FlynnJMin]

new challenge idea...

[@marietheotaku94]

now I kinda want to see how long it'd take to complete the 1M challenge selling bathtubs...

[@aeli999]

I feel like that's going to be his next video. 😂

[@mi1kguts]

i wanna see him earn 1mil by just using inferniate and repairio. aka magical insurance fraud

[@katherinewren9906]

Tag LilSimsie 😂

[@feliciasantiago4345]

Am I the only one excited that this is 47 minutes long 😂💙👍🏼 sooo excited!, I started this scenario and omg soo much fun.

[@Kellyharvey82]

Nope me too!

[@terrakelly4614]

Also super excited about the length of video!!

[@rhibread11]

My original thought was “how many fires does james start in 47 minutes”

[@Danimeows]

I love the longer videos. ^_^

[@callumdavidson1928]

Agent 47

[@allisonfitzmaurice6948]

“He’s a loner because I don’t know how much socializing we’ll be doing.” I mean it’s never a bad idea to be friends with a fireman.

[@teddy9770]

Imagine ruining two brand new stoves cooking the same cheese sandwich.

[@ErinnSullivan]

"it's actually kinda handy" - james about the handiness skill

[@ellens.6439]

This actually seems like an interesting scenario! I haven't played with scenarios before because they seemed kinda boring. I'll have to try this one though!

[@maruubnd]

My sim burned his stove 3 times at different skill levels. I thought the chances would decrease with him getting better at cooking, but nope 😂😂

[@Createzz]

Same but its better now! The no skills no problems is great too! You actually can not gain any skills!

[@ChrisJohnsonCJs-Kitchen]

I felt the same way & finally tried Making Money - it's seriously as boring as it seems. I agree though, this one might be fun to try.

[@FirebladesSong]

@@Createzz I'm having so much fun with no skills no problem, it's great!

[@Olivia-tp1oq]

Upgrading the bed is Definitely useful in a single or double sim household but when you want all your children sims to sleep through the night, not ideal

[@tabytastick]

Agreed, I never waste time upgrading kids beds. If you are going for an early riser sim, like a gardner, an upgraded bed is a time saver.

[@sierrarose9433]

Honestly! I did that with my family sims 5 kids who would wake up at 4am and tired by 8pm never get anything done on time 🤷‍♀️

[@tabytastick]

@@sierrarose9433 in that case I would make the kids do thier homework in the early morning, eat and take thier shower, then back to bed to sleep until school time. When they get home from school tired they can nap, or eat, then do something for an achievement task, then bed.

[@mackenziedesire7515]

And thus, those weird, raw-only diets came into prominence! I do like that they're adding sillier scenarios, though. This feels more challenging and sims-like than a lot of them have so far.

[@selkiefluff]

"Why does he insist on getting the expensive stove? He's gonna have to keep replacing it" *10 minutes later* "YUP"

[@JamesTurnerYT]

Cause it’s funny 🤷🏻‍♂️🤣

[@Kitty-er4tt]

Imagine doing this scenario with a clumsy sim who hates cooking.

[@andreona1007]

Add lazy to the mix. That will be a chore

[@cinnisims8448]

I thought to let you know when you have the same career as another Sim the game gives you a hidden relationship with them and since you hadn't socialized with anyone else, the game picked Bob because of that and the other sim (Island Living Townie) he was asking about may also be in the cooking career too but not 100% sure.

[@LivinInSim]

semaJ: Hey Firefighter, I'm having a dinner party, wanna come? Firefighter: Um..........................will there be cooking? As soon as I saw these upgraded Scenarios, I thought, "James'll be speed running his little heart out!" Sure enough, 47 minutes of gold, haha. It strikes me that folks who do this one could sell some of their foodstuffs from the selling table. It keeps them fresh if I recall, and if you mark them up a bit it might help cover the cost of the stoves. But James had a good strategy in Handiness, too, that had a double benefit. If you upgrade the Flavor thingy on the stove it helps the quality as well. I wonder if he ever noticed he got the expensive stove as I believe the last promotion reward?

