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I bought 1 for my 10 year old granddaugher and she loved it very much. She has been making the dinners for her family. I also bought one for a friend as a Christmas suprise gift and she also enjoys it and shares it with her neice who is 10.
My girlfriend left this on a shelf for three weeks after I bought it and didn't want to cook me S--T even though she promised she would cook more often (HA). So I cracked it open and it turns out to be really helpful. Even if you don't make the recipes you will still find this pretty useful around the kitchen. I use it more as a guide for finding complimentary flavors.
I would definitely recommend purchasing this cooking game. I love this game. I've made the Bucatini with tomato and pancetta and it came out great. What intrigued me was the different type of recipeds from around the world. I always want to cook something new and different and if you do too then this is the game for you.
to go grocery shopping for the ingredients instead of grabbing a bag of frozen burritos, for example. I am the sort that makes instant ramen or boxes of macaroni for dinner, because I, a) don't want to think up a menu, b) feel tired and/or lazy, so resort to frozen pre-packaged meals, or d)look at my cookbook and turn away sighing, because it seems overwhelming and I don't know where to start.This "game" is amazing. Also, because the steps to each recipe are so simply laid out, and the "cookbook" is so tiny, I feel more in control and less overwhelmed than I do when pulling out my ginormous, traditional, old cookbook.I have only had this game for a week and I've already made the Sugar Crepes and Australian Meat Pie. You don't have trouble coming up with an entire meal that goes together, because you can search by country, and it'll also tell you if the dish is a side dish, dessert, etc. The pictures are so beautiful and appetizing, it actually seems fun(). I am excited to try the Udon Noodle Soup and Sushi recipes next. Take THAT cup-o-noodle.
This process takes a few minutes, but this is a 1 time operation. And that's basically the only complaint that can be made about this application. This was one of the first few applications for the DS that was not a game. The problem is really how it's handled though. I'd really only recommend this to a budding chef that already has a DS. From here, the user simply browses recipes in one of several ways (by region, alphabetically, by ingredient (and maybe by course). It'll respond correctly to "next" and "okay" and maybe even "got it", but it'll also respond to things like "bad" and "okra." In fact, if there's already going to be someone else in the kitchen, you'll be triggering the "okay" and "back" often.
The recipes turn out well, and there's a wide selection of recipes for each kind of eater. There aren't any fun activities in this application, just step by step recipes, and if that's what you're looking for, then you may have found it.Using the application is fairly easy: on first run, it creates a profile for the user that will keep track of ratings and shopping lists and recipes cooked (and perhaps other information). The speech coming out of the DS is easy to hear, easy to understand. The user then selects a recipe and starts cooking.On first glance, everything seems great--it's like having a second person in the kitchen that only tells you what to do next. The speech recognition is only okay. The nice thing is that you can turn off the speech recognition (and I highly recommend doing so).The only other remark to make is that this suffers the same problem as cookbook these days (and this really is just an electronic cookbook), and that's that you can find recipes everywhere on the internet for free. If you don't have a DS, you're probably better off looking elsewhere for a cookbook.
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