[@amandabroom9878]

I wonder what would happen if the chef also got the Freelance Botanist achievement award of "Naturalist" and was fireproof?

[@belakovacs708]

I am doing just that, I’ll tell you how it goes.

[@katierasburn9571]

@@belakovacs708 oh do let us know, i was just thinking about this because its one of the aspirations i try to complete on as many sims as i can, not that fires are that much of a worry in-game lol

[@SomeoneBeginingWithI]

@@belakovacs708 Yes please let us know :)

[@sarasmedberg8203]

cant you also use the fireman set to avoid dying from fires? i remember it being fire proof after all.

[@Justmegplz]

This is my technique. Will also update in a few days on how it goes 😬 So far, yes he is very fire prone. 😭😭

[@JustSamantics]

I've been watching the Bigwallet series off and on while I do housework (on the restaurant one now) and there is a noticeable improvement in your editing style. Those older videos seemed like straight records without cuts where as this is a great example of when to trim things down in the name of getting to the point (cutting out the wood working, the cooking animations unless there's a fire, load screens, etc). Also it's very nice to see your face! I never realized I'd miss seeing your reactions as much as I do watching the old videos. Anyway, random comment, but I wanted to let you know that your hard work has been noticed and is very appreciated :)

[@SanaSana_626]

I started playing this last night. Even with a FULLY UPGRADED stove, it still caught fire. This'll be interesting :)

[@sirducksworthythe3rd842]

I prefer 40 to 60 minute sim videos when it'd a good simmer like James

[@blackwhitetiger2687]

45:12 After seeing the price James can get for those bathtubs. Can we please do this for the millionaire challange ?

[@caroldefreese5499]

I'm working through this scenario right now, too. It was fun seeing you running into the same challenges (stoves cost money, needing to know two people for the dinner party, not working for four days) and the same realizations (should have lived in a tiny home, maybe there are some helpful rewards). Kudos to the Sims team-- this is definitely a great scenario!

[@villyardk]

The “become an adult” part of the Master Chef aspiration is to lock teens out of finishing the aspiration.

[@SimplicityK]

But teens can't get full time jobs anyways, so isn't that kind of redundant?

[@somegenerichandle]

That's what you'd think, but unless someone is playing with mods, the teens will be locked out at that level, because they cannot join the cooking career. So, i feel it's redundant.

[@SomeoneBeginingWithI]

Maybe it's to help new players who might not know about teens and adults having access to different careers? They have the same thing in the parenting aspirations. I think most people would be able to understand that without it being written into the aspiration but maybe they wanted to make sure.

[@SimplicityK]

@@SomeoneBeginingWithI That makes sense!

[@nyahnyahson523]

@@SomeoneBeginingWithI It's to separate Young Adults and Adults lol, not Teens and Young Adults

[@okaypalhaveanother]

This was honestly hilarious to watch. I love how James always has a great attitude even when bad things happen and he doesn’t seem annoyed he seems amused. Also how he always gets excited when every single townie contacts him. Also... “If I died that would be so annoying.” 😂

[@Lextricityy]

Why did I die at “OH BOB PANCAKES” 🤣🤣🤣 10:53

[@irishduchess7577]

Yay! Loving these mini doses of chaos! If I do this one I think I’ll create a sim named Rorden Gramsey. That world is so pretty❤️

[@rhyanrose5524]

I would love to see the million simoleans challenge with woodworking/handiness! Handiness going up means your needs would go up quicker super fast too from the upgrades so you could probably get it a lot quicker than with the gardening one or the painting :) i don't think you can sell the furniture at yard sales (i could be wrong) but you could still open a retail store and mostly live there and sell the tubs for a markup

[@pelahnar4]

11:48 I was perfectly convinced that the disconnection sound came from my computer and was briefly confused when you started talking about it

[@MatsuyoRific]

That aspiration reward would be great for My Wedding Horrors, since you wouldn't have to worry about the cake spoiling

[@Ylimee73]

Cheese smells funny at work. James: "Serve it! It always smells funny, it's fine!" 🤣🤭😂

[@SomeoneBeginingWithI]

If you wanted to try getting the connections reward trait before starting the career, I think the aspiration to work on first would be Freelance Botanist. That gets you the fireproof reward trait that would be very useful for this challenge.

[@missaw7496]

As an accountant in busy season, I also resonate with being stressed for not being at work but also stressed from doing the work. This was an entertaining challenge!

[@CherryN.....]

this would be funnier with simple living 😂

[@Danimeows]

Or with all the lot challenges....

[@izabelagizdra6250]

pure torture

[@BlckSWANWhtRbbt]

Also with the clumsy trait and cursed lot traits, I think it would be nearly impossible, 😆

[@jon9256]

No

[@tiploufsmith5843]

I love how you could just completely avoid using the oven... But you still used it everytime

[@eushandageorge2554]

The fire prevention system needs to on the outside wall of the kitchen to qork properly not just in any room

[@TheBlackLakeSiren]

I didn't know that. XD thankfully I rarely encounter fires in the sims. In the past couple years the only time I've encountered a fire was once when my sim burned some incense.

[@mammaloz3760]

Was gonna go to bed, I think you’re the better choice! Love the scenarios videos :)

[@agustinamagpie]

Homeboy who burns all food knows 3 people: the FIREman, Katrina CALIENTE, and Bob PANCAKES... Why are we ignoring this?

[@ericaclune4313]

The whole time James was buying the "marketable " boost all I could do was yell "The STOVES and GRILL MASTER ONE"!!

[@mp_1231]

"KATRINA" 🤣 I love your sims long standing friendship with her. Like their bond goes beyond lifetimes.

[@casiejulia4173]

Really easy way to make a lot of money is getting the decorations box from seasons and rummaging through and selling them. One of my sims doesn’t have a job a solely use that to make money. Do it three or four times you usually end up with 2000+ simoleons!! ✨✨✨

[@madelineharper5091]

I love how in everyone of his videos vald comes! I've never actually had it happen in my game but I find it so funny how to happens every time without fail!

[@oshinsims]

when i read this scenario, i was hoping you'd do this one 🤣

[@MkatSims]

Hi Oshin! Good to see you

[@meeomelovescookiesandhisto459]

This is exactly what I love to see in the Sims, just pure chaos

[@hannahbeanies8855]

One good thing the sims community got when they nerfed the Calientes in Sims 4 is the gift of one of James’s most iconic sayings “KATRINA”

[@vic128]

I just want to say how much I love your videos and how much they make me laugh and smile. I've been poorly for 4 days now with a bad flu and I've found so much comfort watching your Bigwallet series (again) I'm up to the University series where you kill everyone with a party and that's my favourite. These little challenges that you post always make me so happy too. Your voice brings me such comfort so thank you so much 😊💖

[@pawsitivelykate]

sermaj is that coworker that everyone despises sermaj: burns every other meal manager: 🤔……promotion!

[@mimiisnotavailabe]

Cool scenario! With the responsibility trait the sim doesn't need too do the daily task!

[@andrewmoeller1987]

So, when is the "making bathtubs for 1,000,000 simoleons" going to happen?

[@TheWyldehart]

I did this one! I gave him all the perks that make it less likely he would set things on fire. He still constantly set things (like himself) on fire. He survived, singed but alive, thanks to his wife and the fire department. Interestingly, he never died during the challenge and he did become a celebrity chef! Once he reached job 10, the unlucky trait went away and he no longer sets things on fire. I used a lot of money cheats to buy new stoves lol.

[@elenaja_online]

If I would be working at that insurance company, I would be having some serious questions and concerns about the client being a pyromaniac.

[@sherrybrissette1614]

I am loving this scenario! I used James's tips (tiny house, stove away from everything). My sim is doing great! She just married my irratic millionaire and since she just got a level 9 promotion, they have moved into a penthouse in the city because, you know, that's where all the top restaurants are.

[@tabytastick]

First you need to complete the gardener apseration you get the Fireproof trait. Then this one shouldn't be to bad?

[@lealarsen2017]

it´s kinda wierd that you get it from that aspiration and not from cooking or something

[@bookcat123]

…brilliant. I forgot that was even a thing.

[@katierasburn9571]

I wonder which one will override the other, the “never catch fire” reward trait or the “always catch fire” scenario

[@FirebladesSong]

@@katierasburn9571 The scenario is 'always starts fires' so they just shouldn't be at risk of dying of their bad luck?

[@tabytastick]

@@lealarsen2017 green plants are known not to burn, only dry dead plants burn. Green leaves will shrivel under the heat but not burn in flame.

[@howtocharlize]

They weren't joking when they said bad luck. I've never seen so many fires.

[@rainbowcarousel2846]

YES i was so hoping you would try this one!

[@anonymouschicken20]

By the way, the Ides of March were recently, and umm...James speaking too soon reminded me of when Julius Caesar in the Shakespeare play was like "The Soothsayer said "Beware the Ides of March" but who cares, I am not going to light up on fire or anything, right?"😆😂🤣 Great video by the way, really made my day. 🙂

[@Sluggii]

A way to make this challenge way easier is to just not own a stove, had my guy makin a LOT of salads but it still works out totally fine

[@NeonKodiak]

the lighting is actually quite nice, im sure its annoying cause you cant control it but it makes you look more "real" with natural lighting

[@wyldhearted518]

Has anyone counted how much money he spent on the repairs? The Insurance company must be SO confused xD

[@kristarobinson178]

I think the fire prevention system works better if you put it near the stove so the sprinklers go off .

[@Vexic929]

Workaholic is the most bugged lifestyle I swear lol every sim I have with it is constantly stressed about missing work even when they're at work at this point I just remove the lifestyle asap every time they earn it.

[@feliciasantiago4345]

I started using the chef’s kitchen and it didn’t burn once, 🙌🏼👍🏼 really enjoyed your LP.

[@pucksandpaperbacks]

would love to see you do the "No Skills" scenario next! I just started that one and it is really hard.

[@cyndi2865]

The stove is unbreakable just like the fully upgraded robot vacuums are unbreakable!! 😂

[@kathyglenn4298]

If you're ever interested in trying this one again, the trick I found (bit cheaty maybe) was to build my chef a kitchen as a generic lot on a nearby lot that he could travel to and have him visit it whenever he wasn't at work. Apparently when you're on any lot other than your home lot stoves and grills won't catch fire even with the scenario running (unless they've "fixed" that since I last did it). It's a pain to have to travel so much, sure, but it's a lot less frustrating (and less expensive) than using your own kitchen at home, and more interesting than making sushi and salads all the time.

[@revannia]

Ooooh I forgot they were adding new scenarios. I'll have to take a look at them and definitely try this one. The last couple about marriage didn't interest me but fires are more fun. 😆

[@drethethinker6418]

Bruh...I sat here for the whole 47 minutes thinking it was only a 17 minute video.

[@BladeX11883]

I just started this scenerio, it was fun, love your videos

[@ChasehaWing]

I like how you could customize this to make it easier or harder. Like one could stick to only salads/onigiri in order to win the challenge quickly. Or they could put on traits like simple living, make the character lazy/ clumsy, maybe have build the dust on and have wooden walls to make everything a LOT harder.

[@bucketofsunshine6366]

100% saw that coming with the expensive stove. Though if the sims got anything right, it's insurance companies gypping you out of your hard earned money by not paying out nearly enough for replacements.

[@kated2147]

It took me 27 days too. I also got stuck at the end where I was so close to the last promotion and had 3 days off so it took me more sim days and an extra hour real time to finish. 😭

[@mellowdramatic1444]

I love watching James do the scenarios , it’s soooo funnny

[@brandonthrasher8314]

Thank you mate for doing this one! you and Deli help me out on the sims stuff! and i do love yalls big island! i reall want to go down there and see almost all!

[@mer_acle8101]

so basically that scenario description to every kitchen nightmares episode... I LIKE IT

[@MrsDizarky]

I love watching you do these scenarios! They're always so much fun

[@SadelinaV]

45:30 You can type the number instead of clicking the arrows (pity it works only in BB mode and not live too -^-) Great video as always!

[@okaypalhaveanother]

Life changing tip

[@5TailedArtist]

I can't describe the surge of serotonin I get when I hear "AW YEAH, BATUU!"

[@shutterbug8860]

Suggestions if you want to try again: Start with naturalist aspiration, the reward for completing it is the fireproof trait (your Sim is fireproof not the lot) and will also make big §§§. At the same time, become a spell caster and get reparing and the extinguishing spells. Once you finish the aspiration (or you have enough reward points) get the connections trait to start higher level in the career.

[@dustinmalpass]

I haven't watched yet but I started this challenge last night. After my Sims second time cooking the stove caught fire and I couldn't afford to replace it. From that point on I just read books and made salads! Good progress so far 4:15 I did the same thing. Deleted half the stuff in the house that my guy didn't need.

[@az25blue]

This was hilarious. More scenarios like this pls Sims team 🤞🏿

[@thighny]

Dinner party at 9am, let's goooo 😂😂

[@Mayee21]

Felt like James was personally calling me out when Semaj went from "work withdrawal" to "stressed from work"! 😂

[@lauriewatson416]

This is my life!!! Most of my sims die this way LOL Doesn’t matter how high their cooking skill is.

[@deliriouscheeto]

Ik it's been ages ago, but abusing Harvestfest to become friends is my fav thing to do. You just need to send people thank-you cards thru the mail box :D it's faster and less laggy than taking pictures

[@docette2015]

*laugh* It lured you into false sense of security with the fireless streak, and then BAM! So much, so much of the time! But hey, you succeeded, and I'm glad. And yeah, you should totally do a woodworking Makin' Money run! Maybe that could be another "base game only" try?

[@Ellary_Rosewood]

I've been having that glitch with the holidays not ticking off. Just go to manage worlds, come back, then they will be completed. It's super frustrating.

[@NoDecaf7]

Good to know!

[@stephengalanis]

Done in 15 sim days. The skilling is helped with a tiny house, but the off days when you can get a promotion slows them down. I went for fame, was a global superstar in a week, and the Easy Street perk. I had a club with the Networked Club perk. My strategy for the mixology branch would be fame again, but also ... university. :)

[@NoDecaf7]

When something disconnected, I looked around to make sure I didn't accidentally wake up my pc lol

[@08emaher]

The tiny rug under the bed is such a strange detail of this house haha

[@markabele8794]

Great Let's play James. It would've made sense to start in a "Tiny Home". Unless you could upgrade stoves to be fire resistant, you could've bought a barbeque grill. Or I wonder if the chef station is fireproof?

[@FirebladesSong]

Grills seem to be more prone to fires in my game!

[@markabele8794]

@@FirebladesSong Thanks for the info. I never tested this out so thanks.

[@kaileysetter7691]

Bob Pancakes knows that it’s good to hang out with a guy who cooks gourmet meals all day.

[@az25blue]

Ok I need the Katrina Caliente and Marcus Flex power couple scenario spinoff show 😆

[@rhodospia]

I'm finally home from work for this one!! AND It's 47 min long!!😁😁 Got to love it!!

[@thexshattered]

I'm gonna try this out today. Gonna use the lot traits that help SIms gain skills fast through books, and make it a microhome. Also gonna get the speed reader/savant trait (I forget which helps you learn more from books). Then I'll just have the Sim read their way to Level 10 Cooking, and watch the Cooking channel. And will only cook when required by daily tasks/aspiration tasks.

[@beccacullison3594]

Currently doing this one, I made my Sim a Vegetarian and we don't use the stove for garden salads😅 helps so much.

[@josefrees]

James you are the sims KZbinr I have ever watched and I have a problem. My 5 yo first real game is sims 4 and watching her make households is giving me great ideas for challenges for you! The latest household is one lady with 2 fussy toddlers, a child and a dog and a cat. I never play with toddlers children or pets so it’s definitely a learning experience and I have no idea how to keep the kids and the house at the same time without teaching the kid the benefits of being motherloded lmao